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by datadata 5y ago
Why do you see the large number of cryptocurrencies an argument supporting their value going to zero? This is like saying that the number of websites is still going up, therefore the value of the internet will go to zero. A more charitable
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by datadata 5y ago
Here are two scenarios when a heat pump is harder to deploy: 1) Heat pumps need access to the outside cold reservoir, for example they don't work entirely inside a closed room, where an space electric heater would be fine. 2) If the te
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by datadata 5y ago
Lightning network on bitcoin has fees that are a few cents at most, is this still a problem?
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by datadata 5y ago
In the digging example, the goal is to complete the tunnel. If the tunnel is not completed, the project would be a failure. You say that PoW works and makes cryptocurrency doable, yet you conclude that it is a failure. But you don't de
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by datadata 5y ago
This article is about making custom purpose silicon only usable for sha256 based proof of work mining, and has nothing to do with GPUs. GPUs have not been profitable to use in bitcoin mining for many years now.
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by datadata 5y ago
There is a big and meaningful difference between being able to freeze bank accounts at scale without violence and only with the cooperation of a centralized finance institution, versus having to physically torture each account owner to get
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by datadata 5y ago
The transactions within an open channel are only stored by the two owners of the channel. The entire network does not need to store, nor does it even get to see these transactions. They can even be private. When the channel is closed none o
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by datadata 5y ago
Why not just criminalize paying ransoms? Remove incentives and don't fund criminals.
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by datadata 5y ago
I think the author's point is that in a PoW fork, the hash power is a fixed resource and must split between forks. In a PoS fork, prefork holders can stake the same amount of coins on both forks, thereby "doubling" the total
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by datadata 7y ago
What if advertising spend was taxed at an incredibly high rate? Would this reduce the overall amount of advertising and cause the remaining advertising to be smarter and more effective? Could this even be implemented? Could it be subverted?
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by datadata 8y ago
It could be against Terms of Service to collect/store the public data in bulk.
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by datadata 9y ago
Engineering issues aside, to evaluate if a super chimney would be energetically viable you need to understand the concept of "Convective available potential energy" or CAPE-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conve
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by datadata 9y ago
This is a really interesting comment, could you elaborate on it a bit more? Which part of a deterministic universe would the halting problem serve to enable free will? -The universe as a whole? -Any agent claiming to have free will? -Some p
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by datadata 10y ago
Using a resource abstraction layer such as mesos can alleviate this downside by consolidating many of your workloads onto a pool of large dedicated machines.
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by datadata 10y ago
Arrival of sophons confirmed.
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by datadata 10y ago
Your calculation is wrong. You are using 4500 miles/second instead of 4500 mile/hour as the velocity. Additionally, small really fast projectiles can more easily pack a lot of kinetic energy relative to a larger, more slowly mov
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by datadata 10y ago
What is the plan for the only-few-gram weight space probe to transmit data back to earth?
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by datadata 11y ago
Probably not. Nine games of data is not really that strong of evidence. The algorithm probably gives each player a prior such has assigning one fake loss in order to limit the maximum ranking of players with few games and no losses. This pr
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by datadata 11y ago
(1) The bandwidth is being entirely consumed. It is all needed and the process is performing nominally. (2) The bandwidth is being entirely consumed, but it might only be because the process is misbehaving and consuming more bandwidth than
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by datadata 11y ago
Self hosting a registry ( https://hub.docker.com/_/registry/ ) on aws backed by s3 storage is fairly easy and is already available today.
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by datadata 12y ago
It seems like the rate of reproduction rather than total reproductive lifespan is what matters for selection. A longer lifespan at the expense of a lower rate of reproduction would not be selected for.
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by datadata 13y ago
You could create a much more leveraged position with options. With a put option buy, your maximum loss is capped, so you wouldn't need any additional margin.
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by datadata 13y ago
How did you wean this habit, and has it made things better for you?
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by datadata 14y ago
The cells appear to rectangular and not square.