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by datadata 4y ago
It depends entirely on volume of messages vs available memory (ram or disk) how outrageous it is
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by datadata 4y ago
Also in order to track UUIDs that have been received, you would either need an infinite amount of memory, or have the system bounded in terms of how many messages out of order a message be delivered and still be processed correctly.
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by datadata 4y ago
So you can also exchange bonds for goods and services. If you are using an interest bearing bank account, this is basically exactly what you are doing-- your dollars in the account are not actual dollars, but have been pooled into a fund th
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by datadata 4y ago
A lot of bitcoins associated with known crimes or sanctioned owners are flagged, and actually blocked by exchanges, for example there is an OFAC sanction list of bitcoin addresses. One problem with such approaches however is "dusting a
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by datadata 4y ago
Germany actually recently sold negative coupon bonds, i.e a buyer of this bond would pay more upfront than the maturity value. https://www.reuters.com/article/germany-auction/update-2-ger...
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by datadata 4y ago
Well before bitcoin, I never felt comfortable with dollar bills stating "In God We Trust" on the back.
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by datadata 4y ago
Could it be that broiler chickens are being slaughtered ahead of time to prevent forced losses from avian flu? No clue about this industry.
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by datadata 4y ago
So apparently eugenics is just fine if it is for the environment?
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by datadata 4y ago
Users have lots of wants, but the product(s) that they will like is not necessarily the same thing that they want.
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by datadata 4y ago
They reached "scientific breakeven", you are referring to "engineering breakeven" or "economic breakeven". The vocabulary here is nicely defined: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_ener
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by datadata 4y ago
I think if MoM were widely reported, it would be stated as annualized to make sense for people in a headline. This would cause a lot of overreaction.
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by datadata 4y ago
You could say the same thing about Eurodollars-- "US Dollar" denominated assets that are held in banks outside the United States and not subject to US Bank regulations. The size of this market is more than 10x all of crypto.
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by datadata 4y ago
I think the policy is outrageous, but that doesn't make the title correct. Also, 5% is not really significantly more than the typical fee an ATM already charges.
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by datadata 4y ago
The title is a bit of an exaggeration. Withdrawals above that are not banned, but subject to a 5% fee. Also, it is not a new rule but a lowering of the limit of an existing rule.
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by datadata 4y ago
Stand alone AI bots are only one part of the problem. Actual humans could use AI to assist what they post, especially if there is a financial reward involved. For example, a popular youtube account of a real human could leverage an AI model
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by datadata 4y ago
This model is not learning, but the transcripts being farmed at scale are for sure being used (with human assistance and control) for building the next models. I don't think the kind of exploit of the microsoft bot is possible, however
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by datadata 4y ago
I sincerely can't tell if this is real or parody. Which is it?
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by datadata 4y ago
A simple answer is that it is a highly effective tax. It dilutes our purchasing power and channels the upside of that dilution to those who control the money supply (or those close to those who control it [0], or own dollar denominated debt
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by datadata 4y ago
"Convincing people to buy homes" is literally an example of misallocation of capital, in the sense that monetary policy is meant to be an intervention in a free market.
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by datadata 4y ago
The 2% inflation target is for price inflation (the cost of a basket of goods), not monetary inflation (the amount of money). Only monetary inflation is needed to support a growing population, so this does not explain having a target of pri
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by datadata 4y ago
And the law of unintended consequences gives a huge unintended consequence here.... Rather than worker harder forever, which people really want to try to avoid, things other than money will be used as a store of value, since money is by def
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by datadata 4y ago
Got it. I agree my proposed rule is arbitrary. I also think twitter must have some form of spam prevention-- any kind of API rate limit would be by your definition be censorship also. I think you might be assuming I think twitter could or s
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by datadata 4y ago
Genuinely trying to understand your beliefs here. When you say "Any conditions you place on it are arbitrary" does that also apply to the laws around speech themselves? For example if spam was made illegal, would it then (accordin
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by datadata 4y ago
Why would Y==1 for email spam? In spam, the same message is sent many times. Entropy to try to make spam messages different is generally merely meant to. circumvent spam blockers.
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by datadata 4y ago
Censorship = you can't say X at all Spam Blocking = you can't say X more than Y (>> 1) times While technically censorship, there is a big difference, I think. Obviously in practice spam blocking could maliciously or accident
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by datadata 4y ago
> I disagree, if 97% of servers at AWS were there for some hand-wavey notion of 'providing security' without quantification I think Amazon would be roundly mocked. Again, you fail to understand that the number of a machines tha
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by datadata 4y ago
Cool, so you moved the goal posts from saying "there is no such thing as stranded energy", to saying "yes, bitcoin is reducing the environmental impact of flare gas burning, but we should be doing something else instead (no c
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by datadata 4y ago
You didn't understand my point. If bitcoin had 1 minute blocks instead of 10 minute blocks, more than 3% of miners would find a block in their life time. But that change alone would not change any meaningful properties of bitcoin. You
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by datadata 4y ago
The original comment that bitcoin is carbon negative is ridiculous, I agree. But you are posting empty/wrong rebuttals as well. In the case of flare gas, it is a byproduct of gathering oil that is unavoidable. The oil is economically w
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by datadata 4y ago
That's an entirely different topic/point. I was responding to your ridiculous point that 97% of bitcoin miners never find a block. You didn't even try to defend that point. What is your source around Hal Finney? I have not he

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