magnamerc

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by magnamerc 7y ago
In countries like the DRC or Nigeria, with large oil and natural gas reserves, who are we to tell them that they can no longer exploit those reserves for their benefit? If we don't want oil and gas to be extracted for wealth, then we n
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by magnamerc 7y ago
I don't want to discourage you, because everything counts, but I think the real problem with climate change isn't in the West, it's in the rest of the world. The West had the luxury of using cheap carbon in the early 20th cen
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Except bitcoin can't be manufactured on demand. I'm sorry, but this is a terrible analogy. There's a reason why people compare bitcoin to gold, because it makes for a better analogy, despite the fact that gold is actually ubi
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by magnamerc 7y ago
As did I, hence why I commented that it feels like ultracrepidarianism.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
If that were true, then they would come to a different conclusion. There are several examples of useful applications that are live today that would be otherwise impossible without a public programmable blockchain.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
As soon as blockchain is even mentioned on HN, everyone loses their freaking minds. For some people that tout themselves as intellectuals, they just seem to parrot that 'blockchains are useless' without even taking a cursory look
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Bitcoin isn't programmable money. That's Ethereum
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Why re-invent the wheel when MakerDAO DAI exists, which is a much better solution to the problem of a decentralized stablecoin.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Yes I remember this as well, but the real rally was from 1.2k to 10k from January to November. I do remember the spike from 10k to 20k in December, and it did seem very unnatural to me, but it could have also partly been due to euphoria. IC
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by magnamerc 7y ago
The Bitcoin rally of 2017 was caused by Ethereum, specifically the rise of ICOs.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
I would pay a lot of money to be able to play a human level Emperor+ level AI on civ
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by magnamerc 7y ago
I work with planes and it's not at all uncommon to find lightning damage. In fact, there are generic repairs for particular locations prone to lightning strikes.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
You can take a look at the eth2.0 specification here https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs . They have solved the nothing at stake problem, and they currently have 8 independent client implementations written in diff
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Yeah that's why I added analog in brackets haha. But I believe you're correct
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by magnamerc 7y ago
You can buy pre-cursors (or known as analogs) like 4-AcO-DMT online from Lysergi. They are sold as a 'research chemical', however they metabolize into psilocin so it is indistinguishable to psilocybin. Obviously you should take ev
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by magnamerc 7y ago
You can extend this to mechanics/technicians. Manipulating a large screen when your hands are full of grease.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Even pseudoanonymous blockchains like Bitcoin aren't completely fungible like cash. You need to use privacy only cryptos like Monero, or zero knowledge proof contracts on Ethereum for that.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Would the Universe exist if there were no conscious beings to observe it?
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Apparently this also breaks Moneros privacy by identifying a BTC address associated it (even without KYC). You need to buy Monero from LocalMonero if you want to be truly private.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
I believe Veil (which is a dapp built ontop of the Augur protocol) supports DAI, which is a decentralized stablecoin built by MakerDAO. The only market on Augur right now for USDT is the following one: https://predictions.global&
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by magnamerc 7y ago
In their implementation, it appears you'd need to create an account by calling the contract https://github.com/pickhardt/escrovery/blob/master/contracts... So it wouldn't work with existing ac
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by magnamerc 7y ago
You could open up a prediction market on Augur.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
The issue is still design/construction and political red tape. It sometimes takes decades to fund and build a nuclear plant, and we don't have decades. We should be focusing on easily deployable solar and wind, even in developed c
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by magnamerc 7y ago
IMO, safety with regards to nuclear reactors is a moot point. The problem with nuclear reactors is that they are centralized and costly. You can't deploy a nuclear reactor in undeveloped countries because you still need to deploy the i
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by magnamerc 7y ago
It's on EOS though, a network prone to cartels. Yeah, no thanks.
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by magnamerc 7y ago
It's not a perfect system, and of course cutting edge drugs take longer to get approved for coverage under pharmacare. This is an election issue, and it's very possible that we get national pharmacare coverage over the next few ye
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Why use PoW in combination with PoB (proof of burn) instead of using a dBFT style PoS like tendermint for the blockstack chain?
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by magnamerc 7y ago
Pretty sure the USD will remain the main money laundering tool in the world. The USD as cash is partly fungible, whereas Libra is not. The only reason the Russian agents involved in the 2016 misinformation campaign got caught was because th
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by magnamerc 7y ago
My experience is completely different. I'm in Canada and the ER wait lists are usually a couple of hours. I'm also seeing a specialist in Toronto for procedures requiring image guided sclerotherapy. I bet I'd be fighting toot
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by magnamerc 7y ago
I find it kind of funny that you think AWS will still be around in a hundred years.

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