monob

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by monob 9y ago
Ten years? People have been saying that since before Clinton got in office. Catastrophic inflation from government spending has been just around the corner for 40 years now. The 1970s were an odd time for many reasons, and they won't r
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by monob 9y ago
Fixed point isn't any better than floating point. If anything errors in floating point numbers are graceful and give you a lot of leeway before they become catastrophic. Fixed point works until you hit 2 (n-1) bits then probably break
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by monob 9y ago
That's a very naive way of looking at the world. Economics is only allowed a free reign so long as it meets the goals of those currently in power in a given political unit. Try selling nuclear technology to Iran if you don't think
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by monob 9y ago
You have use value and exchange value. Exchange value is most often price, but it is in reality the vector of the equivalent amount of goods and services you will receive for a unit of some good or service. The point of money is that it col
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by monob 9y ago
Because it destroys the local industry which you will need at some point. As simple example: the British supported the German chemicals industry prior to WWI. At the start of WWI, the money the British spent had been turned into German chem
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by monob 9y ago
It's first mover advantage in the same way surviving is a first mover advantage. You're fine if you're profitable, but with constant improvements that won't be the case for long, unless you too start moving to new techno
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by monob 9y ago
If no one cares about wealth I'm sure the wealthy won't mind a 100% wealth tax then. After all it's only numbers in a bank account.
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by monob 9y ago
>This is the very same narrative that vim users proclaim Sounds like a solid reason why makefiles are great to me then. Vim is so good it finally is letting emacs-OS have a real editor.
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by monob 9y ago
First the mempool clears, second >30% of top value.
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by monob 9y ago
This is the 4th time this has happened. Why is anyone surprised? The only shocking thing about this bubble is that it took 3 years.
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by monob 9y ago
A good predictor if the latest bubble has burst is if the suicide hotline number is a sticky on the bitcoin subreddit. Currently it isn't there so we have a while yet.
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by monob 9y ago
>The citation that it works is in the article. What worked in the article? It only says the battery supplied less than 2% of the lost power for about 5 seconds before regular power generators took over.
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by monob 9y ago
>It's important to note it is something special. The battery works, and it works better than the existing solutions. [[Citation needed.]] How much was the shortfall? How long could the battery have sustained the shortfall? How much
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by monob 9y ago
Best by food availability, shelter, labor. Given that even in good years a large portion of the population was malnourished in whatever time period you want to pick before the middle of the 20th century, the rich were always better off than
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by monob 9y ago
A sale larger than the demand would. An every day analogy: saying a river can never flood because there it has a big dam.
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by monob 9y ago
"Back then" you would try and kill your oldest brother to inherit the 2 chickens and a goat your parents would leave to him. Read no further than the histories of nobles and their feuds and murders to see how bad the best families
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by monob 9y ago
>It’s not a currency. It’s digital gold. Abstract: A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. https:/&#x
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by monob 9y ago
The only people who long for a large family are the ones that aren't in one. Look at how much constant violence and bullying there is between any siblings when an adult isn't around to stop it.
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by monob 9y ago
>If this code had been in core-Firefox, we'd never have noticed it. Counter-intuitively, maybe it wouldn't have felt as invasive, because I know that Mozilla controls core-Firefox, not me. (And I choose to defer to their judgem
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by monob 9y ago
I'm saving you a t-shirt for when you finally see the light.
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by monob 9y ago
Honest question: Pretty much every site on the internet does that. Why are we spending 500 replies and all this developer time on an issue that if done by, say google on their home page, would be considered at best a fun little doodle at wo
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by monob 9y ago
Kernels aren't any more important than compilers, xorg, user space utilities and so on. That Linux managed to get its name on the whole stack doesn't mean much. You might as well be complaining that linux distributions are vulnera
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by monob 9y ago
In physics at least you need to write and typeset your own papers for the most part. Look at arxiv.org, that papers there are made purely by academics from start to finish and are already publication grade (if not better).
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by monob 9y ago
Do you have a paper on approximating NP complete problems and the bounds on the error in the solution?
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by monob 9y ago
Inverse square law. Every n AU you go out from the earth you will need n 2 are of mirror to focus on a solar panel to get the same power. That assumes you can even build a structure that can keep that shape. Say you have a mission to Uranu