nkarpov

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by nkarpov 8y ago
Well you've flipped now to discussing the definition of useful, no? First, gold is plenty useful outside value store: only ~30% of new gold per year is used for investment (this is per GS in 2015, I believe, and this is unlikely to hav
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by nkarpov 8y ago
I can roughly see the relationship but not smart enough to see immediately what it means without more thought. FWIW AFAIU the broken window parable is itself not without controversy.
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by nkarpov 8y ago
My guess is that the increase of employment per increase of gold mined is higher than the increase of employment per increase of bitcoin mined.
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by nkarpov 8y ago
> he inherited an estate worth $100 million. It’s not exactly difficult to turn that into $1 billion (compared to, say, turning $10,000 into $100,000.) And turning $1 billion into $10 billion is even easier!
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by nkarpov 8y ago
You're right that there is always a race to build a new hardware platform. You're wrong that one literally replaces another.
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by nkarpov 9y ago
How much of what you see in your browser do you retain?
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by nkarpov 9y ago
To borrow the spirit of your impassioned comment - could someone point to a criticism of Sowell's work/ideas?
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by nkarpov 13y ago
I agree that it's a terrible format but why exactly is it a bad format to be graded on? If you are able to construct a good 5 paragraph essay then you certainly have demonstrated the ability to make a point, come up with arguments to s
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by nkarpov 13y ago
...you're seriously nitpicking on the least important things here and then using it as evidence to say it's 'too weak for practitioners'... come on.
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by nkarpov 13y ago
Although not completely related, this reminds me of Asimov's famous story... The Last Question. Must read. http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
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by nkarpov 13y ago
This really does depend on how "reliable" is defined. At the code level, reliable is dependent on the actual programmer. This code must then be compiled/interpreted in order to to actually function. At this stage the programm
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by nkarpov 13y ago
Wasn't expecting such an awesome response - thank you!
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by nkarpov 13y ago
While this is interesting, it really strikes me that there isn't that much data available. Would this pattern hold if you saw another 100 years into the past? Will it hold an additional 100 years in the future? Cute, but... doesn'
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by nkarpov 13y ago
This is not my experience at all. I have noticed an increase in the number of ads but also not anywhere near what the author demonstrates. I have to ask though, how many connections does he have through his Facebook account? And how many of
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by nkarpov 13y ago
This isn't quite fair. The difficulty of writing completely secure software is out of comparison with the difficulty of finding vulnerabilities. First, it's a numbers game. There are order magnitude more people trying to break the
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by nkarpov 13y ago
I think the exploration of the answer to this question is about the most frightening implication of this whole mess