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by sgeisler 5y ago
> there’s nothing inherent to robots that insulates them from [taxation] If automation really takes off and entire factories can be run by a handful of people it might make sense to move them to whatever low-tax country with a port. Pay
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by sgeisler 5y ago
It might be intentional. I noticed the accent too and it really left the impression that china is a technological leader now and might not need to adapt to the west as much anymore.
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by sgeisler 5y ago
If this turns out to be true I wonder if it'd be practical (given the financial resources) to have pressure sealed rooms that you spend a lot of time in at home (e.g. your office). These could be precisely controlled (O2, CO2 levels, p
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by sgeisler 5y ago
I read that all mainframe components, even CPUs, were redundant and hot-swappable and that instructions are executed on two separate CPUs to detect faults and correct them on the fly. That would make a lot of sense if your application requi
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by sgeisler 5y ago
There will never be post-scarcity, because we'll never have enough. Using cutting-edge technology always requires people to work hard to build said technology. If it didn't require work and just wishful thinking we'd already
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by sgeisler 5y ago
To give some technical background: yes, using Lightning (as they seem to do) for affordable BTC payments is challenging for most. As far as I am aware that is why they rely on custodial solutions [1]. People hold their money with someone fr
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by sgeisler 5y ago
Exactly this. Just tax the value added in your country if you are so inclined (or even better the resources used to do so like land, infrastructure use, …). If you find out that's not so much you have deeper problems. Why would e.g. an
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by sgeisler 5y ago
Tax competition is what keeps governments in check. Taxes are just fees for services in the territory of the state (e.g. security, market access, infrastructure, …). If these services don't warrant paying the fee anymore people and com
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by sgeisler 5y ago
That only really works for stable countries anyway. While shit is hitting the fan there will be enough incentive not to care about some silly rule as long as breaking it is not easily detectable. In the worst case trading moves from central
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by sgeisler 5y ago
It's certainly a nice tool if your country is falling apart. Nearly every other asset class is less accessible, transportable or secure against seizure than Bitcoin. When countries descend into chaos or go full on authoritarian the bes
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by sgeisler 5y ago
Thx for the pointer, nice to know the name of the theory. Although it only covers a part of my argument. My concern was also in regards to how much military tech could be built on short notice inside the US if it came to a prolonged war and
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by sgeisler 5y ago
Am I the only one who is worried every time such a news drops? Achieving high-tech autarky is a first step towards a war with china becoming viable. Not that the alternative would be much better: a war being nonviable and the west bending t
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by sgeisler 6y ago
The correct way to do this would be using OP_RETURN imo. This special opcode is meant for committing to data like this. So for example one could commit to 4 bytes representing the IP address. To ensure that only authorized parties can updat
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by sgeisler 6y ago
Well, the problem with that strategy is that there are many such explorers and returning wrong data isn't in their best interest. Remember that the recipient address doesn't need to be owned by the attacker, it could be one of a b
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by sgeisler 6y ago
It seems to be a static site, which seems reasonable since it aggregates a lot of data and might encounter high load when something goes wrong, so generating it live without caching is not viable. So maybe the server that normally updates i
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by sgeisler 6y ago
> Instead of collaborating though I see IntelliJ continuing on the path of their custom implementation. I haven't checked in a while, but RLS was sub-par for a long time (feature- and latencywise). Tight integration has its benefits
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by sgeisler 6y ago
As a former BlackBerry 10 user (QNX based with C++/QT native apps) that's something that annoys me endlessly about Android. How can a simple action like displaying a small, locally cached playlist take any noticeable time at all?!
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by sgeisler 6y ago
> You could periodically increase the block size It's unclear if that would solve the problem. If BTC becomes a global store of value (which it seems to be in the process of), the avg. transaction value goes up and with it the fees
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by sgeisler 6y ago
Isn't that exactly what the submission is about? It seems to be a tool to convert any newsletter into an atom feed by creating a fake inbox. This lets everyone consume the content in their preferred format. Sure it would be nice if new
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by sgeisler 6y ago
Probably an unpopular opinion on a VC site, but to some degree recessions are good and needed to weed out underperforming and utterly useless companies to free up resources. The lack of such and bail-outs/rescuing attempts by governmen
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by sgeisler 6y ago
Thx, I must have missed it (it admittedly is very small ^^)!
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by sgeisler 6y ago
Which platforms are actually supported? I didn't find that on the landing page. Seems like an interesting product if it works on linux and with Signal etc. BUT: Stating "Privacy first." as a goal and then requiring to sign up
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by sgeisler 6y ago
I mean, sure, if all you need is some marketing fluff I can see how this might work. Most landing pages seem to actively try to keep me from finding out what I need to know about the product or service (specs, prices, features, …). But is t
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by sgeisler 6y ago
This seems like a huge failure to correctly price products if there are actual shortages and people standing in line (except maybe on launch day, that might be good publicity). The gaming market seems very elastic on the demand side, few pe
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by sgeisler 6y ago
That's a very bad idea. If there was to be a super cheap/free tier it also had to be rather limited in bandwidth, barely enough for e.g. remote school to remove these barriers. But if it was too good you'd essentially kill of
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by sgeisler 6y ago
I doubt this will _always_ be the case, but it is for now. If we ever want to go beyond earth we'll have to figure out how to live independently from natural habitats and their ecology. One puzzle piece will probably be hydroponics (an
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by sgeisler 6y ago
I wonder if this will eventually lead to even more efficiency (less people involved in per output). Vertical farms lend themselves much more to standardization than conventional ones imo (many small machines instead of few big ones). If all
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by sgeisler 6y ago
First and foremost I think it will stick around. It's too useful a tool and it would be very hard to kill. It's money for enemies, no one controls it, everyone can use it. China might currently be the only country in a position to
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by sgeisler 6y ago
I'm not commenting on the 1M$ price prediction, but rather the technical challenges and possibilities. > Last I heard bitcoin was not technically able to be used as a payment processor subsitutes. My impression then is the whole aff
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by sgeisler 6y ago
Runtime metaprogramming is mighty, but also dangerous. I view compile time metaprogramming as a much saner thing. The type system can still help you avoid potential problems and if in doubt you can just look at the generated code. While it

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