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Comment · 2 years ago
Why not just use Substack. It's great
Comment · 5 years ago
But that one is not directory-specific, right?
Comment · 5 years ago
Because corporations die all the time. Governments don't
Comment · 5 years ago
> If a zoned market solely accept Bitcoin and a good costs say 1 BTC

The problem is that nobody selling regular goods WANTS to sell his goods with a fixed bitcoin price; the volatility of bitcoin would make it easy for buyers to buy the goods only when their prices where especially low in non-crazy-volatile currency and resell the goods at a favorable price immediately. There's arbitrage there

Comment · 5 years ago
What does "PAM" mean?
Comment · 5 years ago
So how does it really work? What does the arrow actually mean?

Is the point that the information on the DNA gets copied onto RNA while the DNA remains intact?

Comment · 5 years ago
De Grey has always seemed overly eccentric to me. But maybe that is to be expected of someone that works on something as contrarian as anti-aging research.

Sexual harassment is not okay.

To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was some kind of lack of social skill on De Greys side rather than actual sexual predatoriness? Am curious what that legal investigation will find out

Comment · 5 years ago
>for the first time since castles vs. troops without cannon, defense was stronger than offense

In the seminal book "On War" which was published in 1832 and is still required reading in many military academies, Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz explicitly says that defense is stronger than offense.

Maybe this intensified in WWI

Comment · 5 years ago
This fits my personal experience very well.

I was once a volunteer at the world championships of a team sport. At the podium sceremony my job was to lead the team to the spot where each player received their medal. The bronze medalists were super happy and smiling. Almost all silver medalists that I led to the podium were literally crying.

No sophisticated facial recognition was needed to ascertain who was happier.

Comment · 5 years ago
Is this generally how it works in most countries?
Comment · 5 years ago
>One weird thing with rents Germany is that old contracts have very low rents that barely increase over the years

Does it really work that way all over Germany or is it something specific to Berlin?

Comment · 5 years ago
Would be interesting to compare this to the environmental impact of having human workers
Comment · 5 years ago
There are potentially plausible reasons such as that a free economy system could take longer to achieve an efficient market equilibrium compared to a centrally planned system.
Comment · 5 years ago
>Which is why privacy protection has to come from the top (i.e. regulators), because most people don't know and/or don't care.

I think there should only be legislation about stuff people care about.

Comment · 5 years ago
If users care about that, they'll go to a vendor that gives them access to the data. No need to legally mandate anything.

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