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Comment · 3 years ago
> Another profitable industry besides mining could be setting up nursing homes on the moon, where wealthy elderly folks could live fuller lives due to the reduced gravity.

That's what SR Hadden did in Contact ;) as always, Carl Sagan is still teaching us to this day

Comment · 3 years ago
That's almost 1% of total BTC supply
Comment · 3 years ago
Wasn't this also similar for itanium? Where the branch burden would be on the compiler?
Comment · 3 years ago
> Not only are there enormous protections with the mis-use of one's credit card, but the 'password'/card number is randomly generated and not used elsewhere.

Not true. My mother got a free credit card that she never used and never even took out of her safe box, and a few weeks ago someone used that card to buy a Microsoft gift card. Luckily for her, she regularly checks the bank's statements.

I'm convinced there's a workaround to buy stuff using just the numbers, because that's how cards used to work a few decades ago.

Comment · 3 years ago
Having a dollar budget would make the imbalance worse unless ideally they don't get away with moral hazard. The issue is usually having managers taking all the benefits and none of the risk, and that's bad.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It depends on your workload.

Some industries require to be able to reproduce exact bit by bit data.

Anything that requires absolute bit certainty, for example digital signatures, encryption, or financial information, will require ECC.

If you don't care if your files eventually don't match a sha256 checksum, you'll be fine. for example source code, it doesn't matter because in the worst case, your code won't compile because variable names got flipped.

And even then, if you're using Git for source code control, you're already using hash signatures to detect data corruption, as well as a very large redundancy and replication. Git is, in a philosophical way, ECC by software.

Comment · 3 years ago
Argentinian economics at its best. Let's hope Egyptians come to their senses and realize that they can't get us dollars out of thin air and controls such as this will Only make it worse.
Comment · 3 years ago
Is the insulin cheaper now? No.
Comment · 3 years ago
Government regulations. It's as easy as allowing to import it from cross the border from Mexico and Canada.
Comment · 3 years ago
Either die for sure from lack of insulin, or have a chance of not dying by crossing the border. The math checks out
Comment · 3 years ago
You're missing the point. The insulin is the point. And the insulin is still expensive.

It would be easier to just import it from the border, either Mexico or Canada.

Comment · 3 years ago
The difference is temporal: tip is for a "past" already rendered product or service. Sbf, Holmes, et al, it's about a promise for "future" services, which have a risk associated of no delivery or render. When you've already eaten your burger there was no risk of uncertain delivery. The causal relationship is reversed
Comment · 3 years ago
We need new rules that improve enforcement. And then enforce the enforcement with rules about enforcing enforcement!1

That's the thinking of bureocrats who see the world in terms of rules and enforce, but fail to see the bigger picture that it's easier for everyone to just relax the rules.

Comment · 3 years ago
Cover letters were required 100 years ago when CVs and resumes had to be delivered by postal mail and the secretary of the company had to direct the CV to the right application and job description, and phone calls or face interviews were not available or practical, because travelling took literally days.

Cover letters are literally a "cover" to a resume saying why are you sending that resume.

Today, that's just the subject of the email with the resume as attachment.

Today, cover letters provide no value to any involved party, and as you can see they can be easily played and manipulated. You're just adding more hoops to your own detriment.

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