rax0m's comments

Another alternative to a non-national global reserve is of course gold (or dare I say the B asset which must not be named)

Video games come to mind

Where did you find the time to read HN and write this comment? It's about prioritization. (My priorities are pretty much the same as yours)

nice AI chat bot. It has made me think a bit

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I watched one of the 12-hour coin tossing marathons.

They were sitting with their laptops and pressed a button for every result.

I wonder if human error can explain (at least part of) the deviation from 50/50:

* locations of the buttons they pressed on the laptops (they only pressed once per toss before enter, meaning the button represented same-side or other-side)

* remembering what the coin started out as may be harder (or easier, but probably harder) when the result is other-side

* other??

Need to repeat this amount of tosses but with a higher degree of supervision to be sure of the result.

I'm guessing all of these banks asked their quotes to be removed, ans cnbc decided to cave in to all requesters at the same time

Olga was a famous doorkeeper at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Students used to send her postcards from their journeys.

It became so popular that it was enough to write "Olga, Sweden" for her to get the letters [0] (source in swedish).

[0]: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Boberg

I love qutebrowser and use it daily (and donate to the compiler), mostly on Linux but also on Windows.

Here are some of my headaches that force me to use Chrome/Firefox anyway sometimes, if anyone has answers to these I am very interested to hear them.

* Can't save passwords / autofill (for accounts I don't particularly care about)

* UI scaling in Windows (for high-res screens) is bad. The web page contents do not scale automatically.

* Does not resolve Teams "secure links" (workaround is to right click teams links instead and copy them, then paste in qutebrowser)

* Twitter videos don't work

* On linux (somehow this works on windows), "accept all cookies" sometimes does not get rid of that prompt. Stack overflow is an example where this happens. Another example is redhat where the prompt does not load for a while [0]

* Clicking something that spawns a box where text can be inserted does not bring me into insert mode. Example [1] (the searchglass). This causes me to close the tab by mistake sometimes by typing 'd'.

[0]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... [1]: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/templates/web-design...

What about bone strength though?

Scarcity has driven value before [0]. And the more scarce, then more valueable. This being combined with other characteristics necessary to be money: Divisibility, fungibility, salibility across time and space.

Some examples: wampum seashells, mammoth ivory beads, glass beads. None of these have "intrinsic" value.

By the way, the main point of the article I linked is that since humans like to collect random, valueless things (like seashells on the beach) then there must exist an evolutionary explanation for that. Meaning, the behavior must have been selected for.

[0]: https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/C...

Arthur Hayes has written extensively [0] on these points.

[0]: https://blog.bitmex.com/white-boy/

Very unexpected that this comes from Coinbase.

But kudos where kudos are due! I hope this goes the way

I did the problems under the assumption that "pulling the lever" was an act, while doing nothing was not acting. Implied legal (and moral) liabilities made a difference in my choices.

I used to think Vitalik was earnest as well. I was an ETH believer up until a few years ago. My distrust in him was the crack that in the end spread and became a distrust in ETH.

I'll just provide 2 sources for this, fossuser, and then you can judge for yourself. Cause I just feel bad if someone else trusts someone I know to be intellectually dishonest at times.

[0] https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pos-still-pointless/ (Vitalik being intellectually dishonest in his responses, which is proven by Paul in his follow-up article)

[1] https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1273353652447608834

Inflation is an increase in the money supply.

If you see everything from this lens then it all makes sense.

Prices of specific commodities and consumables may rise or fall, but if the money supply and demand remains the same the overall combined price of everything remains the same.

Proof of Work is the source of truth [0]. That is why Proof of Stake cannot work. You are describing one of the biggest of the problems with PoS perfectly.

[0] https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/

I think we would keep the top 5% scores, and the remaining 5% would be filled with the people able to "affect the randomness" (read bribe) the best.

There is already a degree of randomness inherent, since for example students don't all study all the material with exactly the same level of attention to each individual part of material. And some will be tired the day of the exams. Some will have something else on their mind while studying due to their relative being in the hospital. Some will by chance happen to guess right on some difficult task. etc. So you already have randomness.

Take your confusion about that as your first data point on whether it is over-hyped or not ;)

I don't think there is any way to build a quantum computer on earth with a significant amount of qubits (enough to break ECDSA with Shor's algorithm), where you can entangle the qubits as you want. The system would be too sensitive to the slightest vibration.

Using Shor's algorithm at this scale requires entanglement of so many qubits that it will never be feasible, and definitely not on this earth which is vibrating so much!