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Shmebulock
·hace 2 años·discuss
Why not just use Substack. It's great
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
But that one is not directory-specific, right?
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
Because corporations die all the time. Governments don't
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
> 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
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
What does "PAM" mean?
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
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?
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
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
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
>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
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
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.
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
Is this generally how it works in most countries?
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
>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?
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
Would be interesting to compare this to the environmental impact of having human workers
Shmebulock
·hace 5 años·discuss
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.