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but doesn't this ignore that a lot of the light now absorbed is become electricity instead of heat?

yes, they implemented the resulting algorithms and have charts showing real world performance on GPUs and TPUs

Houston did/does have laws that are in effective zoning laws. Parking space requirements, setbacks, etc.

Also transit systems may be required. I imagine a place with truly no zoning laws and a transit system would have a lot of development near stops

I used to be Mormon, I think Mormon culture is the main reason. This article seems to describe the reasons well: https://religionnews.com/2017/06/20/10-reasons-mormons-domin...

> Not to mention the financial sustainability of the past 50 years of construction

? you think we are overbuilding?

Many ways to deal with this.

1) fake wallets (give them a key to some coins but not all) 2) multisig - someone else has to provide the other half of the key or what you can give them is worthless etc

The total value of all currency right now is far higher than the value of all the gold - if there was some sort of rush back to gold the price increase would be tremendous

why are they not updating the value?

you don't have to move that far to escape all that. Plenty of areas an hour away from San Jose that are nice and a lot cheaper (still more expensive than Texas or Florida, sure).

Sure but I was responding to a comment regarding Coinbase.

I feel like a $1000 fee would be something most people would remember and complain about to friends and family...

Yeah that's a pretty well known case, specific to Litecoin. Also crypto has come a long way since 2016

Even if we're at the same home price / income ratio as 2008, a big difference is mortgage rates. In 2008 a 30 year was 5.5%-6.5%. Now it's 3%. So we aren't yet near 2008 levels of mortgage payment / income ratio

> There is nothing actually better about crypto for this application

> The most obvious would be to sell shares in a corporation or LLC

Well certainly you can do it faster with crypto. How long would it take to set up the corporation / LLC? How quickly / easily could people buy shares? Could anyone buy shares?

Yes there are more risks this way, but I don't think there are zero benefits to the crypto approach.

> crypto brings absolutely nothing to the table that I can discern except an increased risk of getting scammed

So you think it'd have the same chances of success if it didn't involve crypto? Of course not! Yes the point is it's crypto, it's experimenting with new ways of doing things, and that's what people want to be a part of.

I keep several tarantulas and a few other spiders, and they are absolutely fascinating! Your description of the spider waving its arms and running from side to side makes me think it was likely a jumping spider. This group of spiders have large eyes and don't build webs to catch prey, and are really cute!

If they had "no problem" cannibalizing their offspring, they'd quickly go extinct! In reality, cannibalizing of offspring only occurs in particular circumstances - if conditions are poor enough that most of the young won't survive anyway, for example. In which case their instincts kick in to cannibalize as a way to recoup the energy and try again at a better time. If conditions are right there will instead be a strong instinct to protect the egg sack / young.

> By that definition, gold too is a ponzi. No, gold clearly fails to satisfy that definition on two counts.

> First, few if any gold investors have expectations of profits. They generally invest in gold as a hedge -- a "store of value" -- that they hope will retain its value in case other assets go sour.

I believe Bitcoin has potential to become the "new" gold. It's better in many ways. Does that mean I can only buy Bitcoin if I want to use it as a hedge? No! I can buy it with the expectation of profit because I expect it to be commonly used as a hedge in the future, at which time it will have a much higher price and I'll have made money.

The main use case I've always seen is to use bloom filters on the client side to reduce traffic to the server looking things up. As you said, you could cache 250 million integers in a gigabyte - but you don't want to bloat your client side implementation by a gigabyte for every bloom filter you use. Also, many times the items are a lot larger than an integer. For example, storing a list of malicious URLs, a common use case.

Isn't that more than 10 years ago?

Same here, we bought a new Subaru Crosstrek the end last year. Looking at the depreciation curve we found that the car didn't really depreciate more the first couple years than it did later years, so going for a new one made a lot more sense than I initially thought it would.

San and French lines have been separated by 50-100k years at least, right? So if Denisovans are more different from Neanderthals than that, why do you think the Denisovan bone was from a Modern x Neanderthal instead?

Also, if you did find a first generation Modern x Neanderthal, you'd have stretches of the genome that were 100% Neanderthal and stretches that were 100% Modern. It'd be obvious that it was an F1 hybrid. Even F2, F3 etc it'd be pretty clear. Are you saying the Denisovan genome doesn't have unique mutations?

I agree that the terms species / subspecies / populations are difficult/impossible to to define sharply.

We have plenty of Neanderthal genetic sequences. So seeing even just one Denisovan sequence showing a large divergence from all the other Neanderthal sequences is enough to demonstrate a separate, distinct population.

I don't see the contradiction here?

Each block still mints 2 new eth, in addition to tips (which should always remain small, even as base fee rises).

I'm not sure exactly what you are saying. I don't think there's any problem with the money being burned.

> nothing is "lost" or "burned"

That "specific" Eth is gone. I say "specific" because of course it's fungible, except for its transaction history.

This change burns the "base fee" instead of giving it to miners, which means it goes to nobody and is gone forever

Here you can track how much Eth has been burned so far: https://ethburned.info/

I'd say the real "problem" with spending on yachts and other luxuries is that it takes real value to make - skilled labourers and valuable materials going to something that doesn't provide that much human happiness. Not saying the ultra rich shouldn't be allowed to spend their money how they want, just that it does seem to have consequences to me.

A great investing blog I follow is https://breakingthemarket.com/. He talks about the Kelly Criterion and extending it to making correlated bets (investments).