liamwestray

Natural scarcity in the form of land, gold, etc., or unnatural scarcity in the form of crypto, water rights, futures, stocks.

I find your arguments kind of silly about emissions and energy. Real estate in the form of teak farms are inherently 60+ year investments, fix carbon, and basically require no energy, and have nominal upkeep. Teak has been a steady supply of income for hundreds if not thousands of years.

99-year leases are also normal and allow you to retain land while letting others develop it or use it and puts the paying of taxes on them. Banks routinely finance mortgages on 60 and 99-year leased land for housing development.

Crypto's only true benefit is the lack of minimum investment quantities. I can more easily store for 100 years $100m of cash today than I can $100.

It also has the benefit of allowing people who don't know how to invest money to believe that somehow the flawed logic you just used is actually sensible.

These systems aren’t replaceable by bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a debit banking transaction system equivalent only. It uses several times the energy of the equivalent portions of the banking industry.

Get list of 10 largest banks and major credit card companies.

Get their ESG reports.

Add annual energy and emissions summaries together.

Multiply by 2.

Stand in awe that it’s still a fraction of Bitcoin.

You can then go find some other incredibly ignorant tangent to argue about to promote your belief in a crypto Ponzi scheme.

You can go estimate it yourself pretty easily based on number of branches and some average energy use per square foot (pick the US’s commercial average as a upper bound to be conservative)

Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56012952

But to summarize as someone who works in energy related research:

All the banks in the world combined do not use as much energy as bitcoin alone now.

Cryptocurrencies are inherently non-productive work as their algorithms are designed to solely be computationally expensive to create a means of artificial scarcity.

Block chain isn’t the problem, non-productive hashing algorithms are.

The only problem with the first generation framework laptop is intel’s quad core CPU because of thermal and power problems associated with their process nodes.

Hex core is really the lowest I will go now for anything over $1000. If this was a Ryzen 5800u, I’d have bought one already.

It will run circles around the 1185g7 compiling large codebases.

Passmarks across hundreds of benches show a 25% single and 40% multithreaded performance boost over the 1185g7.

I’ve got an i9 8/16 laptop chip and the 13” M1 is trading blows with my laptop despite 2-3x the thermal headroom and considerably less cores/threads across all workloads.

No $2000 laptop in 2020 should have only quad core cpus.

The M1 16gb will run circles around the i7-1185g7 (highest spec chip framework sells) compiling llvm with 64gb of ram.

Only using a shitload of idle VMs will have any apparent benefit over M1 MacBook pros.

The cpu is just too limiting for the 64gb of ram argument.

The author cherry picks 2019 vs 2020 for deaths from natural disaster showing a decline when basically everyone stayed home in the US in 2020.

He also uses natural distaster deaths rates from 200 years ago to compare to now.

Somehow these statements prove Democrats are more likely to believe that natural disasters are killing more people.

He then says emissions have declined 14% over the last decade, by again pausing a CoViD recession year. Emissions are statistically flat to slightly declining (<5%) from 2009-2019:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183943/us-carbon-dioxide...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/517376/us-greenhouse-gas...

Emissions data is highly variable and has relative high error margin. +/- 5% or more.

He normalizes data to prove his preconceived notions and then picks outlier years. This is the 2nd most egregious representation of data I’ve ever seen.

Yet another trash article from substack.

It’s like some non-happy ending version of Dr. Seuss’s butter-side-down people. No one appears to remember where the conflict started.

To be fair, there are better test images to use and it’s never really been appropriate to use a playboy centerfold image, however cropped it may be, for these purposes. There’s no technical reason this image is better than other test images.

Ignoring any modern 4th wave feminist argument, it was already crass, rude, and unprofessional.

I guess it’s different for those of us who voiced our issue with the offending academic privately first.

There’s a tax treaty so you’ll get credit for any taxes paid in another country and only have to pay the difference.

”I learned this the hard way. For several years, I subscribed to a popular VPN service called Private Internet Access.”

Well, yeah, stop buying crappy VPN services built by Mt. Gox cofounder "tech" bros who conduct illegal hostile takeovers of IRC networks for the "lols".

Still, I guess Chen's writing is an upgrade over David Pogue...

Similar SoCs are available from other vendors such as Odroid, OrangePi, and Pine64.

There’s no value in cloning the Pi SoC when similar or better SoCs are available with similar or better software support.

This is a Qt framework and OP has more experience than I with Qt from what I could tell from his post.

Don't use electron.

Unless you are making an app that will majorly benefit from JS-based third party plugins (think how VS code is electron despite not being a progressive web app), there's really no benefit for you to shipping an electron-based app.

Seriously take a look at [maui](https://mauikit.org), I'm considering it for my next GUI projects.

Converting energy into non-productive work for financial speculation used substantially by money laundering activities is in the same category as:

Having Goldman Sachs invest my money in coal and diamond mines managed by cadres of Russian oligarchs.

I’m surprised you need the full 4 bits to deal with ambiguous bases, but it probably makes sense at some lower level I don’t understand.

One of the big, big things for improving performance on DNA analysis of ANY kind is converting these large text files into binary (4 letters easily converts to 2 bit encoding) and massively improves basically any analysis you’re trying to do.

Not only does it compress your dataset (2 bits vs 16 bits), it allows absurdly faster numerical libraries to be used in lieu of string methods.

There’s no real point in showing off that a compiled language is faster at doing something the slow way…

Somehow my nephew had Type 1 diabetes from vaccines he received weeks after he stopped producing insulin as an infant according to this author.

But if you filter data from before June if last year (approx. 90 days from WHO pandemic declaration), the story is very different. There is an absolute trend based on political leadership in performance, and educational attainment level. It’s even worse since vaccination started.

As of right now:

The 25 of 27 of worst states or territories per capita right now in CoViD cases are all GOP leglislated and governed. These regions also have between 2 and 5x the per-capita cases of the rest of the states and territories.

What’s worse is it’s not necessarily the legislators or governors at fault (ignoring a couple high profile idiots from both parties), but the politicization of science and reality.

638,000 Americans are dead, nearly everyone in America personally lost a friend, acquaintance, or family member to this disease.

Out of every person I know myself who got it and didn’t die it was due to their either being a front-line worker (EMT, Nurse, Doctors), or not taking precautions such as social distancing, mask wearing, or avoiding crowds (usually all 3).

If somehow you believe that essentially all (over 95%) professionals in microbiology, pharmaceuticals, bioinformatics, virology, and internal medicine, immunology, and biotechnology are somehow “wrong” you’re more likely to believe this rubbish.

I have several publications in biotech, bacteria/bio sensing/growth modeling mostly. I will rip the CDC a new one for abject leadership failures that resulted in piss poor information for the populace, but I also know enough of the science and math to know that the vaccines work, social distancing works, masks work (honestly we didn’t know how well they would at the beginning), and shutdowns worked.

These are not new methods, quarantine procedures for hundreds of years have been far more draconian — there shouldn’t even have to be mask mandates because we should care about our fellow citizens. But right now, only democrats seem to be even trying to listen to scientists and doctors.

This makes it very clear that there is a rhyme and reason to the impact of CoViD-19, and this article is more “both sides” bullshit.

Make no mistake, this former Republican, off-road truck owning, gun owner, libertarian-minded, pro-nuclear, scientist, entrepreneur, and capitalist will vote for the Democrats every time going forward because of it’s a choice between killing my family by ignoring reality and voting for a Democrat, than it isn’t a god damned choice.

Your capital needs are so small that if you truly have 70% of an MVP done it will take less time to get to revenue than secure capital.

That’s near zero risk.

The only logical response to the data he presents is get vaccinated so the deleterious effects of breakthrough infection are lessened and you get the benefits of both vaccine and natural immunity from the eventuality of the disease becoming endemic.

And yes, SARS-CoV-2 is becoming endemic…

There’s no actual argument, thesis, or contextual background.

And yes, the irrelevancy of his department is contextually relevant to this discussion.

Maybe that’s why Clemson’s Econ program isn’t even in the top 50…