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sillypuddyon Crypto unlikely to survive as investment if unregulated, SEC chairman says

I believe value is transferred to the government by inflation similar to a tax, not actually lost.

sillypuddyon Facebook, Ray-Ban debut picture-taking smart glasses

Creepy

Presumably it's impossible to state what the big-o of a checking algorithm is since it's not proven to halt?

sillypuddyon Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers

The flip side of this problem is keeping track of exchange rates when currencies go through hyper-inflation. For example the exchange rate between Venezuelan Bolivar to USD right now is 0.000000.

https://x-rates.com/table/?from=USD&amount=1

sillypuddyon Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previously thought

Warren Buffet talks about it every once in a while. He has talked about the efficiency gains in terms of how much it takes to move a ton of goods a mile. I have seen stories about what types of investments are needed in the Chicago areas to unblock bottlenecks between the East and West coasts.

sillypuddyon The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low

I think there is a lot of data to support better outcomes for kids from two parent household. Not sure if there is a difference between two parent household vs married two parent household.

sillypuddyon Young children would rather explore than get rewards

Young people of any age

sillypuddyon Resignation Letter

Bloomberg had 2,300 editors and reporters in 72 countries in 2010. The Wall Street Journal had 2,000 journalists in 85 news bureaus across 51 countries in 2012.

sillypuddyon Manned fighter to face autonomous drone next year

Aren't they just rockets at some point?

sillypuddyon Not everyone has an internal monologue

Came here for Austin Powers quotes, and frankly I'm disappointed.

sillypuddyon Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?

People booking doctors appointments spike after new years.

sillypuddyon Products I Wish Existed

I think this data is integrated into weather underground app as well.

sillypuddyon Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

Oh good, I forgot my account number. Can someone DM it to me?

sillypuddyon Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

There are Oracle AWS offerings - https://aws.amazon.com/oracle/

sillypuddyon Tesla Model 3 = 24% of Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales in USA

M3 in this context means Tesla Model 3

sillypuddyon Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour

Are you talking about a specific toll booth? There is Fast-Trak in NYC.

sillypuddyon Why U.S. Cities Aren’t Using More Electric Buses

Utilities are pretty highly regulated in the US, there might be political or legality reasons it would be hard for them.

sillypuddyon Why U.S. Cities Aren’t Using More Electric Buses

They do have a much more serious air quality problem to deal with.

sillypuddyon How Discount Brokerages Make Money

*Google is listed on Nasdaq not NYSE

sillypuddyon YC's request for startups: Government 2.0

Constitutional Amendment by PR? :)

sillypuddyon Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods

Why is this getting downvoted?

sillypuddyon Tesla Model Y

I think the exteriors are driven by aerodynamic requirements to maximize their range. So they all basically take the most aerodynamic shape possible which makes them look the same.

sillypuddyon Norway's electric cars zip to new record: almost a third of all sales

Why does the average Norwegian need a roof rack and a tow bar?

sillypuddyon Companies controlled by PE firms use bankruptcy to shed pension obligations

Yes, they're available. They're are also used to compare how much a fixed pension would cost in present dollars.

sillypuddyon Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak's Northeast Corridor

It will be interesting to see how fast Boring company progresses and if that will be a scalable solution. If there is going to be a large capital investment, it would be great if it also sped up travel times.

sillypuddyon Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims

Is alzheimers a prion disease, or maybe just Prions are involved?

sillypuddyon America is pushing the labour market to its limits

Link, or way to do that?

sillypuddyon Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

Pretty sure earnings calls are not required by law, you may be thinking of quarterly reporting requirements like 10K/10Q.

sillypuddyon Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

Turning on/off outdoor lighting as sunrise / sunset changes over the year.

Raspberry Pi runs a program that gets sunrise sunset data for my lat long, and then turns on off lights depending on that data plus preferences about when the earliest I'd expect someone to be leaving/coming.

Used to have a little timer that plugged into the outlet, but you'd keep having to update the on-off times as the seasons changed, and the clock kept drifting.

There are photo sensitive equivalents plugs, but apparently they don't work great, and they would keep the lights on all night long, and light pollution is a pet-peeve.

sillypuddyon Schools Struggle with Vaping Explosion

Methamphetamine has been approved by the FDA for treating ADHD