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SonOfThePloweron Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipient in crypto transfers

How many TWh crypto consumed? Would one be able to build Egyptian pyramids with this amount of energy?

SonOfThePloweron Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009)

Looks like Fortran programmers have been doing data-oriented design since forever.

SonOfThePloweron New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity

The result is that world becomes more and more boring. No interesting discussion can take place. Environment becomes more toxic and it's mainly due to radicals who perceive everything as offensive and everybody who disagrees as "nazi" or "racist" or "-phobic".

SonOfThePloweron Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet

He's right. Longest thriving tulip market in history. I wonder how much energy in total BTC has already consumed?

SonOfThePloweron How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

All people, regardless of their worldview, left- and right-wing, should be aware that they are in the same boat on this.

SonOfThePloweron I/Q Data for Dummies

I believe used notation (complex exponential) is confusing for most people. In physical implementation physical waveform will be computed I+Q (writing I+jQ seems to exclude this). I found this very helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_7d-m1ehoY

SonOfThePloweron The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.

Well, lettuce has not been inflated by FED (yet), why would stocks have been?

SonOfThePloweron The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.

FED buys MBSes and bonds. FED does not buy neither lettuce nor stocks.

SonOfThePloweron The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking inflation in the U.S.

No, FED does not print money - bank reserves are not legal tender. If they had printed money, inflation would have skyrocket.

My only question is why banks agree to this deal: exchanging U.S. treasuries for bank reserves (which they only can use as a collateral for lending) ?

SonOfThePloweron Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study

Aren't these results consistent with Netherland's findings (3% of blood donors had COVID-19 antibodies) ?

SonOfThePloweron Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?

I do not understand the reason for butchering wild life animals (e.g. bats). Is it belief system (e.g. traditional Chinese medicine) or they are just hungry?

SonOfThePloweron Object-oriented Haskell surprisingly appealing

... and at most one person.

SonOfThePloweron Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

Thanks!

SonOfThePloweron Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified

Best wishes to dr R.Davis and his team - great job! My uncle suffers from Guillaine-Barre Syndrom (GBS) (or rather A-CIDP, but that still needs to be determined). I'm trying to educate myself on GBS and research newest treatment methods, but most resources/articles are paywalled. That does not help.

SonOfThePloweron Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck

Used to work with Rational Rhapsody. Big project with a lot of fancy state charts - that was nightmare. Visual programming does suck (unless it's Simulink).

SonOfThePloweron Sqlite: Code Of Conduct

Best CoC I have ever seen! I do not think that it is joke. From sqlite's source code:

The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing: May you do good and not evil. May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. May you share freely, never taking more than you give.