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What do you do with old coins? Satoshi's one for example? Or lost coins that nobody has the key for?
Do you set a threshold day, after which all unclaimed coins are just marked destroyed forever? If not, how do you know someone claiming some coins didn't use a quantum computer to get the key?
For Bitcoin this is much harder.
> Computed risks for new reactors are lower than for current designs "when only internal events are considered," according to a 2009 report that the Nuclear Energy Institute wrote for the NRC. (That includes fires or pipe breaks, for example.) But when risks of damage caused by external events — earthquakes, for example — are factored in, the new reactors are no safer than older reactors. In addition, because utilities have no operating experience with the new reactors, the probable risk assessments are purely theoretical and not as reliable as years of actual operating data from existing plants.
> The new designs are engineered only to withstand a predictable sequence of events, something engineers theorize may happen. In nuclear parlance that is called a "design basis accident." The new reactors, like their older counterparts, are not designed to survive an unexpected sequence of events. That is the critical flaw, says Lyman: "Three Mile Island was a beyond-design-basis accident."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/21/how-safe...
You don't see wood and canvas planes flying today.
Since there is way more matter than anti-matter, shouldn't the p+ eventually hit something and annihilate?
If the Japanese, with their image of professionalism, smartness, ultra advanced technology, and total dedication to their job failed so spectacularly to manage a plant, nobody will believe any safety promise anymore, at least in places where people are asked about it (ie: not China)
Now add the Chernobyl TV series on top, it will be replayed and memefied everywhere a plant is proposed.
Of course, this being HN, I welcome the incomming ban.
> To recap, the estimated range is $200 million to $1.7 trillion, which as suspected comes with cartoonishly large error bars.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/16/trump-wan...
For once, it needs to be an attractive number for Denmark, more attractive than the unknown, but probably huge future value of such a big uninhabited place. $5T is about 12 years of Denmark GDP, and 10-20 times earnings is a good company acquisition price metric.
We are talking selling it forever. Just think how ridiculously cheap previous land purchases (Alaska, ...) now seem in hindsight.
Denmark is not really in the position to really use that place, even in the future. The only thing they can do with it is sell it, so the question becomes when and for how much.
One optimized for node.js tasks, one for databases, ...
I say at least $5 trillion, maybe even $10T.
As for the population, you can individually buy the vast majority of them off with $1 mil - $5 mil per person, so that a referendum passes.
If this is enough to deter the glory days of computing, then just imagine having to deal with your first syntax error.
Show me an after WW2 example were one country used the military against another because of unpaid debt.
Just look at how EU was forced to erase more than 50% of Greece's debt.
Or look at how US hedge funds are still fighting Argentina (in court) to recoup some of the money. According to your logic US should have threatened Argentina by now.
How many users do you think check which entity signed an executable?
Please point to a case where US attacked a defaulting debtor.
You can't, because using the military against a defaulting debtor is against UN law.
Argentina is a serial defaulter, every decade or so it defaults on it's debt.
The next day creditors line up to give it money again.
It's hilarious.
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/04/30/1556614127000/Why-inv...
For example published in 2018, but "tested" on 3 months of 2010 prices of GBP/USD, USD/SEK and USD/THB. Quality forex data is so easy to get freely, that picking 3 months from 8 years ago on one major pair and two other random minor ones just stinks.