Carlton2082
Re:The World’s Aging Dams
on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:08AM (#26078313)
>radiation can't be seen
Not to be pedantic, but...
Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:50AM (#26066948)
The fourth word on Tether's wikipedia page is "controversial". Nobody is under the impression that it's fully collateralized. Would you care to make the case that a different, trusted stablecoin isn't fully collateralized?
DAI specifically is collateralized with ETH using smart contracts - it's over 100% collateralization is incontrovertible.
Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:08AM (#26066332)
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-pizza-10-years-laszlo-hanye...
The pizza was 10k BTC (now ~$443M). Tesla bought about 25k BTC.
Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future
on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:01AM (#26066247)
Your concerns about network trust are entirely unwarranted. In the bitcoin whitepaper published over ten years ago, before the software was even written, Satoshi explains how a trustless network might be created via Proof of Work.
On the topic of price fluctuations, I'd like to point out that not only are there a plurality of stablecoins pegged against and collateralized with dollars, there are also synthetic assets like DAI which follow in Satoshi's footsteps - using game theory, economics, and finance, to novel and practical effect.
I highly recommend reading the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and DAI whitepapers (in that order).
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Re:I'm an interviewer at my company and burnt out
on Sunday February 07, 2021 @11:28PM (#26060797)
Have you read the original memo with the citations intact? Gizmodo published an edited version. I would agree that the memo reads like a series of bigoted conjectures if you read the edited version.
Re:Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons
on Saturday February 06, 2021 @02:06PM (#26048957)
The analogy works even better because organ transplants are sometimes necessary and sometimes not. Although GP started off defining a binary, I don't think they are thinking in black and white. A charitable reading of the GP implies the nuances you express.
Re:Making Vaccine
on Saturday February 06, 2021 @01:39AM (#26044647)
I believe GP is trying to conjure up images of flying kits in thunderstorms or walking around with radioactive material in your pocket.