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You're basically talking about reypothecation[0] [0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rehypothecation.asp …

> 140% We're still stuck on this[0]? [0]: https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market... @ Page 25…

The Green Revolution proved we could increase crop production through additional inputs, not magic. We moved the constraint from local soil conditions to global resource extraction.

So many assumptions about smooth substitution in this stat. * How much of that land is pasture, and cannot be viably used for other purposes? * How much of the remaining arable land is suitable for gr…

Who eats the animals?

Per TFA, the story is not really about an insufficient production capacity, but an increase in the cost of the inputs. The product is (literally in some cases) on the shelves, but at a price that imp…

Digestibility of corn post-processing aside, who eats the animals?

We’re lucky if we’re on a logistic trajectory

Economic and biological growth curves look exponential right up until they don't. Both are limited by energy consumption, and nothing with limits can exceed the growth rate of its constraint.

It’s not just to protect secrets, it’s better architecture. Rely on an ACCESS_ID/SECRET_KEY pair and it’s easy to bind too tightly to that authentication mechanism. Then providing credentials in …

That’s an interesting comparison, since that’s basically the game commodities traders are playing. Guess the price of oil (of this specific type for delivery at this specific place and time that gener…

That revenue figure seems wildly inaccurate. Pew (via a third party research firm) estimates CNNs 2020 revenue at $1.7B: https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cab…

Thanks for the actual reference. The feminine/masculine assignment list verges on insulting on its own. Autonomy is masculine? Objective? Logic?? Reads like a 80s cartoon stereotype.

A more granular analysis[0] of how this attack was executed via W3IGG[1] [0]: https://medium.com/@omniscia.io/beanstalk-farms-post-mortem-... [1]: https://web3isgoingg…

There's a 'steal all the money' DAO analogue of 'fire the missiles' for decentralized behavior. If someone achieves control, they can do _anything_ the system is authorized to…

S3 is the right answer for anyone with even passing familiarity with AWS. Bit of a pain that HTTPS requires cloudfront, but otherwise the dead-simplest way of getting HTML to a browser.

To elaborate on the sibling comment: main memory is much bigger, but CPUs are much, much slower. It would be a challenge to merely run a model like this on CPU, and totally infeasible to train one. …

Here's a use case I pose every time Nix comes up in these discussions. For $REASONS I want python 3.7.10, and the full scientific stack (numpy, scipy, pandas, numba, matplotlib, ...) at the lates…

Whatever motive force drives cars around is necessarily energetic and transmissible. It wants to dissipate, badly, and we've managed to trick it into doing useful work for us in the process. If…

That site users an image from the movie Airplane to illustrate their autonomous pilot.

> ... without relying on the specific practice of shipping software with heaps of dependencies. Whether that be in a container or in a single-use VM. Either you have to package your dependencies w…

Unless the producers carried a speculative short in excess of their production, I don’t think it’s right to say they weren’t covered. They have the next x months/years of production sold forward…

To paraphrase the head of the LME during this episode, it’s a market, not a casino. It serves a real, social purpose: move metal from producers to users, and move risk to those who can bear it. The …

Pretty easy to deduce if you read a few of her posts. They’re still operating.

Hmm. My last engagement on this front was before TB4, seems like the situation has markedly improved!

I, for one, would much rather have chicken than chicken feed.

I get that you're being a bit glib, but this sort of thinking is pervasive and bothersome so I'll choose to take it seriously. 'make people not starve' is a laudable _goal_. It&#x…

I can’t recommend ZotFile enough. It, along with Zotero, have basically solved cross-platform cross-device reading and reference management for me.

Exactly. A ~2x premium to make all of that Someone Else's Problem is worth it.