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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2017-12-09 12:00 pm

Interesting Links for 09-12-2017

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[personal profile] miss_s_b 2017-12-09 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd like to introduce that bar to Doro Pesch, Orianthi, and my fist.
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)

Cryptocurrencies?

[personal profile] dewline 2017-12-09 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"No thanks" to Bitcoin and the like.
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[personal profile] calimac 2017-12-09 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The William Carlos Williams poem was (has been?) a recurring meme in Making Light for quite some time. I'm not sure I can find the first instance, but there are some great plays with it here (read the comments):

Keeping the form and changing the content

Keeping the content and changing the form
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2017-12-09 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Women can't sing rock?

Try telling that to Janis, or Siouxsie or Patti Smith or..........
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[personal profile] agoodwinsmith 2017-12-09 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Bitcoin = tulips.

(Tulips grow in every garden[1], but people at the beginning got bit hard - wait.)

[1] - fcv of "every garden" for the purposes of this pithy remark
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2017-12-09 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The possibilities for abuse in the "Obamanet" project are glaringly obvious, or should be. I wonder whether they got permission from him to use his image and voice for the experiment.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2017-12-11 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Looking at the chart in the battery article, roughly the price of lithium-ion battery packs has been dropping by 20% a year since 2010.

In order to hit $100 a unit in 2025 the rate of change would need to fall to about 10% a year for the next 6-7 years.

I think the current rate of change is likely driven by economies of scale (ramping up for actual industrial production) and learning curve effects - so I don't disbelieve a fall in the rate over time, but there is a marked change between the future and the past.
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[personal profile] naath 2017-12-12 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
I rather enjoy square dancing, but twhat's some nasty racism lurking behind it.