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Biology and bioinformatics. I've been reading about medicine and biology for a while now and want to get more serious. It's just such a huge fascinating field with a lot we don't know. For now I completed one course on Coursera and am planning on finishing the specialization with 6-7 courses. Also trying to learn some statistics going through ISLR on the side. I considered grad school as well but I don't have much of…
I have similar interest! Let's talk?
Low-plastic living. I read a book by the world's first zero-waste restaurant, Silo. The book got me thinking about how different our lives would be if oil were expensive. "Pretend oil is really expensive" is a good proxy for doing things that are "eco-friendly." Since reading the book, I've tried to eliminate single-use plastic from most of my life. It's incredibly hard. Everything from my socks to my vegetable packa…
I never understood why we don't pump and incinerate all non-recyclable waste straight into a volcano and let the lava deal with it!
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You seem to act like you're the only one here who has been following this for a long time... But that's far from the case on this particular forum. I didn't say anything about Bitcoin. But yes, all those yield farming schemes that are paying double digit "risk-free interest" will eventually crash out and leave some set of people in the red. It has happened over and over again, it's just that new tokens get set up and…
It's impossible for smart contracts that are properly coded to enable anyone to pull the funds out. Nothing is 100% guaranteed but protocols like Uniswap have been around for years, their contracts have had many professional audits, and the reward for breaking them is billions of dollars, so the odds of a bug in an Uniswap pool is very low. Other protocols pay incentives to LP the Uniswap pools. Where you expect the…
You can't pay the rent or utilities with them, you can't pay with them at the store or anywhere else.
Meaning unless you can convert your random tokens - that are not accepted almost anywhere in the real world - to good old USD/fiat, you virtually have nothing.
That's the failure, smart contracts do not ensure you get real USD dollars out off the system, the ones normal people accept as legal tender.
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The year is 2024, and I've just read somerhing like the following comment online: "Sounds like you're going through a period of grief and mourning. I've found computers to be a remarkably efficient prosthetic replacement for processing meaningful experiences with other real, live people." It just breaks my heart, and fills me with despair, to see opportunities for human connection so giddily elided. Radio and televis…
The books will tell you to do all that! They're not ready for me to tell them that, they need to be guided on the path to the path to the path.
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You should take to heart that most people here are not just "shitting on stuff without ever learning", but have seen this story play out many times now. Everything you described about LPs, TVL, and token value; you are just describing the mechanics of the ponzi scheme, not describing the way in which it isn't a ponzi scheme. If you are getting "interest" over 20%, what you are doing is extracting that money (which is…
Wow you must know more than me, oh wise one /s I’ve been in crypto for 13 years now, I’m sure any day now Bitcoin will hit 0 and you’ll be proven right, and all the yield farms and defi will collapse, sure sure.
What gives?
You can downright reject anything crypto currency related because it fails basic economic theory. There has never been a financial instrument that gives risk free 10-30% yields. No economy has ever grown at that rate. If it is a company what real products or real services does it provide? Where's the value add?
Exactly, there isnt, it's a plain old pyramid scheme hiding behind mumbo jumbo jargon that only impresses the mentally challenged.
Love, life, people and planet. When I was young I spent a lot of time blinded by rappers with their spinning wheels and crowds of hangers-on which drastically lead me astray — being from a single parented poverty stricken family in the London it wasn’t exactly hard. Since then I have been through so many different stages to get to the point of contentment with whatever life throws my way. Within this contentment I ha…
Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…
Any tips for running pain free? I used to run pretty often (3-5 times per week) for 5+ miles. Longest was 11. However, my feet started hurting while running -- never while walking even long distances.
Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…
Did you do anything to improve on 5ks other than running 5ks? My 5k time is around 35min forever, I run every now and then and recently signed for a public 5k run but I don't see myself improving my pace. (It took years until I could run 30 minutes non-stop and at least I didn't lose this over the years, but I'm slow...)
Where is your weight at? This is another factor
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it can certainly be equally rigid if that's what you're after; they have very close to the same young's modulus. thermal stability and vibration absorption is more challenging i think castings often come out closer to net shape than weldments and thus need less final machining, but i could have that backwards. they both shrink as they cool, but weldments don't need draft
Weldments have less shrinkage/distortion than castings, but not none. In machine tool applications, it's the vibration damping that everyone cares about, but my ultimate objective will be to find out whether it matters if you engineer in sufficient rigidity. Theoretically, for the vibrations to be an issue you'd need to get some resonance, so if you tune that out in the design spec it should be something that can be…
i wonder if sand bonded with sodium silicate could provide vibration damping at a much lower cost than cast iron or epoxy granite? you'd want to use much more sodium silicate than you normally use in foundry practice to get a continuous silica hydrogel phase without air-filled porosity, and as with epoxy granite, you could make the members much thicker and probably heavier than you would with steel or cast iron in order to achieve the same rigidity. and sodium silicate should make an excellent bond to either quartz or carborundum (or other silicate aggregates like basalt fiber)
i think people also care about rigidity because side-loading induces tool deflection, which hurts precision, not just because of chatter
but i don't know anything
My current passion is to maintain and fix cars. No modification because very little is allowed in my country and I keep the budget super tight. I started about a year ago. Prior to starting I had never owned a car or done any sort of mechanic task. My first oil change was on a friend's car before I actually owned a car (getting to his place with a jack, jackstands and other tools in a rental mechanic bike was an expe…