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by 0xf8 8y ago
I’m thoroughly confused as to what state of the world one envisions as the alternative and how that would function. I understand an argument against purely a philosophical justification for proprietary software and no open access. But the p
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by 0xf8 8y ago
Doesn’t the equipment used for reproducing the soundstage matter in A/B testing? I haven’t done a rigorous test myself, because I’m comfortable having a predilection for high fidelity audio even if it isn’t demonstrably/empiricall
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by 0xf8 8y ago
one of my favorites is Sym. " Symmetric Encryption that's easy on Humans" https://github.com/kigster/sym
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by 0xf8 8y ago
What profound discoveries has madeuptempacct made? To qualify as the "arbiter."
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by 0xf8 9y ago
I much prefer reading to videos. My suggested online resource: http://lcmtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/ Print: The Art of Electronics https://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0521
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by 0xf8 9y ago
These municipalities are the unsung heroes fighting the good fight. True Champions. I hope it is the catalytic butterfly that ends the telecoms' monopoly and abuse.
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by 0xf8 9y ago
JPM's Quorum is originally a fork of Ethereum though.
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by 0xf8 9y ago
Ethereum (which definitely has its own fair share of issues) recently hit its all time high in daily transactions, which incidentally is more transactions than all other existing decentralized blockchains put together--a set containing Bitc
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by 0xf8 9y ago
I think personal experience here is the answer. Even an excellent academic study, peer reviewed, conducted by experts in the field, published in a prestigious journal, is still at best one single experiment. Pretty sure the common answer to
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by 0xf8 9y ago
It means you no longer experience it as an explicitly negative experience. While physiologically the pain signals are still present, your brain's reaction to them changes. Most notably (in my experience) the change occurs when one lear
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by 0xf8 9y ago
In my experience (undergraduate mathematical statistics, currently "quant financial engineer") this is exactly right. If you want to continue "doing" math in the sense you did in school, or in the sense we assume a &quot
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by 0xf8 9y ago
That "visualization part" is unfortunately, for the majority of people, how the human brain creates meaningful neural pathways and absorbs information. Not necessarily in a "visual" as in involving images way, but some f
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Ask HN: When do we give up on net neutrality and build a decentralized internet?
11 points by 0xf8 9y ago|2 comments
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by 0xf8 9y ago
The Applications of Probability to Cryptography - Alan M. Turing https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04714
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by 0xf8 9y ago
"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" - Claude E. Shannon http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop...
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by 0xf8 9y ago
[vipassana] = [answer]
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by 0xf8 9y ago
Agreed with the notion, but will point out that many of the "oil states" are not oblivious to the writing on the wall and as a result have begun allocating significant portions of their "fossil fuel" profits into alterna
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by 0xf8 9y ago
I genuinely agree with this notion, almost holistically, and I feel comfortable asserting that if we unreservedly followed this line of thinking the world would be a better place. However, in the intent to further improve on the notion, whi
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by 0xf8 9y ago
the immediate cancel yearly subscription approach is the move...