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by 21 8y ago
Forex is way bigger than any stock market. I traded forex for many years, and there would absolutely be no problem with this. There are plenty of web-sites where you can see real-time rates. Of course, I know where to look (big retail forex
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by 21 8y ago
> quite narrow range of parameters I think it's just a statistical problem. Target A: you want your song to be liked by 10 thousand people Target B: you want your song to be liked by 1 billion people I don't think there is less
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by 21 8y ago
> The answer is money The individual artist or producer which want's to have a number one song is not driven mainly by money. The drive is just wanting to be the best. And being the best in such a competitive field requires having a
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by 21 8y ago
> A single songwriter can specialize in literally the snare-drum. I was an amateur level producer in high school. I had hundred of snare-drum samples, not to mention a lot of way to influence the sound of a particular one. Picking a good
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by 21 8y ago
That's like saying that people are eating bananas and oranges and apples because there is a huge PR campaign to push them, and that this is destroying the chances for less popular fruits. Sure, there is that, but let's not kid our
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by 21 8y ago
> And why is smarter better Some people are saying that this might be a sort of law of physics, since the start of the universe complexity seems to increase. Our destruction might be required even if no harm is meant. The example given i
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by 21 8y ago
> Because being human, I’m not on board with that. I'm pretty sure that other mammals on this planet are not on board with humans being derived from them, and now humans replacing them and destroying their habitat. Quite unfortunate
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by 21 8y ago
Imagine booting up 1 billion human level minds in Future Company Cloud to work on a single math problem (assuming no ethical problems).
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by 21 8y ago
What is this death toll you speak of? Can you be more concrete?
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by 21 8y ago
Modern quantum physics starts after Schroedinger, at the Dirac equation, so you are a bit behind with the program :p
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by 21 8y ago
The problem with docks is not technical, but that people don't want to be forced to leave them at a particular place. Also, you would need to pay some sort of rent on those docks, connect them to electricity and all that. You could use
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by 21 8y ago
> then jack up the rent But can they really do that? Another VC-subsidized startup can then come in and apply the same strategy.
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by 21 8y ago
It's called defense in depth. Otherwise go ahead and disable DEP, ASLR, and other modern defense in depth and mitigations mechanisms used by Debian, of course, unless your OS is exploitable.
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by 21 8y ago
So people should buy batteries, charge them at night and use them during the day. Over time, they should recoup the cost. Of course, this will arbitrage the discrepancy away.
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by 21 8y ago
It's also based on whitelists and popularity counts. BTW, Chrome has a similar thing, compile an .exe, put it on a personal site, and try to download it.
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by 21 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the smallest addressable unit of RAM in modern computers is a whole cache line (64 bytes).
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by 21 8y ago
The catch is that they lost this war. Might as well not fall into the innovators trap and position for market share in this new market.
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by 21 8y ago
Right, don't forget about people who are opposed to nuclear because of Fukushima. A good filter of people who don't understand science and how safe the nuclear industry is.
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by 21 8y ago
Somewhat related: http://graphics.wsj.com/hostage/
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by 21 8y ago
PNG case aside, some serious people are arguing today that as our computers and phone become extensions of our mind, taking some person phone or Facebook away is a form of torture or human right violation. https://www.youtube.com
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by 21 8y ago
I watched all of these videos a few years ago. After a while, you start noticing a trend. They also have a cool first person view one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sf0Zv52mKQ
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by 21 8y ago
Just after nuclear bombs were invented. Coincidence? I say not.
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by 21 8y ago
Not all public is as math-literate as you.
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by 21 8y ago
In other news, Australia just finished building the world largest cat-proof fence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-44235185 Maybe that owl park could be fenced?
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by 21 8y ago
Seems to me that if you actually need this kind of things, maybe you should also have a cyber-security expert trusted friend and let him handle it. There is no way a non-expert journalist would be able to use this securely, too many failure
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by 21 8y ago
Quote from the covenant link: > People with “merit” are often excused for their bad behavior in public spaces based on the value of their technical contributions. Watch out, they are coming for Linus :)
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by 21 8y ago
I have a project which fits perfectly into what they are looking for, but these IP terms are ridiculous. Any other suggestions of where I could get seed funding? (somewhere in EU would be even better)
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Einstein theory of gravity is still considered classic (since it's not quantified).
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by 21 8y ago
If you wanted you could "reclaim" coins which didn't move in 10 years let's say. Or you could just issue new coins. There is no need to go to such convoluted lengths.
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by 21 8y ago
I'm pretty sure he did. It's not like we don't have dollars and euros and so on, and silver and gold in the past. > I did not anticipate people dumping piles of money into it to speculate on its value. 98% of trading in eu

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