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by 21 9y ago
> One thing that makes mathematicians leery of physics-inspired proofs is that physicists accept mathematical transformations that produce correct experimental results but that have not been proven axiomatically. I think it's way be
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by 21 9y ago
There are firm promises of them becoming available really soon now (TM). http://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2017/10/31... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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by 21 9y ago
Your argument fails even with traditional currencies. It's legal to own Euros in US (or the other way around), even if the US government can't control the Euro money supply, or people exchanging USD for Euros (yes, they have some
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by 21 9y ago
Financial markets always price the future utility, not the present one. A bitcoin bull could point out to bitcoin futures on professional financial exchanges as an increased utility, as in now professional money managers can trade bitcoin i
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by 21 9y ago
An obvious form of ignorance is saying "bitcoin has no value", (maybe with the "intrinsic" word thrown in there), despite the manifest fact of a market price, and of a huge run up. Value is like beauty, in the eye of the
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by 21 9y ago
You are joking, but some people are seriously proposing that. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-foo...
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by 21 9y ago
> A real life example is someone who feels threatened when they see someone of another race or religion If such persons exist in the world (and we know they do), then it's not that irrational to fear "others" (race, religi
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by 21 9y ago
Isn't the government already depending on Intel, Micron, HP, Dell and many others? Sure, you can swap Intel with AMD, but isn't that also foreign?
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by 21 9y ago
And then you are vulnerable to a single guy with a phone camera. If I take a picture of your gold stash it doesn't become mine.
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by 21 9y ago
Because locking is just half of the problem. A thief in a gold vault still has to carry the gold out, and that is difficult. A thief in a vault with a bitcoin wallet just needs to write the private keys/seeds on a piece of paper (yes,
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by 21 9y ago
Hardly surprising. It's hard to steal a truck of gold, especially considering the mens with guns which are typically around. It's hard to mess up physical security of a truck (not even to mention a vault), and even if you lose it,
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by 21 9y ago
The hackers wanted access to the code to look for Amazon keys. For them it doesn't matter if they get the code from the internal GitHub or from a developer machine. If you have an ultra-secure door, the thiefs will just enter through y
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by 21 9y ago
2fa is just another hurdle. Good to have, but by no means a silver bullet. Just one of the many ways to bypass it in this case: hack a developer machine and look at the local checkout.
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by 21 9y ago
> laundered trillions of dollars of mega-organized-crime money While I agree with your sentiment, there is no need to use such inflated and hilarious numbers.
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by 21 9y ago
So you're saying that free software is not reliable and you can't have any sort of expectations from it, so it shouldn't be used for "serious business" (enterprise, government, ...)
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by 21 9y ago
There are 1000 packages on my Ubuntu. Imagine each one of those having an easter egg on a random day of the year. Each one by itself maybe is cute and "makes you feel human", but not the aggregate behavior.
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by 21 9y ago
And US sells chop sticks to China :)
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by 21 9y ago
> On February 19, 2010, Adobe Photoshop turned 20 years old. Wouldn't that make it 27 years of PS? That's quite some rounding going on in the title.
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by 21 9y ago
According to Wikipedia Windows 64 bit runs 32 bit apps by switching back to 32 bit mode. > which switches the processor hardware from its 64-bit mode to compatibility mode when it becomes necessary to execute a 32-bit thread, and then ha
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by 21 9y ago
There's quite a difference between 6 and 14. I'm not sure you understand the amount of hatred a 14 year old might have against you if you forbid him to have a smartphone. A case could be made in court that such a restriction is il
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by 21 9y ago
Well, I live in London close to the end of one of the tube lines, and I try to leave home at 8:58 so that I can be on the platform when the 9:04 train arrives :) Of course, being London sometimes the times are off and the system probably wo
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by 21 9y ago
Yes, I don't quite get EFF's point. So they are saying that anybody should be allowed to scrape anything found online, and use that data for any purpose? In this case it can be argued they use the data against the physical's
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by 21 9y ago
In a few years not having a meaningful Facebook profile might be suspicious in itself.
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by 21 9y ago
I think you make the mistake of not thinking in statistics. It doesn't matter if it's not always right, it only matters if it's better than what they have at the moment (ie: almost nothing). Like the quoted bank said in the a
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by 21 9y ago
> If a similar phase change had occured 3000 years ago, I'm pretty sure it would have been well-documented Documented where? The Sapiens book makes a similar assertion, that something changed in the brain about 10000 years ago, when
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by 21 9y ago
Israel recently banned offering binary options to foreigners because a lot of such companies were based in Israel and I guess a lot of people complained to Israeli authorities about being scammed, and impacted the country reputation. https
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by 21 9y ago
For the same reason that you never see a SWAT team breaking down a rich criminal's door to arrest him, even if he has body-guards or registered firearms, or is accused of a violent crime. (Yes, I know, someone will find such a video on
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by 21 9y ago
> For someone worth 10 figures, no bail amount reasonably imposed by a court would be sufficient to serve in practical terms as forced remand Sure it will. Put a 50% net-wealth bail on him (500 mil). Accept shares if he doesn't have
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by 21 9y ago
Previously the world was made from Earth, Water, Fire and Air. Then quarks and electrons. Now they are talking about how the entire universe is a computer, and how each Plank area is just a qubit. The coincidence that this picture emerges a
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by 21 9y ago
Samsung is the one selling SSD with images of half naked girls. What exactly is the link between a bunch of pretty girls and an SSD?

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