AKifer

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by AKifer 9y ago
Your comment is the best ! yeah, some people can take a trip to Venezuela themselves and mine the oil by hands.
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by AKifer 9y ago
Forget about going to Mars, making a probe riding these things will be much more interesting.
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by AKifer 9y ago
Given the level of education nowadays and the wide access to knowledge, I'm convinced that it's legitimate that the average person should at least have the basic medical knowledge, let's say equal to what a doctor in the 30&#
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by AKifer 9y ago
In fine, that NSA is not that super agency filed with very talented n math/crypto/cs people like the majority depict in their mind. They are employing average folks who use average tools and get caught by average issues. The only
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by AKifer 9y ago
- A very high computational cost to mine new blocks - A very high storage cost for each node Those complains are most of the time coming from free lunch seekers. The network have a value BECAUSE we inject value into it, and that's eit
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by AKifer 9y ago
Isn't that what really backs that currency ? The more you spend value to make it, the more valuable it becomes. Just look at the relative values of BTC and other altcoins that require less energy to mine. IMO there's nothing to wo
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by AKifer 9y ago
I'm thinking internally if all this buzz on drug decriminalization isn't just the visible part of darwinian process that will naturally eliminate the stupids and the mentally weak from humanity gene pool.
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by AKifer 9y ago
The drug war not working does NOT mean that all the drugs should be decriminalized. If you fail to fight drug cartels, it's a political and organizational issue. We should never fall into the trap of mixing everything.
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by AKifer 9y ago
It all began like this for Uber, bad stories here and there. Do we already prepare the ousting of some of the top Google executives ?
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by AKifer 9y ago
He might say good bye to his clients already.
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by AKifer 9y ago
Profiteers always exist, seeking for loopholes and sneaky tactics to attain their goals. The system should punish offenders and protect victims, but MUST ensure that those who sneakily use that as a tool to achieve other goals MUST be puni
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by AKifer 9y ago
Once modern languages like Crystal, Elixir and probably all the rest begin to allow AST manipulation, the appeal from Lisp dialects diminishes even further as like when mainstream languages began to ship with a garbage collector. Clojure li
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by AKifer 9y ago
The title itself uses a basic framing technique intentionally written to fool you into a false conclusion. 1- "worse than slaughterhouses and sawmills" is more catchy than "better than X" (chose any X automaker) 2- Is th
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by AKifer 9y ago
Bruce Lee foresaw it 50 years ago
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by AKifer 10y ago
Probably that's how we will build computers in 20 years.
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by AKifer 10y ago
Sooner or later, the robots and AI will be able to provide 100% of humanity material needs. AND The very nature of each societies will be shuffled by that new reality. When every material need is fulfilled, a lot of questions arise: 1- What
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by AKifer 10y ago
Maybe we should ask everyone claiming about the rigged system what they really want: income evenly distributed to all workers ? More taxation for those who earn more than the average ? Central economic planning so everyone get's the sa
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by AKifer 10y ago
Good reflexion, it's a virtuous circle, once you get an opportunity to enter that top percentage, the money machine is rolling faster and faster.
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by AKifer 10y ago
And in 2017 the world rediscovers Pareto Principle, and the people are scared, like they have always been anyway.
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by AKifer 10y ago
That's exactly what we need, a Hello world of the blockchain technology. Everybody talks about these data structures while it's very rare to find concrete example of even a simple implementation. It's not helping to be said g
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by AKifer 10y ago
Your intuition is just right, the way theorists are adding the dark matter/dark energy factor just to make their models fit with observations is the equivalent of 19st century methodology leading to the consideration of space filled w
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by AKifer 10y ago
https://www.scribd.com/document/337471737/Proof-of-the-Riema... VERY important! before further reading, look at the author
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by AKifer 10y ago
Seen from that optics, the war on drugs makes all its' sense.
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by AKifer 10y ago
Even if we manage to reduce poverty by half, someone will always find a way to write "Eight billionaires 'as rich as world's poorest quarter"
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by AKifer 10y ago
Makes me laughing all these predictions and poll pre-election giving an advantage to Hillary, and suddenly the odds were flipping around. This gives a clear lessons to all these politicians who used to manipulate the media and the statistic
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by AKifer 10y ago
very well said
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by AKifer 10y ago
I agree, that's the most important point in this article. It's typical lawyers tactic to let the case sleep for a few years for the momentum to fade, then retry to enforce it again. In such a situation, better kill the beast once
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by AKifer 10y ago
It's a scheme as old as the world, even Julius Caesar owed money to his legions men and did not pay them.
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by AKifer 10y ago
And again, premature optimization is the root of all evil. Most of similar stories began with the choice of going fully no-sql and later missing the simplicity of RDBMS in handling complex schemas.
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by AKifer 10y ago
An interesting engineering question that needs to be raised is, given no known nuclear test conducted by Israel, how do they know about the reliability of their design ? Assuming they built the warheads by themselves. Did they use foreign b

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