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by Adlai 11y ago
"Hey hey hey..." yep, that one doesn't quite work either. "Do you want to know the secret of life? [I'll] tell you the secret of life: it's not the amount of time we have... it's not quantity and it's
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by Adlai 11y ago
I'm feeling lucky: 50 Cent Talks Bitcoin: 'All Money Is Money' | | Observer observer.com/2014/12/50-cent-talks-bitcoin-all-money-is-money/ Dec 22, 2014 - 50 Cent is happy he took Bitcoin for his al
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by Adlai 11y ago
Does the "Right to be Forgotten" cover the datacenter neurologic?
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by Adlai 11y ago
[0a] http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html [0b] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405
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by Adlai 11y ago
This article should be titled "The Challenges of Gender-Neutral Language on the Internet". There's nothing in it about concealing any other kind of identity information.
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by Adlai 11y ago
At what point do we stop trying to prevent unpreventable illegal activity, and try to put systems in place for dealing with its undeniable existence? I'm not certain how such systems would look in this case (everybody wears Guy Fawkes
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by Adlai 11y ago
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... Conclusion: We did not find use of psychedelics to be an independent risk factor for mental health problems.
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by Adlai 11y ago
The interactive tool[1] needs javascript. Don't try graphing secp256k1. [1] https://cdn.rawgit.com/andreacorbellini/ecc/0939921/interact...
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by Adlai 11y ago
We're both wrong. One billion shares, half of which he can't sell: CL-USER> (* 1/2 (expt 10 9) (parse-float "0.00029087" :type 'rational)) 145435
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by Adlai 11y ago
crickets
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by Adlai 11y ago
His >50% MPOE[1] stake is at least 1.4 million coins (valuated by the last trade). If you're skeptical of numbers on webpages (c.f. "EmptyGox"), MPEx's trivially traceable addresses[2] currently contain around five th
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by Adlai 11y ago
Wealth. Most of the publicly known early adopters don't spend as much (or any) time trolling about (and getting trolled) on IRC. http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu
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by Adlai 11y ago
It's worth noting that HN does adjust article rankings: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... Compare the gradual slide from the peak of other articles from the same time as the one
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by Adlai 11y ago
From http://nosuchlabs.com/theory An RSA public key consists of a modulus n and an exponent e. Modulus n is a product of two large primes, p and q. If one knows p or q, one can derive the private key corresponding to the g
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by Adlai 11y ago
Socket-Layer Security encrypts web traffic between a client and an existing web server. It's actually no longer used anymore, but the same abbreviation is frequently misused to refer to its successor protocol, Transport Layer Security.
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by Adlai 11y ago
At the rate agreed upon by the purchaser and insurance provider. The considerations are different than those of insuring gold or dollars, but to an actuary, they're all just probabilities.
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by Adlai 11y ago
Please rephrase your future postings to include "local" or "on-site" instead of "no remote".
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by Adlai 12y ago
The case where this is relevant is in decentralized source control. The only project I know of that set out to tackle this is dead in the water: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/612530753/gitchain/post...
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by Adlai 12y ago
Any electric anthill operator worth his salt knows that banana bread recipes aren't real secrets. A convincing dummy volume has a high-traffic mostly-empty bitcoin wallet, with enough coins remaining that the agents can claim it was re
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by Adlai 12y ago
The CL reader by default[1] converts unescaped characters to uppercase, but only when parsing tokens. The CL printer by default[2] converts everything it prints to lowercase. CL people seem to adopt these conventions as well, although
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by Adlai 12y ago
It's spelled 'Lisp'. There has been zero overlap between people writing "LISP" and people writing lisp code for about half a century.
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by Adlai 12y ago
Here's one that's barely turned six: We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust. http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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by Adlai 12y ago
http://www.coindesk.com/microscope-true-costs-gold-productio...
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by Adlai 12y ago
Sadly, proof-of-stake has some fundamental flaws undermining its reliability as a consensus mechanism: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
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by Adlai 12y ago
This explanation doesn't cover how Bitcoin determines difficulty. I tried to come up with a rewrite that does, but the original example has the "password, which they've learned is a certain number of characters in length&quo
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by Adlai 12y ago
Decentralized assets[1] (technically possible already today, but not yet used for any high-volume instrument) have a single trading venue, namely the blockchain(s) on which the assets live. If multiple chains are involved[2][3], each indivi
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by Adlai 12y ago
An HFT firm doing that would get fooled by activity on one exchange which resembled part of a large order being filled, but didn't actually propagate to other exchanges. These firms are doing a sort of high-frequency gamble, whereas a
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by Adlai 12y ago
Should we really be putting engineers to work designing more efficient techniques for punching plasma holes through sheet metal? They should instead work on improving sheet metal technology, as it is useful both for protecting both against
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by Adlai 12y ago
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_w
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by Adlai 12y ago
Here's the Stellar team's blog post about this. While there's no attempt to conceal this, it's also not being spelled out clearly enough: the Ripple/Stellar "consensus" model is a centralized and does NOT

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