Aqueous

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by Aqueous 13y ago
It's not really informative to compare the average casualties of hijackings after the period where airport security increased. And with the exception of 9/11? That's like saying that the 1940s were a very peaceful and harmo
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I mean, I think the point of all security is to reduce the total numbers of deaths from terrorist attacks overall, not just per means of transportation. That said, the fact of the matter is that the article doesn't back up its clai
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by Aqueous 13y ago
When people complain about the TSA, I'm reminded of this Louis CK bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It depends on how fast the deflation happens. BitCoin is not all that useful as a currency right now because it's value is so volatile. This is because it is subject to huge increases in demand as it spreads to more places across the g
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I'm a liberal, a Keynesian, but my interest in BitCoin is completely non-ideological. And I resent being painted with an ideological brush by Krugman because I can see the elegance in BitCoin, and I can see the possibility that one day
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Oh boy - this should get a positive reaction!
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by Aqueous 13y ago
The problem is sometimes you need to be able to report an exception elsewhere than the global log file , for example fold the exception into a user response. For a web application, for instance, using ANORM/Scala/Play, you might h
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Well, a long-term ban on personal BitCoin usage (i.e. merely mining and sending/receiving) is unenforcable. More likely a ban would target the commercial means of acquiring BitCoin. So mining enterprises and exchanges and payment proce
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I see - I didn't realize Pong was implemented entirely in hardware. Chronologically, at least, Intel's first commercial processor was in 1970 but Pong was released in 1972.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Can someone please tell me how Atari created Pong before Intel invented the CPU? I think I've found a plot hole! And we all know there were none of those in the original 7 day creation story.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I really like the "Do Something" app - I think that one will do well. Good job! I'm aspiring to this level of productivity.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I mean, I've given them the ability to withdraw money from my bank account so merely trading on CoinBase requires me to believe they won't do that or anything like that. The fact of the matter is that I don't trust CoinBase,
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Perhaps higher level officials in the North Korean government can avail themselves of uncensored Internet access? It's possible.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It's functional programming for HR! Employees are immutable data structures. I guess it's better to throw one away and make a new one than change one to fit a new purpose. Unfortunately we're talking about people here, so the
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Oy. Tesla has shown good faith in building up the infrastructure for fast charging and demonstrating battery swapping technology, even if the infrastructure for battery swap is not yet there. They have picked up the slack where the governme
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Well, in my view CoinBase with two factor auth is as or more secure than leaving it on my physical computer. If this person had enabled two factor auth this wouldn't have happened. I was under the impression that 2 factor auth on CoinB
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I hadn't seen that - sounds like it will help. Thanks a bunch.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Yes. Pretty much the only thing I really dislike about Scala is the speed of the compiler, and Heroku magnifies this about 70 times by requiring a complete rebuild of the slug on every push. It would be nice if it cached the build artifacts
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I think the jury will be out on this until BitCoin achieves a saturation point where its deflation due to rapidly fluctuating demand stops and its deflation due to being limited in supply starts. Which means, not for a while. We won't
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Using a proof of work to build a distributed ledger of transactions - whether it be of money or messages or anything else - was an original innovation of BitCoin, inspired by Nick Szabo's earlier work. Proof of work was used in hash ca
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by Aqueous 13y ago
it absolutely is a technological breakthrough, moreso than uber or airbnb can ever be. it solves a fundamental technological problem - the global view synchronization problem, the Byzantine General's Problem - in a unique, novel, and o
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Wait for a year. Two years. Three years.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Looks like he succeeded in delaying his final exam, potentially for many years
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by Aqueous 13y ago
'I understand this feature has the benefits of allowing people to push commits with emails they don’t own, such as ‘example@example.com’ that I occasionally use, but having your commits attributed to a different user is a whole differe
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by Aqueous 13y ago
'surviving success' is one of those good problems to have...which makes it, in some ways, a non-problem. surviving failure is a lot more impressive.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
did you port ncurses using emscripten? This could enable bringing a large portion of GNU over to the browser as a cloud-based app. Stallman's nightmare, in other words.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I got modded down, but there is no objection here? The ability to be stolen is what makes BitCoin like cash. That's one of the core innovations of BitCoin - you can't double spend it, once it's gone it's gone
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by Aqueous 13y ago
There are parts of reality that you can't possibly witness directly because you are located at a single geographic point. For example, someone suffering on the other side of the world because they've been gassed by a dictator or
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by Aqueous 13y ago
If knowing the reality of what happens in the world leads to fear and aggression then perhaps we should be angry and afraid? We can't just shut reality out if we don't like the emotional state it puts us in.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
The ability to be stolen is a feature, not a bug.

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