Aqueous

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by Aqueous 14y ago
you mean the exchange rate? it wouldn't need to know the exchange rate, just what volume of bitcoin is changing hands at any given point in time which is part of the blockchain.
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by Aqueous 14y ago
The fixed BitCoin limit means the rate of production of BitCoin is also fixed, or changes in a determined way. It can't be decreased or increased in response to changes in the rate of spending. I think a monetary policy algorithm might actu
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Litecoin seems to solve the wrong problem with Bitcoin. Bitcoin's mining difficulty is calibrated fine for having a fixed limit. It's the fact that Bitcoin and Litecoin both stop at a fixed amount of units that makes them ultimately deflati
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by Aqueous 14y ago
'Most of the time, its an offer not made for your strengths, but in sympathy, giving you a way out. ' I don't think a company ever acquires another company because they feel bad. If they want to buy you it means that your company could pl
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by Aqueous 14y ago
I think he wants to be shut down because he feels guilty about being the last one standing despite being in clear violation of the TOS ( I suppose, though I haven't read the TOS and I'm not sure the author has either - can he point to which
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by Aqueous 14y ago
I've run into this problem and I've gotten much better at estimating. Solution? You should schedule your sprints exactly by degree of difficulty (in descending, not ascending, order). During my design phase I focus on what the hardest prob
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Why did the SimCity story go away? Because the story isn't that important
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by Aqueous 14y ago
"It's not that you're particularly bad."
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by Aqueous 14y ago
You could render off-screen in a fragment or couldn't you just make an element using the view's "make" convenience function, append all objects to that, and then append that to the view? Does this require the same reflows?
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by Aqueous 14y ago
"News is Bad For you" by Guardian News. What's their angle here?
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by Aqueous 14y ago
The example is helpful, though. In each of those cases something very much better came along to replace it. The same thing could very well happen with BitCoin. Someone mentioned forking BitCoin and tweaking the algorithm to remove the arti
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by Aqueous 14y ago
I've very rarely seen something with a > 1 Billion market cap and millions of users simply disappear. (To use an unrelated example, even MySpace still exists :) Very simply, the more users are in Bitcoin the more vendors there will be
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by Aqueous 14y ago
This describes what happens in the short term, probably repeatedly. But what happens in the long term? Traders learn; they adjust with respect to risk. People will become acquainted with the volatility of the BitCoin currency and adjust the
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by Aqueous 14y ago
"I have a strong suspicion that the Keynesian miracle is simply an unimaginably huge bubble founded -- like many financial bubbles -- on a novel "creative" accounting technique that temporarily hides underlying physical realities." It's pos
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Yes, let's go back to the glory days of the deflationary late-19th century. The reason the Keynesians like currency that slowly decreases in value is because it brought about the longest sustained period of economic growth in human history,
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by Aqueous 14y ago
As long as you're already injecting something, why not go all the way?
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Right, I agree. It is not our decision when we collectively stop thinking we have free will. It might not happen at all. When I say "We ought to" I really only mean that facts point in one direction, and our beliefs point in another, and wh
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by Aqueous 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Changing your behavior is just your brain ( a program ) learning to reprogram itself. It's still a program.
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Free will and self-awareness are different, but we seem to confuse them a lot. We are a cognitive agent and can know many different kinds of facts. Our lack of free will is just another fact that we might become aware of.
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by Aqueous 14y ago
You don't have to believe in free will to behave well towards others. You could simply have a rational belief that this mode of behavior leads to greater shared happiness, and that's enough of a justification for it.
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by Aqueous 14y ago
It is not in your best interest to be a criminal. So why are people criminals? We have to give up this silly notion of free will. The more we learn about the brain the more it turns out to be a fantasy.
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by Aqueous 14y ago
There's a really easy solution here. Google should just donate the Google Reader application to the Apache Foundation or another open source initiative so that others can host their own. In fact, it was a mistake to shut down the service wi
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by Aqueous 14y ago
It's not your last chance. You are not a loser. That dichotomy (the one between losers and winners) is false. There is no such thing as 'losers' and 'winners.' Life is not actually a competition, despite what the marketplace and Western cul
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Yes. A large enough controversy could also threaten to devalue Bitcoin drastically. No one wants to store assets in a currency which could potentially lose the faith of all of its merchants, vendors when it forks and no one can agree on whi
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by Aqueous 14y ago
The US Dollar is a make-believe currency. It only ever has as much value as we believe it has.
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by Aqueous 14y ago
The brain is made up of neurons. The neuron is a device that stores and processes information. Does it do so using a finite set of logical steps? We don't quite know yet, but it seems likely, since the behavior of the neuron has been shown
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by Aqueous 14y ago
The differences in initial conditions do cause the trajectories to diverge, but in certain systems they don't just diverge, they also get pulled into the orbit of an attractor, such as the Lorenz attractor. So, the behavior overall, despite
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Right, it takes forever now - and it took twice as long five years ago.
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by Aqueous 14y ago
Right. Tell this to the field of meteorology, or any other discipline that uses computers to simulate chaotic systems. We simulate complex, non-linear systems with computers all the time. Just because we don't have the solution for the diff

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