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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Why do you think companies jumping on some hype train is indicative of much at all? For Bosch, for instance, it was the VC part of the company making an Iota investment - I'd say investing in unproven tech is their thing. Deployment in
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Seems like there is no worse platform to discuss the merits and weaknesses of cryptocurrencies somewhat objectively than those specific subreddits. They are so full of greed and ideology, it's absurd. It's quite hard to look thro
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
>The cryptocurrency adoption has steadily increased so far. For speculation and investment, not for anything currency-like, though.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
The overwhelming majority of people use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies through exchanges, they have no interest or knowledge of technical details. So it's not like technical communication has won here, more like greed and ease of u
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Pretty amazing and absolutely deserved. After the failures of systems like PGP, which aren't really suitable for the masses, the Signal protocol did a great job at spreading end-to-end encryption. I'm happy to hear that they got s
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Maybe linking to the study itself instead of a pro-GMO lobbying site or at least to some popular science news without an agenda would be the safer choice.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Why do you guess that their paper from June 2007 mentioned in the blog was only released February 2009? Seems like a long revision period. Nothing important, just threw me a bit off guard seeing the date of the blog post and the authors own
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Maybe I'm just blind, but I can't find a link to the paper in the press release. Not that I would understand the hardware-specific parts, but I was just curious what software implementations they benchmarked against and how their
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I don't disagree with you in principle and I don't think it's at all clear that the Russian boogeyman had the significant influence on election results in the west that many media outlets pretend, but at the same time the ide
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
It's very cool how such a level of computational power is so seemingly easy to reach. I guess it's not surprising if you consider how simple Turing machines themselves are, but I'm always amazed that this is really enough.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
And blockchains achieve that at an immense cost, which is the point of the discussion. Decentralised systems are less efficient (orders of magnitude less for proof of work) and it's debatable whether that is necessary in the real world
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Design patterns are probably broader than just the classic collection of OOP patterns. If you use functional features, new patterns will arise (the most trivial and oldschool one maybe being map/reduce). The original definition wasn&#x
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
It's all extraordinarily creepy because you expect your home to be the safe haven of privacy, but considering how ubiquitous smartphones are and how much of our lives already happens digitally, you could somewhat cynically argue that t
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
It's funny how many of the cryptocoins pretend that they have some domain-specific use case (here IoT, which for reasons(?) needs a distributed ledger) that justifies their existence. Guess people can make a business out of thinking up
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Wouldn't the company have an incentive to pay you European rates for your remote work then?
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Then making that consumption sustainable and reducing waste would be a far better investment than pipe dreams of asteroid mining. Keep in mind scarcity of resources is not the only issue. If everyone on Earth really ever started consuming a
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Are you just disregarding the (pretty cost-effective) experiments that could be done in space because of the ISS? It's not all about flashy missions like sending humans to Mars (for dubious scientific value as opposed to just sending r
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Electronic voting is hard enough as it is, I sure hope people wait a long time before trying to use a fairly fragile system such as distributed ledgers for it. There are so many more subtle issues that could emerge and threaten the legitima
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Of course, the trusted third party can also be decentralized and spread among multiple trusted parties (some of which could even turn out to be adversarial, as long as you use some Byzantine consensus algorithms). I think that weakens the c
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I wonder how monetization of users compares for those alternative platforms though. Instagram seems to be okay, since you can insert ads and probably deduce user profiles for targeted ads pretty easily from who they follow. Even image analy
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I think I can understand and appreciate many different aspects of Computer science, but programming language theory truly is a bit too arcane and formal for me. I still try to follow it somewhat though (like when the Morning Paper had its n
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
It's really unfortunate that Facebook was allowed to buy WhatsApp. This could have been good news, and maybe it still is since end-to-end encrypted messaging apps may not enable the same data abuse as Facebook's social network. St
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I find the more concerning thing is not that people will believe that a fake is real, it's more that they won't believe something real is real anymore. Already nowadays the whole thing about fake news and alternative facts has seg
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Yet Corbyn's somewhat populist rhetoric seems to have made Labour competitive again, or were their good election results just a coincidence and had nothing to do with Corbyn? Just curious, since I'm not British and probably only h
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Of course, if you go through the world without ethical concerns, then your plan sounds pretty good.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I liked his comment about trust, it's something that always bothered me with the very radical trust model of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It is not entirely clear why you have to go all the way and do away with _all_ trust, exce
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
If the future of grocery shopping is between grocery delivery that you order over the Internet (linked to your account and browsing habits) or using such a surveillance store, the privacy implications are probably not that different either
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Add deep learning and even boring old survival analysis can make headlines as "AI predicts Death". (Not bashing the paper here, just the reporting.) Though I suppose making use of the large amount of unstructured health data is a
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
How common is it that paying the ransom doesn't work? Seems bad for the business model of ransomware, though I guess competing malware writers don't necessarily feel compelled to keep the market intact if they can squeeze out a bi
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Well, for one thing it doesn't carry that subconscious bias of interpreting something below 0.05 as guaranteed significant as people tend to do with p-values, but is a softer metric that reflects your belief in one or the other hypothe

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