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by CookieMon 11y ago
I think there's a miscommunication in this thread. @opalrb is the project's account, and is not the account Elia was tweeting from. His personal account is named with his own name, not the project's. The complaint was about
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by CookieMon 11y ago
You don't think they're going to claim he's representing the project on twitter by mentioning his involvement in his twitter description? This could be a genuine effort to improve things, but the portrayal of him has not seem
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by CookieMon 11y ago
Owch, before this it wouldn't have occurred to me that a "Code of Conduct" would be crafted for the purpose of giving identity politics some leverage into open source projects, for twitter mobs to better harass developers. I
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by CookieMon 11y ago
I use this facebook app now: http://i.imgur.com/Iyd43n6.png (Android) It's either a well written FB app, or a no-permissions jail around Facebook's own hybrid-app/mobile-site. GPS no longer turns on, and mess
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by CookieMon 11y ago
> (My thinking is that if the mass of the singularity was redistributed evenly into a small sphere in the center of the black hole, the gravitational strength around the black hole wouldn't change despite density not being infinite.
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by CookieMon 11y ago
Is there any time dilation in the same reference frame as where the singularity is forming? (I'm running on rules of thumb rather than a genuine understanding of GR: I would normally answer "no", but "frame of reference&
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by CookieMon 11y ago
No I'm not assuming a preexisting singularity, I'm assuming (possibly incorrectly) that you needn't reach infinite density for an event horizon. i.e. a singularity doesn't need to have formed, and you couldn't tell
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by CookieMon 11y ago
I wouldn't think it could matter to an outside observer whether the mass inside an event horizon had converged to a point of infinite density or not, there just needs to be enough mass collapsed to an area small enough to create an eve
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by CookieMon 11y ago
Does anyone know the word for this? Physics must have a word for how energy in forms such as electricity can do work, but once transformed into thermal energy it can no longer do work (a temperature difference is required to perform work, a
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Are coder/IT volunteers needed in places coder/IT “types” don't know about?
9 points by CookieMon 12y ago|4 comments
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by CookieMon 12y ago
Did you use a tool to make the interactive diagrams, or just write all of them by hand? (I can imagine myself forever tweaking each diagram, and having to cut back on them, but you've created them everywhere they might be useful - it&#
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by CookieMon 12y ago
If I'm reading your link right, bitcoin did win in the China case, with a cost of 0.4%? But your link is to compete against scenarios where "existing mechanisms" cost 1.2%, and bitcoin came close to that. While BBC is talking
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by CookieMon 12y ago
Imagine a car saleman explaining to you "these batteries under the bonnet run the headlights, these batteries at the back are for the tail lights, over here there's another battery to light up instrumentation at night, and the das
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by CookieMon 12y ago
As per your wiki link, it is about the extraction rate, which is not to be confused with how much oil there is - there will always be vast amounts of oil that's uneconomic to extract, or slow to extract, or both. The only "running
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by CookieMon 12y ago
> The real constraints we face are technological and economic, they say. We're limited not by the amount of oil in the ground, but by how inventive we are about reaching new sources of fuel and how much we're willing to pay to
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by CookieMon 13y ago
Perhaps like http://www.bitcointrezor.com/ - a keychain fob which lets you pay and recieve bitcoin safely, even on infected computers, as the private key never leaves the device. Bitcoin's in its infancy so people curr
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by CookieMon 13y ago
Quite possibly. I've taken a copy of the most recent standalone installer which precedes the api-warning-nag version. It appears to be able to install over the top of the more recent version, and when my desktop API is disabled I will
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by CookieMon 13y ago
Once bitcoin ATMs are in major cities around the world, you no longer need Western Union.
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by CookieMon 13y ago
Great interview (the one I listened to). This stuff interests me, but how to choose a project to get behind? For example Diaspora and Gnu Social might be two scattered groups both trying to build the same thing separately, or there might be