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Cyther606
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> escapes my mind Love the post. Were you thinking of Nim [1]? It recently benchmarked close to C++ in speed [2] and it will assuredly continue gaining ground. import rdstdin, strutils let time24 = readLineFromStdin(&quo
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I'll take my facts from doctors, university professors, whistleblowers and affected families over corporate mouthpieces any day, thank you very much. Experts interviewed include: - Robert Bellé, Ph.D., French National Center for Scient
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For those of you undecided on the GMO question: If you do nothing else this month, I implore you to watch The World According to Monsanto [1]. A mind bogglingly awesome documentary featuring a copious amount of boots on the ground and exper
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Relocating your family to an alternate tax farm wouldn't accomplish much. The social contract has been severed. In the USCIA, it's no longer possible to engage with your local community without being cognizant of government spies.
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Sums up the appeal of Nim [1], which recently benchmarked favorably to C++ [2]. import rdstdin, strutils let time24 = readLineFromStdin("Enter a 24-hour time: ").split(':').map(parseInt) hours2
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Let's hope those robots can fend off transgenic outcrossing. Anything that could conceivably disrupt Monsanto's monopolistic greed over food would be a boon for local and organic farmers [1]. [1]: The World According to Monsanto,
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12y ago
> it's easy to see how file sharing could become virtually nonexistent It's also easy to see how financial privacy could become virtually nonexistent if digital currencies like Bitcoin take over. Most Bitcoin evangelists are tu
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From Congressman Justin Amash: > Supporters of Sec. 309 claim that the provision actually reins in the executive branch’s power to retain Americans’ private communications. It is true that Sec. 309 includes exceedingly weak limits on the
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The offending Section 309 was added on _Tuesday night_. Congressman Justin Amash explains: When I learned that the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2015 was being rushed to the floor for a vote—with little debate and only a voice vote
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12y ago
Right idea, but: 1. Satoshi is likely carrying $300M in his head, today. Imagine what it will be in 10 years. You can't carry $1,000,000,000 in cash in your head for example. 2. Allowing criminals to steal BTC from you by force or exto
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It has been forked [1]. > uselessd (the useless daemon, or the daemon that uses less... depending on your viewpoint) is a project to reduce systemd to a base initd, process supervisor and transactional dependency system, while minimizing
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Check out Nim. import rdstdin, strutils let time24 = readLineFromStdin("Enter a 24-hour time: ").split(':').map(parseInt) hours24 = time24[0] minutes24 = time24[1] flights: array[8,
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Fear and ignorance are the problem, not trust. The fear of being tossed in jail. The fear of having your children taken away. The fear of having your assets seized and your reputation tarnished forever. Ignorance of societal trends. Endless
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So you would agree the site you linked to is more scientific and empirical? The owner of metabunk.org, Mick, is thoroughly defeated in a public debate by Dane Wingington, who you apparently detest, here: https://www.metabunk.org
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Nim performance compares favorably to C++. It features a Pythonic syntax, optional soft real-time GC, optional manual memory management. Porting an elliptic curve implementation over to Nim from Python was a cinch: elliptic.nim: https:
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The event lasted 3 hours, and the video was shortened. Sorry but I don't have a transcript. David Lim, a doctoral researcher at the University of Reading, has a much more comprehensive presentation for the curious: https://w
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Ted.com, and a youtube recording of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors. That's what I linked you to. Your criticism would be better directed at the various websites you have apparently frequented. > Evidence please - surely you
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By these figures, 80% of the world will be carrying a mobile spy tool by 2020. I refuse to do anything on a mobile phone that is conceivably worse than PG-13. Until mobile hardware is free and open, I only view the proliferation of mobile I
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If you want to understand the drought conditions better, I implore you to watch this Ted talk by environment scientist David Keith: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_keith_s_surprising_ideas_on_c... To sum it up, governme
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An acute interest in blockchain-based securities trading led to my modifying a short Python script that would label fractions of a bitcoin as company stock. This was years ago, but I’ve kept watching for developments in this space ever sinc
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Whisper is valued at over $200,000,000. As the CTO of this woefully "under-capitalized" startup, you surely must be living hand to mouth. Forgive me, but the fact is you are working with the DoD while claiming to offer users anony
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> We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers sho
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The issue I see is there's no avoiding putting your trust in the centralized issuer. You can issue and trade inherently centralized assets on a global ledger, but why? What is the advantage for the common man?
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The Century of the Self Bernays Propaganda Surely professionals in other industries haven't studied this for decades, or have they?
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The popular show "24" in its most recent season made the express decision to demonize hackers and glorify the use of drones in combat. I implore you to watch the first episode of the last season, where a masculine Jack Bauer is de
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Reminds me of London's "Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes" campaign: http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/news/2002/11/5615...
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Experiments with Nimrod
(ziotom78.blogspot.com)
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This is nothing against Coinbase or other centralized wallet services for that matter, but Coinbase is practically being forced to ask their users for a blood sample during user verification these days. This level of user verification, nece
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Much respect for profiting hand over fist from pure knowledge. But the fact that this "opportunity" existed in the code is really damning for the Monero project. It highlights the staggering amounts of greed and hushed fraud rampa
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I've been using Nimrod to replace Python on a Bitcoin project. elliptic.nim: https://github.com/def-/bigints/blob/master/examples/ellipti... elliptic.py: https://github.com/wobi
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