DavidSJ

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by DavidSJ 15y ago
You basically have no way to know who can see your comment on a post (outside of the fact that everyone can see it on a "public" post). On private posts, the word "Limited" appears next to the post, on which you can click to see who it's
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
For most people, this is absolutely the most self-destructive advice possible, since they have not learnt how to foster a love for things that meet either their needs or wants - which is something that you fortunately learnt early on, the
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Windpipe transplant is synthetic organ first(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|0 comments
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
4chan doesn't threaten their political power the way an effective social network does.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
But what of value was actually produced by that "computational effort"? What is the current total worth of the results for all of that computational effort? If effort produces nothing of lasting value, is it a valid basis for value? The c
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
iPhone started out with a lead, so it's not the same thing.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
That $1K stolen represents the first trades at the starting price of the crash, i.e. 50 or so Bitcoins. Is there confirmation of this somewhere?
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Homework assignment: what's $1k in BTC at $0.01/BTC?
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Speed is invisible before you have it, and once you have it. It's when it gets taken away again that you notice.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
I do not mind waiting an extra 300ms for having a modicum of control over what my browser does. Your point is still legitimate, but the 1,100 ms (not 300 ms) in that photo which you refer to is the time to serve the search query results,
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"What is your preferred Internet password?" asks priceline's registration page(travela.priceline.com)
3 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|1 comments
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
It could take years before the block chain is long enough to dissuade a double-spend attempt for a transaction that large, where you have a single party single-handedly accounting for a significant fraction of spending on the network. So fo
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Their method of decentralization seems pretty costly though, and that cost will not abate over time, since the costliness is what makes it work. If widely adopted, I don't look forward to the day when a large percentage of all computing re
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
the price of bitcoins will converge to the average cost of computing bitcoins Actually, it's the other way around. Since rate of supply is fixed by the protocol, the cost of producing that supply has no influence on the price. But the pr
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Yeah, but from early 2010 when most miners were still using CPUs.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
You know MySpace lost when you see a "Connect with Facebook" button on its homepage.
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Slow progress on automated car conveys(economist.com)
1 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|0 comments
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Evolution is perfectly "happy" to sacrifice the interests of the species for those of the individual organism or gene. That said, we're not slaves to evolution and can make our own choices for our own reasons.
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Bitcoin: On Line Currency Taking Off(blogs.wsj.com)
26 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|2 comments
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
If people are swtching because the UI alienates them then I understand them sticking to Windows 7 but why would anybody switch to Lion given that its even more alienating than Windows 7. If you're being forced to basically adopt a new pro
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
What is the law that prohibits payment in bitcoins? Is payment in euros also illegal? (Might you be conflating payment in bitcoins with payment off the books?)
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Could you elaborate which aspect of bitcoin has efficient quantum algorithms? BitCoin uses public key cryptography for its digital signatures. That in turn relies on the difficulty of factoring large numbers, for which there are efficient
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
I wouldn't want to work anywhere that article is NSFW.
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
They didn't attack those articles, they just mentioned them.
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Amputee demonstrates bionic hand(youtube.com)
2 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|1 comments
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
The fact that the stock more than doubled on its first day of trading — something the investment bankers, with their fingers on the pulse of the market, absolutely must have known would happen... No, this is an absurd claim. Investment b
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The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn(economist.com)
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
From the article: Mostly what I see in my visits to middle and upper grades classrooms are examples of what of Michael Sedlack, et al. (1986), long-ago characterized as "the bargain"-- "you give me order and attendance, I'll give you passi
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
Time dilation (special relativity) has nothing to do with wave-particle duality (quantum physics). The infinite time dilation of photons is due to their velocity, not their wave-like nature. Furthermore, all particles (electrons, protons,
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by DavidSJ 15y ago
The actual paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1105.1031

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