DoctorOetker

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   by DoctorOetker 9y ago

   Nicotine is poisonous when ingested, so that perheaps explains why the mummies are dead.
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   by DoctorOetker 9y ago

   I fully agree. The whole idea of income tax is flawed. Define richer (poorer) as having more (less) wealth: unit is say dollars. Define net income as the time-derivative of wealth: unit is dollars per day. Now conflate income and wealth in
3. 2403.▲
   by DoctorOetker 9y ago

   nobody mentions namecoin?
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   by DoctorOetker 9y ago

   This 'link tax' sounds awful. Will WikiPedia need to start paying 'link tax' ?
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   by DoctorOetker 9y ago

   if you have never read papers on cryptography you can't understand, there's typically 2 people, the intended users of the protocol, and Eve some attacker of the protocol, since these roles re-occur in different problems, the scien
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   by DoctorOetker 9y ago

   I am reading the paper now, and had a weird thought, but probably it is a brainfart: Keep in mind Monte Carlo algorithms versus Las Vegas algorithmms. Keep also in mind that since cryptographic one way permutations are available, both Alice
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   by DoctorOetker 9y ago

   perhaps a rear propeller for deceleration, to recharge the batteries? :P
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   by DoctorOetker 9y ago

   probably a stupid question, but since theres landing gear anyway with drag, why can't electrical power be supplied through the wheels? I am thinking something like a tram, possibly with a bottom pantograph?
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   by DoctorOetker 9y ago

   thanks a lot!
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    by DoctorOetker 9y ago

    "They cannot accommodate public-key encryption" I take it you mean that there are no known hash-based public key encryption systems. I assume you don't intend to say they are provably impossible to construct? I remember when
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    by DoctorOetker 9y ago

    I take it you understand the specific optimization. Is there a reason they keep talking about a '32-bit' this and that? or should that be '32 byte' as that would be 256 bits?
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    by DoctorOetker 9y ago

    It's probably a toy, and we're almost old enough to start trying to fetch toys?
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    by DoctorOetker 9y ago

    I recognize many of your thoughts and observations (but not your achievements) as my own, and agree on most points. A corollary you do not make explicit: the university is to students/diplomes as the prestigious publisher is to papers.
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    by DoctorOetker 9y ago

    would "surprisal" work?
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    by DoctorOetker 9y ago

    A similar question/conundrum is this: From a reductionist perspective a civilization is a collection of humans, a human is a collection of cells. Why is my _I_ or first-person perception that of me the human [and I am convinced that ot
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    by DoctorOetker 9y ago

    Let's pretend a thought or experience is in fact just memories, or rather recombinations and interactions of memories. The word "remember" [as in 'recall to mind'] is etymologically composed of "re-" [as i
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    by DoctorOetker 9y ago

    Am I the only one who found the referenced essay by Isaac Asimov on creativity much more interesting than the article? It seems like that essay deserves a HN thread of its own!
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    by DoctorOetker 9y ago

    While I am highly skeptical of RF radiation as a significant cause of cancer, I sympathize with your attitude. Quite disingenious is the ionizing vs non-ionizing radiation dichotomy. I guess this is historically rooted in the cancerous effe