FabHK

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by FabHK 3y ago
Seems to me that one can make an argument that the following people, named in bitcoin/src/kernel/chainparams.cpp, control BTC: vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.sipa.be."); // Pieter Wuille, only
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by FabHK 3y ago
When I joined Facebook, I also read their privacy policy, and sent an email to them complaining about it. Dustin Moskovitz answered, saying not to worry, they copied it verbatim from Friendster, so it was fine...
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by FabHK 3y ago
Macro economists say that there are 4 kinds of economies: developed economy, developing economy, Japan, Argentina.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Indeed. The "Clamshell" iBook G3 [0] (aka Barbie's toilet seat), introduced 1999, had WiFi capabilities (as demonstrated by Phil Schiller jumping down onto the stage while online [1]), but IIRC, you had to pay extra for the o
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by FabHK 3y ago
Then market it as "fast". Nobody (except a few zealots) cares about the implementation details.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Presumably 300 septillion Watts (=Joule per second). And it's true that the sun shines about 100 PW, or 5000x humanity's total energy usage (≈20 TW) on the surface of earth on a nice day.
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by FabHK 3y ago
> an AGI should be able to produce a better version of itself. So humans do not have GI?
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by FabHK 3y ago
> letting companies use a 512-bit hash if they expect the repo to be large. A repo would have to have more than 1e32 documents for a one in a trillion chance of a collision with a 256 bit hash. (Total annual world data production is esti
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by FabHK 3y ago
100/e is close to 37, regardless of base. (That 100 would be chosen as a convenient scaling factor for our notion of “percent” only in base 10 is true, but a separate point.)
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by FabHK 3y ago
Yes, because they speak Spanish. But you call it Spanish, not "Español". That's the point. There are perfectly fine English words for what the Spanish call "Español" ("Spanish"), and what the Germans call
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by FabHK 3y ago
Exactly. The fact that it is still relatively easy to do X even after X has been banned does not imply that banning X is stupid. The argument made in the article is fundamentally flawed.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Stupid question - couldn't (shouldn't) form submission be sort of idempotent? That is, if the same thing gets submitted again, drop it on the server side, rather than doing all sorts of fancy stuff on the client?
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by FabHK 3y ago
Tell me you lack basic financial literacy without telling me...
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by FabHK 3y ago
> People generally value traditions, and specifically food traditions, highly. The author specifically discusses how, for example, the production of regional traditional French cheese is, in fact, highly industrialised: "Meanwhile,
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by FabHK 3y ago
They might be nice for a one-week safari over Eastern Africa or so.
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by FabHK 3y ago
How much cargo, do you think, can this thing carry? A hint: The 1914 M-class Zeppelin (158 metre) had about 9 metric tons of useful load. A small "Handysize" (around 150 metre) cargo ship can carry around 40,000 metric tons. A 747
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Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 3(blog.dshr.org)
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by FabHK 3y ago
Agreed. The difficulty of the trade-off to me indicates that we are near the optimum in aviation security (at least concerning cockpit doors).
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by FabHK 3y ago
If you enter 10 into a cell, you want it to be treated as a text until you explicitly convert it?
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by FabHK 3y ago
Well, yes, obviously, but do you realise what a headache it is (would be) if the default behaviour of Excel changes? How many people would complain if things that used to work suddenly stop working with a new version?
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by FabHK 3y ago
I think the "oh, finally" here is somewhat overblown. It would be much more annoying to lots of people if Excel did not recognize a number as a number, or a date as a date. This convenient conversion feature could always be overri
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by FabHK 3y ago
As it is, Excel needs to keep around a) the value of a cell, b) its format (ignoring formulae, comments, etc.). In your proposal, Excel would need to keep around a) the value of a cell, b) its format, and c) whatever you originally typed in
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by FabHK 3y ago
Nice. I am not surprised that the approach presented here was discussed in Julia circles already some 5 years ago. So it was about half as fast, if I interpret the thread correctly.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Very, very nice. Julia currently uses the same trick as Lua (generate uniform Float64 bit pattern between 1 and 2 by masking a random UInt64 and reinterpreting, then subtract 1). I wonder what the speed is. Having the “other” half open unit
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by FabHK 3y ago
Apple's plan was to scan only those photos going into iCloud on the client, so that they can send them to the server e2e encrypted. That is strictly better for privacy than scanning them in the cloud, as other providers do. Of course
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by FabHK 3y ago
Yes. A good creator would’ve made the year 360 days long and given us 12 fingers. Now we should fix it with some astroengineering and bioengineering.
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by FabHK 3y ago
> 4. Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) - 2002 Or “Jagwire”, as Steve Jobs said: https://youtu.be/nXJsS4B42_Q?t=708
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by FabHK 3y ago
Exactly. It's fairly straightforward to get PM2.5 down while CO2 goes up, and vice versa. The trick is to control both.
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by FabHK 3y ago
The meaning is clear and identical, but the grammatical function of the "which" is different in the two examples. In the first one ("... which I didn't understand"), "which" acts as a relative pronoun, ref
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by FabHK 3y ago
Good point. English has both actor (=someone who acts) and agent (=someone who acts) from agere = to act, and both doctor (=someone who teaches) and docent (=someone who teaches) from docere = to teach.

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