HappMacDonald

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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
They also should not be worth more depending on how many neighbors live nearby you. The balancing act is quite difficult: voting advantage to less populous areas may improve land stewardship (protecting against tyranny of the majority ruini
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
Depends on your definition of "innocent". Sugar is Satan-incarnate (and I am its slave )
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
.. that over-reliance on things one does not understand guarantees one will get stuck in new problems said tool can no longer solve?
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
I'd hazard to guess that REPL of a simple virtual machine would work wonders for teaching about pointers and memory management. I can't recall exactly but I think https://godbolt.org/ might do that for example?
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
I would rate the weak coupling as a far second or third point of interest behind linear signal fall-off vs inverse square for most other kinds of signal such as electromagnetic waves. Gamma ray burst is twice as far away? It's four tim
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
> If we assert that some topic can’t be discussed with plain prose, then the only logical conclusion is that you can’t discuss the topic at all. Please bear in mind that mathematical notation is a language , and that mathematical formul
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
IIUC "stochastic" in this case means selected via random or otherwise difficult to predict process. In contrast to Deterministic.
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
Just FYI it's impossible for me to read this without mentally running s/huu/yuu/ first
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
Wait.. you can downvote? Sorry, Reddit expat exploring other sites and all I see on HN is upward-pointing triangles.
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
I don't know who "we" is either. Which means I'm just extra confused by the large number of ad-blocker-blockers that exist on the internet. I mean, what disobedience surface are they even targeting? Literally nobody bl
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
Why, how would you count it? Because either they matter, in which case they support the blackout more than they do not as the votes have overwhelmingly demonstrated, or if you think they don't then who is left to pin the "most p
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
Probably just that for those of us who are accustomed to working for a living, we see our time as the commodity and money as the compensation for marketing and selling it. Wealthier people can sit on the opposite end of that transaction and
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
Lol don't forget "liquidate all of your assets to donate directly to Reddit and immediately sign up as unpaid interns, and consult with your betters/superiors how to vote in all upcoming elections". I don't even kno
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
Unfortunately no matter how local you push the CDN: somebody with a crappy connection to their ISP, or a crappy router in their home, or on a tenuous wifi link in their back room or at a coffee shop will drown in the input lag all the same
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by HappMacDonald 3y ago
Well in that case this boils down to: "LiveView does this for you. In fact it does this because the underlying language does this for you. Most other frameworks in other languages do not do this for you. You might be able to roll your
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by HappMacDonald 12y ago
Changetip? Find out their email and then Paypal to them? Seriously, I mean they have to have a path to accept money somewhere if you wish to push money at them. Or, "You can lead a content creator to money but you can't make them
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by HappMacDonald 13y ago
Well, one way is to brute iterate through every potential 256-bit string you dredge out of the canal against the known public key. If you can dredge up 64kB of fresh data every time, that's 511,744 tests per shovelful which is quite a
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by HappMacDonald 14y ago
Bitcoin is distributed, and some people choosing to yield their micromanaged control to enjoy the dividends of convenience does not make the system any less distributed. With Bitcoin you CAN run your own node, you CAN mine your own blocks,
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by HappMacDonald 14y ago
So use the Blockchain.info browser extension, instead.