KMag

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by KMag 3y ago
The monkeys are not native, and can be rather aggressive, particularly during the breeding season. The novelty wore off on me pretty quickly. Also, on Lantau Island, exercise caution when encountering feral cattle on hiking trails. But, I
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by KMag 3y ago
Former banker here. There's extremely little overlap between traditional banking and what cryptocurrency does. There's more overlap with what a credit card company does. Most of traditional banking is about financing, not about
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by KMag 3y ago
> One specific question I've had is on a lossy network are there really that many situations where you would have packet loss on one QUIC stream but not most/all the others? I don't doubt that's true but I would love
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by KMag 3y ago
I wonder what Brian May's parents thought... "It's tough to make a living as a musician... if that doesn't work out... uh-oh, astrophysics is his backup plan?"
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by KMag 3y ago
It's the other way around. It's the non-profit part of the donations to non-profits that relieves the non-profit from paying taxes on the revenue, not the fact that it's a donation. If you somehow made a voluntary donation t
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by KMag 3y ago
How are Gnutella ultrapeers centralized? Nodes self-promote themselves to ultrapeers if they meet uptime and resource availability requirements. It's a mechanism to allow low-spec'd peers to participate without getting crushed wi
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by KMag 3y ago
You're correct. For a while, elliptic curves were avoided by most for 2 reasons (1) worry about interpretation of some of the now-expired patents and (2) there were some known "gotchas" for constructing curves, and there wer
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by KMag 3y ago
We're likely to see hybrid PQ + ECDH key exchange for the foreseeable future, running the pair of exchanged values through a hash-based key derivation function. Partially due to fears of backdoors, but also out of caution because the m
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by KMag 3y ago
Thanks for the great work, Ian! As far a second-generation Freenet, I heard i2p started out as a proposed re-factoring and generalization of Freenet's encrypted transport layer. Are there any plans on using i2p to carry Freenet traffi
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by KMag 3y ago
> True P2P networks don't scale, because every node has to store an (accurate if partial) representation of the whole network Former LimeWire dev here... which P2P networks use a fully meshed topology? LimeWire and other Gnutella c
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by KMag 3y ago
"10% more likely to experience anxiety, once having clicked on this useless link"
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by KMag 3y ago
I'm not a simulationist, but both quantum and relativistic phenomena do look a lot like simulation optimizations to patch over increased granularity of a simulation and improve parallelism in a simulation. For instance, my understandin
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by KMag 3y ago
Outside our universe, presumably. Perhaps where the physics of our universe does not apply.
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by KMag 3y ago
Fraternal twins are much more common than identical twins, because most IVF clinics will implant two embryos at a time, due to the chances of implantation failure. (Also, for non-IVF, fraternal twins are also much more common, for different
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by KMag 3y ago
I applaud your efforts. My wife often feels quite bad about feeling exhausted and frustrated, because she doesn't really believe me that it's a completely normal reaction to caring for 3 kids under 3 years old. Feeling exhausted
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by KMag 3y ago
One thing I found out after my wife and I discovered we were having identical twins is that manipulation of embryos increases the odds of having identical twins. In our case, the embryos were frozen, thawed, a few cells removed for pre-impl
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by KMag 3y ago
As a father of a 2.5 year old boy and a pair of 0.5 year-old identical twin boys, I hear you. Having 3 kids under 3 is at least 5 times as difficult as having the one. Two sets of twins must be even harder. Hopefully you're getting p
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by KMag 3y ago
Back when I worked at Goldman, I was told that either their HQ or their Jersey City tower over by the Statue of Liberty had a huge water thermal mass in the basement. They took advantage of cheaper electricity at night to use heat pumps to
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by KMag 3y ago
Requiring initial physical interaction reduces the attack surface, even once the attackers have gotten a toehold.
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by KMag 3y ago
My dad had a heat exchange loop buried in his back yard. I believe he had it buried below the frost line. In any case, unless you're building on permafrost, you can bury your heat exchanger deep enough to have your heat source at leas
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by KMag 3y ago
And also the indoor temperature. My recollection from designing these in class about 20 years ago is they typically operate at about half the Carnot efficiency.
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by KMag 3y ago
Why don't they run an ethylene/propylene glycol solution loop (with refrigerant to-water heat exchanger integral to the compressor unit) like industrial chillers? There's a tiny loss in efficiency due to the extra heat excha
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by KMag 3y ago
> Essentially the MS RDC protocol is just rsync run twice in a row, with the rsync metadata copied via rsync to compress it further. There's an important difference is that RDC uses a locality-sensive hash algorithm (MinHash, IIRC)
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by KMag 3y ago
$11.7 million, not $11.7.
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by KMag 3y ago
> There was also the case where a DNA test of a woman's children showed that they did not share any of her DNA. The DNA information did show relation, but suggested that she was the aunt rather than the mother of the children. In s
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by KMag 3y ago
The "rolling window hashes" from the comment suggests sub-file matching at any offset. (See Bently-McIlroy diff algo/how rsync efficiently finds matches, for example.) I'm not aware that git performs this sort of dedup
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by KMag 3y ago
But that same re-compression happens with modem traffic. Your 56k modems deal with compression artifacts just fine, though sometimes dropping down to lower speeds.
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by KMag 3y ago
> I’m glad we’ve all converted on one common reference for dates At least most places that use other calendars also keep track of the Western year in parallel. My Thai wife was born 543 years after me, even though we were born in the sam
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by KMag 3y ago
> I speak, and thus think, in both English and Japanese. The vast majority of processing is happening outside language-related areas of the brain. There's certainly leaky interfaces between areas of the brain, but if you literally
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by KMag 3y ago
From my memory working on web indexing at Google roughly 15 years ago, there was a step function for detecting "short clicks" that indicated a page was irrelevant for that query. As long as the user spent above some minimum befor

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