Moodles

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by Moodles 8y ago
Well I felt horrible because I was toying with her feelings a bit since I didn't feel the same way (plus my massive hangover).
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by Moodles 8y ago
I’ve worked for a company obsessed with blockchains. What really happens in my experience is that some clueless business person tells the boffins to work on it, because they’re super scared of the hype that this new tech might destroy them.
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by Moodles 8y ago
Also not wishing to brag. The craziest example of this I can think of from my own life is that during one particularly crazy house party during my graduate days I ended up super drunk and waking up in this girl’s bed the next morning. When
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by Moodles 8y ago
Some fun large counterexamples to conjectures: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/514/conjectures-tha... So maybe Fermat's Last Theorem etc isn't always obviously true. But I do get your point.
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by Moodles 8y ago
Haha not at all. My MSc project was about splitting graphs into other types of graphs and some generalizations of graphs into hypergraphs. I don't even consider myself an expert on graphs, let alone number theory.
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by Moodles 8y ago
Yup, not picking on mathematics at all :-)
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by Moodles 8y ago
True, but even then, how large do you think the field is? And how many people verify these proofs? I have a PhD in an esoteric field myself. There's literally <50 people worldwide who write/verify proofs in it. I've spotte
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by Moodles 8y ago
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I hope BrandonM isn't haunted by his comment or anything. It's not really a big deal right? Can't we just have a chuckle about it and move on? Besides, his comment was the top voted one (simul
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by Moodles 8y ago
I have a MSc in mathematics so I am by no means an expert in mathematics proofs but I get the gist of it. To me a proof is literally a logical argument that you can follow to "believe" that a theorem is true. I do worry how many p
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by Moodles 8y ago
The first comment on that thread is a typical funny HN comment: “if you’re a Linux user and do x, y, z and connect the flux capacitor to the warp drive you can emulate Dropbox no problem”
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Scale of the universe interactive game(scaleofuniverse.com)
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by Moodles 8y ago
I mean cryptography.
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by Moodles 8y ago
I started an actuarial science degree too and this is exactly my experience. But I then ditched it and took a different path. It was quite a risk at the time (not an actuary joke, oh my god just no). I was 18 and dumb and knew I was good at
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DoJ Charges North Korean Over WannaCry and Sony Hacks(google.co.uk)
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Transcript: Phone Call Between President Trump and Journalist Bob Woodward(washingtonpost.com)
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Met Cheif Calls for Quick Facebook Access(bbc.co.uk)
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by Moodles 8y ago
I agree with you that your definition is what we should define a blockchain as, as Natamoto defined it. However, I'm afraid to say probably the majority of companies that claim they use blockchain probably use something very close to
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84% of companies are dabbling in blockchain, new survey says(cnbc.com)
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by Moodles 8y ago
I think it’s like the universe being a balloon (infinite or not) and inflating it. The space between any two points on the balloon increases over time. And at the Big Bang the space was basically 0.
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by Moodles 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ73Q4DwrGM
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by Moodles 8y ago
Yeah, the efforts of Bill Tutte and Tommy Flowers to break the Lorenz were amazing. People only remember Turing, but there are plenty of forgotten heroes in Bletchley who never got the recognition they deserve.
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by Moodles 8y ago
I read your post several times and I still don't know what statement of mine you're contesting.
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by Moodles 8y ago
This is nice to see because I've always found it surprisingly difficult to get any information whatsoever on the German efforts in WWII. Generally rotar machines were used a lot before WWII by banks and such. The Enigma and Typex were
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by Moodles 8y ago
Indeed some would argue that a minimum wage can be quite damaging: for those in society who are unproductive so as not to be worth $x an hour, a minimum wage of >= $x actually definitely excludes them from the workforce. They’re even mor
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by Moodles 8y ago
> If your locality has Amazon warehouse as the largest employer your options are quite limited. As the only employer, right? (Of the kind that doesn't ask for much different qualifications ofc.) Not largest. And in practice I&#x27
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by Moodles 8y ago
My brother actually worked in an Amazon warehouse for awhile and indeed it sounds like a dreadful work environment (although I am comparatively spoiled in software engineering and my brother hasn’t actually worked in similar jobs in warehou
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by Moodles 8y ago
This HN thread links to the original paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17817966
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by Moodles 8y ago
Yeah, same. I think I could have enjoyed going into history but the huge salary disparity certainly helps make the choice between two otherwise more or less equal paths. Also, rent in some cities might not be as much if fewer people went in
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by Moodles 8y ago
Blockchain person: "Hey just prove to me you're a real Rohingya refugee and I'll add you to my blockchain" Rohingya refugee: "But isn't a blockchain supposed to be trustless. Aren't we just trusting you t
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by Moodles 8y ago
I wonder what proportion of HN would have different careers if software engineering paid, say, as much as humanities while humanities paid like software engineering. It seems like everyone here (myself included) isn't really in it for

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