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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Much safer currencies, with complex rulesets, that any 50 cent microcontroller can use and verify, can be built on top of that. Find a 50 cent microcontroller that can mine bitcoin.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Small countries like Denmark tend to have a much more well-behaved population than large countries. I.e. they queue nicer, they are more likely to return something they found, etc. (game-theoretic research suggests that such a culture
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> This story was submitted[0] four days ago, but got no traction and sank without trace.* I'm surprised you didn't notice [0], which was posted a day before the article you mentioned. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Considering most of the world use a left to right latin script, I don't see how arabic would spread more effectively than English. .tfel og nac tub thgir ot tfel si C oS .sllac evisrucer dna spool ,spmuj :segaugnal namuh ni deci
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Skipping has become an important part of how we listen to music. Is this a polite manner of saying that most modern popular music sucks?
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
The Dulux range, circa 1692.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
The modern language of mathematics is composed of lexicons from several different written languages: Greek, Roman, Arabic, Hebrew and possibly a few others. There is one point often overlooked regarding comparisons of programming and human
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Your comment brought to mind "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs. I believe he used to suffer badly from writer's block (and morphine addiction). Burroughs had no recollection of writing the novel, apparently it's just
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people. That depends on whether these 'smart' people respect you, it is a horrible situation to have to hang around smart people who don't hold the same opinio
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
All the rappers listed seem to be American. Whack this through your Bowers and Wilkins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_SQEUZomug
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
It seems the gps data lies SWW of the map view.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
In February of 2000 I was in Madrid (being in a mountainous area it can get surprisingly cold at night), and recall standing in a square in the city centre. Look down one street, Maccie-D's, turn 30 degrees left to gaze down another st
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> A user of the entertainment, social networking and news website Reddit, RandomDKguy, posted a screenshot of American tanks invading an area of Copenhagen, complete with a number of Stars and Stripes flying, under the title ‘Americans
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
A good alternative to clubs are Jack Daniel's bottles.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
One of the reasons I stick to old C, less confusion.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
It's been done before. Calculating the golden ratio using your method provides insights into the world of mathematics. My method provides insights into the world of programming.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Good book, I read it a few years ago. His own proof that there are infinitely many primes is a good head spinner.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Why not just directly get an approximation of the golden ratio by taking fib(n) / fib(n-1)? That has been done millions of times over the past 800 odd years. My method has no practical uses, but plenty of educational ones.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
I can see the humourous side of it, but mostly I found it very frightening. I have trouble picking which is more frightening, a flesh and blood intruder or a disembodied voice spying on you.
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Great article. I've been messing around with trees recently, this variant is very interesting [0]. Basically, you can treat a tree like an array. This is the first time I have come across quad and oct trees, but I think the order stati
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> I have to admit, I did not understand your earlier comment until just now. From the number of downvotes, I think it was mis-parsed by several HN readers. This happens to me quite often, on many a website, but I have no inkling why. &
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Like Omega: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin's_constant
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Well, that's because it's an awful way to calculate a fibonacci number! To be more precise, it is an inefficient method of calculating a Fibonacci number. Using your function, if you were to measure the execution time of fi
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> This function has a name: t(a) = fib(a) (up to some fiddling with constants, depending on how you count execution 'time'). I was thinking of either time() or gettimeofday() from the standard and POSIX libraries respectively
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> What's interesting to me is that you can demonstrate this without too much work, and it's true for starting numbers other than 1,1, such as Lucas numbers (1,3,4,7,11,...) Your comment reminded me of chaos theory, small cha
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Regarding the golden ratio .... The nth number in Fibonacci sequence is denoted by f(n) The golden ratio is equal to the limit of f(n)/f(n-1) as n increases without limit. A recursive implementation of the nth number in the Fibonacci s
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
From wikipedia on algebraic numbers: > "In mathematics, an algebraic number is a number that is a root of a non-zero polynomial in one variable with rational coefficients (or equivalently—by clearing denominators—with integer coeffi
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
> Square or higher roots of arbitrary integers are definitely less famous than the golden ratio though... Out of the list of algebraic numbers in question, zero is the most infamous .
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
An obscure algebraic number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_number
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by NAFV_P 12y ago
Which is more detrimental to the survival of a certain gene, losing vital data or gaining useless data. Some genome sizes, the marbled lungfish carries a lot of weight in its cellular nuclei. ftp://www.fourmilab.ch/pub/g

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