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by Vervious 7y ago
totally agree. Turing was a mathematician - today to see a parallel we can look at how far quantum theory is ahead of quantum computing devices
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by Vervious 7y ago
My bike commute was anything but routine. Cars making unsafe right turns one day, pedestrians in the bike lane the next, black ice the third day...
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by Vervious 7y ago
I disagree. The crux of the university - faculty mentoring junior researchers (aka phd students) remains in both setups (and in industry research labs). The undergrads at research universities seem to be lower on the priority list
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by Vervious 7y ago
Medication for fungus in the aquarium / aquaculture industry, for instance. Useful when shipping fish and for good hatch rates.
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by Vervious 7y ago
Standing desks have their problems too (veins, etc). Seems that treadmill desks or literally taking a walk are much preferable
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by Vervious 7y ago
To be fair, the media lab has an alternative funding model that draws primarily from private sources and not the government. The whole premise is that "there is all this private billionaire/corporate/sovereign money sitting a
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by Vervious 7y ago
The group that stays under the radar... is likely not the same set that shits on the street? I kid you not, there are some seriously crazy people in SOMA who have a schedule. Morning, mission and 5th. Evening, mission and 6th.
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by Vervious 7y ago
Yes, you are right that they are legal, I misremembered. Good catch. The spirit of my comment shouldn't change though, if I instead refer to the establishment of a U.S. dollar. That being said, the fact that you have to pay rent with l
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by Vervious 7y ago
Fair. I guess the 2008 financial crisis is an elephant in the room, for instance, revealing flaws in our current economic approach. But that is a very different conversation, I think, for a very different audience. Sometimes, being in the c
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by Vervious 7y ago
If you agree that: 1) U.S. economic policy should be set by democratically elected people, and that 2) Facebook (or the Libra consortium) is not democratically elected, and that 3) Government monetary policy (aka the USD) stabilizes the eco
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by Vervious 7y ago
Exactly, Libra is a permissioned protocol. With a very vague roadmap for decentralization that I think we should interpret as a marketing ploy / foot-in-the-door-to-avoid-regulation.
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by Vervious 7y ago
Yes, I simplified a bit. But remember, they are each paying facebook at least $10 million, who for now controls the development. I would be very surprised, if somehow Facebook maneuvered themselves out of a position of power over the Libr
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by Vervious 7y ago
I agree that fiat only has value if a government, or some other group with capital backs it. Cryptocurrency is distinct from "digital currency" in that it's decentralized, and not managed by a large actor. Sure, they may be d
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by Vervious 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work on a decentralized cryptocurrency For the HN'ers who want to jump in and evangelize cryptocurrencies: Libra is not a cryptocurrency. It is a Facebook-controlled private currency intended to circumvent the internation
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by Vervious 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work on decentralized cryptocurrencies. I think your claims are flawed. You missed the whole "Big Tech" part of this bill. In fact, I'd argue Facebook has probably encroached more on our liberties than any other
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by Vervious 7y ago
What does this have to do with Libra? I bet most Americans are in favor of stopping Libra; aka Facebook's private currency. Central banking is a huge part of international economic policy and stability. There's a reason private mo
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by Vervious 7y ago
"As a result, one of the association's directives will be to work with the community to research and implement this transition, which will begin within five years of the public launch of the Libra Blockchain and ecosystem." I
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by Vervious 7y ago
There's also very cool cryptography and tech on other projects, that are actually decentralized . E.g. Algorand, where I work. Facebook's protocol is permissioned - not so much theoretical novelty there over PBFT (or even non-Byz
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by Vervious 8y ago
Travis CI git clone over http is borked as a result. https://www.traviscistatus.com/
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by Vervious 8y ago
It generalizes specifically a class of consensus algorithms that write to sequences of registers in a monotonic way, such that if a "previous" register decides v, future "registers" and associated quorums will decide v.
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by Vervious 8y ago
I disagree. This paper generalizes variants of Paxos - certainly not the class of all consensus algorithms. Moreoever, it generalizes Paxos variants, with different requirements - weaker quorums are always a tradeoff with liveness in the pr
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by Vervious 8y ago
Raft is arguably more difficult to understand at a deep level. After extensive study, I've noticed that Raft hides all of its complexity under its leader election setup. There's nuance after nuance. With Paxos, the complexity is e
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by Vervious 8y ago
TBH I'd rather my assets be frozen, in the case of the network halting, than allow double spending, just because some honest players lost internet.
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by Vervious 8y ago
Well, in some sense that's a good thing. Bitcoin relies on a synchronous network - an honest majority of online miners must be honest. Algorand's safety assumption is stronger - the honest stake need not be "always online&q
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by Vervious 8y ago
It's like increasing the culture output in Civ
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by Vervious 9y ago
A year or two ago the curricula still mandated one of 18.03 (diff equations) or 18.06 (linalg).
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by Vervious 9y ago
What is all the metamask code for?
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Tech’s Latest Innovation Looks a Lot Like a Social Club(wired.com)
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by Vervious 9y ago
Paxos made simple. It's a very beautiful paper.
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by Vervious 10y ago
> from which InDesign took inspiration Do you have a source? InDesign is much, much more than Latex, and certainly not just a derivative - though your post implies just that. Having spent many hobby-years in InDesign laying out newspaper

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