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by a-priori 14y ago
Laws like this should use wording like the Frye Standard for expert testimony, which says that scientific principles must be 'generally accepted' by the scientific community to be admissible in court. Likewise, a law mandating cryptography
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by a-priori 14y ago
Louisiana was purchased from France during the Napoleonic Wars. Napolean used the money to fund an army that he amassed on the north coast of France for a planned invasion of England. But he never launched the invasion, and the money was wa
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by a-priori 14y ago
One way you may be able to do it is to make patents always available for sale at their declared value. By declaring a patent's value, anyone (including the government itself) can offer to buy it from you for that amount of money. You must t
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by a-priori 14y ago
Are you referring to this comment of mine? "So I had an idea the other day for a patent reform: property tax on patents. As long as a company wants to keep the monopoly rights over a patented invention, they are taxed a percentage of the pa
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by a-priori 14y ago
Nothing's stopping you, or anyone else, from forking it and making their own distro their own way.
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by a-priori 14y ago
Very interesting, needs more examples though. It seems like this fits a similar purpose to Nathan Marz' Storm framework. Could you do a bit of a compare/contrast thing between Graph and Storm?
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by a-priori 14y ago
Yes, it's always possible to write assembly code that is at least as fast as C code, if not faster. But it's entirely another question whether you, as a mere mortal human, are able to do a better job at producing assembly code in practice,
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by a-priori 14y ago
I'm seeing the beginnings of a replacement for HTTP based on a distributed hash table.
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by a-priori 14y ago
s/monopolies/professionals/ You picked a strange list of examples. None of them are monopolies, they're usually individual professionals or small practices.
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by a-priori 14y ago
So I had an idea the other day for a patent reform: property tax on patents. As long as a company wants to keep the monopoly rights over a patented invention, they are taxed a percentage of the patent's market value each year. They can choo
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by a-priori 14y ago
The sliders should be on a log scale to accommodate both small and large users.
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by a-priori 14y ago
PayPal is starting to feel the pressure of all these new payment startups (eg. Square, Stripe) springing up around them. They know that if they're not careful with their brand image they're going to quickly lose their lunch in the next few
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by a-priori 14y ago
Wow, about a month ago on Reddit, I made a quick calculation where I predicted a 250% improvement in capacity. http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/y28g8/suspend_al...
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by a-priori 14y ago
One way I know this is possible, from prior research, is by implanting electrodes into the rat's hippocampi to detect activation in the place cells. In a nutshell, place cells are cells in the hippocampus that are associated with particular
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by a-priori 14y ago
They are, which makes the carriers "primary users" of those bands. As an unlicensed user, you may still legally transmit on these bands as long as your transmissions are limited to a small range and do not interfere with a primary user's us
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by a-priori 14y ago
The key thing about things like Twitter and, especially, Facebook that makes them get such hate, I think, is that as a user, you are their product -- not their customer. They don't get money from you, so their interests are not aligned with
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by a-priori 14y ago
Not according to my calculations. The sun's energy production is 3.846x10^26 W, nearly all of which is produced in its core which has a volume of 2.207x10^25 m^3. This gives the sun's core a power density of 17.43 W/m^3. The average human m
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by a-priori 14y ago
What you're remembering is that, in 2007, they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, in which an insolvent company tries to rebuild its finances to avoid bankruptcy. Apparently that failed, and they're now actually filing for bankrupt
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by a-priori 14y ago
He also wouldn't be sending a final invoice until the work is complete, I assume.
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by a-priori 14y ago
Gittip charges fees of $0.30 + 3.9%. They say that they use Balanced Payments, which charges $0.30 + 2.9%, so Gittip is taking a 1% commission on all money that enters the system. For the sub-dollar charges, keep in mind that the fees are l
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Dereferencing NULL Pointer, without a Seg Fault(blog.8thlight.com)
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by a-priori 14y ago
It is a bit confusing, but here goes: Ignore the green curve for a second. The gold curve is the 'bid' curve. It shows, at any given USD value (horizontal axis), how many Bitcoins people are willing to buy (vertical axis). So it says that,
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by a-priori 14y ago
If this causes a negligible drain on the battery, then the device could passively record the magnetic field at all times into a circular buffer. When they ask where the toilets are, the device can check the recent data to immediately figure
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by a-priori 14y ago
It's not just an 'old world' vs. 'new world' thing either. I'm Canadian, and this is the first time I've heard of someone boiling water for tea in a microwave. I guess it's something the Loyalists took with them :)
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by a-priori 14y ago
I'd heard it attributed to Winston Churchill. But, some Googling reveals other attributions to George Bernard Shaw, and nothing conclusive either way. So I'd say that it's uncertain who said it, or even that someone famous did.
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by a-priori 14y ago
Might I suggest "CoffeeScript II: Electric Boogaloo"?
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by a-priori 14y ago
I definitely noticed this in Switzerland with service staff (not so much with strangers in other situations though). It seemed rude first to not have a waiter/cashier/whoever strike up small talk while serving you, or for a waiter to not ch
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by a-priori 14y ago
It is normal here in Canada for a husband to accompany his wife to the hospital, and has been at least since I was born in the 80s. I think refurb's point is that it's strange to include that in something you give a Canadian moving to the U
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by a-priori 14y ago
So that explains why I couldn't figure out how to call a procedure...
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by a-priori 14y ago
I assume that the mutex's memory is warmed, so the processor doesn't have to go to RAM. But, it does have to synchronize with any other processors/cores in the machine to prevent them from locking the mutex at the same time. In a Intel Naha

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