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by algo646464 3y ago
Photos have authenticated timestamps. Older photo is the real one.
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Stella the Dog Learned to 'Talk'(youtube.com)
1 points by algo646464 4y ago|0 comments
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by algo646464 4y ago
If there are US fabs, and China invades Taiwan then Taiwanese fabs are destroyed, and China loses access to advanced chips, but the US and the west do not. This puts China at a major disadvantage compared to the US, for at least a few decad
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by algo646464 5y ago
Silly Question: It it a good experiment to put the medicine in one eye and the placebo in the other eye? What could be other consequences of such a thing?
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by algo646464 5y ago
That is a good point. But all these had racist reasons at their core. Can this be better implemented today? With extensive supervision and scrutiny. For example, teenagers routinely join the army, and spend time learning and training at wha
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by algo646464 5y ago
I sometimes think, one way to break this cycle is to send the all the kids to boarding school or military school. It could put them in an environment free from their background circumstances. It is of course a harsh thing to do, but I think
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by algo646464 5y ago
Don't manufacturers do that already? Take into account the probability of a costly failure, and increase the price to account for it. And compensate victims to a certain extent, but quietly. I suppose they would fight any publicity of
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by algo646464 5y ago
Also, bribing voters is a thing. It would be far cheaper to pay 2X to buy X votes where each of the bribed voters keep half the money and buy a vote with other half.
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by algo646464 5y ago
I don't think that it is misleading. The severity of a disease is relative to the current situation. For example, it could be the case that Omicron is actually less infectious than the original variant, when compared in the setting of
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by algo646464 6y ago
Ok that makes sense. But I wonder why doesn't this problem also arise in the current Proof-of-Work system. A sufficiently well-funded group, with about 20% hash-rate can try to extend the current head of the blockchain by 6 fake blocks
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by algo646464 6y ago
I always understood the security of block-chains as a race between the good and the bad agents. Both are extending their respective chains as fast as they can. A bad-agent, who wishes to double-spend has to rewrite history, and therefore ha
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by algo646464 6y ago
The external reward in "useful" PoW is given to all miners, good and bad. So everyone is equally incentivized. In fact it should actually increase the participation in the network, e.g. those who don't care about cryptocurre
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by algo646464 6y ago
Can you explain why the security guarantee disappears in more detail? I thought that the security of a block-chain comes primarily from the difficulty of rewriting the chain of blocks. To do that you will have to fork and recompute the cha
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by algo646464 6y ago
> Additionally, it is the universal part of UBI that people struggle with. If everyone gets it, do prices just rise to meet that reality and soak up the "free" money. Think about this another way: if it is true that the prices
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by algo646464 8y ago
The above is a great answer. To expand on this (from some googling). All of this requires root. 1) Create a sparse file (actual size depends on usage) truncate -s 100G /home/zzz/Dropbox.image 2) Create a ext4 filesyste
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by algo646464 8y ago
How about: "Kids who grow up in households full of gym/sports equipments, grow up to be muscular/athletic". The quality of this research may indeed be poor, but the "tall pants" analogy seems disingenuous.
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by algo646464 8y ago
The free market cannot suitably address the "tragedy of the commons". If all companies currently follow expensive but environment-friendly processes, a rouge company can undercut them by following a cheaper but environment-harmful
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by algo646464 8y ago
All dynamic programming algorithms are recursive. They are essentially a (constructive) proof by induction. For clarity, perhaps one can include a "proof of correctness" of the algorithm in the comments.
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by algo646464 8y ago
> Investors would be choosier about speculative opportunities because the yield on the risk-free asset would be much, much higher. It won't help how choosy investors are, or how well the economy performs. The money supply is fixed.
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by algo646464 8y ago
A simple argument is as follows. Without inflation, i.e. fixed money supply, it would be impossible for a majority of loans to be repaid with interest, or give a positive return to investments. Note that this fact is independent of how wel
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by algo646464 8y ago
Isn't this just like paying insurance premiums ? Whenever you are sick, the doctor / insurance company loses money curing you.
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by algo646464 9y ago
This is perhaps a stupid question. But, even if we had a real oblivious DNS, can't the ISP figure out what website I am connecting to by a reverse-dns lookup on the IP-address ?
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by algo646464 9y ago
This is true only for erasure RS-codes, but not for general RS-codes. In erasure RS-codes you must specify which points are corrupted and the decoder discards them. For general RS-codes you don't need to detect which points are corrupt