alphydan

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by alphydan 11y ago
put that on a 20cm x 30cm surface (laptop) ... and you have 25m x 600 = 15bn cells, 150 trillion synapses using 600W. If they can ever fabricate such a thing ... those neural networks are going to compute some scary stuff!
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by alphydan 12y ago
In the specific example I know about, the transaction was simple: Student sells 1 bitcoin on localbitcoins. User (only known by his localbitcoins handle) transfers money to student account. Student transfers 1 bitcoin to user. Bank freeze
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by alphydan 12y ago
A close friend had the same problem with Lloyds. Except the full funds to pay for his studies were frozen for 3 months and no apology or explanation was given. After 3 months writing letters to customer service, financial ombudsman, etc .
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by alphydan 12y ago
The link is somewhat old, but this should help you learn more http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2379 (and understand that "thousands of years on fission with current technology" is pretty far from the truth)
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To Catch a Spy with biometrics(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by alphydan 12y ago|0 comments
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As programmers, why we never finish our projects(programmer-hek.blogspot.com)
45 points by alphydan 12y ago|19 comments
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by alphydan 12y ago
> Without health insurance or fire insurance, people have to save up as much money as they can in the case of a catastrophic accident which they probably won't have, and possibly declining to spend that money on important things li
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by alphydan 12y ago
> They and their citizen children are usually a net drain on the government Do you have a credible source for that? Particularly one which compares the cost to the country of not having cheap labour vs. having cheap labour?
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by alphydan 12y ago
According to the Energy and Information Administration, retail electricity prices have gone up by 25% over the last 10 years. [0] In comparison inflation has raised prices by 19% over that same period [1] I think it's also not obvious
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The voices in my head: Eleanor Longden's 'psychic civil war'(theguardian.com)
33 points by alphydan 12y ago|7 comments
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by alphydan 12y ago
Tried a PDF and a .docx and got an << Unsupported document type >> error.
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by alphydan 12y ago
there is also https://nomadsms.com for that.
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by alphydan 12y ago
> so why is their service life so much shorter than some planes have had? The lifespan is typically 20 years unless there is a catastrophic failure (huricane, typhoon, manufacturing error, etc). There are some major differences in how tu
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by alphydan 12y ago
bribedates.com ... sound pretty dodgy too
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by alphydan 12y ago
> One reason to take the latter is to make sure you don't get a deficiency disease. Eating a balanced diet every day gets you way more vitamins than your body can absorb. I learnt this from a biologist who studied digestion about
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by alphydan 12y ago
Have you tried Docracy? There are a few good examples at: https://www.docracy.com/application/dochome
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by alphydan 12y ago
> The funny thing is that an outlier such as instagram will not actually change the averages all that much. The problem I see is access to the data to build that average. But I think we agree on everything else. I'm a scientist&#x2
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by alphydan 12y ago
Easy then! Let's do photo sharing apps in 2014. - p: at seed stage (90% failure?) - e: average exit. Should I make the average including instagram, flikr, ... or is 2015 dead for photo sharing apps? What about all the apps with a mediu
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by alphydan 12y ago
> If ((1-p) * s * e) < (m-c)*t Because `p`, `e` and `t` are so easy to estimate ...
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The Military Wants to Teach Robots Right from Wrong(theatlantic.com)
1 points by alphydan 12y ago|0 comments
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by alphydan 12y ago
I don't think it's what she/he's alluding to, but you could do the following: A: creates a hash of a contract B: creates a hash of the same contract A sends 0.1BTC to B (and in the transaction message includes the hash).
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A LEGO apparatus to demonstrate the definition of mass based on the new SI(arxiv.org)
46 points by alphydan 12y ago|15 comments
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Harvard Law professor bullies small Chinese restaurant(slate.com)
3 points by alphydan 12y ago|1 comments
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by alphydan 12y ago
Yes, because the US doesn't have any oil ... oh, wait! Cumulative oil production: US: ~200bn barrels Norway: ~25bn barrels (in all fairness, the population of the US is about 60 times larger ... but then again, most of the fund is not
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UK Revenue and Customs on cryptocurrencies(gov.uk)
3 points by alphydan 12y ago|0 comments
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by alphydan 12y ago
> I believe copyediting and layout is paid, however. I've published in Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, PRA ... and we did 99% of the copyediting and layout (with LaTeX and unpaid, of course). The editor would correct a few
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by alphydan 12y ago
I think the confusion may come from the Spanish version of the word. "Americano" and "American" seem to carry different connotations. See: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uso_de_la_palabra_americano o
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by alphydan 12y ago
[missing reference] I see this thrown around often, but have never found any references which take into account the trade balances, respective debts, tax contributions, etc.
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by alphydan 12y ago
for us colorblind, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan & Company aready are very very close to it. :)
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by alphydan 12y ago
Wikipedia doesn't agree with you ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American ) American also means > Something of, from, or related to the Americas > Indigenous peoples of the Americas If you had lived in a Latin

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