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by amalcon 9y ago
I strongly dislike that definition of the state. Such a state as described in the pithy phrase has never actually existed. Even the very strongest states have violence that the state was powerless to stop. That objection can only be resol
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by amalcon 9y ago
One of my professors used to say that functional programming makes all problems equally hard. There's some truth to that. For example, for I/O, most functional languages fall back on imperative idioms. Those that don't (Ha
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by amalcon 9y ago
This sort of thing has been done with actual money, basically forever. It's exactly what forensic accountants are trained to untangle, in cases where far less information is available. It's not going to fool any serious player.
934.
by amalcon 9y ago
That step is needed if you're dealing with paper assets like wire transfers and real estate. It is considered money laundering in those cases, and they catch people doing that with some regularity.
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by amalcon 9y ago
Completely unrelated, in that they've never passed through the mixer? Then, what does the mixer do with the coins you've sent to it?
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by amalcon 9y ago
I've never understood the purpose of Bitcoin mixers. The use-case seems to be half-assed money laundering. You're concealing the source of money[1], without bothering to invent a plausible alternate source. It's at best li
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by amalcon 9y ago
The narrative didn't seem all that conservative to me -- it attacks conservatives at least as much as liberals, and concludes that the election of DJT is the present culmination of the trend. I do take issue with pulling trigger warnin
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by amalcon 9y ago
While this sounds nice, I've heard too many Kaiser horror stories from family in the DC area to ever consider them even if it were an option. They've nearly killed at least three relatives of mine. If your current doctor's
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by amalcon 9y ago
Also, don't forget that you'll frequently need to deal with multiple bills, each potentially requiring separate work to resolve. If you take an ambulance to the emergency department, see a doctor, they order a scan, the scan shows
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by amalcon 9y ago
TSP (in the traditional sense of finding an optimal solution) is NP-complete, so (by definition of NP-complete) it's much easier to check a proposed correct answer than to find that answer.
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by amalcon 9y ago
> Globalization is above and beyond all else a result of the Internet I didn't downvote you, but the reason people are is probably that this is obviously wrong. Globalization began well before the Internet was commercialized.
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by amalcon 9y ago
(I am not a lawyer, etc) Gonzalez vs. Raich was not a ruling on the specific drug. It was a ruling on whether or not Congress (and, by extension, the executive) can apply the interstate commerce clause to the regulation of drugs, even if t
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by amalcon 9y ago
A problem has three types of cause: - The event that precipitated the problem - The best place to intervene to correct or prevent the problem - The moralistic cause; the person to whom responsibility may be assigned Always be aware of which
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by amalcon 9y ago
True. It's not like someone else can use your drill while you're fumbling around for different bits, screws, aligning things, etc.
945.
by amalcon 9y ago
The version of this where that code is clearly unsuitable for its stated purpose is my favorite coding interview question. The unsuitability should be extremely obvious, no "spot the missing semicolon". Maybe it has a severe perf
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by amalcon 9y ago
You're right that it expands upon the C-T thesis a bit, so my use of the word "literally" was incorrect. It does depend on the C-T thesis though, because it relies on a definition of "processor" that references it.
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by amalcon 9y ago
The argument is that anything with that equivalence is a processor, which means an emulator is a processor, which means that any patent thats mentions the word "processor" (or equivalent) covers the emulator if it would cover the
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by amalcon 9y ago
Years ago, I spoke with an attorney with a CS background. He had once worked on a case like this. Sharp guy. He didn't tell me the parties involved, and I didn't ask, though I assume he wouldn't speak openly about it while
949.
by amalcon 10y ago
More or less this, except with a simpler way of allocating fractional scores: simply divide the value rolled on that die by the largest such value on any of the dice in the set (or, equivalently, round to either 0 or largest-such-value and
950.
by amalcon 10y ago
It doesn't play into this game because of the rounding . Again, you seem to be attempting to disagree with me, by echoing the exact same things I just said.
951.
by amalcon 10y ago
I'm confused, because this reads to me like exactly what I was trying to say, but you seem to be disagreeing with me. Could you clarify? In the game with rounding, A beats B, B beats C, C beats A. In the game without rounding, where
952.
by amalcon 10y ago
I find nontransitive dice to be a clear demonstration of the effects of premature rounding. The nontransitivity is only possible because, after each iteration, the result is rounded to a victory for one die. If the totals were summed over
953.
by amalcon 10y ago
Since there are also subsidies for fossil fuels, renewable subsidies are necessary just to bring the market back in line.
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by amalcon 10y ago
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc. Assuming you mean the Mexican constitution, it's kind of vague: Article 6 . The expression of ideas shall not be subject to any judicial or administrative investigation,
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by amalcon 10y ago
A top loader with no center agitator is almost as good, though it does still use somewhat more water than a front loader.
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by amalcon 10y ago
Well, that's the only advantage of proof-of-work secured blockchains. There are strategies that use something blockchain-like for simple distributed consensus, which do have advantages[1] (and also disadvantages) over other approaches
957.
by amalcon 10y ago
Thanks for doing this. As much as the conclusion may be unpalatable to me, I think that's where any honest evaluation will end up. Worst case, this will make people with sensitive information and without technical expertise more secur
958.
by amalcon 10y ago
Personally I think the causation mostly runs the other way on that one: that is, being perceived as winning causes money to be given to your campaign, rather than the other way around. This explains most of the rare exceptions to the &quot
959.
by amalcon 10y ago
Some old IBM environments initialized fresh allocations to 0xDEADBEEF, which had the advantage that the result you got from using such memory would (usually) be obviously incorrect. The fact that it was done decades ago is pretty good evid
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by amalcon 10y ago
It's been time to slowly transition for the better part of a decade. Still, if you need to start now, it's better late than never.

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