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by andorov 10y ago
And so they did: https://stripe.com/blog/idempotency
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by andorov 10y ago
Yes but this case requires Turing machines that produce very very large (BB large) outputs and then halt. Is that provable for a specific machine?
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by andorov 10y ago
But no one could play because you can't create a Turing machine that provably halts, no?
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by andorov 10y ago
What if the schools were required to underwrite the loans on behalf of each student? Incentives would be more in line.
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by andorov 10y ago
They only need to survive long enough to swap genes with existing bacteria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
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by andorov 10y ago
It is useful in cases where you want to verify something is the same as a stored (encrypted) value - e.g. passwords. One-way encryption where the entire process including the equivalent of salt/pepper is publicly available and not reve
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by andorov 10y ago
Did they need it?
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by andorov 11y ago
Heck, sometimes I'm amazed that when I turn on my computer it does anything at all with all the complexity going on inside it
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by andorov 11y ago
From a similar experience I have found this to be true. Specifically: - one size fits all is very difficult to do. most companies have a critical feature that is unique to them - the CEO is likely to view this kind of product as &#
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by andorov 11y ago
Perhaps a future where modern English has become archaic but still spoken only by computers to each other, because the upgrade is not cost effective
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by andorov 11y ago
If you have a kindle you can send a pdf to your kindle email with the subject 'convert' - http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email