andrewla

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1891.
by andrewla 9y ago
To answer your question directly, at least in New York -- yes, you need to pretend that you're someone on a list, and were that person to later show up (or if they had shown up and you tried to pretend to be them) then there would be a
1892.
by andrewla 9y ago
Would you mind giving the brand? I don't know if it would be available in the US, but it's always good to have more pointers. Also, what size? At the smaller sizes, monitors are competitive with TVs and avoid the smart stuff, bu
1893.
by andrewla 9y ago
Would you mind giving the brand and model of the TV? I've been searching around, and some Vizio models seem close, but otherwise it's just monitors, mostly on the smaller size, and much more expensive (?) at the larger sizes than
1894.
by andrewla 9y ago
> Free speech and free association are not extant when books are banned or ideas are outlawed. I mean, is this just arguing about the definition of the term "free speech"? It's not hard to think of easy examples, like the
1895.
by andrewla 9y ago
Professor O'Neill (mentioned in the article) has written a PRNG [1]. The jury is still out on how powerful it is in general. There continue to be fights between what it means to be random for cryptographic purposes vs. numerical anal
1896.
by andrewla 9y ago
Out of curiosity, can you point me to the prior research that you mention? Aside from a couple of blogs, notably [1], I haven't seen much formal research, much less anything showing bounds on supportability. [1] https://rus
1897.
by andrewla 9y ago
This is a very confusing view. If increasing block size were the sole goal, then the miners would switch to Bitcoin Cash and obviate the whole thing. Why the middle ground if they're looking to attack -- if 90% of the hash power swit
1898.
by andrewla 9y ago
I think the author did a great job of explaining why DHCP feels like a gross hack, because it crosses that boundary. You say > No, it's not an ethernet protocol I mean, obviously it's not, by definition, but let me ask -- why d
1899.
by andrewla 9y ago
Shame on me for not looking more closely! So when you look at the per-operation cost (t/s in my model) then what emerges is, indeed, logarithmic (r2 ~ .96 for lm(t/s ~ s + log(s)). Bounded, for sure, but if you walk in with a vec
1900.
by andrewla 9y ago
Based on the numbers for lookup, it looks worse than that -- it seems to be linear (r2 = .9988). df <- data.frame( s=c(0,1,4,16,64,256,1024,4096, 16192, 65536, 262144, 1048576), t=c(0, 1, 5, 17, 104, 440, 1780
1901.
by andrewla 9y ago
Yes, that is complicated. But equally messy was the origination of the Euro. Equally messy (maybe even more so) was the introduction of "legal tender" in the US in the 1860s-1890s. Equally messy was the abolition of "Nation
1902.
by andrewla 9y ago
I can't seem to find any more details on the survey other than basic methodology. The thing that I'm curious about is the language used in the survey. In a sense, you could argue that some of the disparity in results comes from w
1903.
by andrewla 9y ago
This is my first time reading extensively about the Magnitsky Act -- isn't this very clearly a Bill of Attainder aimed at specific individuals? It also seems to be in direct violation of the fourth amendment, though I think it might b
1904.
by andrewla 9y ago
To be fair, he was not convicted of that, and it's arguable whether that entailed committed a crime. The particular crime that he was charged with and convicted of was "victimless"-ish. That is, he lied to investors, basical
1905.
by andrewla 9y ago
This was based on my own assessment of the whitepaper when it first became prominent. The way that transactions were formed was to build on an existing transaction in the mempool and mix the results together with the ring signatures. Lookin
1906.
by andrewla 9y ago
I think ZCash is the only coin that is private in a real sense; Monero is somewhat private, but as I recall, by watching the mempool, it is possible to see the chains being built and to reconstruct the payments. That's all transient d
1907.
by andrewla 9y ago
It really takes some twisted logic to paint BCH has a miner-friendly measure. It is unfriendly to miners in every way that matters, which is why miners have never achieved consensus on any of the large-block proposals so far. Specifically,
1908.
by andrewla 9y ago
More markets are opening; bittrex [1] just opened and the price is now moving upwards pretty steadily (they opened at ~0.079 BCH/BTC and are now over 0.12), with good volume, 780 BTC ~= $2.1M so far https://bittrex.com/
1909.
by andrewla 9y ago
Personal identity seems like a generally intractable problem, despite the lofty goals stated in the introduction. And without it, the document is built on a foundation of sand. An argument that I find myself having quite frequently about B
1910.
by andrewla 9y ago
> Others want Bitcoin to become a settlement layer, and certain backers have said that $1000 tx fees would be great, since that means BTC won as a settlement layer This is dramatically misconstruing the legitimate points made by the anti
1911.
by andrewla 9y ago
There's no reason to expect that every block, especially in the near term, will approach that 8MB limit. It will scale with actual transaction volume instead, as Bitcoin did before the 1MB limit became a problem -- 1MB blocks were exc
1912.
by andrewla 9y ago
For what it's worth, there are many different types of cryptocurrency enthusiasts, and trying to lump them all together is going to yield a ton of contradictory statements. Many see Bitcoin as a "disruption" of banking, or c
1913.
by andrewla 9y ago
> They could also, which is notably mentioned no where in the article, pay more? From the article: > And native-born Americans aren’t interested in the job, even at wages that have soared at higher than average rates. > Not surpris
1914.
by andrewla 9y ago
The confusing thing about this question is that "other similar methods" includes QR codes [1] -- they're just a generalization of 1-dimensional bar codes to a 2-dimensional matrix, with some error correction and alignment inf
1915.
by andrewla 9y ago
Not to support GP's point, but he's probably referring to Shana Madoff, Bernie's niece, who was a compliance officer at the firm and married an SEC regulator. I'm not aware of any report "exposing" the Ponzi b
1916.
by andrewla 9y ago
I think a better analogy is sneaking into a movie theater, for which there are a large number of "innocuous fun" articles out there [1] (although not featured on HN so much) [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=how+
1917.
by andrewla 9y ago
Some of the underlying data here [1] on the effective spreads of the various market centers. Bats also publishes the definitions of these metrics [2]. They seem to be difficult to game, since they're derived from actually executed tr
1918.
by andrewla 9y ago
> Secondly, the consensus amongst Core developers, as I read it, is they want as much on-chain as possible. Their definition of possible is what can a Bitcoin client handle on the average user's PC I'm curious if you have some
1919.
by andrewla 9y ago
I think you understate the cons of the on-chain solutions. This said as a big-blocker myself. I think the size of the node is a consideration, but not a huge one -- before we started butting up against the limit, blocks were naturally much
1920.
by andrewla 9y ago
From reading the transcript, it seems like the decision was made to cancel the reservation for some undisclosed reason (omitted from the public transcripts), and the racial slur and Trump reference were parting shots and a reveal of an unde

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