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by aneth4 14y ago
The old bamboo stack has the same old intelligent routing, but the intelligence is only within each router. When the number of routers increased, the intelligence stopped mattering because concurrent requests were highly likely to not be ha
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How can you have a viable worldwide currency subject to "spamming the blockchain"? The nice thing about gold and USD is they have no viable DOS attack vectors. What implications does this have on the future of bitcoin? Is it even possible t
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by aneth4 14y ago
One can only imagine what ordinary folks who thought they'd be on the bleeding edge in accepting bitcoin think of all this. All this talk of spamming block chains, miners, soft-hard limits - word that mean nothing to your average cowboy - c
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by aneth4 14y ago
> eventually the network will include one of your transactions in the longest chain, and the other will be discarded. So the double-spend will not be permanent. The longest chain? Why would length be the determining factor? If someone
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by aneth4 14y ago
Based on my very elementary understanding of bitcoin, it seems to me it would undermine trust in the entire system, as the bitcoins lost on Satoshidice may still be spent elsewhere, and entire chains of transactions may be lost. Correct me
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by aneth4 14y ago
> When did I say I want to be explaining what love is? Well, you were asking me to retract this statement based on the theoretical existence of a test: > Love is a subjective experience of consciousness. We must first have some clue
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by aneth4 14y ago
No, because you would not be explaining what love is, any more than explain what pain is by showing me the brain patterns the light up when I twist your nipple. Whether of not you can test for love is immaterial to explaining the experience
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by aneth4 14y ago
Good artists copy. Great artists steal. Neither apologize.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Yes. Use Adblock.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition. The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, re
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by aneth4 14y ago
I did not say that at all. There is a rapidly growing middle class in China.
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Nobody is suggestion controverting science established through tests, only questioning ideological presumptions.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Love is a subjective experience of consciousness. We must first have some clue about what consciousness is, then perhaps we will be able to scientifically explain what love is.
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by aneth4 14y ago
Theoretically impossible? Please explain. Even the Christian god is not "theoretically impossible."
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by aneth4 14y ago
Selling books and TED tools are something all those "legitimate" scientists do as well, including the Nobel prize winners. He is doing research. I can't say if he's doing enough but he's done quite a lot.
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Intuition and feeling are often all we have to start with, and we can often make great leaps by combining intuition with our best facts, observations, and reason. There is nothing wrong with proposing hypotheses based on intuition as long a
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by aneth4 14y ago
> Being unable to disprove does not confer any special status to a hypothesis It does separate it from those hypotheses we can disprove. Certainly some conjectures are not falsifiable with current science, and some may never be. When we
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by aneth4 14y ago
Would love to see that. I'd add that if one can sense a stare, this opens the door to a huge array of psychic abilities. Perhaps we can communicate more than a stare, perhaps this really all is pseudo-science, experimental bias, and statist
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by aneth4 14y ago
Touchée. Although "dumb" ideas are much more easily dismissed, as they are often disproven by evidence or easily shown to be implausible - that's what makes them dumb. It's the smart ideas that we seem unable to disprove which are most like
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by aneth4 14y ago
Why would you not entertain the idea that rats can learn telepathically? As an open minded scientist, would you not want to test for evidence of such a phenomenon instead of following in the footsteps of flat-earthers, who tune out at the f
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by aneth4 14y ago
> Every major idea? Ok, maybe not even almost every major idea (I did use the word "almost"), but pretty much by definition every major conceptual shift, from a round earth, to relativity, to microorganisms. > Scientific ideas tend
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by aneth4 14y ago
Isn't part of the point of TEDx to provider a broader venue of speakers? Keep in mind that almost every major idea in the history of science was at one time considered unlikely quackery. Spiritual and philosophical conjecture have a place w
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by aneth4 14y ago
Great explanation. I'm not sure why (or if) ember states it so clearly. A view calling controller.model.property is MORE tightly coupled than controller.property. The controller is tied to the view and the model as it's supposed to be. The
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by aneth4 14y ago
Tried them. It says: "Sorry, the maximum number of purchases on Coinbase has been reached for today. Please try again in 24 hours. We'll continue raising this limit over time." These sort of security and reliability concerns are certain to
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by aneth4 14y ago
For a bitcoin newbie, what are the credible platforms to buy and trade bitcoins? For those that follow bitcoin news, I'm sure there is a plethora of "don't do this," "those guys did this," etc., but what do I do as someone who knows nothing
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by aneth4 14y ago
This makes complete sense: 1) Costco already pays much more than the minimum wage, so they would not be affected directly from a cost perspective. 2) Competitors do not necessarily pay more than minimum wage, so this can only increase the c
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by aneth4 14y ago
To China, where there is a rapidly increasing minimum wage. The Chinese understand income distribution will naturally fall extremely toward the powerful, and the powerless will make too little money to create a middle class. Raising the min
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by aneth4 14y ago
Science discovers there are two general categories of things: sticky things that don't tile, and slippery things that do tile. Not to be a smart ass, but this seems like common sense, and it's not remotely surprising that things within each
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by aneth4 14y ago
Blah, blah, Microsoft sucks, blah ... "AZURE IS GOING TO WIN".. Wait, what? Either this is off the mark or I'm missing a major initiative that could change the internet and save Microsoft. Is there a great article lingering about explaining
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by aneth4 14y ago
You can generally split a dozen carton and buy 6. Most supermarkets allow this. Your struggles are over.

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