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by antonvs 9y ago
I'm now looking forward to a future article from security researchers: "Prediction of a random stream from a lava lamp model constructed from entropic data inferred from encrypted packets"
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by antonvs 9y ago
I doubt you read the full article. It's quite a bit more reasoned than you suggest. The author acknowledges his bias, its source, and even that it's not entirely rational. But he's also exploring how e-bikes change the dynami
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by antonvs 9y ago
Inventing the wheel is no longer considered significant in the way you seem to imply - see e.g. https://uncoveredhistory.com/mesoamerica/wheeled-toys/ : > Archaeology has now revealed that the wheel wasn’t inve
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The “don't be evil” line has finally been crossed(reddit.com)
5 points by antonvs 9y ago|4 comments
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by antonvs 9y ago
The same thing happens in most big organizations, government or not.
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by antonvs 9y ago
Don't tell that to the global enterprise whose blockchain projects I'm working on.
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by antonvs 9y ago
There are many Bitcoin exchanges and "banks" where you can buy USD for Bitcoin from someone looking to buy Bitcoin. Currently, about $70 million per day - $billions per month - is exchanged for Bitcoin, so it's easy to get in
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by antonvs 9y ago
> Your job as an investor/speculator You missed the part where he wrote that he was into this "as a developer, not as a speculator."
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by antonvs 9y ago
There's some info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once_read_many#Current_W...
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by antonvs 9y ago
> Yea so you install one of these Which one of those lets you customize the color and hue?
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by antonvs 9y ago
People carried actual phones with them long before smartphones existed. There were carphones which required a big box in the trunk. There were cellphones that did nothing but make calls. It wasn't until much later that mobile phones st
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by antonvs 9y ago
None of that really applies to Palantir. They may have their issues, but I seriously doubt Swing is even on the radar if you look at the actual connection between their sources of revenue and their software.
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by antonvs 9y ago
> - But internal representation of phenomena by the brains of humans certainly seems like it can be explained by biology, physics and general common sense. Yes, it can. Computer programs have internal representation of phenomena, and so
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by antonvs 9y ago
> But with the ability to reason about our self The ability to reason about ourselves does not automatically imply consciousness. Programs can be written that reason about themselves, but we have very little reason to believe they are co
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by antonvs 9y ago
> " Why do not these processes take place "in the dark," without any accompanying states of experience? This is the central mystery of consciousness." > -- Because each information processing system only processes
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by antonvs 10y ago
By the same token, structures with function pointers are just Turing Machine bitstrings with delusions of grandeur.
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by antonvs 10y ago
The Zen Slap: "If you read through enough Zen koans, you’re quickly struck, as it were, by the number of those oblique lessons that end with a student getting slapped. It may be delivered by hand, stick, sandal or goat bite, but the sl
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by antonvs 10y ago
> Compare that to the JavaScript flavor of the hour That's a rather selective and misleading comparison. The Javascript language is over 20 years old. The uses of Javascript you're presumably referring to are mainly in user int
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by antonvs 10y ago
> Having read the whole thing I think this editorial is rather silly The solution is (probably) silly, although there are merits to the problem statement.
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by antonvs 10y ago
> Even the most basic of financial contracts, like "I'll give you $500 now and you give me $50 a month for the next 12 months", can't be effectively encoded The more interesting and viable use cases are actually more
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by antonvs 10y ago
It's not only about whether the parties know each other, it's about how they can verify that they're all behaving according to the rules of their contract. In multi-party scenarios, you often find intermediaries whose primary
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by antonvs 10y ago
> you lost an entire day for what gain? With this attitude, you are literally part of the cause of the problem. If you're not willing to stand up for your rights, you have no basis for complaint when they are removed.
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by antonvs 10y ago
> This shouldn't be the status quo in America. It will be, as long as people take this attitude: > Its just easier to just accept the bullying and go away. You have to decide what's actually important to you.