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by apo 8y ago
Cool stuff. Under "Why bother with this blog?" are some off-topic ideas - this one for example: The most important aspect: no matter what you want to do, start by thinking before reading from someone else or asking someone else
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by apo 8y ago
In other news, most workers can't afford the median-priced home: https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/home-sales-pric...
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Computing Bitcoin's Energy Consumption(bitzuma.com)
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by apo 8y ago
Yes, there's a detailed account here: https://www.filfre.net/2012/05/the-ibm-pc-part-2/
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by apo 8y ago
This article skips over one of the most interesting stories in modern business: how Gary Kildall lost IBM to Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#IBM_dealings
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by apo 8y ago
This was a fun read, but left me with the question: What book on C pointers would be the polar opposite of this one? I'd like to read that book.
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by apo 8y ago
The eight amendment is selectively incorporated and the excessive fines clause is not incorporated. Interesting - what does "incorporation" mean in this context?
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by apo 8y ago
The paper outlines two attacks that a hash rate majority can undertake: (1) double-spending; and (2) sabotage (force a decline in exchange rate). But there is a far more benign and profitable attack: collect all of the block reward. No ne
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by apo 8y ago
It boggles the mind to think that forfeiture is alive and well today, some police departments even brag about the state-sponsored hooliganism they're committing, and the practice has never been seriously challenged in the Supreme Court
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by apo 8y ago
One way to profit from yield curve inversion: When you see a persistent yield curve inversion, buy the longest maturity treasuries you can find. For example, 30 years. This is counterintuitive because shorter maturities (2, 5 years) will yi
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by apo 8y ago
The health care landscape is strewn with the wreckage of software companies who thought the latest shiny software doodad could cause a "disruption" like it had in so many other industries. People who know that healthcare is differ
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by apo 8y ago
The Bitcoin community has changed greatly over the years; from technophiles that could explain a Merkle tree in their sleep, to speculators driven by the desire for a quick profit & blockchain startups seeking billion dollar valuations
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by apo 8y ago
It's surprising the article leaves out medical expenses. There's this one mention: The same 2017 survey found 27 percent skipping medical treatments because they can’t afford them. In the end, I suspect that medical costs driven
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Orlando Becomes First Airport to Require Face Scans of All Intl. Travelers(fortune.com)
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by apo 8y ago
For example, powdered donuts can contain up to 100 mg Ti per serving. Yike!
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by apo 8y ago
You might be thinking of a "journal": Journals and ledgers are where business transactions are recorded in an accounting system. In essence, detail-level information for individual transactions is stored in one of several possibl
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by apo 8y ago
A blockchain is a digital and distributed ledger of transactions, recorded and replicated in real time across a network of computers or nodes (figure 1). Every transaction must be cryptographically validated via a consensus mechanism execu
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by apo 8y ago
Rising inflation does not create asset bubbles. I can think of three recent examples where inflation/soft money policies triggered asset bubbles: - gold from late 1970s to early 1980s (CPI inflation) - US real estate late 1990s to 20
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by apo 8y ago
Moderate inflation is easily factored into repayment terms. Constant inflation is easily factored in. But inflation varies greatly depending on prevailing conditions. The ruling party has an incentive to push for inflationary policies t
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by apo 8y ago
The dispute over bimetallic currency is now more than a hundred years old and has been made entirely moot by the floating US dollar and the post-Bretton Woods international monetary order. Setting aside the technical detail (gold vs. sil
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by apo 8y ago
Ridiculous story. When was the last time you heard of a newspaper going under because its stories weren't "written permanently into the secure digital ledger known as the blockchain"? Newspapers are dying because other kinds
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by apo 8y ago
Holmes is a master obfuscator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqYHwI87cDQ
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AI Drone Learns to Detect Brawls(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by apo 8y ago
Somewhere there's a commercial application or two for this waiting to be discovered.
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by apo 8y ago
It's more like a two-party roll of a die with a practically infinite number of faces. If both rolls sum even, Alice wins. Otherwise, Bob wins. Alice and Bob commit to their rolls by hashing them then making a future spend contingent on
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by apo 8y ago
“I suspect every single adoption agency in the country is involved, that’s 150,000 babies, it would be amazing if at least ten percent of them were not illegal.” Clickbait. Misleading.
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Ancestry wants your spit, your DNA and your trust. Should you give them all 3?(tampabay.com)
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It used to be really hard to find free chemical information online. I remember this site was one of the few back in the 90s that had anything on the topic. Chemistry was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Internet Age. The field is st
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by apo 8y ago
As I write, this article is above another on the front page titled "A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution " Makes me wonder if the "example" is getting pwned by a Git repo and the less
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A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (2017)(toc.cryptobook.us)
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