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by aswanson 8y ago
Yes, they are used extensively in crypto applications for precisely that reason.
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by aswanson 8y ago
Is there a scenario you can envision where the Soviet Union didn't devolve into a mafia state? Or is that the most stable equilibrium given its history?
483.
by aswanson 8y ago
I think it would be useful to visualize how an assembly instruction works, to teach how it is executed in hardware.
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by aswanson 8y ago
Sorry, got the number wrong. It was used in the first Mortal Kombat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010
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by aswanson 8y ago
Glad I'm not the only retro weirdo. I'm reverse engineering the rom of a tms240 graphics processor in my nonexistent spare cycles.
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by aswanson 8y ago
I dont know if they would have had anything to be wary of. Instagram was much smaller then and even tech savvy folk like us HN folk didn't think much of it at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840
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by aswanson 8y ago
Yeah, you have to give it to Mark Z for his prescience on that one.
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by aswanson 8y ago
A lot of the more "visible" larger outcomes seem to be based on how people socially interact moreso than technical innovation. Older people generally aren't first wavers in new means of sharing their lives, e.g. facebook, twi
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by aswanson 8y ago
I think the the younger folks are more likely to spot an outsize opportunity where no one was looking at all, whereas an older person might be more aware of an incremental change in an existing business model that presents a new opportunity
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by aswanson 8y ago
Why in the world did you try this on yourself?
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by aswanson 8y ago
Exactly. Ugh.
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by aswanson 8y ago
The beat is straight. Just dance.
493.
by aswanson 8y ago
Hilarious.
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by aswanson 8y ago
I once read an article mentioning it was okaying domestic violence. Seriously.
495.
by aswanson 8y ago
Sounds like the basis for a good novel/movie. Even suggests a title:"Turing Incomplete".
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by aswanson 8y ago
I worked at a competitor to GD for about 7 years. Had a great career trajectory until a managerial fuckup cost the company one third of the revenue and they had to ax 50 percent of the staff. Be careful, those big, stable companies can tend
497.
by aswanson 8y ago
Clinicaltrial.com sounds like a good url to plant the flag on this one.
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by aswanson 8y ago
Its funny how these tenets map out to relationships to humans. Replace messenger with "friend" and it still retains a measure of truth.
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by aswanson 8y ago
I dunno. I went back to my alma mater recently to drop my son of at a robotics summer program. I saw energy, ideas, new projects...as I scuttled back to an office doing the same lowbrow stuff I've been doing since graduation.
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by aswanson 8y ago
You mean, it doesnt make you want to get into an inconsequential political argument with someone on Twitter?
501.
by aswanson 8y ago
Especially in 1970. That was a lot even for 1980.
502.
by aswanson 8y ago
Your physician, airline pilot, CFO, or lawyer could most likely easily point out the same about you, for a given context.
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by aswanson 8y ago
Eh, frequent crashes. Black and white display. Uninspiring machine. It was more of a symbol of my dislike of the college i chose.
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by aswanson 8y ago
Yup. Door #2 is correct.
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by aswanson 8y ago
91. Im ancient.
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by aswanson 8y ago
Sample bias.
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by aswanson 8y ago
I had a Mac classic for freshman year at university. I hated that machine and Apple for many years afterwards.
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by aswanson 8y ago
Seems sad so much technical effort to be exerted towards something so venal, trivial, and fleeting.
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by aswanson 8y ago
Any recommended books on complexity theory?
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by aswanson 8y ago
A bacteria in a Petri dish somewhere is saying you don't exist because you'd have sent it messages through sugar chemical signalling by now.

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