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by bdcs 12y ago
RAM really doesn't matter for most people, IME, at least after Project Svelte. For example, here's a video [0] of the Moto E (not G, but lower-class, 125$ E) outpacing a Samsung S5 at simple tasks like opening Facebook, etc. With
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by bdcs 12y ago
Speaking of HDMI CEC, I think you may like a Chromecast >> All these new boxes make you switch inputs and remotes all the time. I have too many remotes already. The Chromecast can turn on a TV (and the TV can turn on the audio receive
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by bdcs 12y ago
I agree that I think I would prefer a 5" phone to a 6" phone. That said, there's no law requiring the keyboard to scale with phone size. For example, this[0] iOS (software) keyboard only fills the screen where it is easily ac
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by bdcs 12y ago
I think it is better to say that glass DOES flow, but it is a solid! For example, it would take several universe lifetimes to observe any appreciable flow (or more quantifiably, the viscosity is circa 10^19 Pa-s). Similarly, lead flows and
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by bdcs 12y ago
Thank you for your reply on HN. Can you also please reply to grellas's post (at or near the top)? grellas is a "very smart lawyer" who posted some excellent counter-points to your original article. Personally, I'd love t
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by bdcs 12y ago
Interesting idea! Though, my guess is few. Many of the "startup-dropouts" probably already have. It sounds like this course doesn't bring any new information to the table, but, rather, is the most concise one can get with 100
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by bdcs 12y ago
Can you add in how much the service charges? If it is 0$ then make it that. I get the feeling* that you're going to hold my items for ransom after someone finds them. I suggest you make it obvious that you're not a bad actor. * I
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by bdcs 12y ago
For me on OSX/chrome, the emoji to properly renders in the address bar but not on HN or wikipedia. Suggestions?
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by bdcs 12y ago
The authors address Sybil attacks in the paper. Essentially, there is a PoW style consensus using hashes of files+metadata (as opposed to bitcoin which is hashes of nothing + metadata)
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by bdcs 12y ago
It seems there are obvious parallels between Bitcoin:Coinbase :: SMTP:GMail XMPP:GChat ~OAuth:Facebook These analogies are only so accurate, but the centralized service seems to try to lock-in users whereas decentralization forces the oppos
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Bop.fm (YC S13) Raises $2 Million to Become the ‘Switzerland’ of Streaming Music(blogs.wsj.com)
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by bdcs 12y ago
"I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work." Bertran
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by bdcs 12y ago
Would it be fair to say a marketplace for services which software is poor (relative to humans) at providing? I can't see how else to create 1M jobs while still having the jobs, individually, produce value.
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by bdcs 12y ago
Unfortunately, the historical way to create 1M jobs is with bullshit jobs[1] which by themselves produce no value. [1] http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1...
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by bdcs 12y ago
It is a very strange goal, indeed. I'm reminded of David Graeber's idea of "Bullshit jobs:" When I talk about bullshit jobs, I mean, the kind of jobs that even those who work them feel do not really need to exist. A lot
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by bdcs 12y ago
You are correct. "All Our Patent Are Belong To You" is a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us FYI, in correct English the sentence would read, "All of our patent
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by bdcs 12y ago
To underscore your point, there was recently a speed test[1] conducted to compare the Moto E (~vanilla android, 120$ unlocked) vs Samsung Galaxy S5 (TouchWiz, ~700$ unlocked) in user tests (think Google+ load times, not MIPS). The Moto E wa
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by bdcs 12y ago
The National Library of Medicine by the NIH makes it look pretty good. Them saying "possibly effective for..." is quite the endorsement: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/993.html
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Mayday for the republic A SuperPAC to end all SuperPACs(mayone.us)
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by bdcs 12y ago
With merged-mining[1], any alt-coin can hijack Bitcoin's security via PoW without any additional mining, see, e.g., Namecoin (which is unfortunately defunct for unrelated reasons). [1] http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/
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by bdcs 12y ago
Thank you Gregory Maxwell and Mike Hearn for your comments! Your bitcoin thoughts (in general) are truly insightful! And, Mike, your forum "outreach" to help people understand bitcoin better is also to be commended. As a general P
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by bdcs 12y ago
Previously, processors and merchants accepting bitcoin payments would wait until a large fraction of bitcoin nodes listed a 0-conf txn as "valid-but-unconfirmed," the so-called memory pool or mempool (because it is a collection of
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by bdcs 13y ago
If "high risk" == high rate of chargebacks, then bitcoin will fix that.
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by bdcs 13y ago
What dies this company even do? It looks like they're competing with Coinbase (and have raised more money than them!), but do they have any traction?
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by bdcs 13y ago
Hmm, good point. I would guess that Aereo, etc. may remove commercials, à la TiVo, during post-processing. Or even more rudimentarily, allow seeking, e.g. fast-forward over commercials.
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by bdcs 13y ago
Nope (well, yes, as distance -> infinity) Imagine three boats making waves such that the ripples constructively interfere in some spots and destructively at others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamforming
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by bdcs 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this not beamforming?
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by bdcs 13y ago
64% of residential solar costs are the so-called soft costs of permitting and installation. PV's tech problems are smaller than its social/political problems. http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/12/nre
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by bdcs 13y ago
If you can use GPUs then I think scrypt-based coin mining will be the most profitable thing to do. If not, then you need to find problems that are relatively fast on CPUs compared to GPUs, parallelizable, and low bandwidth. It will be a sma
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by bdcs 13y ago
My bet: Shared folders with pictures in there

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