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by blotter_paper 8y ago
1) Putting aside feasibility with current technology, do you think Schrödinger's cat is as absurd as Schrödinger thought it was? Do you think that cats, or humans, could be placed in a state of quantum coherence? If not, why? 2) I expe
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by blotter_paper 8y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you may be placing special importance on the cat as a measuring device because it is conscious (at least until poisoned). If we assumed that consciousness has nothing to do with measurement, and tha
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If you were the only entity/cartel bringing it back, you could trickle it onto the market.
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by blotter_paper 8y ago
Firefox and Chrome extensions that resolve .bit domains already exist, the relevant companies just need to audit them or write their own solutions and then bake them into their browsers. Nowadays, most users don't even know when their
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>> I would love to know which societal problems can be reduced to a distributed trust problem. That would convince me that I'm wrong about blockchain technology. I feel like Namecoin, the first Bitcoin fork, is ready to replace o
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by blotter_paper 8y ago
I pretty much agree about JS and Rust, but I find myself disagreeing with some of your points regarding CSS/HTML. >> Reason web sucks: HTML/CSS are not suited to define complex UIs with intricate layouts and complex transiti
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by blotter_paper 8y ago
Implement it yourself, rendering to WebGL (with a canvas fallback if you really care). When you're done, show HN! We'll probably mock you, unless it's somehow awesome. The DOM is horrible, and knowing what we know now we coul
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by blotter_paper 8y ago
Bitcoin supports multisig transactions, which allows a buyer and seller to choose a third-party mediator who can side with one of them in the event of a dispute. If you find that all the counterparty risk in your transactions are placed on
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"(A shocking 91% of patients survived in an additional sample of just nine skulls from the northern highlands between 1000 C.E. and 1300 C.E.)" Uhm... how? If just one had died from a sample of nine, that would be a success rate o