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by bo1024 4y ago
Sure, one answer. Whenever a company owning a "platform" also competes on the platform and sets the rules to favor themselves, this hurts competition. Regulation should ensure a fair playing field on the platform, preventing compa
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by bo1024 4y ago
Hmm, "exchange is at least as hard as consensus". Guess you need to run your game on a blockchain? :)
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by bo1024 4y ago
Sorry, not my area of expertise. I wasn't aware of the caveats brought up in your other post.
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by bo1024 4y ago
Cryptography can solve this, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker
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by bo1024 4y ago
For example, your language can implement sum(Array<X>) for any monoid X. And the sum of an empty list of integers can automatically return 0, while the sum of an empty list of strings can automatically return "". This sounds
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by bo1024 4y ago
You posted this elsewhere in the thread, where I replied that this is not normal in the U.S. Can I ask what university and degree program it is where students have 40 hours of class and lab time per week?
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by bo1024 4y ago
That's at least 3 times a normal amount of class time in the U.S. at places such as Ivy League colleges, MIT, etc.
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by bo1024 4y ago
To be able to tell whether a candidate is good, the hiring team has to be expert! No chicken, no egg.
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by bo1024 4y ago
Sorry, my question wasn't clear. What I am asking is whether the FPGA was being simulated in a VM, or whether the OS they built was running on a physical FPGA. And if the latter, how did the OS handle drivers for other components.
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by bo1024 4y ago
Am I right that this is all simulated in software? I mean for the "implemented on FPGA" part, is there a physical FPGA running this OS? If so, how does it talk to the rest of the computer (i.e. drivers, etc)?
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by bo1024 4y ago
It's very important for those people to be aware of these style analysis attacks! Glad this post is raising awareness.
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by bo1024 4y ago
I had uBlock Origin and uMatrix installed. Not sure what changed, but I can access the article now.
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by bo1024 4y ago
I have to fill out a captcha just to read an article / blog post? (Edit: and enable cookies)
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by bo1024 4y ago
Hmm, I guess facebook doesn't have to go through IRB for human subject experiments, nor does Science require it, apparently.
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by bo1024 4y ago
If you consider n players and an n-sided die, you'll see this isn't true in that case. The first player has an exactly equal chance to be first, second, ..., last.
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by bo1024 4y ago
There might be a slick method to prove your final approach works to generate a uniformly random permutation. First, it's easy to prove if the number of players, n, equals the number of sides of the die, m. Because a random permutation
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by bo1024 4y ago
A central part of the quote I was responding to is "fiddle the records". I agree with what you said otherwise.
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by bo1024 4y ago
Very nice article. As others have alluded to, I think Tim does miss an important point about trust. He writes: > we just couldn’t convince ourselves that the real world wanted zero-trust; so there was a transaction manager you had to tr
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by bo1024 4y ago
I think this is great if your goal is to clear the market at a competitive price. But a lot of artists want to sell tickets below market price. That makes the problem a lot harder. The obvious thing to do is have a lottery, but it's ha
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by bo1024 4y ago
This is fantastic. You could add it to the MO site as an additional answer?
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by bo1024 4y ago
Ok, odd to downvote a comment because you agree with it and then to go on to provide more support for why the comment is correct...
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by bo1024 4y ago
Agree, and this essay really helped clarify the difference in my mind.
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by bo1024 4y ago
What does the -1 part of your comment mean and how does it relate to the rest?
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by bo1024 4y ago
If you read it, this case appears to have nothing to do with the DMCA. It's about trademarks. DMCA is not mentioned outside the title, possibly confusion by the OP.
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by bo1024 4y ago
HN has become really low quality on cryptocurrency topics. Like what you'd expect on politics subreddits or something.
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by bo1024 4y ago
Blockchain tech should distance itself from finance and cryptocurrency. The most interesting and promising thing about blockchains is decentralized coordination of group decision making. Based on your comment and the rest of HN, many people
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by bo1024 4y ago
Hmm, I wasn’t thinking of implementing it as an undo stack at all. Anyway, the main difference I’m thinking of is UI and mental model we present, which I think could be a lot simpler here.
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by bo1024 4y ago
Cool! What about a model based completely on the "history" as a list of states of the document over time? There is no "undo" or "redo" operation, we only have "browse backward/forward in time". I
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by bo1024 4y ago
Such disappointing reasoning (by the SEC, not Levine). Seems to be summarized as "we can't make rules because people might follow them. We'd rather sit back and reserve the right to punish whatever we feel like."
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by bo1024 4y ago
Would love to hear some specifics from the course that come up for you at work!

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