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by brownbat 9y ago
Outside/In interviewed some miners and families recently. It's phenomenal radio, actually talking to the people everyone else just talks about. I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. http://outsideinradio.or
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by brownbat 9y ago
Proof of steak sounds delicious and I would absolutely buy that coin. (Sorry, couldn't help it.)
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by brownbat 9y ago
Yikes, turns out humor didn't really disarm the situation. On the contrary, if you're resorting to sockpuppet downvoting then we've hit pure freakout mode. So... let's take a breath. We all have assumptions about the wor
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by brownbat 9y ago
My mistake, it's not like you were saying all Irish are drunks, or the Irish are the only drunks, just that the Irish like their whiskey more. Since there are only 1.4 Billion Chinese, these sort of sweeping generalizations are perfect
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by brownbat 9y ago
> the Chinese are highly speculative It's almost crazy how gambling and stock bubbles are nearly unheard of in Europe or America, precisely because of how seldom those peoples speculate. To think, if it wasn't for Jinan provinc
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by brownbat 9y ago
The global remittance market transferred more than half a trillion dollars last year, typically at exorbitant, near monopolistic rents.[0] How big of an industry are electronic payments? Anyone have a guess? I couldn't even find a numb
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by brownbat 9y ago
The different hashing algorithms have different power requirements. Scrypt (LTC) and KECCAK-256 (ETH) are less power intensive than SHA-256 (BTC). Those are just proof-of-work. Proof-of-stake or proof-of-importance would have barely any pow
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by brownbat 9y ago
It's almost the reverse... high BTC/USD ratios mean high real transaction fees and long confirmations, even for small purchases. The fork made it better, but I don't think this is a solved problem for BTC. Litecoin evangelist
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by brownbat 9y ago
Agreed, I can't know from first principles if the right shift length is 4 or 8 or 30. I'm sympathetic to your suggestion that it would be a surprising coincidence if doctors landed on the perfect number through historical accident
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by brownbat 9y ago
Np, check out accounts of the trial of Justin Martyr.
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by brownbat 9y ago
Such a progressive lesson to get from a guy who, in less tender moments, beheaded people who wouldn't make sacrifices to the gods. Humanity is weird.
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by brownbat 9y ago
> I've heard doctors say this, but they never cite evidence. Seems pretty well researched by a quick google. Maybe they're eliding the support not because it's an assumption, but because it's so thoroughly established
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by brownbat 9y ago
Or just use cyanogen privacy guard to send random fake data.
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by brownbat 9y ago
I have fond memories of freeware and postcardware from a few decades back. In contrast, I'm rarely impressed with either free or paid apps. The most solid apps I use just promote or expand another primary product. They're made as
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by brownbat 9y ago
Cognitive biases, optical illusions probably.
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by brownbat 9y ago
Heat index in northern VA was 105 a few weeks ago. You might not die but you might want to.
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Of course there are wild honeybees. Huh. For me, the word "honey" in front of the word "bee" indicates a function it is performing for humans. If that's the case, then well, you can't have a "wild hon
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by brownbat 9y ago
I'm not opposed to proxies, I just think "anti-synthetic" is a particularly bad one. Synthetics are so frequently protective that avoiding them is more likely to do harm than good. A better heuristic might be: Humans worry to
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by brownbat 9y ago
Not all bees are honey bees. GP was talking about Apis mellifera. You probably encountered Bombus impatiens. Bumble bees aren't honey bees just like buffalo aren't wild milk cows. Some have recommended farmers replace pollination
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by brownbat 9y ago
I like that rule, but I would extend ever so slightly: If existing providers are anticompetitive, blockchains allow you to bootstrap an alternative without the same capital requirements you might need to compete with, say, VISA or Wells Far
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by brownbat 9y ago
I think it's an interesting topic, more people should want to learn about life in other circumstances, so I'm not sure why you were downvoted. Maybe just because no one has come by with an answer. Not that it's what you'
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by brownbat 9y ago
> potential dangers of every synthetic chemical I wouldn't put too much importance on the synthetic / natural distinction. Lead, tobacco, and various radioactive elements (uranium, radium, thorium, and radon) are all perfectly
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by brownbat 9y ago
If we were designing things from scratch, I'd even want t odisaggregate two career tracks for scientists: The first, theorists, design interesting studies with open ended questions, explain how the study would provide useful scientific
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by brownbat 9y ago
I really hope Chandrasekhar realized he was a genius. Anything less would be tragic. If I hold this hope for someone who is a genius but sadly not a household name, I should probably hope the same for people who happened to become famous as
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by brownbat 9y ago
Or, Any distributed payment network will asymptotically approach unusability over time. Otherwise miners are leaving cash on the table.
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by brownbat 9y ago
As a BTC amateur, trying to approach it from an ordinary user's perspective, all I know is I used to be able to set whatever fee I wanted and wait a few hours and things would get through, and now I have to play some sort of game of ch
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by brownbat 9y ago
I worry we're falling into a false dichotomy, mischaracterizing both Western and Chinese medicine, which I think actually undermines your broader and better point that it's important to embrace the scientific contributions of othe
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by brownbat 9y ago
To your point, Feynman's famous magnets interview: http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-richard-feynman-on-why-he-...
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by brownbat 9y ago
Partly money. "Rolling a truck" is one of the most expensive operational costs for a utility. Sending people places to fix problems is not ideal, especially when those places can be substations or transformers in the middle of now

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