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by bsurmanski 9y ago
Nothing stops that, but presumably there is a "Max price" you are actually willing to pay. If more than one person uses the absurd bid strategy then you're screwed, so the incentive is to just put down your true Max price wil
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
FYI, you can get a California ID card; identical to a driver license without the permission to drive. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/idinfo/idcard
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
kind of. But the miners have a financial incentive to follow the system. The system is built in such a way that it's in their best interest to follow the system (except in a coordinated 51% attack, then the system falls apart).
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
From my understanding, the main benefit is zero trust transactions. You can make a digital transaction without trusting anyone, especially the other party. The downside is this guarantee has some trade-offs. Mainly transaction speed is supe
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
> Not even the internet was so disrupting as the blockchain technologies will become. The internet was a paradigm shift for how we communicate. It seems like blockchains are just sort of an opportunity to do things a different way. From
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
This article focuses on Estonian ID cards, but presumably this affects the symmetric encryption of Bitcoin wallets as well, correct? If the crypto can be broken for ~1000$, as mentioned, that seems like a serious problem...
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
Here's an article from February covering the California DMV reports: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/california-dmv-autonomous-car-...
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
Slang for "doing very well". Ex: "You got an A on that midterm? Dang Carl, you're Killing it!"
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
But do they eliminate the middleman? At least for Bitcoin, it takes an hour for any confidence that a transaction is truly valid. I'm not going to wait around for an hour just to grab my morning coffee. So obviously there's going
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
Why? Is this a property to guarantee there are no duplicate binary numbers, or an arbitrary rule to make the puzzle tractable?
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
Not if Netflix makes a special exclusivity deal. You can bet that some businesses will make as many deals as possible to keep down the competition, if it's legal.
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by bsurmanski 9y ago
I don't think your 'small rural town' metaphor is solved by removing net neutrality. From the provider's point of view, who cares if someone is using up 1000 packets of youtube or 1000 packets of nytimes? They cost the s
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by bsurmanski 10y ago
The one thing that is missing from the article is a top view of the sculpture. Although I believe it, I would like to see the sculpture align to the outline of the city.
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by bsurmanski 10y ago
I would consider it progress. The only data loss to Google that I was able to find was [0], where a single datacenter was hit by lightning 4 times in short succession, and 0.000001% of disk space in said datacenter was lost. And only becaus
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by bsurmanski 10y ago
Okay, I tried to graph out taxes between Toronto and SF. check it out: https://github.com/bsurmanski/TorontoSFTax It looks like between 60k-200k, taxes in Toronto are actually lower. Between 200k-700k, it is cheaper in
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by bsurmanski 10y ago
don't forget social security. Social security is 5.65%, whereas the equivalent in Canada is the Canadian Pension Plan, which is 4.95%. And you have great medical insurance built right in. [0] [0] - http://www.investopedia.co
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by bsurmanski 10y ago
speaking as someone who has lived in both the Bay area and Toronto, I think Toronto has a chance. The Bay area is a nice place to work in your 20s, but it's not a good place to settle down. With housing prices, homeless population, jus
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by bsurmanski 11y ago
One of the 'selling points' of Ethereum is the 'global computer' aspect. Essentially Ethereum is designed so that you can put programs on the block chain. Programs that can be called transactionally and where the result
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by bsurmanski 11y ago
What happens in the case I am working in a foreign country on a visa? In that case, I can imagine the home country would refuse GBI because I am no longer resident, and the host country would refuse because I am not a citizen. If that is th
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by bsurmanski 11y ago
So, even Mark Zuckerberg can't afford a house in the bay area. /sarcasm
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by bsurmanski 11y ago
Is this intended as a human-written language, or as a target for machine generated Go? In my mind, the second one is where this language can really find it's niche.
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by bsurmanski 11y ago
As mentioned in the article, it only affected recently written data of 'Google Compute Engine' services. GCE allows user to launch VMs and generate arbitrary data on the server. Normally, Google redundantly distributes out data to
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by bsurmanski 11y ago
LLVM is a great tool, but I've had trouble in the past with version compatibility. I wrote a compiler that used LLVM as a backend (I used LLVM versions 3.4-3.6). The problem was that each minor version of LLVM slightly changed the API.
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by bsurmanski 11y ago
yeah, that is actually what I was saying. I just provided an alternative way of looking at it where you pipeline the dependent operations instead of running them at the same time. eg: instead of: foreach actor(find collisions -> f
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by bsurmanski 11y ago
That was my initial thought too, but I think it's still a useful realization. at least one place in which this would make sense is physics response. If your actors has a single 'update' method, the first actor would check for
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by bsurmanski 11y ago
do you mind elaborating on this? What would be off limits, and what in assembly would allow a garbage collector free of false retention vs C?
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by bsurmanski 12y ago
I'm not a scientist, but I imagine that they would use the emission spectrum[0] of the various elements. Perhaps they could sample the spectrum of all of the stars and that might give a reasonable approximation. [0] http://e
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by bsurmanski 12y ago
I would say that the 'economy of weirdness' is closer to simple supply and demand. Too much weirdness lowers the demand of more weirdness, and thus the 'value' in a given scenario. Weirdness is 'different', and
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by bsurmanski 12y ago
Coincidentally, something like this was asked on reddit.com/r/askscience recently. http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2y93cz/if_we_wer... (if we were far enough from the earth, could w
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by bsurmanski 12y ago
I like the idea of smart watches, but I don't see why there would be a demand for them. Specifically, I can't think of a single "killer app" that would make a smart watch better than the phone that everyone is currently

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