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by chrispeel 11y ago
I like the basic idea of combining transactions and blocks.
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by chrispeel 11y ago
Here's a pdf of the article [1]. I'd love to hear a guru on quantum computation (maybe @michael_nielsen [2]) describe how quantum error correcting codes might interface with this result. I thought the whole point of quantum comput
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by chrispeel 11y ago
I understood the abstract... I am not only not one of the 'specialists', but am not one of the 'wider mathematical audience', it appears.
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by chrispeel 11y ago
> Every kind of redistribution must sum to zero across all people. Basic income is no different in this regard. So to say that basic income is different because the right and poor both receive it is pure sophistry. I agree with the zer
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by chrispeel 11y ago
> It's still a net loss for them. Yes they're getting some too, but it's just their money coming back to them. You'd be foolish to feel comforted by that. People are foolish. That's the whole basis of behaviora
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by chrispeel 11y ago
The 'unconditional' I take to mean that everyone, rich and poor, would get the same money. So even though the people with high income are paying more in taxes to cover this, they're also getting the same amount paid to them
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by chrispeel 11y ago
I'd be happy for a couple of references from you (Moshe_Silnorin) and dogma1138.
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by chrispeel 11y ago
Horace Dediu has looked at how quickly technologies are adopted. He doesn't see any increase in speed of technology adoption (he said this in a recent "Critical Path" podcast), which he was expecting and looking for. https
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by chrispeel 11y ago
See also the South/North Korea border: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2725415/Nasa-...
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by chrispeel 11y ago
I was just listening to a show about predictions of the end of the world ( http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/latter-day-predictions ), which seems appropriate. The sky is falling!
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by chrispeel 11y ago
For those who don't like one-based indexing, your problem is solved: there is now a package which provides two-based indexing https://github.com/simonster/TwoBasedIndexing.jl ;-) Edit: For a history of 0-based i
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by chrispeel 11y ago
The main thing I noticed was that it was impossible to scroll through the page due to the fancy images or whatever else was going on in JS.
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by chrispeel 11y ago
TRivia: If the printer can also output white ink, and the the encoding algorithm knows any dirt on the paper, then the capacity of the paper is the same even if the paper is dirty. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login
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by chrispeel 11y ago
Fernly, great enumeration of some of the challenges! I'm completely with you on the difficulty, and agree that this won't happen soon. Even so, 200 years ago the steam engine was just being developed; since then we've had th
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by chrispeel 11y ago
Vitalik Buterin and others have been very clear that Ethereum may fail completely and that it's an experiment. Others ( https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/495300992049479680 ) widely acknowledge that Ethereu
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by chrispeel 11y ago
The article would have been more complete if it had noted that Google is attempting to be an 'SAS' database provider for the 3.5GHz band. See http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/google-touts-spectr.
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by chrispeel 11y ago
It's recent news: http://www.neurologyadvisor.com/general-neurology/lymphatic-...
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by chrispeel 12y ago
From a couple of sources it looks like their revenue forecasts for the PC market were too low: http://www.etforecasts.com/products/ES_pcww1203.htm I'm curious who the target of this was; was this aimed at the bank