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by cporios 9y ago
Very relevant paper: "Hardened dildo.io, A Cryptographically Secure, Usable Matchmaking Service" https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2016/files/13.pdf I've actually implemented this paper in a
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by cporios 10y ago
> In the US you have the opportunity to reach for the stars (literally). If you want it bad enough, with a little luck and hard work you can get there. Not true. The US ranks very poorly compared to other advanced economies when it comes
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YouTube enlists volunteers to moderate its site via “YouTube Heroes”(techcrunch.com)
4 points by cporios 10y ago|1 comments
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by cporios 10y ago
I just tried it, seems to work fine.
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by cporios 10y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20160505121147/http://www.drcrai...
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by cporios 11y ago
Scrolling down your website is very slow, weird and annoying. Also the scroll left to go back gesture isn't working.
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by cporios 11y ago
Plotting the two functions might help in understanding why that's not the case: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+sqrt%28x%29%2C+log...
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by cporios 11y ago
BSTs can have O(lg n) lookups. A Red-black tree is such an example. It is a self-balancing BST, so a red-black tree is a BST itself.
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by cporios 11y ago
Also see the announcement from Google: https://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/introducing-accele...
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by cporios 11y ago
That day any notion of privacy will stop existing.
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by cporios 11y ago
Turing completeness is not required to implement FizzBuzz. But CSS + HTML are turing complete since Rule 110 can be implemented in pure CSS + HTML. EDIT: I'm not entirely right. Here's a good answer: http://stackoverflo
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by cporios 12y ago
Even if that's true bringing internet or text messaging to the third world is easier than expanding bank coverage.
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by cporios 12y ago
I wasn't aware of M-Pesa. Bitcoin transaction fees are still lower though. Coinbase and other companies allow you to send bitcoins via SMS: https://www.coinbase.com/sms_service
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by cporios 12y ago
I live in Europe and a wire transfer from/to Greece/UK/Germany takes at least two working days for small amounts, sometimes up to a week. All my friends have similar experiences. Only transferring money between two bank accou
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by cporios 12y ago
I don't think that's true. > If someone only has a phone, they need to store their bitcoin somewhere, and its unlikely to be their phone. Why? Bitcoins do not exist somewhere, bitcoin transactions do, and they are stored in th
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by cporios 12y ago
According to this half the world's population is unable to get a bank account: http://mckinseyonsociety.com/half-the-world-is-unbanked/ Bitcoin allows for anyone with internet or even text-messaging access to hold
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by cporios 12y ago
> The problems Bitcoin claims to be trying to solve were already solved by the banks a while back. Bitcoin (according to its website) claims to provide instant P2P transactions and very low processing fees. International bank transaction
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by cporios 12y ago
Nice! I've done something similar in the past: http://static.mysti.co.in/boids/ Source: https://github.com/tech-no-crat/boids