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by curiousObject 5mo ago
This is quite like saying that because you’ve “aged out” of high school, you must be suddenly cut off from interacting with all the friends you made in high school IRL, you stay in touch with some of those old high school friends for year
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by curiousObject 5mo ago
51% attack allows you to undo a recent transaction (as if it never happened). It does not allow you to change the destination of a transaction or arbitrarily move bitcoins around.
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by curiousObject 5mo ago
> At one spin per millisecond (faster than this app runs), you'd expect a hit roughly once per 1.7 × 10⁶² years — about 10⁵² times the current age of the universe. The heat death of the universe occurs first Alright! Now there’s on
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by curiousObject 5mo ago
> The establishment of an Indian parliament is demanded, in which the queen shall be represented by a viceroy, Britain’s monarch was a king, not a queen, from about 1900-1950. Obviously there is some big “temporal leakage” from the tra
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by curiousObject 5mo ago
It is sad. That reply, which you rightfully were irritated by, could have been expressed as a polite question. That sort of question is what the response from user @bsder above helpfully tries to answer. That mode would invite more producti
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by curiousObject 5mo ago
Yes, that is the point. It’s a good point. But, if our airship in the Venusian atmosphere finds nothing interesting (no life signs), then there’s not much more to do at Venus, because atmosphere is all mixed and all the same. Going to the s
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by curiousObject 5mo ago
The author’s site is on Vercel. So I believe the author has exposure to the issue and interest in understanding it, that’s more than AI alone has got.
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
I think you’re missing the point. This person is implementing various CPU cores on FPGA. The insights they can share from that complex process are sometimes interesting, because they are looking at the system from a new angle. https:/
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
Evolution would design the alternative to be something slightly less capable than the minimum. /s Really, the likelihood is that these mutations must have had an impact that far outweighs their space in the genome. That’s how all our
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
Bitter truths: https://archive.is/Oti1j
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
That’s unbroken 6 weeks of no direct access for almost everyone Of course information does still get in and out, but that is severely throttled
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
> documented attempt to capture Salyut-7 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2554/1 This isn’t true. The same article even explains that. From that article: “It takes only some basic fact checking to debunk
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
> Just slapped 8x the number of computers on it ‘Just’ is not an appropriate word in this context. Much of the article is about the difficulty of synchronization, recovery from faults, and about the redundant backup and recovery systems
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
I don’t understand what you mean.
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
Thank you. I didn’t know that.
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
I believe you’re right. But sometimes, you really have to think about how mad your adversary is. A dog will keep biting long after that is a disastrous plan.
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
The OP put those addresses on that web page, and only on that web page. Some addresses received spam. Edit: that’s not to deny that big data leaks are a serious problem
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
https://archive.is/g2mWU
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
https://archive.is/o69yu
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
Clearly Chuck Peddle is a major designer and engineer. So what went wrong with the new computer he’s describing? The company filed for bankruptcy protection within a couple years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Sy
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Interoperable Randomness Beacons(csrc.nist.gov)
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
> If intelligence is necessarily coupled to a desire for self-preservation and self-interest, at what level of machine intelligence do the machines simply refuse to design their own more intelligent replacements, At a higher level of in
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
If they take too much then confidence in the coin is absolutely lost and the coin fails and it’s price rapidly goes towards zero, so they’re possibly being smart by only taking a small percentage — if that was the hackers decision Yeah $25m
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by curiousObject 6mo ago
Maybe a player can learn which dice are biased then choose those dice to throw depending on what result would be best for them at that moment? So they gain a slight edge.
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by curiousObject 7mo ago
Rationally, you apply fines as close to the source as possible. Because they will pass those costs up the stack. But the source could be the most likely place for corrupt reporting. Or: Maybe the source element is not dangerous but downstre
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by curiousObject 7mo ago
Try asking for jokes about, eg Kenyans, Ugandans, South Africans I think it might still refuse, but in your original test, German usually means a nationality, but African doesn’t. I’m sure the jokes were terrible anyways
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by curiousObject 7mo ago
> AI-generated replies really are the scourge of Twitter these days This is a complex problem. But the first step of that problem is Twitter/X Avoid it, and the next step toward a solution may be easier.
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by curiousObject 8mo ago
The official Signal website is signal.org Because of the security and privacy focus of the app, it is best to look there for news about Signal. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=signal.org
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by curiousObject 8mo ago
Actors express the human condition, and that’s more difficult than you think. To pretend to be a person that you are not, on demand, for months on end, is hard and it demands great empathy and skill.
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by curiousObject 8mo ago
Your comment hints at another problem, which is that allowing the cargo into a port possibly could be exploited as a loophole to break sanctions. Yet another big problem is that cargo might be too low in value, or even undesirable. Like the

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