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by current_call 10y ago
Only if your time is valuable.
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by current_call 10y ago
What a waste. Yup.
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by current_call 10y ago
What does "establishing" mean? There are lots of block chains.
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by current_call 10y ago
Is Ethereum not on its own blockchain?
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by current_call 10y ago
Fear of being left behind. Uncertainty about the future of Bitcoin. Doubt in the community.
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by current_call 10y ago
I don't disagree with his viewpoint; his arguments are irrelevant. A good way to understand the purpose of a piece of writing is to summarize the purpose of each passage into a single sentence. Here is my attempt; feel free to skip it.
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by current_call 10y ago
Associative arrays aren't about phone books. They're about providing key value storage. You can use an associative array to record phone numbers, but you could also use it for any key value pairing. Why the same hash table for t
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by current_call 10y ago
Okay. Why would I want a currency in my programming language? This obviously isn't the same as having a library for using a currency.
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by current_call 10y ago
I can't take Bitcoin seriously because its community, at the same time, holds strong anarcho-capitalist ideals, and supports various companies which are trying to monopolise various forms of Bitcoin transaction. The community isn&#x2
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by current_call 10y ago
The slope of a function at some point provides information about a local maximum. A positive slope means a peak is to the left and a negative slope means a peak is to the right. If you want to find the input that maximizes or minimizes the
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by current_call 10y ago
You might enjoy this paper if you haven't already read it. http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401 Jump to the experiments section to get an overview of what it can do.
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by current_call 10y ago
Bitcoin cannot survive a majority attack. Proof of work is a different kind of majority though.
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by current_call 10y ago
Contracts don't exist within currencies; contracts exist on top of currencies. Sticking a turing complete language into the currency doesn't remove the problem of third party management; it forces the currency to absorb some of th
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by current_call 10y ago
This article is FUD, but then so is this post. People on both sides have huge incentives. And don't be deluded into thinking there aren't sides. The wealth at stake and the ability to dodge banks makes it impossible to be deeply i
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by current_call 10y ago
None, given that it essentially runs in a browser anyway (Electron). Oh, there goes that dream.
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by current_call 10y ago
A browser is like a buggy mini-operating system that hogs resources, tries to replace native applications like PDF readers, word processors, and email clients, and uses JavaScript as its system language. Client applications circumvent the h
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by current_call 10y ago
Isn't that six reasons?
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by current_call 11y ago
Usually when I look at restaurant ratings, I see lots of perfect scores and lots of terrible scores, but very little in between. This could be very entertaining.
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by current_call 11y ago
I don't see how hard that is to understand, that some folks might hold a different worldview about surveillance than you do, and that in fact they are not idiots. Their worldview isn't just different; it's bad. It's di
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by current_call 11y ago
Input -> Process -> Output Somewhere a Haskell programmer is nodding.
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by current_call 11y ago
The basis of the argument is that if decisions correlate with race, than the cause of the decision is race. This is of course wrong. Correlation does not imply causation and the algorithms cannot even have a concept of race or sex unless th
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by current_call 11y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to just work in the reverse direction? https://github.com/zkat/chanl
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by current_call 11y ago
Several years before, in 1997, the GAO caught the State Department paying a consultant to write op-ed pieces in support of the Clinton administration’s policy on Central America. This is terrible. What will all the Washington Post journal
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by current_call 11y ago
I really want to like Swift. Why? What does it offer?
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by current_call 11y ago
Ads? Forbes gave me a redirect to an Ayn Rand quote.
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by current_call 11y ago
If it doesn't work the first time, try it again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10246610
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by current_call 11y ago
Maybe it was just a propaganda stunt to discourage domestic terrorism and push the learn to code movement? Maybe this kid doesn't even exist.
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by current_call 11y ago
It is their event to run, and they have final say in the kind of discourse they accept from the attendees. Where have I heard this before? It is his website, and he can do whatever he wants. The issue isn't whether MLH has the righ
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by current_call 11y ago
It's cute, but a whole article for this?
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by current_call 11y ago
Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-7.html

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