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by dorgo 9y ago
If he can TEACH them a lesson for 500$ and prevent them from paying 5000$ to an other scam - isn't it BENEVOLENCE? Sometimes ADVISE is not enough and the lessons need to be painfull/costly or they are no HELP.
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by dorgo 9y ago
It won't work. There are 37,607,912,018 prime numbers smaller than 1,000,000,000,000. It's 11 decimal digits vs. 13. All the compression comes from the information that it is a prime number. To point to the "Nth prime" w
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by dorgo 9y ago
>nearly all strings can’t be compressed by more than a small amount. source?
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by dorgo 9y ago
The metadata in this case is the ability to read english text.
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by dorgo 9y ago
So, basically you are saying that it's all gambling and nobody has a better strategy / better information than everybody else. Some are just lucky and it is all because of the survival bias. I agree with you in that it is a possib
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by dorgo 9y ago
There is a little known feature of prime: you can read a book (from a selection) for free each 30 days. Theses books cost usually about 4€. 12 * 4€ = 48€. This little offer (which is usually not even advertised as a prime feature) alone alm
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by dorgo 9y ago
.... Or let bots do searches on google, clicking on your link and never search again with same IP/browser/... combination. Or let bots do the opposite for your competitors. As long as google uses a metric to determine how good a p
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by dorgo 9y ago
I think the lock in effect of social networks is orthohonal to monetarisation model. It is difficult for social media startups to succeed regardless of how they (or facebook) make money.
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by dorgo 9y ago
> minor fiasco with their extensions ecosystem minor? you are kidding >feeling like I'm in more control of my browser I lost the control of my browser after quantum. Now I still have some control over the websites displayed in th
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by dorgo 9y ago
Virtualization may be not save enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
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by dorgo 9y ago
Maybe educated emploers pay more taxes?
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by dorgo 9y ago
>This wouldn't be an issue at all if people just didn't have incentives to tamper with it! :O, the only possibility for that which comes to my mind is a world in which everybody is infinetly rich?
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by dorgo 9y ago
Laws change (get broken) when establishd consensus shifts (hey everyone: women should also have the right to vote!!). Crypto/Blockchain doesn't going to change how consensus works (nor is it supposed to). It's just the digita
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by dorgo 9y ago
Sure. You can print your own money for free and call it FakeDollar. Nobody will confuse it with the real thing
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by dorgo 9y ago
It's like saying free/easy dollar reproduction would make the world better.
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by dorgo 9y ago
And the first plane could fly a distance of 60 meters after 10+ years of developement..
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by dorgo 9y ago
Some call it mob rule. Others call it democracy..
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by dorgo 9y ago
AI effect maybe? "As soon as AI successfully solves a problem, the problem is no longer a part of AI." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect This attitude I encountered already on HN: "By discounting a
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by dorgo 9y ago
Now I see the value behind smart contracts. It is much easier to set up a Ponzi scheme. No need to keep track of all the investors and who owns what.
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by dorgo 9y ago
Your phone will be outdated and replaced in three years. Hard to replace a probe in space. For this reason it is a good idea to design phones to last 3 years and space probs to last decades.
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by dorgo 9y ago
>"remove from the internet for eternity" lol, internet never forgets. Everybody seems to have an ilusion of control over digital data shared with others or uploaded to the internet.
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by dorgo 9y ago
The database we use (Vertica) works this way. Nothing is deleted. Instead it is flagged as deleted. A background task may purge old data (older than x). Historical queries show the database state as it was days or weeks ago. If the backgrou
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by dorgo 9y ago
Among these other things which we invented are algorithms which invented other algorithms to solve real world problems. There is nothing unuique or irreplicable about humans (save of culture, emotions, etc. which nobody wants to replicate).
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by dorgo 9y ago
Landing page says nothing about what (and how) it actually does. I had to watch the youtube video to get a vague idea of what is going on.
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by dorgo 9y ago
can you elaborate on colors (Groove)? Why does the landing page has orange, green + two shades of blue? Blue is in their logo, but red is missing. Instead there are orange and green. I have little to no experience in visual design. But intu
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by dorgo 9y ago
I used to create new accounts each time when I logged into facebook. Better than to remember passwords.
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by dorgo 9y ago
Some years ago they introduced job titles at the place where I work. My boss asked me: which job title do you want? I said: senior developer. Her said: ok. Master of the universe would have passed too.
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by dorgo 9y ago
How that compares to fiat money where the central bank can print more money as it wishes?
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by dorgo 9y ago
Some years ago i tried to get Tinder to work on my phone. I needed a facebook account for it. No problem. I had several. I created new accoutns each time I logged into facebook for some reason. Tinder still refused to work. Somebody suggest
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by dorgo 9y ago
The "hit-by-a-bus" scenario for me is expressed quite often where I work. I have no problem with it, if it is not repeaded a dozen times. Then it starts to sound like a threat..

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