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by dorgo 4y ago
If they have to run a query and pay for the botnet I already won a small battle.
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by dorgo 4y ago
> What threat are you protecting yourself against? Against modern sophisticated governments who are busy, lazy, distracted to ask Netherlands to give them my data. I'm not exactly a high priority target. All I have to do is to make
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by dorgo 4y ago
Goverments and intelligence agencies can't target everyone. But they can gather data for future use. So if you don't give them your data you won't be targeted in the future.
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by dorgo 4y ago
> All physical effects are bounded by the speed of light. The universe expands faster than light. So this expansion is not a physical effect?
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by dorgo 4y ago
back to first principles. We have wishes and desires. If we can't get everything we want in quantities we want then we prioritise. I want good food, some mobility and a lot entertaiment. Oil is needed for mobility. Take the average ove
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by dorgo 4y ago
Something is wrong with the equation. The right hand side of the equation is: > bitcoin price / number of bitcoins $23,304 / 19,066,500 BTC = $0.001 /BTC If there is one human into bitcoin, then they invested $0.001 ? If t
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by dorgo 4y ago
So, "I think other people should not be free" is not covered by free speech?
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by dorgo 4y ago
Idea: Apply this to personalized advertising. Client sends his interests + habits + personal info encrypted to the server. Server finds and sends back to client the best ad based on clients info.
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by dorgo 4y ago
> and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies is Google ( or Alphabet ) an affiliated company?
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by dorgo 4y ago
Its not only about smartphones. How many different connectors (just) Thinkpad's had in the same time frame?
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by dorgo 4y ago
> (2nm may be the end of the road?) from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit : >However, it has been shown that access to quantum memory in principle allows computational algorithms that require ar
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by dorgo 4y ago
What is the difference to normal paid tickets? Once the ticket is paid I can ride busses out of boredom the whole day.
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by dorgo 4y ago
What is wrong with having many forks? Just ignore the ones you don't care about.
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by dorgo 4y ago
I think that to pass judgement bears responsibility. So if you want to judge your neighbours go above and beyond reasonable effort. I'm not religious, but I like what Christians say: do not judge if you don't want to be judged.
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by dorgo 4y ago
Have you ever looked at this as competing ideas fighting for domenance in the environment of human minds? We are not the protagonists in this. We are the resources these ideas are using in their endeavors.
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by dorgo 4y ago
So what? Blame the aggressor and stop thinking? It feels like another fallacy.
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by dorgo 4y ago
I think we want (and expect) RNGs to produce sequences with high algorithmic complexity (which we regard as "random") and ignore the (almost impossible) possibility that they fail to do so. An impossible to create modified RNG whi
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by dorgo 4y ago
Why not putting mirrors on the roof?
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by dorgo 4y ago
What's the argument here? Only people with 100% success rate can fix Twitter?
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by dorgo 4y ago
>to hurl, propel, or divert some rock at us at some non-negligible fraction of light speed, and we would be powerless to stop it. Wouldn't you need to solve the n-body problem to hit a planet (earth) from many light years away with
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by dorgo 5y ago
I think what gp means is to tell all the exchanges (and maybe merchants) to blacklist your wallet. Not as simple and bullet proof as PayPal freezing your account but similar.
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by dorgo 5y ago
I mean, humans compete against horses and win sometimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
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by dorgo 5y ago
>is a silly metric because the entire market would never be able to cash-out at that maximum price. On the other hand, you can't buy all coins even if you pay the market cap..
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by dorgo 5y ago
For me the problem is: every time I drink tea from this bowl I'll be reminded that I took away 5 coins from a struggeling family. I rather pay 150 and for the rest of my life am rimended how I genrously helped a stuggeling family.
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by dorgo 5y ago
What do you do if you encounter GDPR popups with !important directive? I think we need !!important...
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by dorgo 5y ago
It's way better than "Screw it, it probably doesn't work, but we have new projects to work on."
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by dorgo 5y ago
> When prices drop 99% that’s when the bubbles burst. lol. Ether dropped 93% in 2018 and is doing just fine today. I think you have to adjust your "bubbles burst" definition for crypto.
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by dorgo 5y ago
Recently, german bank accounts of citizens of russia living in germany were silently blocked from receiving funds. It is all but impossible to block a crypto wallet from receiving funds. There are pros and cons everywhere.
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by dorgo 5y ago
I subscribe/unsubscribe every other month. Depends on whether there is something interesting on prime or netflix. From time to time I get a free month or a week for 1€. Just canceled my free month. Rule of thumb is to never click the b
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by dorgo 5y ago
My feeling is that if for a given problem "cluster center" is a meaningful concept then k-means is the right tool. The concept of "distance" can be adjusted as well. I think any metric will do. But if you want clusters w

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