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fhars
13y ago
If we have to wait for a scheme to surface, that does maen that as it stands truly anonymous and private transactions on Bitcoin are currently impossible, right?
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fhars
13y ago
For one, rocks don't evaporate in the sunlight at our distance from the sun.
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fhars
13y ago
No. That abstract says that the bound it 12 if the Elliot-Halberstam conjecture holds. Under that assumption, the bound has been 16 since 2000. The trick that brings the number down from 16 to 12 under that assumption is the same that bring
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fhars
13y ago
You should feel depressed instead. In men, creativity is destroyed by marriage http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2003/07/11/900147.htm
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fhars
13y ago
Am I the only one who can no longer intuitively differentiate between these geometrically styled logos in four flat primary colors and so was initially confused by this mug?
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fhars
13y ago
Well, of course. But what is good? C.f. https://twitter.com/paskow/status/398811660057837568
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13y ago
"_facts_ (such as, for a simple one, that adding one unit to another results in having two units)" That is not a fact, that is just a consequence of certain sets of axioms, but not of others. It is patently wrong for addition i
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fhars
13y ago
During the encryption phase the argument by Strilanc doesn't hold (as in that case decrypted[i] is given as the input and does not contain any key admixture), and it is exactly the case where pos_c equals pos_a that is problematic, as
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fhars
13y ago
One of the necessary conditions for a secure cipher is security under chosen plaintext attacks, as specified by the following game: I give you two plaintexts of the same length of my choice, you select one of them and encrypt it with a key
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fhars
13y ago
Looking at systems by considering whether they 'create value' in some generalized utilitarian sense is unproductive. Such systems survive by being able to extract energy somehow A perfect description of many forms of organized c
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fhars
13y ago
All brands are equal insofar as you are most likley better off if you avoid them all. For example: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitami...
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13y ago
Most of them are perfectly valid hypothetical neologisms, and I'd say that Fingernageltafelquietschen is perfectly cromulent. What really grates me about that list is that they write supposedly german words in broken letters without di
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fhars
13y ago
Somebody else posted a link to this graph from the publications that shows results for different movement patterns actually observed while the birds were in the summer colony: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/1310
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fhars
13y ago
The large chip on the image seems to have a number starting with 16F (or maybe 18F), so it seems to be some PIC microcontroler in a 20QFN package. The other two black objects on the board seem to be the accelerometer and light sensor, there
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fhars
13y ago
And the color calibration of your screen...
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fhars
13y ago
According to wikipedia, they found most of the second bomb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsboro,_North_Carolina#Histo...
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fhars
13y ago
rdiff-bachup will give you copies of the changed files (so 1.2TiB for the database file mentioned in the article) every time you run a backup for each old version you keep. It will not transfer that much data over the network (since it uses
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fhars
13y ago
The other idea is to put more sensors on the physical keys. Turns out, there is a kickstarter for that (just stumbled on it, don't know how legit it is): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/instrumentslab/touc
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fhars
13y ago
Alas, that version is only correct up to x = 25, because *Main> 1 / sqrt 5 * (((1 + sqrt 5) / 2) ^ 26 - ((1 - sqrt 5) / 2) ^ 26) 121392.99999999999 happens to be just on the wrong side of the truncate.
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fhars
13y ago
That one is not to scale, either. That one is: http://mishkahenner.com/filter/works/Astronomical
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fhars
13y ago
Some people have been thinking about that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
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fhars
13y ago
If you can live with K3, you might want to take a look at kona: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona/
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fhars
13y ago
Is it for quantum mechanical games, or why are there objects tunneling out of the "lots of objects" container all the time?
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fhars
13y ago
I prefer the transpation of "Würzburg" as "peppering castle" that babelfish did when the web was still young...
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fhars
13y ago
Some people in that thread are running rails 3.2.9 end even 3.2.3, and the cited malicious requests contain url paramters the dedoce to ?id=\n---\n!ruby/object:Gem::Requirement\nrequirements:\n - I.e., they have been grossly negligient in t
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fhars
13y ago
No, with the "curl get.docker.io | sh -x" you have absolutely no reproducability or accountability, as there is way to find out which code was actually run during installation. This is the dream situation for attackers that managed to troja
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fhars
13y ago
Then this is a veiled acquisition offer, since EA has long been known as the place where great game companies go to die?
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fhars
13y ago
That's nothing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qui...
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fhars
14y ago
That is kind of the point of an archive, no? Keeping old stuff for further reference?
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fhars
14y ago
He gives you a hamburger, but it turns out you don't actually exist. He gives you terabytes of data. Something good comes out of it in the end.
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