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by fogof 5y ago
It's true that there is less GEO real estate in this sense. But to kick off Kessler syndrome, you need two objects in different orbital planes so that they collide at very high speed. It wouldn't be possible for two defunct GEO sa
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by fogof 6y ago
> I can’t stand using a hyphen to mean negative or subtract I wonder what the difference is. Maybe in unicode one is slightly longer than the other, but at the end of the day, aren't they both just a horizontal line?
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by fogof 6y ago
In Bostrom's words > Apart form (sic) the interest this thesis may hold for those who are engaged in futuristic speculation, there are also more purely theoretical rewards. The argument provides a stimulus for formulating some metho
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by fogof 6y ago
Almost. In their model, civilizations can start at different times, so it possible for the boundary between civilizations to be a hyperboloid, rather than flat as is the case for voronoi diagrams.
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by fogof 6y ago
From reading the article, I get the sense that the piezoelectric effect in the wood itself is what is generating the electricity. So I think the role of the fungi is just to weaken the wood so that it's soft enough to compress more eas
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by fogof 6y ago
VDFs are designed to take a long time to compute. To use them here, it would require someone to be computing the solution continuously between the time the prediction is made and the time it is revealed - that's too inefficient for thi
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by fogof 6y ago
This is especially a problem for me, since I use an extension to make my websites dark. To fix this, I recently downloaded the Rescroller Chrome extension. Not only are my scroll bars now visible, they are a fun lime green (users pick color
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by fogof 6y ago
> look at thepiratebay, how long have people been trying to take that website down Taking down piratebay servers is fundamentally different from launching a 51% attack on Bitcoin. In the former, any mirror of the site that is left up can
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by fogof 6y ago
This article actually makes a good point, which I think many bitcoiners ignore, which is that governments have a big ability to seize hashrate and use it against the network. I have some criticism about the piece though. The article plays i
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by fogof 6y ago
What do you mean by "not enough to incentivize mining"? Mining works on a system where the fewer miners there are the larger a portion of the total transaction fee share each miner gets. Even if the there were no exchanges or peop
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by fogof 6y ago
Chigorin and Salwe were both born in the mid-1800s. With the prevalence of chess computers for training and studying, the amount of strength you need to play at a top level is much higher these days.
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by fogof 6y ago
I grant the other points, but if the government took over the bitcoin repo and changed it, why wouldn't people just keep using the old version of the software?
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by fogof 6y ago
Yeah I think the hexagon property holds whenever you have a set which consists of 1 and 5 mod 6 numbers.
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by fogof 6y ago
He did not, full story, for the perspective of the metadata guy is here https://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm Excellent computer story, on a par with "We can't send email more than 500 miles&qu
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by fogof 6y ago
Indeed, I would say the article is mistitled. Or at least, it was titled in a way that tries to capitalize on the buzzwordiness of the term "decentralized" without really using the word in the sense in which it is usually used by
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by fogof 6y ago
This is a good point. I was assuming that computing a protein fold was something that could be done relatively quickly, but it seems like these simulations are actually much more computationally intensive than that. This is obviously not my
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by fogof 6y ago
It seems to me that even in the PoW is useful, then both the honest and the dishonest miners will be able to get outside funding (from the perspective of the research institute after all, they are doing the same task). So the opportunity co
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by fogof 6y ago
One of the more famous examples of a BOINC project is Rosetta@home, which asks users to determine how proteins fold. Isn't this exactly what you stipulate? You just let the binary hash of the block encode a sequence of amino acids, and
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by fogof 6y ago
Ask and you shall receive https://godsunchained.com/
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by fogof 6y ago
Just to emphasize how conceptually easy the proof is when boiled down to its bare essentials, here is the proof in tweet form https://twitter.com/BooleanAnalysis/status/11458375764876124...
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by fogof 6y ago
I just want to point out that if you toggle the night-mode switch at the top right of this blog, it doesn't do what you think it would do.
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by fogof 6y ago
Looking over the syllabus, this seems like a good selection of subjects that are both mathematically rich and particularly relevant to social issues. With that being said, what are "Fractals Generated by Complex Numbers" doing her
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by fogof 6y ago
This seems to me like a rare "natural experiment" where correlation implies causality. Because whether a child is a son or daughter is essentially random, it's hard to imagine a confounding factor causing both daughters and d
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by fogof 6y ago
Presumably, though, you can also disable telemetry on the Microsoft version of vscode by following the instructions here [1]. [1]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry
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by fogof 6y ago
If a majority of Republicans support it and a majority of democrats support it, then why hasn't it passed already? Surely there cannot be enough state level skew on this issue that a majority of Senators don't represent states whe
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by fogof 6y ago
What if the oil filter doesn't have a hole in it, but just has 10,000 miles on it so it doesn't work well anymore. Would selling that be ok? What about a filter with 9,000 miles, or 5,000 miles, or 1,000 miles? Who decides what th
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by fogof 6y ago
> They believe that lidar sensors will be indispensable to get early self-driving vehicles on the road. I agree with this assessment. It seems to me that lidar has a consistency in its ability to detect objects that computer vision based
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by fogof 6y ago
I always thought bitcoin core and bitcoin.org were run by the same people. Who controls bitcoin.org?
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by fogof 6y ago
BOP is the federal bureau of prisons. https://www.bop.gov/
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by fogof 6y ago
I think this article might have what you're looking for https://hackaday.com/2020/11/21/a-computer-in-the-game-of-li...

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