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by freech 9y ago
Maybe you'd prefer watching a polar bear eat a seal alive?
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by freech 9y ago
People are rewarded in proportion to the risk they took. It couldn't be any different.
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by freech 9y ago
This is rididulous. How many dark markets accept cash? Bitcoin works just fine for them.
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by freech 9y ago
That is exactly the point of proof of work. Criticizing Bitcoin for this, is like criticizing DNA Evidence for being hard to fake.
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by freech 9y ago
Cool.
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by freech 9y ago
I think there's a good heuristic here: Would the reasons justify invading a country, if it had never been a part of "your" country? Invading a country to abolish slavery is morally justifiable, invading a country because you
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by freech 9y ago
You specifically mention that the comparison with crimea is wrong. And yet all your arguments apply to the crimea (and any other secession) too.
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by freech 9y ago
How does voting (on anything) not qualify as speech?
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by freech 9y ago
You know how much I'm justified to spend to protect myself from loosing 2% of my money in one year, due to the central bank adding 2% to the money supply? If my time horizon is 1 year? That's right: 2% If my time horizon is x year
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by freech 9y ago
I wonder how much of all this is just lust for drama. What are they actually fighting about?
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by freech 9y ago
DATABRICKS IS A TRULY UNIFIED APPROACH TO DATA ANALYTICS AT SCALE That sounds like a calendar + recipe aggregator idea.
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by freech 9y ago
> I watched through the entire 3 minute video, only because I found it increasingly amusing how long they were taking to "get to the point". I think that's on purpose. They want you to invest time in it so that the sunk-co
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by freech 9y ago
Looks cool, thanks.
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Ask HN: What web framework lets you write as much as possible in SQL?
2 points by freech 9y ago|2 comments
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by freech 9y ago
Are those people going to be good and happy programmers?
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by freech 9y ago
Yeah, as a noob I'd find this a lot less offensive then being told to type some mind-numbing text.
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by freech 9y ago
No it's not. What needs to be explained is why you cooperate if you know that you will never play with the same person again. And the answer is that by doing so you get in the habit of automatically cooperating in similar situations in
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by freech 9y ago
Taking lots of energy is literally the point of proof-of-work. Criticizing Bitcoin mining for using lots of energy is like criticizing DNA evidence for being hard to fake.
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by freech 9y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/
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The Futility of Emergence(lesswrong.com)
2 points by freech 9y ago|0 comments
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by freech 9y ago
"Go into history class and the teacher says, 'Open your computer. We're going to go to rome.com and we're going to watch an archaeologist explore the Catacombs this morning in real time.' What a learning tool that i
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by freech 9y ago
There's a fundamentally wrong view of the way algorithms are written implicit here. Take for example a recommendation algorithm for porn. It's not written by some programmer expressing his tastes in code, like he would in language
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by freech 9y ago
Every day Bitcoin survives proofs that it works.
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by freech 9y ago
This does not at all explain human behaviour: Most people would not shovel all the snow themselves while their counterpart chills in their car. And many people cooperate in prisoner's dilemma situations. What explains human behaviour i
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by freech 9y ago
This but unironically.
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by freech 9y ago
Programming getting easier doesn't just mean that fewer or less skilled programmers can build the same thing, it means that things can be build that couldn't be build before. Google wouldn't exist without C++ (as opposed to a
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by freech 9y ago
Servers are only going to get cheaper. Programming is only going to get easier. If anything, things like search engines and social networks are going to become more competitive. If someone has a genius idea for making a better engine, he wo
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by freech 9y ago
I don't know about altcoins but I doubt learning about new ones and setting them up is worth your time. The electricity mining Bitcoins costs with a normal CPU/GPU though is definitely more then you're going to make. (Even if
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by freech 9y ago
Why would they do that? Isn't Play Store the way Google monetizes android?
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by freech 9y ago
No tragic failure ever said that either.

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