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by gbh444g 6y ago
My 2c. From the programming perspective, QC isn't much different from GPUs or ASICs: a slightly different model, a slightly different language. For this reason, learning QC now, when there are no QC chips available, is like learning an
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by gbh444g 6y ago
By equating bitcoins with CP. Just "data in the jpeg format" is enough to spend half life in prison and the other half in exile.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Ha. I think I have an even better story. Near Salt Lake City there's something like an island with two roads connecting it to the mainland: one on the north and the other on the south. My plan was to drive to the island via its north r
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by gbh444g 6y ago
The Fed site has a lot of charts for this. For example, top 1% of households owns 30% of wealth today, while the bottom 50% - only 2%. For liabilities, the chart is almost the reverse of this: top 1% owes 4%, while the bottom 50% owes 30%.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Afaik, there's no AI yet, so we don't know if it's power hungry or not.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Whoever designed the system didn't know about the Paxos protocol.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
That's not enough. Half of the sites are broken without JS, but you don't really want to open the floodgates to malware/adware/etc. by enabling all JS - you only want to unbreak the site itself.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
TBH, at this point we may as well start using whitelists: 1st party domains and known 3rd party CDNs for static content and maybe media, 1st party scripts for frequently visited sites and a special button hidden in a safe place to enable 3r
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by gbh444g 6y ago
The 100K years timeframe is more believable than a random cutoff 12K years B.C. Humans are way too advanced species to progress from monkeys to what we are now in just a few thousand years. I'd say it's taken close to 18 millions
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by gbh444g 6y ago
For important logins, I don't even write the password in my password manager, as I assume it's already compromised. Instead, I write there notes about how the password should be derived, e.g. contoso.com|x4|s1. Even if someone get
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by gbh444g 6y ago
That's the investors' version of the passive-aggressive talk: "you're free to do business on your own, but we'd like to remind you of dangers you'll be exposed to without our protection."
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Em... 12,000 years old? Where does this number come from?
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Is there much of that middle class in Europe, though? My definition of "middle class" is "someone with substantial savings, almost enough to not work" and I suppose that there isn't much left from 50k after food and
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Here's my 2c. All these clever ranking algorithms are irrelevant technicalities in chatting platforms. What matters is the type of people that constitute your audience. Reddit chooses to cater to emotions: their front page encourages l
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by gbh444g 6y ago
A somewhat unrelated note: the proportion between Earth and Milky Way diameters is (100 trillions) the same as the proportion between a human body and a large atom nucleus. We are galaxy sized objects in some sense.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Not sure about spacetime, but there's a similar effect mentioned on HN earlier: Earth's magnetic field has a vertical gradient that tiny spiders use to fly, even in absence of wind. It's plausible that those spiders figured h
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Meaning of Rays in Polar Plot of Prime Numbers(math.stackexchange.com)
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by gbh444g 6y ago
This reminded me of one argument I had about a legal contract one company wanted me to sign. Dropping all the legalese, the contract was roughly this: "You have no rights. We have all the rights. This contract is perpetual in eternity.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
This made me think that there are two type of not-earnestness: "what's in in it for me?" and "what's in it for others?" The first type is what [office] politics is about. The second type is rare and an example
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by gbh444g 6y ago
To that buddhists would answer that there is no self.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Wait until humans figure how to burn lithium by adding some special acid. I'm only half kidding, because if that reaction absorbs CO2, everybody will forget about "charging" lithium.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
So the horizon is approaching us at a what? logarithmic scale? What can we infer from this about the topology of the planning surface?
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Time to disable auto-updates for whatsapp.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
A few years later, those US marines will be quite surprised to learn that they are barred for life from possessing firearms.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
They'd better let participants solve Go problems (aka tsumegos): much quicker and much more measurable.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Are you sure they have any energy or time left after work?
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Does Google have a choice, though? The crux of the problem is who gets to capture the value. Conventional companies don't let employees capture value, so employees rationally act like employees and not like business owners. This is why
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by gbh444g 6y ago
IMHO, the next big thing for TypeScript is compilation to native targets. TS could have a "very strictly typed" language subset compilable to a few popular bytecode targets, wasm and jvm at least. Otherwise TypeScript is going to
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by gbh444g 6y ago
It's all about lithium, I guess.
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by gbh444g 6y ago
Thanks for the notes! Another idea I've been thinking about is to capture the phase by splitting ACF into multiple complementary parts at the spectral density step, i.e. when we draw the spectrogram, we use |r exp(i phi)|^2 of the FFT

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