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by goodside 9y ago
One way to read this is that every year that goes by without the discovery of a major, world-ending flaw in the Bitcoin protocol should increase your confidence that there won't be one soon, so you should expect growth even if all else
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by goodside 9y ago
Insider trading laws are for stocks. If you somehow know in advance that a currency or a commodity is going to spike in price, you're free to hoard as much of it as you like. It's debatable which one of those two a cryptocurrency
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by goodside 9y ago
I'm annoyed that I bothered to read the tutorial to this. The TLDR: "Write some generators or functions, put them in a list, and Bonobo will call them all for you in order. Look at the example files for more." The example fil
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by goodside 10y ago
It's an expensive e-ink display big enough to read PDF. Kindle abandoned that market in 2010 and never looked back. Right now the only options are this tablet's predecessor and one competitor, both of which are expensive and disco
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by goodside 10y ago
Long-running tasks run on the server, not on the client where JS timers matter. You'd get the same results, just maybe a fraction of a second later.
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by goodside 10y ago
Grep for illegal activity, short-sell the companies involved, anonymously tip off the authorities. What's the point of this?
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by goodside 10y ago
If you dislike dogs that strongly, claim to have an allergy and politely ask the owners to keep them away from your desk. If that doesn't work, explain your allergies to management. It'll spark less resentment than the truth.
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by goodside 10y ago
Japanese citizenship is actually much easier to get than other wealthy countries -- if you've lived in Japan for five years on any non-tourist visa and you're willing to give up all other citizenships you hold, you're in. The
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by goodside 10y ago
This argument seems disingenuous. It's no great insight that port knocking reduces unauthorized login attempts. What's disputed is whether it's better to have a system that's rarely challenged vs. a system that's re
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by goodside 11y ago
I'd just as easily assume that it is -- progress in physics tends to unify piecemeal complicated theories as different aspects of simpler rules.
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by goodside 11y ago
It's ironic this isn't used more often to judge Objectivism's merits, though it's a bit disingenuous since it's prudent for most businesses to avoid having any polarizing opinions. E.g. Roark Capital, the owner of C
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by goodside 11y ago
The model I described is the historical model, as developed (and later repudiated) by Einstein. It does not "predate the entire concept of metric expansion". The whole point was to reconcile expansion, which was both predicted b
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by goodside 11y ago
Correction: I'm an idiot; see xenophonf's comment.
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by goodside 11y ago
Yes, it's true that the most distant galaxies we've observed are only around 13 Gly away, but the fact that number is so close to (speed_of_light * age_of_universe) is just a coincidence. We could, in principle, see light emitted
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by goodside 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space The short version: The distant object wasn't traveling through space, it sat stationary while more space came into existence in the gap between us and it, re
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by goodside 11y ago
There are plenty of ways the Universe could be steady-state and still not have a white-hot sky. Suppose you have metric expansion as you do now, but new matter magically appears as a sparse, uniform cloud of particles throughout space to fe
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by goodside 11y ago
The red shift applies to distant stars too. The important point is that even in the extreme scenario where all stars last forever and you wait an infinite amount of time for light to reach you, you will still never see a fully illuminated s
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by goodside 11y ago
"Astronomers have concluded that the universe began some 12 to 15 billion years ago. That means we can only see the part of it that lies within 12 to 15 billion light-years from us." This is false, because it ignores the metric ex
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by goodside 11y ago
My go-to phrase: "Even if there were no real difference, we would see a result like this X% of the time anyway."
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by goodside 11y ago
Just serve all third-party ad code inside of an IFrame served from a different domain. Even if malicious JS is loaded, it's sandboxed away from any session cookies.
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by goodside 11y ago
This is a brilliant research tool, because it can give you fast, unbiased answers about how English is spoken by real people instead of what's prescriptively correct. Any English dictionary will tell you that coup de grâce is pronoun
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by goodside 11y ago
"[The] target user is probably learning easy, contemporary songs, and already knows what they sound like before they learn them." Leaving out exact note durations is intentional, and probably the main reason why it's so easy
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by goodside 11y ago
Or even: "The first byte of a message we are unable to deliver is not 0x00. The first byte of a message we are unable to deliver is not 0x01. The first byte..."
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by goodside 12y ago
Please tell your employees to stop creating fake profiles on OkCupid and spamming our users. Behaving like that doesn't inspire much confidence in your service.
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by goodside 12y ago
This really damages the credibility of the article: "These investors must prove a certain net worth and go through a restrictive application process to become accredited." In fact, there is no application process whatsoever. No or
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by goodside 12y ago
And what about altcoins that issue an unlimited number of coins at a fixed annual inflation rate? If we price them as you describe, their value is infinite. The correct strategy is somewhere in the middle. Shares with pre-programmed future
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by goodside 12y ago
The courts have already ruled in favor of the ACLU on requiring a process to get false positives off the no-fly list: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-fly-list-violates-rig... Also, it's not clear that this
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by goodside 12y ago
This article is a poor argument against "nothing to hide". It starts with eight paragraphs attacking a strawman: "Can I see your credit card bills for the last year?" As though anyone seriously thinks all financial data
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by goodside 12y ago
It's hard to have much sympathy when your app already has an identical name (and a very similar logo) to a mobile web browser launched four years earlier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(web_browser)
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by goodside 13y ago
Bitcoin only requires extreme processing power if you're trying mine blocks. For a node that just wants to issue and monitor transactions, there's no resource advantage to using Peercoin or other proof-of-stake coins.

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