grapevines

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by grapevines 5y ago
I believe it’s a sort of satellite-mounted weapon, and not extricable in any way from full surveillance a la smartphone location or - even worse, multiple exploited access points thus triangulating location. I think it’s most logically a ge
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by grapevines 9y ago
Note: the code to extract this data has not been released to the public alongside the paper.
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by grapevines 10y ago
Yeah, I actually would like to see a modern HN / Craigslist blend. One thing both sites do well is having a simple quick-loading site which works without JavaScript.
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by grapevines 10y ago
Network effect, reliability, free, anonymous, ability to run without JavaScript. If Craigslist decided to modernize today, they could potentially disrupt the state of things on the internet. Facebook is trying to move in on their territory
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by grapevines 10y ago
When somebody quits, their non-city troops should be abandoned. Otherwise there is too much volatility in the game: say I am about to capture somebody's king and they quit instead: now I don't get their land and troops, rather I h
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by grapevines 10y ago
Such a genius move, surprising nobody saw it coming. Just think: he will already have access to a large base of customer's roofs (which SolarCity effectively owns) --- 1 million by 2018. Then, it's just a hop, skip, and a jump t
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by grapevines 10y ago
Monero, even with the addition of RingCT, is vulnerable to transaction graph analysis (intersection attacks) that can de-anonymize users. Your comment is highly misleading. RingCT solves 4 of the 5 remaining, known, privacy vulnerabilitie
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by grapevines 10y ago
Agda is a programming language where "each program in it must terminate and all possible patterns must be matched. Without this feature, the logic behind the language becomes inconsistent, and it becomes possible to prove arbitrary sta
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by grapevines 10y ago
For example, a typical C program to compute the sum of a list of numbers includes three kinds of parentheses and three kinds of assignment operators in five lines of code Let me take the opportunity to plug a new language which I have spe
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by grapevines 11y ago
Ethereum could quickly outdate itself by defining a fixed language. How will the language adapt? Very slowly by consensus if Ethereum hopes to become a large market player. Bitcoin could be easily made Turing complete. If each transaction c
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by grapevines 11y ago
What are the chances that somebody would do LAX to Santa Barbara ?
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by grapevines 11y ago
Tesla is most certainly valued correctly, with a P/E ratios similar to that of Amazon, and a valuation just slightly above the likes of Snapchat, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Seems to be a reasonable estimation to me.
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by grapevines 11y ago
The Basic Income ship has not sailed. Social networks of the future will divulge a percentage of their profits back to active users. I know because I am building one as we speak. Now that you know my platform's secret, you can race me
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by grapevines 11y ago
Could you please elaborate? I came here to mention that the Soviets built the earliest "balanced Ternary" computers, which is like binary but with a negative digit, which can be much better in high precision arithmetic.
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by grapevines 11y ago
>Giving cars more uninterrupted travel leads to higher speeds and more collisions Not necessarily. In a well-timed system, cars that travel the posted speed limit are indirectly rewarded by not needing to stop. Going too fast or too slow
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by grapevines 12y ago
This is similar to an idea that I've been kicking around. It is basically a arbitrary precision beta-reducer for untyped lambda calculus. I think I theoretically would need a machine that only needs four instructions on a theoretical m