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by gritzko 15y ago
A regional news agency says the project is in "research stage", not greenlighted yet. http://vostokmedia.com/n113027.html
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Microsoft is to open Skype cyphers to FSB (to ease wiretapping)(translate.google.com)
1 points by gritzko 15y ago|1 comments
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by gritzko 15y ago
That was the peak of P2P as a buzzword...
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Yandex IPO raises $1.3 bn(online.wsj.com)
28 points by gritzko 15y ago|3 comments
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by gritzko 15y ago
http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~victor/bitcoin.html Canned response: Bitcoin is only "peer-to-peer" in the sense of the British Peerage system. Early-comer-wins, that's the only advantage I see (for early comers). Bitcoin does not capitali
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by gritzko 15y ago
Heh. During WWII, SU made 100,000 tanks, US made 100,000, Germany made 50,000. Guess who won. Germans did not even had their own iron; they pulled their supplies from Sweden. When entering a room, look for elephants first :)
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BitCoin?(pds.ewi.tudelft.nl)
2 points by gritzko 15y ago|0 comments
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by gritzko 15y ago
Finding out whether an address can spend a coin is just a hashtable lookup. Trying to follow your perspective. You likely assume that every node has a dossier tracking every single coin. That dossier is summarized as a hash table. Right?
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by gritzko 15y ago
So, the claim of being P2P goes to the wind first :) Second. When accepting a coin, a node needs to check the coin was not spent since the last time it changed hands. If the buyer claims he got it 1 month ago (and shows a proof), then the s
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by gritzko 15y ago
Technically, BitCoin is hardly scalable. As every participant needs to be aware of every transaction, that gives O(N^2) computational/storage cost, assuming N is participants and transactions~participants. May be cured by a dedicated centra
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by gritzko 16y ago
Yep, that's how the evolution works. Understanding stuff is how the progress works.
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by gritzko 16y ago
More like: semantically correct merge requires AI. Technical correctness, whatever the definition is, may be achieved algorithmically.
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Google Docs got tweets(googleblog.blogspot.com)
3 points by gritzko 16y ago|1 comments
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by gritzko 16y ago
> Speaking of jumping to conclusions: Germany just started to shut down 7 nuclear power plants because of Fukushima... 100% pure green hysteria. ~10.000 died because of the tsunami. Who died because of Fukushima? None so far.
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by gritzko 16y ago
It must have been some "popular" article. 99% of things I consume are classic hardcore CS papers in the classic LaTeX>PDF format. I don't see how somebody might edit such articles without being an expert in the field.
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by gritzko 16y ago
FOSDEM is also a good example of how things could be organized.
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by gritzko 16y ago
I am a Russian citizen living in EU. I generally avoid trips to US. BTW, me and some of my colleagues, postdocs or PhD students, had to go through the infamous TAL (technology alert list) checks. What it practically means: 1) you are a citi
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A student describes a perfect smartphone in 2006 (starts at 55m 5s)(video.google.com)
1 points by gritzko 16y ago|0 comments
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by gritzko 16y ago
Manipulation is simpler and pays better.
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by gritzko 16y ago
From what I can say regarding CS conferences, ACM just rubberstamps and pockets the money. At one recent conference, the organizer addressed the concerns about high fees saying something like "well, most of it went to ACM, so we may hypothe
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by gritzko 16y ago
Kickbacks was the first thing I thought of.
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by gritzko 16y ago
He is just having fun :)
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by gritzko 16y ago
So, no practical difference from any regular client at the moment.
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by gritzko 16y ago
One big question: did it work for you? Did you download/watch something?
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by gritzko 16y ago
Regarding contractors I might say that their multimedia-related code (ie the in-browser audio/video player) is done by Kaltura, an external contractor. http://kaltura.com Penny counting is a bit too much, folks should be paid properly. Bu
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by gritzko 16y ago
Technically, Wikipedia is a PHP+MySQL wiki with an echeloned cache system (squid). http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers They currently try to expand into video, but IMO there are some bottlenecks of social nature. The current
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by gritzko 16y ago
Yep, they have huge expansion plans. At the peak of their growth (circa 2006) they had ~4 employees. Currently I think they have ~40, expanding to 80, projecting 180 in some future. The 40>80>180 plan was announced at Wikimania'10,
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by gritzko 16y ago
Netherlands is a really rainy country. Still, bikes are extremely popular, like the average is 2 bikes per person. The typical commute scheme is (1) bike to the station, then (2) train (trains are good, really good), then (3) another bike t
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by gritzko 16y ago
Well, a friend of mine writes software for mainframes. Says, the platform has two advantages: customers are totally locked in and there are enormous possibilities for kickbacks (no market => no fair price => case-by-case pricing =&#
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by gritzko 16y ago
In the current circumstances, attracting investors by tax breaks is a bit naive. Staggering amounts of money are simply getting stolen. see e.g. http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2010/04/01/...

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