grondilu

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by grondilu 13y ago
As a owner of shares in the stock market, all I can say is that hopefully the first politician who will try to pass such a law will get a bullet in the head.
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by grondilu 13y ago
I'd love the idea of a basic income as a replacement for all the bureaucratic nightmare of various state subsidies and benefits, but we all know this is not what is going to happen. They'll give basic income but soon they'll
993.
by grondilu 13y ago
I'm confused. Is he the Leslie Lamport I'm thinking of, the one who created LaTeX? If so, I'm very surprised to learn that he works for Microsoft.
994.
by grondilu 13y ago
Can someone make a TL;DR and tell us what number he came out with in final?
995.
by grondilu 13y ago
I knew it was his real name. I'm pretty sure I called it on bitcointalk.org (I'm grondilu there) and I was pretty much the only one who thought it was his real name.
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by grondilu 13y ago
> You can't even say if one human surpassed other human in intelligence, how are you gonna measure machine? It's not because something is difficult to measure that it does not exist(1). Even if you don't believe in IQ tes
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by grondilu 13y ago
Well, it's important because it reminds people that anyone can create his own cryptocurrency. When shares of big companies will be exchanged with a cryptocurrency-like protocol, then we'll be in business.
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by grondilu 13y ago
Wow indeed it is not mentioned. I was sure I had read about it there. I was wrong. My bad.
999.
by grondilu 13y ago
« The A-Series APUs are available today. » It's nice to read a tech article about a new tech that is available now , and not in an unknown point in the future.
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by grondilu 13y ago
I don't use the last four of the features you're mentioning, but I can confirm indeed that syntax highlighting can make things terribly slow with large files and/or complex languages (I'm a Perl 6 guy), so yeah if multi-
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by grondilu 13y ago
Nakamoto designed script to be non-Turing complete from the very beginning (it was mentioned in his white paper). I suspect it was for security reasons. You don't want arbitrary complex code running on miners machine. At the very le
1002.
by grondilu 13y ago
Well, the good news is that there will probably never be a "bitcoin standard". The gold standard consisted in Nations basically enforcing the convertibility of currencies into gold (or indirectly into dollars, which were converti
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by grondilu 13y ago
Rred the abstract, was about to call it BS, then I realized this was written by Max Tegmark! So definitely worth reading carefully.
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by grondilu 13y ago
Wasn't it one of the first course of this kind? (I'm talking about the first edition, since it was renewed recently) If so, that would explain a lot, as people were attracted to novelty.
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by grondilu 13y ago
« The project is not open source and is planned to be a commercial IDE. » Not saying there's anything wrong with that, but it's worth emphasizing, imho.
1006.
by grondilu 15y ago
As Linden Dollar? Really!?
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by grondilu 15y ago
I would definitely not be willing to pay my rent directly in bitcoins. It is much more interesting to pay in silly worthless fiat governmental currency.
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by grondilu 15y ago
You CAN short it. 1. borrow some bitcoins on #bitcoin-otc 2. sell them on MtGox 3. wait for the rate to decrease 4. buy som bitcoins at a now very low rate 5. pay back your debt 6. profit