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by hazov 14y ago
I post about my beliefs relating to bitcoin/cryptocurrency right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486245 Would love to see much discussion about the topics. Anyway the post (posted 2 hours ago) is not in the front page anymore.
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by hazov 14y ago
Ask the litecoin guys in litecoin forum, they forked bitcoin, they can explain things to you.
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by hazov 14y ago
So this is getting flagged (20 minutes ago it was in the top 30 now it's in the middle of the 70), I have a theory that's mainly by avid bitcoin users. Anyway after the Bitcoin boom I did my research about cryptocurrencies (and after discov
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by hazov 14y ago
A sad demise, this page was part of my Linux using in the early 2000s.
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by hazov 14y ago
Well, for money if it gives advantage for the issuer it's called seigniorage, it's not different than a central banking printing money and reaping the benefits of a hike in the exchange rate. It's very different than IP ranges (which is reg
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by hazov 14y ago
It may not be a Ponzi scheme, but it really gives more power to early adopters (when difficult was much lower), I do not know about it, but is it known if any of the really early adopters cashed out of their bitcoins?
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by hazov 14y ago
My problem with it right now is that it gives too much advantage to early adopters (I have some from some years ago), it always tries to make the situation sounds fair (in the FAQs) but for me it's just a seignoriage with other name. I hate
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by hazov 14y ago
I work with Python but mainly with light statistics (numpy, scipy, pandas and some other libs), SAS is used to work with large datasets (mainly because that's the policy of the bank I work). I do not work with CFD anymore, 5 years ago I lef
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by hazov 14y ago
Numpy uses Lapack, no? With vectorization and compiler optimizations* I doubt pure Python, well CPython running pure Python, would match Fortran and some C open source solvers that are the state of art like Lapack for dense matrices and sup
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by hazov 14y ago
Depends on what you call scientific computing, Continuum Analytics appears to have a data/stats focus (I now work as a statistician and people talks good about their products, I never used them), there I believe Python has the possibility t
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by hazov 14y ago
Ok, I'll give you the benefit of doubt, I'm not angry anymore and realized it was stupid to be in the first place. I'll not enter in a discussion with you here and now, politically I'm very pragmatic, although I'm pretty Conservative (As a
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by hazov 14y ago
I don't believe he went too far, I think he is just trolling. As someone who lost a close friend in a war and who had grandparents who lose relatives because of the Soviets and the Nazis, I think he's just talking bullshit in trying to adva
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by hazov 14y ago
I grew up partly in São Paulo, Brazil (majority of time), and partly in Eilat, Israel (2 and a half years). I studied for 4 years in the USA (for my PhD in Applied Math), and my experience comes from this. The funny thing for me is that I'm
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by hazov 14y ago
I believe it's something about cultural similarity, yes, but for me this relates more with cultural insularity[1], and how each culture relates to each other, much less about characters. [1]: This is a term by anti-americanists against anyt
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by hazov 14y ago
I believe there's more French or Japanese movies in a year than British ones, yet I never saw a French or Japanese movie in the US, even on TV. While there I saw one from NZ and one from Ireland, local production, actors and stuff, it was n
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by hazov 14y ago
You Americans have a real love story with this political correctness thing that I'll never understand, when I say love I mean bashing it. In the past it was the commies, now that they're gone I believe this is a good way of saying why thing
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by hazov 14y ago
Just clarifying, it sucks to type on tablets, world, and a couple of other spelling errors are mainly because of typing in tablets really sucks.
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by hazov 14y ago
I wrote both posts in hurry yesterday, now that I read your points (I read whole threads of your posts) I generally agree with you, I think that maybe elaborating my points would be a bit tedious. I also think "rape paranoia" was too harsh
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by hazov 14y ago
The fact that someone post photos of others to her twitter's followers is also no one's fault but your friend, this along with the dick joke triggered everything, it was a poor decision making just like telling dick jokes in the middle of t
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by hazov 14y ago
Most sexual assault are generally, in any country that publish statistics, committed by people who know the people they would assault, they are "friends", relatives or coworkers. Now I believe you're saying it's fine for a woman to feel thr
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by hazov 14y ago
This is rape paranoia, if you feel that's fine then good for you, as I see it it's no better than racial profiling.
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by hazov 14y ago
If it was a year or two people would still be whining, although with that people would have a couple of time to decide where to go. Having said that I disagree the company has any responsibility, their responsibility is to follow the contra
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by hazov 14y ago
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by hazov 14y ago
Synchronization, I use 5 computers (some with 2 OSs), 2 tablets and a phone for a great quantity of feeds with different frequency of weekly/monthly posts. I do not care how I read these posts but I care to sync them in all these device.
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by hazov 14y ago
> but that seems like a small market Private companies who deals with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and Aerodynamics simulations are companies with deep pockets and who generally pay for a bunch of licenses of these compilers, it's
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by hazov 14y ago
There's a paper that stress how this transformation occurred well before in Germany, specially in Göttingen, named "Klein, Hilbert, and the Göttingen Mathematical Tradition" by David Rowe. It makes a good point in how the changes initiated
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by hazov 14y ago
Some years ago I used to be a intern at the bank I work now, back them I was part of the frumkeit (I was a practicing Orthodox Jew) I got no problem not going work on on a Yom Tov (specific days within holidays in Judaism), I also left earl
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BodyCom turns human body in a medium for short-range communication(technologyreview.com)
5 points by hazov 14y ago|0 comments
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by hazov 14y ago
No, on Windows right now, I'm using the same version and with 9 tabs open I got 512 mb being used for chrome. EDIT: When this happens you can see if VMMap can help you. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd535533.asp...
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by hazov 14y ago
vi or emacs? Not going to happen, these are among the most portable software that exists. About Chrome or FF that's only depends on the developers who use the product, I doubt that Google will ever target Mir, actually I believe that the GT

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