imaginenore

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by imaginenore 9y ago
Almost any state is capable of spending a few billion dollars and making a >50% attack (assuming they can buy enough ASICs), no matter how good your crypto is. There are much cheaper ways to bring something like Bitcoin to its knees. DDo
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by imaginenore 9y ago
I can't believe Wonder Woman got 92%. It was one of the worst superhero movies I have ever seen. The dumbest story and the plot, the dumbest dialogue, subpar action and CGI, very mediocre acting. There are a few okay jokes in it, I a
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by imaginenore 9y ago
It's not really a vulnerability. Miners don't have an incentive to destroy the currency with a >50% attack, they are heavily invested in it.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Yes, in your case it's "whoever accepts the dollar". Huge difference /s
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by imaginenore 9y ago
I'd argue more, according to your definitions, the "fundamental value" of the dollar (which you conveniently didn't specify) relies on violence (as in, pay up of guys with guns will put you in prison). Whereas the fundam
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Ok, then the fundamental value of 1BTC is 1BTC, since it allows you to pay of 1BTC of any liability to whoever accepts Bitcoin.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Do you realize Bitcoin is accepted in orders of magnitude more places (as in physical stores) than gold as a direct method of payment? And then Bitcoin is accepted in tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of online stores. Also only something
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by imaginenore 9y ago
"Digital currencies have no fundamental value" That argument never made any sense to me. What's the fundamental value of $1? People assign value to all things based on how desirable they are (the demand). There are rare exc
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Your argument is more absurd. Toll roads don't have a mechanism to identify and stop the rapists.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
If you can solve it at all for even 50x50 would mean a revolution in certain algorithmic fields.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
It's currently solved for up to N=27 Both 26 and 27 solutions came from supercomputers/FPGAs and took months of compute time. http://www.nqueens.de/sub/WorldRecord.en.html
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by imaginenore 9y ago
It's Status-6, and it's not necessarily real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyon
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by imaginenore 9y ago
That's not a convincing argument. Whatever is shown to us doesn't work well. From 2 months ago: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-missile-defense-test-fails-...
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by imaginenore 9y ago
None of the countries have a technology that can reliably stop a modern ICBM, let alone 7000 warheads simultaneously that Russia has. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ballistic_missile#Current...
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by imaginenore 9y ago
"It constitutes yet another breach of the universally accepted norm against nuclear testing" The norm is toothless though. If a country wants nukes, they just have to suffer through the economic sanctions by a few countries. NK
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by imaginenore 9y ago
It's not clear from the text how they deal with the severe production bugs. By the time the bug is found, the master branch is full of new code. So your bugfix has to deploy with all that new code? And with so many people checking in t
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by imaginenore 9y ago
That's rich, considering Google just fired a guy for an internal memo full of apologies and facts backed by citations.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
It's 3£, which is $3.88. For a 600mAh battery. You can buy an 8-pack of 2800mAh batteries (each) for $15 on Amazon. So the manufacturer is definitely making money. The recycling part is potentially interesting. Whoever figures out how
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by imaginenore 9y ago
We could build a second detector, sync their clocks, separate them, and measure the speed directly.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Then you have to merge them on every read (after any modification).
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Some of which must be cold/hot wallets for large projects, like exchanges, police-seized stashes, investment funds, the proposed ETFs. So it's not that bad. And it's not like Bitcoin has been some secretive project for the su
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by imaginenore 9y ago
They were supposed to attempt to land/rescue some other part of the rocket this time. There was nothing about it in the webcast.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
That's on average. You can double-triple it for peak.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Why would you remove all the context, and then publish all this drama, clearly blaming the guy, and making him look horrible? Isn't that against your own CoC?
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Various Reddit subs.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Browsers seem to be converging. It's quite obvious that they will all implement next JS standards, with some experiments here and there. They will add API access to more hardware like VR helmets, controllers, maybe even USB devices (wh
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Burning wood becomes carbon-neutral only after you grow that amount of wood (and in dry weight).
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by imaginenore 9y ago
> The speed was 24mph No way. It was 24 km/second.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
I said without knowing the seed, so f(1) is not public, only f(n) formula is.
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by imaginenore 9y ago
Can you crack this PRNG without knowing the seed? f(1) = 1 // seed f(n) = sha512(f(n-1) . f(1))

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