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by jpmattia 7y ago
I have no idea why there is not an accurate calibration of polygraphs published. Here's a straightforward calibration: Have the subject write down a random number from 1 to 1024. Perhaps this random number is assigned via a phone app
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> Here's one situation where it is very different. Good god, no it is not different. When the internet bubble collapsed in 2000, it literally bankrupted some people who had been compensated with stock options because of taxes. Ex
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> But to be fair, the wording of amateur radio regulations in many countries suggests that hams should not try to have substantial conversations over the airwaves. But it's worth noting: A lot of that verbiage dates from the Cold
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by jpmattia 7y ago
It's probably worth remembering that WSJ is a Murdoch property. > Three weeks after getting the top job, Ms. Su, a Taiwan-born New Yorker, jetted to Beijing to meet officials at China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technolo
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> This capability is pretty pointless when the bank can indefinitely suspend your ability to make transactions. You beat me to it: Having cryptographically signed transactions simply does not matter when you have to submit the transac
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by jpmattia 7y ago
Fine, add that to my spec sheet above: Need to start your system with requirements about asking permissions? Not decentralized. At some point, we need to recognize that playing games with the system so that Marketing can use the word &quot
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by jpmattia 7y ago
Fine, add that to my spec sheet above: Need to ask an authority for permission to do something within the system? Not decentralized.
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> Can you explain why the ledger being run by ~27 different entities is NOT decentralized? 27 entities? Not decentralized. $10M fee to run a node? Not decentralized. Anyone can run a node from their computer? Decentralized. Blockcha
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by jpmattia 7y ago
Again: A ledger that is not decentralized is a bank database, not a cryptocurrency. As near as I can tell, Zuckbucks are nothing more than the JPMorganCryptocurrency but with a bigger consortium. The only difference seems to be who is giv
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by jpmattia 7y ago
When everyone is an influencer, nobody is.
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The original thread is here: https://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=28684 > and then a bunch of discussion a few months later I remember the board got taken down, but was restored. The shooting was Jul
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> But the crux is that these people are not serious (though I'm sure some are) Some of us distinctly remember the SiliconInvestor boards from long ago: Some wag started a topic on "I need to sell a kidney". Naturally,
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by jpmattia 7y ago
It's hard to see this headline as something other than a result of The Irreproducibility Crisis.
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I don't know if they are even-handed or not, but is there a reason they need to be?
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by jpmattia 7y ago
For all the gnashing of teeth on this thread, I think the bigger point is being missed: Most of the Dropbox post is pitching for collaboration. They have probably recognized that catering to teams has much better revenue growth than mere in
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by jpmattia 7y ago
The link brings us to an article focused on how another article in Quanta Magazine did not summarize an article in Nature correctly. Really, the right thing to do is go directly to the Nature article, and read the abstract. If you've
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> can't begin to imagine how hard it was to diagnose. Yeah, when it happened to me, it completely threw me for a loop. We had reports of corruption in video files, which started the debug cycle. It was shocking when we isolated
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> We've even had cases where there was packet corruption at the bare metal layer, I'd love to know how this happens in the modern world. I've seen it myself only once (not GCP, but our own network with cisco equipment.)
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Venture, PE Investors Warn of Tough `New Normal' with Trade War(bloomberg.com)
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Having been part of the startup community in both Silicon Valley and greater DC, I think this is a much-needed and brilliant effort on the part of YC. I hope it pays off in spades, both for the public and YC. That said: My hat is off to an
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> Woah, I had no idea he designed the Green Building. He famously had problems with wind: The Great Sail was placed in order to break up wind off the Charles, which (by Bernoulli effect) would lock the doors at the bottom of the Gree
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by jpmattia 7y ago
Really? For the CalSTRS example, they issued PR that they bought into the FB IPO, and had also bought into pre-IPO private companies. eg: > CalSTRS has owned shares in Facebook, Inc. since its initial public offering in 2012, as well a
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> He's not doing damage control, he's just being a supreme court judge. As of last week, Rasmussen (a conservative polling firm) was sampling support for impeachment of Kavanaugh. It's possible that Kavanaugh is complete
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> I am surprised Kavanaugh joined the Liberal block on the vote. I'm not. There is a pretty big cloud of illegitimacy over his head. He needs allies in case the next administration encourages some of the proposed inquiries to p
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> There is now the risk that iFinex (who control both Bitfinex and Tether) could be technically insolvent There seems to be a sizable amount of confusion about the difference between insolvency and illiquidity in the tether-watching co
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by jpmattia 7y ago
While we're on the subject of ancient history, Prof Jim Roberge's course on feedback systems (6.302) famously included a final lecture incorporating his love of model trains. The goal of the lecture was that the train should have
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> Most students would be taking one or two of these in 12 - 16 weeks while doing nothing else but being a student. From my experience (at MIT in the 80s and 90s): The usual student takes 3 technical courses and one humanities course p
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by jpmattia 7y ago
IIRC, Sagan specifically mentioned that our radio signals are being beamed out into space (long ago, in the TV series Cosmos.) The probability of decoding NTSC signals (ie, the old SD standard) without prior knowledge is probably going to b
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by jpmattia 7y ago
Most people would define fractional reserve banking" as a bank* that loans out a fraction of its reserves. You are of course free to equate that to "your self-hosted BTC wallet", but I doubt it will gain much traction a
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> If you have 10 BTC in your wallet that says you have 10 BTC, it will always be 10 BTC and available to you. Not if your wallet is held at an exchange, which is why that keyword appears in my comment.

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