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by kale 10y ago
Cameron steps down in October. A new Prime Minister will then initiate leaving the EU (per Treaty of Lisbon I think). This will take at least two years, possibly longer. The market volatility isn't because they're out of the EU or
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by kale 10y ago
This is a great point. I am gearing up to use a Raspberry Pi in a project for GPIO. It doesn't have to be low-powered necessarily, but the abandonment of the parallel port means that getting GPIO on a PC is more difficult.
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by kale 10y ago
I think it's referring to the fact that you pay to a hash of a public key, but once you do a singe transaction, the public key becomes known. I'm not sure how that's a vulnerability, since the leftover balance is paid to a ne
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by kale 10y ago
Governments used numbers stations over shortwave for years for remote communication. It's not too far-fetched to see the utility of Bitcoin for a government entity. The only problem is that you still need BTC->local currency exchang
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by kale 10y ago
I wouldn't play HL in VR. Headcrabs jumping at your face would be nightmarish. I'm being serious, too. If I'm playing VR, don't go for my face!
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by kale 10y ago
Yeah I was about to say: I've handled large bricks of crosslinked polymers that were likely one molecule, at 1 kg each!
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by kale 10y ago
I looked at building one a couple of years ago before deciding I couldn't afford the equipment to make sure it was safe, but I always had this in the back of my mind: Don't all nuclear reactors use heat as the main output? To driv
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by kale 10y ago
It's the scientific concensus (unless you reject all of the evidence that's out there for the past 15 years). We have multiple receptors in our eyes to do signalling, it's likely that only the S cone cell (low wavelength rece
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by kale 10y ago
Average scores should trend towards the center. I'm not sure if it's an example of the central limit theorem (I think that deals with different distributions tending towards normal), but you'd expect IMDB scores to trend towa
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by kale 10y ago
"Denaturing" means to make the protein take on a different shape, which is all that is necessary (since a prion is the correct amino acids arranged in a pathological arrangement). You can denature proteins with heat or very high o
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by kale 10y ago
I have a great real estate agent. He knew the math equations that HUD used to price their homes at auction, and what percentage of that price they'd take. Our first house (bought in 2008), he suggested that if we waited to make a bid o
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by kale 11y ago
I work in a lab. We can't use our most accurate scales when there's construction going on with heavy machinery within a couple of blocks. This isn't cutting-edge stuff either, it's measuring to 0.001 gram, with a $10k sc
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by kale 11y ago
They use different sweeteners in bottled Diet Coke and fountain Diet Coke. Bottled Diet Coke uses aspartame, while fountain uses a combination (one being AceK, can't remember the other(s)).
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by kale 11y ago
Seems like you'd get a Pi Zero before you'd get a chip. They don't start shipping until June, and I see Zeros in stock for a few seconds (some on Adafruit yesterday, although they sold out in seconds).
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by kale 11y ago
Yeah. I wasn't sure how GMPY was compiled, so I used C with my own compilation of GMP. I bet the flag differences made up the few percentage points. Plus, with each variable being ~10Mb, I was concerned about memory copying (I studied
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by kale 11y ago
Two days ago I took a proof-of-concept project written in Python, using the GMPY2 library (Gnu Multiple Precision library), and ported it to C. My C code was very complicated in order to be fast. Lots of pointer swapping, bit-shifting, etc.
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by kale 11y ago
Could you not levy a tax, and if after x number of years of no tax income, have the state repossess? You could have the tax information as a required document for purchasing land.
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by kale 11y ago
Based on the word Über, which starts with U-umlaut.
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by kale 11y ago
My Athlon 740k is getting old. I really hope Zen comes to market soon. I can't bring myself to buy a chip as a stop-gap with Zen around the corner. I'd upgrade if I could get my hands on an AM4 motherboard. Hopefully we'll se
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by kale 11y ago
I have had one break. It was flooded when a pipe burst in the house near the computer. And the whole CPU didn't break, only part of the memory controller. So for a while I ran an A10-5800K in single channel mode with a single stick of
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by kale 11y ago
ResearchGate seemed nice for a week. It showed every time a paper quoted one of mine, so it was a small confidence boost to know my older stuff is being read. Then they sent an e-mail with pictures of me, and said "are any of these peo
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by kale 11y ago
It's true. The T530 has a socketed CPU. I upgraded mine with the highest performance i7 that was 35W (same as the one I removed) for very little money (net, after I sell the i5).
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by kale 11y ago
Similar situation here. I was diagnosed in my late 20s. I was having marital problems before Ritalin. Inattentiveness can be fatal to a relationship, and my executive function was poor, which put a lot of strain on my wife. In school, with
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by kale 11y ago
I would too! Do you happen to work for Microsoft now? Either in Xbox or Windows division?
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by kale 11y ago
That would still take an eternity. They use special form primes (the big primes are all n+1 or n-1 forms, with n being easy to factor). If a Mersenne Number is prime, then the exponent must also be prime (74,207,281 is also prime). That cut
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by kale 11y ago
If you're talking about storing it in computer memory during calculation, then no, it's written out. The fast MOD operation you list isn't used, it's an FFT using a weight factor that automatically does the mod operation
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by kale 11y ago
Rats are crazy awesome. They're not mice or hamsters or gerbils. They are so much more intelligent and can have a personality. And I'm convinced that hamster personality is a scale of how likely it is to bite you That being said,
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by kale 11y ago
That's the discussion. Technical hurdles appear to be solvable. The core concept should still be sound. It's the political structure around Bitcoin that appear to be killing it. Fixing Bitcoin would be the best solution, but the p
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by kale 11y ago
A lot of that depends on where your house is built. I have a house in an area that can go an entire winter without getting much below 40F. No one builds with "freeze-proof" faucet design, which recesses the valve to the outside wa
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by kale 11y ago
Plex does not have DVR. I only use an antenna, so WMC is my only DVR. I paid extra to have a couple of computers be able to stream TV as well as the 360. Now I'm facing not having any of it work. I guess I'll try MythTV after I ca

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