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by kanzure 12y ago
> The solution to the patent system is to abolish it. The whole thing. Here is my proposal for that sort of strategy: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/openmanufacturing/vS4ju1VqXb... Basically the idea is t
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by kanzure 12y ago
> If we started a human-directed breeding program to develop chimps capable of language (arbitrarily chosen marker of intelligence) right now, I would guess we might be able to cut that time down to merely hundreds of thousands of years.
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by kanzure 12y ago
> how hard was it to develop the genes that separate human intelligence from other primates? Well, less than impossibly hard. Here's an interesting spin on this argument: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/ai&
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by kanzure 12y ago
> The key argument is this: proof of work, at the core, can be seen in two different ways Neither of those ways are how anyone describes proof of work. I can offer two explanations. First is the explanation of the Byzantine Generals&#x27
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> I'd much rather move somewhere like Austin or Denver and save $10k in living costs for my business Penny pinching about $10k is completely irrelevant if you are hitting the growth rates that ycombinator is looking for.
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by kanzure 12y ago
Hmm I have a microfluidics SVG library that I have been cooking, I think I will write a converter.
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by kanzure 12y ago
> Docker Issue #1988 is still an issue. These may help: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8326 https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8329
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by kanzure 12y ago
> We really do need to find a better way of authenticating and identifying people What about not doing that at all? Hear me out. Not relying on "identity" would cost many orders of magnitude less. And besides, why should I care
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by kanzure 12y ago
> bucket(hash(experiment, url)) Unfortunately it often seems to be per domain, and not per url. And then you have to factor in backlinks...
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by kanzure 12y ago
> But since Coinbase is claiming 98% of coins are stored offline, that means at least 98% of users aren't using multisig. Almost... you should say instead: "that means at least 98% of coins aren't using multisig" beca
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by kanzure 12y ago
Sounds like you get it. I have some nitpicking to offer. I strongly disagree about the existence of any "fake accounts". All accounts are real accounts, even if they are being used in a Sybil attack. Arguably, the Bitcoin protocol
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by kanzure 12y ago
> You want to give everyone a single vote so that the majority can agree on which transactions are valid and which are not. That's not how Bitcoin works, although I admit it is plausible that you were describing how you would like B
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by kanzure 12y ago
> To say that bitcoin and its sole blockchain hold a monopoly on the future of cryptocurrency-based implementations is like saying in 2006 that LinkedIn was the only social network needed when it was barely leading, and when Facebook, T
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by kanzure 12y ago
> This contradicts our present-day knowledge of cognitive science: probmods.org But nobody was arguing about the infeasibility of approximations of specific human cognitive abilities. Wasn't the conversation about general human cogn
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by kanzure 12y ago
> What about limiting AI to a certain clock rate? Not everyone will make high-cognitive-ability software that follows your clock rate rules. (And I think this is a good thing.)
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by kanzure 12y ago
> They hit 10 petabytes two years ago* - which is 10000 terabytes. Torrents don't really cut it at that scale. I see no reason why torrents couldn't handle this. Data transport through bittorrent still works even with large num
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by kanzure 12y ago
> You could just as well throw out all the expensive cryptographic stuff, send them your transactions and let them manage them in an Excel sheet Hmm, that's not really how these attacks work. When a miner doesn't mine according
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by kanzure 12y ago
Here is the explanation that Satoshi Nakamoto was using (and you should totally read most things written by Lamport): http://web.archive.org/web/20090309175840/http://www.bitcoin... A number of Byzantine
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by kanzure 12y ago
Oh that's interesting, why not just use tags though? One bookmark gets any number of tags, and then you just have to be somewhat consistent about your tag choices. The first few hundred bookmarks are usually tagged poorly, and then aft
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by kanzure 12y ago
GE has a $9k version (Vscan), and Rothberg says he wants to make this for $6k ("1000 times cheaper [than a $6M MRI machine]" is $6k). Is that really a significant improvement? I guess any price competition is good, but I was hopin
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by kanzure 12y ago
> But for OpenNURBS you're getting commercial maturity Commercial maturity like, no tests! :-) see http://files.na.mcneel.com/opennurbs/5.0/2011-11-22/opennurb... How would someone be expected to cont
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by kanzure 12y ago
Hey would you be willing to be pestered for occasional code review for open-source CAD programs? Your particular experience with Parasolid and Solidworks is highly relevant and really lacking in the open-source CAD ecosystem... even if you
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by kanzure 12y ago
> Or are you saying that some OpenCASCADE test are still close sourced? Yes, that's the one I mean. There's even lots of references on the public parts of their bug tracker to these tests. > what would be the motivation behi
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by kanzure 12y ago
Yeah... I've had trouble with the FreeCAD API: This works: Workplane("front").rect(1,1).circle(0.41).extrude(1) This doesn't: Workplane("front").rect(1,1).circle(0.49).extrude(1) Might have be
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by kanzure 12y ago
Note that even if Solidworks or Autocad has a parametric nurbs-based representation of the model, that they still might be storing a bag of triangles as well. I know they definitely store screenshots in the file for quick file icon renderin
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by kanzure 12y ago
BRL-CAD has implemented trimmed curves and surfaces on top of OpenNURBS. Porting that to verbnurbs would not be impossibly difficult.
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by kanzure 12y ago
Well... more like this stuff: http://git.dev.opencascade.org/gitweb/?p=occt.git;a=tree;f=t... And then all the other not included tests.... Btw, the OCE team has done some great work, especially considering what their
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by kanzure 12y ago
I have looked at basically all available open-source CAD kernels, and verbnurbs is the absolute cleanest and most well written I have ever encountered. Verbnurbs beats the pants off OpenCASCADE, OpenNURBS, CGAL, BRL-CAD and a hundred others
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by kanzure 12y ago
> the idea (bookmarks) makes sense but managing them is tedious What sort of bookmark management tasks do you find yourself spending lots of time or effort on?
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by kanzure 12y ago
Hah, excellent question. So, that fastest time was just me typing it up on qwerty. I would be fascinated to hear some suggestions for ground rules. Although.... I'm not the slowest: http://www.seanwrona.com/typeracer&#x

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