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by kanzure 10y ago
Tugboats aren't the only option--- you could use on-shore rope wrangling and pulling, you could use sails, you could use focused orbital mirrors to melt ice on one side as a propulsive force... and so on.
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by kanzure 10y ago
How about moving around some ice bergs to areas in need of fresh water? Dassault was working on "Project Ice Dream" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL5blnAH9xw - which centered on tugboats to move ice bergs arou
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by kanzure 10y ago
> Isn't it a good thing to record data that helps solve a murder? You might trust the current custodians of $BACKDOOR, but do you trust all future possible custodians that have dominion over that role? Keep in mind that nothing is t
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by kanzure 10y ago
> The idea that we'll just find one simple magic change and that will vastly reduce aging/senescence is wishful thinking I used to agree with that sentiment. Except a single mutation in a single protein seems to be responsible
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by kanzure 10y ago
"Well-kept gardens die by pacifism" http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/
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by kanzure 10y ago
Also here is is a Dan Boneh cryptography playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9oqNDMzcMClAPkwrn5dm...
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by kanzure 10y ago
> It's not the storage which is the issue, it's the verification. If you are (made up example) JP Morgan, and you've sold $500m in bonds to a mutual fund, both parties know for sure that everything went smoothly if their c
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by kanzure 10y ago
> So what if some of the physics we study is actually not how the universe looked at the start? Could the speed of light have changed because of aliens weaponizing physics in past wars? Yeah I thought all those stars looked suspicious.
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by kanzure 10y ago
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/ https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/10/28/segwit-costs/ https://bitcoincore.org/en/2
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> Compare this to most databases where a sysadmin changes a few values and deletes the logs, no one would be any wiser. To me that screams "use off-site backups with different trust roots not sysadmined by the same sysadmin". I
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by kanzure 10y ago
> I doubt that the majority of dismissive comments come from such an apparently informed perspective as your own. Maybe. You might have to admit that it's pretty funny that out of all the "overly dismissive comments" from
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by kanzure 10y ago
An "attitude" pump, really? :) I was one of the first and most dismissive when bitcoin was released. I'm on record saying "yet another p2p currency piece of crap" one ~day after its January 2009 announcement and rel
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by kanzure 10y ago
Solution is dominant assurance contracts, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract#Dominant_as...
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by kanzure 10y ago
Here are some playlists (not what OP requested): cryptography lectures https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgO7JBj821uGZTXEXBLck... Dan Boneh cryptography lectures https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL
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Scaling Bitcoin 2016 conference transcripts(reddit.com)
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by kanzure 10y ago
Dunno what's in there or whether it's anything at all. sha256 hashes: 51c1773a5645627ae533cf7538334100ae3addd588420af646dbffd8362c0002 hfscmemberdonationsbyparty6101.xls 5bfc9b2a7ceba5050660b13ceb8d50e62d7ef51437a44406f955e
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by kanzure 10y ago
Nanoengineer - open-source nanotech CAD - https://github.com/kanzure/nanoengineer pdfparanoia - remove watermarks from papers (PDFs) - https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia
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by kanzure 10y ago
> Does this company have any 'official' relation to Paxos, the consensus protocol? This sounds like an incredibly unfortunate and potentially misleading name. "Then they join the proud list of all the other poorly named co
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by kanzure 10y ago
High-throughput mapping of single neuron projections by sequencing of barcoded RNA http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/High-throughput%20mapp... Rosetta brains: A strategy for molecularly-annotated connecto
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by kanzure 10y ago
Start here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/src and https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-documentation papers- http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/b
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by kanzure 10y ago
> It would be analogous to telling a physicist trying to provide an explanation for why objects fall to the ground that it might simply turn out to be false that objects fall to the ground at all. It is false. Gravity is not about &quo
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by kanzure 10y ago
> It denies the most fundamental fact of human experience, the existence of that experience itself. How does "saying no to consciousness" deny "the existence of the human experience"? If you were talking about brain d
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by kanzure 10y ago
> Those who make the Very Large Mistake (of thinking they know enough about the nature of the physical to know that consciousness can’t be physical) tend to split into two groups. Members of the first group remain unshaken in their beli
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by kanzure 10y ago
Here are my (tagged) bookmarks, have fun: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/hacker-news/hacker-news-bookmark... Keep in mind that the timestamps are when the bookmark was created, not the timestamp of the page itse
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by kanzure 10y ago
Well, that's one way to solve the problem. However, I think your "religious right" could maybe be convinced to fund space missions to support the survival of the first whoopsie space baby. Some of the major churches pull in a
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by kanzure 10y ago
I rank somewhat high on typeracer: http://www.seanwrona.com/typeracer/profile.php?username=kanz... Maybe I can provide some advice. The most important thing is to type very quickly. Heated real-time chatroom activity (
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by kanzure 10y ago
> Consciousness exists. Science either can explain it, or it cannot. More specifically, people claim the existence of consciousness. It can't be held as an absolute irrefutable by investigation. To do otherwise would be violating
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by kanzure 10y ago
Autonomous self-driving cars are hopefully going to cause the price of LIDAR sensors to go down. Once they get super cheap, sure, load up 10 or 20 LIDAR sensors on anything with wheels.
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by kanzure 10y ago
Here's one (of mine) that removes IP addresses from academic papers: https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia
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by kanzure 10y ago
"Core safety warning"? Note that bitcoin.org is not Bitcoin Core (which has a separate site, bitcoincore.org). See https://bitcoin.org/en/about-us

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