karl_gluck

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by karl_gluck 7y ago
Well, here it is. This is the straw that broke the camel's back for me: I've finally been motivated to switch my browser default to Duck Duck Go.
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by karl_gluck 8y ago
If you abstract quantum-entangled particles to a communication channel with zero latency, you still have the consensus problem—you just run into the edge cases less frequently. So it would help, but consensus is still a fundamental challeng
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by karl_gluck 8y ago
Is anyone else surprised at the relatively mild reaction to this result here on Hacker News? Only a couple dozen comments, and many are addressing other topics. Can we take a second to appreciate that this result will rapidly become the fir
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by karl_gluck 8y ago
Conservation is tricky. One can usually make the argument that things will probably fine without <insert species> or that dumping a little more <insert environmental toxin> won't cause immediate disaster. But have you ever
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by karl_gluck 9y ago
Security can be extremely simple and efficient when you just have to trust a third party. The author is describing Linked Timestamping [1], which has been detailed since the early 90's. Removing the need for trust is what takes all the
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by karl_gluck 11y ago
You're right, I must have misread the original article while composing my response. This is what I was remembering: "Taken together, the impact of peat fires on global warming can be more than 200 times greater than fires on other
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by karl_gluck 11y ago
Come on, that's incredibly disingenuous. Of course it's not terrible to improve the atmosphere. But you're making it sound like all methods are equivalent; when there are limited resources to address the problem, they need to
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by karl_gluck 11y ago
That's a great resource! Thanks :)
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by karl_gluck 11y ago
If anyone's interested, there is a Reddit post explaining this and an interactive demo from 2 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1dlwc4/procedural_... http://tinykeep.co
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by karl_gluck 11y ago
Nothing to see here. It appears to just be a bug with blockchain.info that some opportunistic person decided to try to spin as news. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3frht4/satoshi_nak...
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by karl_gluck 11y ago
Also FYI to anyone trying this out -- this app gives you no warning or prompt before following hundreds of accounts on your behalf. I went through the FTUE and the first thing I saw was "You followed <rapidly increasing number> o
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by karl_gluck 11y ago
I've said it before and here it is again: Microsoft was in a position of arguably less control in the late 90's and got a huge antitrust case brought against them. Apple is somehow getting away with wildly anticompetitive behavi
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
No, his reasoning probably isn't. But without putting words in his mouth, there is this quasi-religious "thou shalt not talk about cryptography" attitude among programmers like crypto is literally voodoo magic. The appeal to
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
First time I saw it, I'm glad it got reposted. This is really cool.
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
Wow, Godwin's law struck hard and fast. Was that reference really necessary?
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
You always have the option of exempting yourself from the claim, citing this case as precedent and suing them yourself.
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
Definitively: Yes! Everyone has their own preferences. Like you, I lose interest in puzzles after a few minutes. Whatever it is that gives some people great satisfaction out of finding that one missing piece, I didn't get it. I can&#x2
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
That's exactly my point -- (editing clarification) that the Copyright Act does not consider this fair use. From the article you referenced, "A key consideration is the extent to which the use is interpreted as <transformative&g
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet: why is imgur allowed to use copyrighted material to promote this new feature? I'm pretty certain they didn't get permission to use those clips from Tron or Star Wars. Does the fact
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
The argument is actually fairly simple: behaviors that have been known to cause fraudulent or deceptive activity in the past are placed under more scrutiny or outright banned. For example, it becomes quite easy to hide fraud when a single e
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
That's their decision. You don't have to make it easy for them--especially if they are going to be your competitors. For a motivated big company, cold hard cash isn't as hard to come by as you might think. As for now, the onl
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
It's what we "agree" to. As in, we have no other choice. They could write a clause that said your third child must be named Macintosh and everyone would "agree" to it because there is no other option. That does not
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
Besides the fact that his public goodwill and expertise is valuable, Anand has been behind the scenes at many of Apple's competitors. His extensive knowledge of the competition's 4-year product timeline is well worth whatever extr
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
For what it's worth, I signed up and connected Facebook and got 0 STR. Something broke, but now they have all my FB data so that's fun. It's funny to me that even though I doubt Stellar will be more than a flash in the pan (d
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
Solving these issues was a fun challenge when I built a project similar to this a few years ago. It's one of the few things I've built that I use every single day. My project, Cryptasia (www.cryptasia.com), uses a Google Spreadshe
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
This is really amazing; on the desktop, the site looks fantastic and it is very interesting to browse. I learned way more about his travel history than probably necessary due to sheer interest. That said, it is completely unusable on the ph
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by karl_gluck 12y ago
I've written a short, simple web implementation if you're interested in the math behind this: http://karlgluck.github.io/ThresholdJS/
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by karl_gluck 13y ago
Or, you can make an actual simple Soylent alternative and do what I do: - 8 oz Silk unsweetened original coconut milk - 2 scoops (servings) of powdered Slimfast - 1 Nature's Way Alive! Women's Multivitamin - 8-10g (about 1 tbsp) o
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by karl_gluck 13y ago
It is important to know that this scheme is NOT foolproof without further evidence. If one or more depositors are collaborating with the exchange owner, the owner can simply not include their balance in the "proof", but make an ag

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