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by kobeya 9y ago
Particles absolutely interact as points as well as as waves. Neither model captures their behavior accurately. They are a wave-particle thingie and that’s just what reality is.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Why do you say that's likely? The data points otherwise.
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by kobeya 9y ago
No they’ve been calling just about everyone operating in their jurisdiction. Many ‘reputable’ ICOs have halted their fundraising as a result of phone calls their lawyers received from the SEC. They’ve only filed suits agains the obvious sca
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by kobeya 9y ago
> To be fair, the SEC losing their patience with ICOs and turning on the whole sector would do it. They are already doing just that in the last couple of months, and bitcoin remains unaffected.
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by kobeya 9y ago
That says more about the weirdness of our intuitions than reality. Reality is not weird. We are.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Technically nothing has "size" in the sense that you are intuitively defining it to be. All matter in the universe is collections of point-like (but also wave-like) particles without defined shape. It'd be totally fair to thr
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by kobeya 9y ago
I think it was done first, and probably better, in Flowers for Algernon.
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by kobeya 9y ago
No because the checksums are cached in ram and not verified against the disk when an error occurs.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Certainly we've seen a lot more quality problems recently than we are used to seeing from Apple, even in first releases of a new system. This is bad for users and bad for the brand. However I wouldn't say all of these are terrible
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by kobeya 9y ago
https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide
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by kobeya 9y ago
I think that’s what he’s saying?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Then all the money would go to investors.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Oh, interesting tidbit from the Trump campaign: they had literally thousands of variants of a political ad made, changing timing, what images or overlays were shown, different voiceover tracks, etc. If a cable network would let them stream
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by kobeya 9y ago
The scary turning point in history is when political science became an actual science, with predictive models and falsifiable theories. Once the political scientists had that, the electorate no longer owned their government.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Hrm, maybe I should explain. “Hot button issue” is actually a technical term in political science that has a relevant meaning here. One of the great quantitative results that has come out of political science in the last half century is the
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by kobeya 9y ago
Internet neutrality is not a hot button issue for most of the voting demographic, nor should it arguably be. Definitely an upper middle class problem.
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by kobeya 9y ago
An acqui-hire is still an acquisition. It doesn’t work any different. Investor collects their preferences as part of the deal.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Was this ever not the case?
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by kobeya 9y ago
WTF? Seriously? This kind of thinking doesn't help anybody. A more reasonable solution: agree to the return in 50 years time. That provides sufficient time for even a reasonably funded small team to study the problem, design solutions
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by kobeya 9y ago
It was originally transported when those feathers were relatively fresh. Now they are 500 years old. Feathers aren't meant to survive that long and remain structurally sound. When Tutankhamun's tomb was found, there were these bea
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by kobeya 9y ago
Moving it a few meters in a controlled environment is vastly different from moving it a few thousand kilometers though turbulent air, choppy sea, and stop-and-go city traffic.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Replying to myself. There are some use cases though, and in fact my comment points to one of them. Xmonad configurations are themselves Haskell code, and Xmonad does dynamic code reloading to make configuration changes without having to log
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by kobeya 9y ago
Yes, in fact. Part of my job too. We have servers accessed through Tor as a rudimentary DoS protection.
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by kobeya 9y ago
There's examples in the article I linked to. (FWIW finding any at all, let alone the half dozen or so found in the last few years is "a lot" given the minuscule priors involved.)
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by kobeya 9y ago
In the US at least the law cannot devolve into suspicion being adequate burden of proof. This is a constitutional protection that has been strengthened, not weakened by the courts over time, with only infrequent temporary setbacks. It'
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by kobeya 9y ago
> Once you start using Tor and public Wifi, you admit that what you're doing is illegal. Thankfully that’s not how law works. Also, I use Tor everyday, for totally legal things I want to keep private.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Why would you need to? GHCi supports dynamic code reloading which most people do during development. During runtime there’s not so much of a use case though for most people.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I’m in the static camp myself, but there are dynamic language JIT runtimes that meet or exceed the performance of many static languages.
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by kobeya 9y ago
You mean like this: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hotswap Or this: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dyre
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by kobeya 9y ago
I know. It was sarcasm.

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