kobeya

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by kobeya 9y ago
Interesting. It is also a not uncommon last name.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Nefertiti is as beautiful today as she was 3300 years ago. It's not possible to say the same about a tech design? I'm sure the Cray-1 will be as iconic and beautiful 1000 years from now as it was when it was introduced. Also, sinc
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by kobeya 9y ago
I don’t understand. Design can’t be beautiful?
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It is explicitly named in the article.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I’m not sure “That way you can choose your favorite programming paradigm early on in your career” is the intended or even desireable result.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The etymology of the word (think deserted island) would imply it has more to do with the lack of life than the reason for a lack of life.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Depends on the destination. Try Sydney, for example.
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It could stop in Hawaii.
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GP was explaining why it was expensive.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> hurts international trade, and ultimately that can end up badly for everyone over the long term, even if it brings some short term benefit The jury's out on this one. The effects international free trade can have on existing indus
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by kobeya 9y ago
Unfortunately they aren't running together. They run entirely separated in isolated subsystems with no way to communicate between the two. The GUI makes them seem more integrated than they actually are.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It does no such thing. If the miner is not paying for the electricity, then they can costlessly use it to attack the main chain. This lowers security.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The amount of on chain transactions supported by a global mining network is fixed. You can’t just keep adding side chains or else you will run into the same scaling limits.
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by kobeya 9y ago
That didn’t really have a bearing on the tulip mania.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The supply argument isn’t any different from Tulips in the mercantile Netherlands back in the day. This is coming from a bitcoin enthusiast that loves the technology.
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Banks and hedge funds are not blocked from buying bitcoin.
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by kobeya 9y ago
To be clear, sidechain transactions are just transactions on another chain. I wouldn’t call that off chain as it actually introduces more transactions (to move across the peg).
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by kobeya 9y ago
Bitcoin script allows you to specify more complex conditions for settlement than a digital signature by a single key. For example let’s say we first lock coins into a condition that both your key and mine are required to spend. Then I “send
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by kobeya 9y ago
Those numbers are settlements, not transactions. Bitcoin has no transaction cap as most transactions can be moved off chain.
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by kobeya 9y ago
*shell forks
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by kobeya 9y ago
I believe he is referencing the fact that "whale falls" (the ecosystem that subsists for decades on the corpse of a whale that died and sank in deep water) move the mass of the whale to the deep ocean, where it typically doesn&#x2
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by kobeya 9y ago
Needing a program that returns true comes up more often than just shell scripting. For example, maybe a system reports an event by launching a named executable. Specifying /bin/true is the equivalent of redirecting that event to &
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by kobeya 9y ago
She’ll forks are expensive. Very expensive. Of course the system could have special cased a zero length executable file.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Which is, actually, far too large due to the standard library, program state initialization, and stack frame management. If there's ever a practical use for code golf, this is probably it. /bin/true should be a bare minimum E
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by kobeya 9y ago
> One of the key features of human intelligence is being able to very quickly understand and solve problems on first impression, Try that with an infant and see how far you get.
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There isn't a blanket reason why it wouldn't be. In a particular case it's up to the judge, and the judge's decision probably depends on the quality of the experts that can be found to explain it.
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by kobeya 9y ago
As an insurance company, how can you possibly value and determine adequate premiums for a potentially unlimited policy?
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by kobeya 9y ago
So users must scan the entire block chain to maintain their balance. Note that this is a stronger requirement than bitcoin has! A similar amount of data needs to be synced for on bitcoin to see if the inputs were spent, but not to make a tr
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by kobeya 9y ago
Also in some cases (e.g. many conferences) you can know who the list of reviewers are. Just look up the program committee. Only a subset reviews your paper submission, but with the field of possible reviewers constrained to 10-12 people you
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by kobeya 9y ago
How do you "scan all spends from that epoch" with having those spends ("the data")? You essentialy just said: "It's not holding all the data though, you just have to have all the data." ...? As I pointed o

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