loqi

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by loqi 14y ago
It's hard to design a proof-of-work scheme that is both secure and performs "useful" work.
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by loqi 14y ago
> I bet someone wrote something equivalent to InclinedPlane's comment about it at one time Doubtful, because an equivalent statement would sport an equivalent truth value for an equivalent statement of support. Substitute "aether theory
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by loqi 14y ago
Weak argument for obviousness: As I understand it, the basic idea is to use a copying GC that pins everything pointed to by stack or registers. I had the same idea earlier this week, after spending a few days' spare cycles thinking about GC
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by loqi 14y ago
I know it was probably just a figure of speech, but I'll take that bet. If, one year from now, some huge Wall Street-esque conspiracy to pump Bitcoin has been exposed, I pay you $115 (1 BTC's worth of USD at the current rate). If no such co
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by loqi 14y ago
You can also get type signatures non-interactively with ghc's -ddump-types flag.
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by loqi 14y ago
{"follows": ["ben", "billy-jo", "anon"] ,"message-counts": {"billy-jo-ben": 2}} At a glance, is the order of follows relevant? Should it be preserved? Is "anon" the same kind of thing as "ben" or "billy-jo"? Is the key in mess
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by loqi 14y ago
That's the most unfortunate Python 3 change I've seen. I use byte codecs like hex, zlib, and base64 quite a bit more than text codecs. In Python 2, a programmer with forward-compatible habits can write from __future__ import unicode_lit
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by loqi 15y ago
Potential silver lining: http://blog.sethroberts.net/2011/02/25/the-baltimore-shipyar...