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511.
by maaku 11y ago
You are not a sovereign state.
512.
by maaku 11y ago
1) The number of greek bond holders is numerous, obviously. I named the banks I thought people would know. There's a reason I tacked "et al" at the end. Any guesses why France is the strongest supporter of Germany in the Troi
513.
by maaku 11y ago
Not to mention what is actually happening here -- publicizing private debts. Why should European taxpayers be on the hook for risky bets made by Deutschebank et al? That's what's really going on here. Nearly all of the bail out fu
514.
by maaku 11y ago
BIP 66 changed the definition of validity. These blocks are fully invalid.
515.
by maaku 11y ago
Past tense.
516.
by maaku 11y ago
Well let's see: development of motor skills, physical exercise, development of a reality-based sense of consequences, ability to feel embodied cause and effect, chances for ad-hoc social interaction with other kids, truly open-ended po
517.
by maaku 11y ago
Except the argument doesn't hold water. There is a difference between playing with toy blocks or virtual blocks. The toy blocks develop physical skills, and teaches physical experimentation. The virtual blocks develops keyboard/ga
518.
by maaku 11y ago
Playing with blocks is a far better thing to do than playing with virtual blocks.
519.
by maaku 11y ago
> Video games can be good. I challenge you to show me a way in which video games can be optimally good. Not just better than some carefully selected bad alternative, but better than any alternative. As in, actually a good thing to do o
520.
by maaku 11y ago
What ordering? BIP 66 isn't about ordering. It's about the validity non-DER signature encoding.
521.
by maaku 11y ago
The wallets are still vulnerable to future forks of the same nature. It is not a 1% profit boost. It is a ~1% revenue boost, and mining is a very thin profit margin business. 1% revenue can be 10-20% profit. Furthermore, that gives an edge
522.
by maaku 11y ago
Dylan's approach works because it has lisp at its core.
523.
by maaku 11y ago
You really need to know the position of an aircraft to a thousandth of a second?
524.
by maaku 11y ago
The rockets are pre-paid. The purchaser gets insurance for the payload to cover their loss.
525.
by maaku 11y ago
Yes, they're called reasons.
526.
by maaku 11y ago
Under kilometers of ice? A non-issue.
527.
by maaku 11y ago
Care to comment on the actual article?
528.
by maaku 11y ago
The damage is to the serenity enjoyed by the people hiking or horseback riding, not the trail itself.
529.
by maaku 11y ago
Slight correction: "Elements" is the collection of changes to bitcoin that are being worked on as part of this umbrella effort, "Alpha" is the name of the (first) developer block chain to demonstrate these features.
530.
by maaku 11y ago
You be fair too. The instance-of-computation model of personal identity allows for cells of your brain to come and go, but as long as the whole thing is operating continuously, you remain. It is exactly analogous to my car example.
531.
by maaku 11y ago
Well there is some hope for a technical miracle in things like Freicoin . But very limited hope given the scale of the issue and the power of entrenched wealth... http://freico.in/
532.
by maaku 11y ago
Another strawman. No one is claiming that identity is tied to the molecules that make up the body, even in aggregate. There's a sense in which a car remains the same car even after continuing comprehensive maintenance has replaced ever
533.
by maaku 11y ago
It matters to the person who is now dead and not living on in the machine.
534.
by maaku 11y ago
No, there are plenty of perfectly reasonable physical theories for the nature of consciousness that don't equate identity with memories and don't involve souls. There's no reason to resort to dualism. For example, there is th
535.
by maaku 11y ago
I agree. But the further implication is that for the same reasons, if your brain is plasticised and later scanned and turned into an uploaded whole-brain emulation, you'd still be dead. Uploading is not a pathway to personal longevity,
536.
by maaku 11y ago
Let's say that I a suitably advanced fMRI is developed that is able to map out the connectome non-destructively, I use this device on you to create a copy of your mental state, and then let you go about your day. At some point later I
537.
by maaku 11y ago
That's obvious to me, but I've learned that it's not obvious to everybody. It's an instance of the mind projection fallacy that your or I think that is a simple obvious truth but others think the opposite is just as intu
538.
by maaku 11y ago
Note that this approach should be compared with cryonics, which attempts to vitrify the brain and preserve it in a glass-like state at liquid nitrogen temperatures: http://www.alcor.org/ Personally I have some reservations
539.
by maaku 11y ago
If you are pro-patent protection, the FSF already released something radically different.
540.
by maaku 11y ago
Them be true words. (I'm a santa clara valley native) San Diego is even better.

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