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by maaku 12y ago
Volatility means that sometimes you make money on the float as well.
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by maaku 12y ago
Bitcoin. When that is not an option, I use a bank that has zero foreign transaction fees, and refunded ATM fees. First Republic Bank's ATM refund account, in my case.
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by maaku 12y ago
SQLAlchemy isn't like most ORMs. It's data model is actually closer to the relational model than OOP objects, and therefore lacks many of the ORM warts. I wish more ORMs were like SQLAlchemy.
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by maaku 12y ago
The problem was SQL got standardized, and became static. There is so much room for innovation in the database language space, but that would mean breaking compatibility with the SQL standards...
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by maaku 12y ago
It's totally unreasonable, even as a starting offer. These guys just signaled that they are not serious people.
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by maaku 12y ago
The point I was trying to make is that bitcoin achieves very specific decentralization and security properties, properties which your system trades off. Your consensus mechanism may solve a problem, but it's not the same problem as b
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by maaku 12y ago
Go to a book store.
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by maaku 12y ago
jaekwon, you've yet to convince many people that your solution does in fact work.
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by maaku 12y ago
I'm in the same boat -- same username as HN, but facebook login isn't working.
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by maaku 12y ago
Who would bother to observe testnet?
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by maaku 12y ago
> Model 三 Cute.
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by maaku 12y ago
It is not clear that notion of free will is even a consistent concept however. E.g. free will is perfectly explained as what a deterministic decision process feels like from the inside.
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by maaku 12y ago
Speed != efficiency. Some of the tricks snappy uses e.g. not compressing at all, are not that interesting theoretically.
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by maaku 12y ago
Because you don't notice the effects of radiation until it is way way way too late
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by maaku 12y ago
Worked for Genghis Khan.
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by maaku 12y ago
Depends on the what the software does.
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by maaku 12y ago
Who are are talking about?
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by maaku 12y ago
Wtf does being American have to do with anything? And no, it doesn't make a lick of difference. The given situation was a fighter pilot who shot down a commercial airliner under orders later at some point in his career being given a me
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by maaku 12y ago
That's a very narrow minded position. Gosh I hope you never screw up even once, cause you'll never live it down.
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by maaku 12y ago
Gold is the typical store of value asset, and the story there is very similar.
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by maaku 12y ago
Bitcoin (the currency) is a terrible medium of exchange. It may make for a decent store of value. Are you sure you're using those terms correctly? Bitcoin (the protocol) is awesome for payments. But that is a separate issue from the mo
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by maaku 12y ago
Let me know how it goes.
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by maaku 12y ago
That's an example of infinite or unbounded utility functions: no matter how many specks of dust in the eye, it will never add up to a single person being tortured for 50 years. Even 3^^^^^^^^^^^3 specks of dust. Unfortunately the mathe
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by maaku 12y ago
In some cases, yes. If you accept utilitarianism as the the reductive explanation of morality, and assume some non-controversial terminal values, then all of morality is reduced to straight-forward calculations. "The only way to rect
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by maaku 12y ago
MIRI is the continuation of SIAI which predates (and started) LessWrong.
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by maaku 12y ago
> This is nonsense. It's an article posted to a curated community blog by some guy who happens to like reading tons of psychology papers and wanted to do some research into the state of scientific understanding of happiness... ...an
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by maaku 12y ago
> Yudkowsky is also a prominent researcher of a variety of artificial intelligence topics which is enhancing the field. Primarily he focuses not on developing a Strong AI (AGI), but rather focusing on safety issues that such a technology
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by maaku 12y ago
It's analogous to saying that "most people believe the world is flat. the burden is really on you to show that the world is really round." Which is true. But requires a willingness to counter one's own intuition when enc
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by maaku 12y ago
Assumed independence. You are talking about a strictly different setup. Assume that these individuals don't know each other.
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by maaku 12y ago
> and their annoyance can't be simply added together Why not? EDIT: Serious question. If I save two lives that is twice as good as saving one, right? Why is this situation different?

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