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by maaku 10y ago
That site is bollocks. "But it's slow and blocks!" is not a reason to use a real entropy source.
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by maaku 10y ago
Cosmic background radiation as observed by a sensor connected to the computer is not random. All I'd need to mess with the randomness is to put a focused radiation source near the device. Sampling randomness from the environment surrou
93.
by maaku 10y ago
take files
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by maaku 10y ago
I've been following this program since the beginning and I'm very excited. This could be the future of high speed air travel -- because it could reverse laws against overland travel.
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by maaku 10y ago
s/compromise/comprise/
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by maaku 10y ago
Read the article.
97.
by maaku 10y ago
>., Japan, Korea, Taiwan are the same thing as China. Hahahaha nope.
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by maaku 10y ago
They are exclusive at this time. We have entirely exhausted the capacity for on chain scaling. There are technologies that might improve that situation, but until they are tested we cannot precommit to using the gained space.
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by maaku 10y ago
I don't know the mind of the Satoshi I wouldn't care to. Bitcoin is an algorithm with empirical properties that are discovered, not created. It is what it is and we need to deal with that. (I would also be dubious of anyone'
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by maaku 10y ago
Stock buyback is not revenue.
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by maaku 10y ago
See for example, New Horizons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons
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by maaku 10y ago
It is not trust in Canonical itself that is the problem, but the constant threat of coercion it puts on both the organization and the people that compromise it. This is why I work on generalized multi-signature schemes and deterministic bui
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by maaku 10y ago
Collision attacks matter if you don't (want to) trust the Ubuntu release team.
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by maaku 10y ago
> Lots of people make extraordinary claims about new theories or perpetual motion machines. Such claims don't often get replicated by multiple, independent labs, as is the case here.
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by maaku 10y ago
Those eradications were paid for by the Department of Agriculture (and equivalent organizations in other regions). Who is going to pay for the mosquito? I'm not objecting. I think we should eradicate the mosquito. But as someone who ha
106.
by maaku 10y ago
it makes sense for McAfee shareholders...
107.
by maaku 10y ago
That may have been your point, but it's not what you said. "Perfectly valued" means that the price is what it should be (for some definition of "should").
108.
by maaku 10y ago
Obviously that's not what he studied in college.
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by maaku 10y ago
However the two changes required for full lightning network, segwit and checksequenceverify, are either in the process of being merged or already released and waiting for mining activation. And lightning scales waaaaaay better than any bloc
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by maaku 10y ago
I did, it's a massive distortion of non-issues. What are the _actual_ problems?
111.
by maaku 10y ago
They could take all the coins. All of them.
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by maaku 10y ago
What problems?
113.
by maaku 10y ago
There are better alternative for those properties than Gold, however. Gold just happens to be the same color as the presumed Sun-god.
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by maaku 10y ago
Cannot upvote this enough. This link should be the only answer to this entire thread...
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by maaku 10y ago
Working under the direction of a grant agency. I know, I worked at two such institutes that managed $10m/yr grant money for planetary and biological science. In this case (NASA) the selection was done based on recommendations from a pe
116.
by maaku 10y ago
No forbes, I refuse to turn off my ad blocker. Anyone have the text to the article?
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by maaku 10y ago
You get promotions and tenure for doing successful grant work that brings in money to the University. You get the best grants by publishing in Science and Nature. The government (main source of grants) shares the blame here.
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by maaku 11y ago
Extra terrestrial is a astronomical term of art that means "not of Earth." E.g. not a satellite. His usage was correct, your interpretation was not.
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by maaku 11y ago
Read the comments of the article. It does appear to be a scam.
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by maaku 11y ago
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