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by mihaifm 8y ago
stablecoins aren’t mined, they are created by the issuer at their discretion. Technically they should create a coin for every deposited dollar, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Tether or other stablecoins run a fractional reserve scheme behin
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by mihaifm 8y ago
There is also Mu Online, a popular MMO. I honestly thought this was gaming news.
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Interesting point of view, although crypto market has proven irrational most of the time. But indeed liquidity tends to bring the price closer to the real value, which is much lower than the current traded value for most of these tokens.
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by mihaifm 8y ago
The recent market crash is partly the exchanges’ fault. Listing every possible coin out there exposes people to unfinished and shady products. Just looking at that list things like Storj and Tezos, or even Eos and Cardano are very questiona
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by mihaifm 8y ago
Not sure if this is a joke or not, but the parallel is not even close.
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What is the text editor behind repl.it? Is it custom made or does it use any open source browser editor? It’s really good.
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by mihaifm 8y ago
Thanks, didn’t even know G+ was shutting down. Guess I better tell my mom, she’s just started using it, the low user count is actually a good feature for her, doesn’t like the “noisiness” of other platforms
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by mihaifm 8y ago
If you’re wondering where does the formula (1-p)^n come from, it’s a number often used in gambling (if I throw a die 7 times, what are the chances of getting at least a 3). The probability of an event having probability p happening after n
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by mihaifm 8y ago
They claim it’s noise and pure coincidence. Some trains may have shaken the earth at the exact time the cosmic event happened. At least that’s what I take from the article.
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Sometimes it gives you some motivation or moral support to keep developing the software. I often see people open feature requests but don't even bother to give a star. If I put a repository out there that just works for me, I'm le
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I am intrigued by this as well. I think they check for the existence of certain primitives and a sequence in which they are drawn. For example for level 1.1 where you need the 60 degree angle, if you use Explorer mode to view the solution a
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by mihaifm 8y ago
It's not open source from the looks of it. It's a freemium game, they have in-app purchases on mobile where you can unlock all levels without completing the previous ones. Some of those levels are insanely difficult, so you have t
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by mihaifm 8y ago
Interesting, but I don't necessarily like their interpretation. I think the brain creates some neural paths to disengage memory when a camera is used, but this happens over time, probably after years of phone usage. The fact that they
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Show HN: HIBP Offline Check – KeePass plugin for haveibeenpwned(github.com)
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I would argue that the exponential increase in population in the 20th century was a "bubble", explained by the discovery of antibiotics and other advances in medicine. People that were not expected to live past the life expectancy
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by mihaifm 8y ago
Thether's success is based on the large number of cryto to crypto exchanges that need to go light on regulation and avoid working with banks. I don't blame them honestly, I've seen many small exchanges close down or move to o
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by mihaifm 8y ago
Plain text for notes/bookmarks/todo items/wishlists with my own markdown-like syntax for formatting. I use a small app (Editorial) on my iphone and Dropbox to sync.
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I would like to see a good open source package manager, built on the following principles: - every package is a source code archive signed by the developer - package manager takes care of compiling it for you - package manager does not allo
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It's usually the explorers who do the detection and contact, while the lesser civilization simply acknowledges their presence. I don't think physics is a roadblock for space exploration at this point. We just need to figure out as
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True, but all these assumptions are probabilistic. What are the chances of us being one of those uncontacted tribes. We have found thousands of other tribes, leaving only a handful hidden. The probability of a tribe to remain hidden is almo
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by mihaifm 8y ago
Even at very low speeds, a civilization with a 10 million year "head start" (which is nothing on the timescale of the universe) would be able to send autonomous robots across the galaxy. At least that what we would do if we had su
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by mihaifm 8y ago
This is a very optimistic view, but there are plenty of theories claiming otherwise. Check out the Fermi Paradox [1], or the Rare Earth Hypothesis [2] for a more detailed view on the problem. To be honest the easiest explanation for the Fer
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by mihaifm 8y ago
Thanks, this is interesting stuff. I've been interested in Eve for years but only last week realized that it has a free tier. However progression in the game seems a bit slow to me and tutorial a bit boring. After how many hours in can
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by mihaifm 8y ago
Just wondering if any of today's MMOs will reach 100 years. That would be a really interesting point in human history, having a virtual world run for so long.
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I don't understand why it's so hard to build a machine that separates plastic from other materials. I mean in agriculture we have machines that separate tiny seeds from anything else, I don't see why it wouldn't be possi
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Bitcoin mining can scale depending on demand, from a bunch of laptops to massive farms. It is only greed that brings more and more miners into the game, pushing energy demands higher. It's normal for governments to crack down on mining
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This is how I view it: * Being open source protects against a malicious developer. Otherwise there is nothing preventing him to build the binary with a different source, and send the passwords to his own server. * Signed code archive preven
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I agree, that's why signed source code releases are the safest thing you can get. Keepass has signed releases (including the source code archive) that can be checked with OpenPGP. https://keepass.info/integrity.html
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Compile it from source, it's a standard Visual Studio solution that builds without issues.
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Just spent some good hours reading about Boltzmann brain related stuff...it's indeed a fascinating topic. The most interesting part is the related Boltzmann brain paradox: we are far more likely to be isolated brains randomly popping o

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