mitchellberry

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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Would be interesting to see this run through some statistical batteries. DieHarder and TestU01 still seem to be the gold standards.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
XOR it with /dev/urandom, the result will be as strong as the best source of entropy.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
>Exchanges don't actually hold the things they're trading. Bitfinex has a few billion in publicly known cold wallets.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
http://www.darksky.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-sky_movement#List_of_grou...
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Your dollars already do get more valuable over time wrt consumer electronics and cars, yet people still purchase them en masse. Many still spend in a deflationary environment, they just do so with far more care about the product and it&#x27
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
No one measures the marketcap of gold or soybeans. When was the last time someone mentioned the marketcap of the USD? It's an absurd metric made worse by the fact that more coins are issued every 5 mins. If price remains the same virtu
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
I pay 29c/kwh in a country with abundant solar, wind, coal and uranium. Perhaps there is something more at play here? Public education about grid engineering and its challenges would be a good thing.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Apart from the asteroids packed with precious metals or water/zero-g vacuum manufacturing /virtually limitless solar energy and near earth rendezvous from interstellar objects?
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
> except they do. See below. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USA657S > Source: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development St Louis fed is publishing third party estimates there, official re
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Fair enough though I'd contend such articles are the motivation for the bubble commentary.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
What's the difference between that and the same company buying a pennystock? This is how markets work.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
> All it takes is a change in the media narrative. Every article I read in the media has huge negative sentiment already. Can you point to some positive articles about bitcoin? Seems to be very few going around, it's all bubbles, en
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
> worth pointing out that less than 1000 entities owns 40% of the bitcoins The fiat equivalent is saying 10 entities own most of the USD in the world. They are banks with liabilities holding money for others. Of all the bitcoin conspirac
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
The most funniest part of this oft-repeated argument is that currently bitcoin blocks are full, the mempool of pending transactions is at record highs and people are happily outbidding each other in fees. Though apparently no one is using i
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Solar and even moreso batteries are advancing so quickly that waiting for further price deflation seems a logical choice for many. It's the energy equivalent of holding out for next gen cpu's.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Rolling their own crypto should be a huge red flag by itself. Watching others defend that decision screams vested interest to me.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
So if China were to split into 10 different countries it would somehow become an acceptable level? Per capita is the only equitable measure of pollution. I certainly agree overpopulation of the earth is a tragedy likely felt for generations
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Yeah fair call, just don't like the blame game that seems to escalate in cases like this. Police should certainly worry about general opinion. They are public servants.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Seen people demanding the names of jurors on various forums. This is the antithesis of modern justice. Despite my personal feelings about their decision, jurors should never have to fear public opinion.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
If i gave you a search algorithm with a big db then asked if it could done quicker would you prefer to spin up more cpu's or try to improve the algorithm?
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
AMD already building coin mining optimised gpu's, making the algorithm memory-hard to exempt asic's doesn't really change much except the direction of hardware manufacture
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
I can write anything i want into the bitcoin chain for $1 and all the computing power in the world wouldnt be able to undo it after a few days. Even quantum computing can't touch it (though can trivially work out my private keys). Many
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
People don't realise how natural a reaction this is also, if your pants are coming off it's muscle memory to grab them.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
This article seems more higher education or tax policy discussion rather than about AI/ML. Still intrigued though, is "world rankings" possible to determine or even valid in a multinational corp world? What was the last actua
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
You watched the entire video? It's 5 minutes of conflicting instructions and repeated death threats by a man heavily covered in tattoos carrying an assualt rifle with the words "you're f *ed" engraved on it. How were th
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Can you grow a bitcoin in your garden?
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
"Fees" I see the margin lending rates on some exchanges right now being 0.003% daily. This is for coins that move 10% a day. Probably fair to assume fees aren't what the traders lose sleep over.
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Certainly there are fair reasons for hiding capabilities, and they seem quite adept at determining what is going into the sea or not, but in a war of words environment if it was a certainty as THAAD propenents seem to claim a single shootdo
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
Am just an armchair commentator but surely NK already has hardened facilities prepared for an EMP from a nuclear strike? I don't see how a b52 with a kerosene powered engine is anywhere near capable of delivering that same level of rad
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by mitchellberry 9y ago
There is not any proven tech that can take down an icbm reliably. This is reassuring propaganda plain and simple. If the US and allies could take down a rocket they'd shoot down every NK test missle just to make a point. Absolutely d

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