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by monort 9y ago
It's post-processing, not the quality of the sensor, photo from iPhone have warmer color balance. If you compare the right eyebrow, you will see that [1] have more details, than [2]
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by monort 9y ago
History shows it was possible in cantons of Switzerland, Habsburgs couldn't conquer them, despite no federal authority. There are still examples of small countries in military alliances today - I don't see what is the problem with
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by monort 9y ago
They will cooperate if they have a threat of invasion, they won't cooperate to have a large standing army - and that is a good outcome. For example see mutual defence of Switzerland cantons before federal state.
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Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof of Work(truthcoin.info)
40 points by monort 9y ago|2 comments
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by monort 9y ago
You seems to be wrong about weeks, in the first 4 years of bitcoin the creation rate was constant and half of total bitcoin supply was created.
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by monort 9y ago
MAC do not contain enough entropy to be usefully one-way hashed. MAC address is 48 bits of which 22 bits is vendor.
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REM: Resource-efficient mining for blockchains(blog.acolyer.org)
45 points by monort 9y ago|18 comments
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Weekend labor shortage (2007)(springer.com)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
Water heaters are not exactly safe: In 2007 there was an estimated 7,200 reported home structure fires involving water heaters resulting in 30 civilian deaths, 340 civilian injuries and $75 million in direct property damage. I'm not
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Economic Integration and Political Disintegration (1997)(nber.org)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
What's wrong with a city-state? We still have a few left from the old time! It's weird that everyone wants a large monopoly not a lot of smaller competing governments.
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by monort 9y ago
Why do you think a military alliance requires a political one? They can join e.g. NATO if they are afraid of Russia.
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by monort 9y ago
Transactions are a part of block's hash. What do you mean by the second question?
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by monort 9y ago
Amusing anecdote from the life of Voevodsky ( https://lj.rossia.org/users/tiphareth/2097217.html ): Voevodsky was too lazy to search for an apartment, so he lived in his office (at Harvard each graduate student get
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The Crypto-Keepers: How the politics-by-app hustle conquered all(thebaffler.com)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Enlarge your botnet with top D-Link routers(embedi.com)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Law of Jante(en.wikipedia.org)
87 points by monort 9y ago|61 comments
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by monort 9y ago
There is nothing wrong with extinction of a government and replacement by more successful government, if it happens amicably - it's competition. Just like with corporations, surely you are not worried about extinction of small firms,
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Against Individual IQ Worries(slatestarcodex.com)
26 points by monort 9y ago|1 comments
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by monort 9y ago
What security precautions did you have to handle such a large amounts of cash? Did you have problem with law enforcement? I heard they really like to seize this piles of cash. Sorry for being nosey but I'm genuinely curious!
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by monort 9y ago
Surely Catalonia should accept independence of Spaniards pockets, though I realize that in practice they probably won't. Why do you think there should be a forced limit for recursion?
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by monort 9y ago
What's wrong with independence of small groups? The more governments - the more competition. Why are we against big monopolies in every area, except the state services?
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by monort 9y ago
Fluid intelligence is falling since teens, crystallized intelligence rises well into old age.
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Average IQ scores seem to have been falling and population ageing may be why(newscientist.com)
94 points by monort 9y ago|152 comments
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Violent crime runs in families: a total population study of Sweden (2011)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
Did you do this trades in cash?
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by monort 9y ago
Here is an example, they are simply rejected by FDA without explanation how to proceed (until the shitstorm starts): http://www.post-gazette.com/business/healthcare-business/201...
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Carbon dioxide removal(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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by monort 9y ago
You are judging him from the "good for the state" position, but in reality dictators work from the "good for them and their family" position, and he is quite rational in that. NK nuclear program worked as a blackmail too
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by monort 9y ago
I've read an anecdote about McDonalds in the Soviet Union. They were selling meat scraps to dog owners, but they did it covertly, because of concern that poor people would buy it for consumption (meat was in deficit at the time). What

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