mortdeus

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by mortdeus 8y ago
The main innovation is that blockchain is decentralized and yet still verifiable. A public SQL database is in nature centralized. Even if you were to try and shard it out to everybody in the network you have the difficult time of cross veri
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by mortdeus 8y ago
I wouldn't say that premium cable is over. Rather before you used to pay $60 + premium channels a month to have cable tv. Now you pay $15+15+15+15+15+15+15 ... + 75 for internet connection that doesn't have data caps. Personally I
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by mortdeus 8y ago
If I was trying to attack somebody through this route, I wouldn't just release all of them containing malware. Rather, I would target 2 or 3 journalists who I wanted to monitor and hope that they wouldn't be wise enough to conside
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by mortdeus 8y ago
Whats scary is that many of these USB fans could be just normal fans, but there might be one or two that contain malware that either governments could use to their political advantage.
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by mortdeus 8y ago
Judges in the lower circuits are also held accountable to higher circuit judges if they don't interpret the law while taking past case judgement into consideration. A lower district judge can't overrule a higher judge's opini
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by mortdeus 8y ago
What if they fired everybody at CNN!? :D <3
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I should point out that this doesn't really change the broadband ISP landscape. Time Warner Cable is not apart of Time Warner anymore. All this does is give AT&T a better chance at entering the "original content" space an
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by mortdeus 8y ago
Maybe this will cause Trump to retaliate by bringing back net neutrality?
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by mortdeus 8y ago
"They still have some competent developers working there. The problem is that although they put on a lot of lipstick - they are still dead Evil." The problem is that they have some competent developers working there, when realisti
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by mortdeus 8y ago
I am starting to feel firefox in a serious way. But im just sooo concerned that their software still sucks. I mean, we ARE talking about a company who thought it was smart to spend time trying to build a javascript OS for mobile. So let me
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by mortdeus 8y ago
They have $768M and this is the best they can come up with when it comes to improving the state? Fuck, use that money and build the hyperloop like you should have, so we can race the slow as fuck bullet train the state decided to agree to s
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by mortdeus 8y ago
Im just happy that tablets are finally dead. You have a super supped up desktop computer at home sitting on your desk, and you have a relatively supped up smart phone sitting in your pocket when you cant be sitting at your desk. Where does
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by mortdeus 8y ago
I've read a little bit about turing machines and there is also a variation that includes what is called an "oracle" machine. Do you know anything about that?
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by mortdeus 8y ago
but trying to devise a program that can predict somebody's password without using brute force is a NP problem? Since its hard to discover what the password is, but trivial to check if it lets you in the vault? I get the reasoning why p
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by mortdeus 8y ago
What I am trying to understand is why this is considered a solvable problem, when essentially you need to devise a method to find a better solution to the problem in order to prove that there isn't a solution. Aren't all proofs fl
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by mortdeus 8y ago
So just to better understand the issue of P=NP, am I right in assuming that an NP problem is like trying to build a neural net for image recognition? In the sense that it takes a huge amount of time and images to train the thing to become s
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by mortdeus 8y ago
"For simplicity but without loss of generality, assume there are n past price changes, each of which is either UP (1) or DOWN (0)." You know, this is the kind of thing that makes me wonder about how much quantum computation is goi
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by mortdeus 8y ago
I want to know what was wrong with the prototype. Why didn't it deliver as promised and if the technology can be salvaged. I think the way I feel about this story depends completely on whether or not they knew they were going to be abl
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by mortdeus 8y ago
I think ads are just fact of life nowadays and not necessarily a bad thing. Ads shouldn't be annoying nor should they be creepy. Like for example, if you google tips to lose weight, you shouldn't be bombarded by pictures of half n
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by mortdeus 8y ago
Joe Rogan Experience (and occasionally other stand up comic podcasts like Your mom's house, Bill Burr etc) , Boxing Legends, Computer/Number-phile, umm sometimes I will watch TED and technology related talks.
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by mortdeus 8y ago
A few days ago I decided I was done with Facebook for good. It just makes me depressed nowadays. I listened to a talk given by Chamath Palihapitiya and another given by Sean Parker and they both used a phrase that kinda freaked me out. They
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by mortdeus 8y ago
Like Google surveys that doesn't suck because it only pays in Google Play credit.
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by mortdeus 8y ago
I actually think this is going to be the next big thing. Some sort of data broker app that helps users market their own data for a commission. Like an app that can look at the data and basically say, "okay, so judging by your data, we
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by mortdeus 8y ago
yeah, i thought it was a ponzi scheme too.
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by mortdeus 8y ago
What about state level actors, say the NSA, that consider bitcoin supplanting the US dollar as the standard medium of international currency exchange a huge threat to the world economy? (or at least their ability to control it) I think peop
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by mortdeus 8y ago
I think people discover what their true political affiliations are when they become more educated over time. When I was 18 I thought I was a democrat because I had a very liberal leaning towards social views. And then when I started learnin
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by mortdeus 8y ago
And yet when Obama used facebook to do the exact same thing, it was lauded as the future of campaigns. The only difference I see is that after Obama won the election, Facebook conveniently decided to change that policy. How do we know that
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by mortdeus 8y ago
we have wasm now. why is anybody writing anything in javascript ever nowadays? some form of religious self chastisement?
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by mortdeus 8y ago
I know right. I look at this kind of stuff and im just like, man people are thinking about problems alot cooler than i am.
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by mortdeus 8y ago
Pivot to a new idea or try to shop your team around for a small acquisition so you can pay your investors back. Even if you guys don't have a valuable product per say, you might have a valuable team.

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