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by murbard2 11y ago
I've been using Linux as my primary desktop OS for about 15 years, and sound has always been a pain to deal with. I used S/PDIF on my last machine, and it took me months of browsing through endless threads to get the thing to work
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And yet as of 2015, getting sound to work properly is still a crapshoot. Artsd was a major pain 13 years ago, I'm sure pulseaudio has more features today, but it's still an intractable mess.
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If you just want to look around and jump from place to place, then it's trivial and likely already works with Google cardboard. If you're talking about being able to move freely, it's a much more complex problem and you do ne
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The exposures are definitely off, and they keep switching from one image to the other. There is a cheap fix which would nonetheless make browsing much more pleasant: transition each image from the previous image's exposure to the curr
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by murbard2 11y ago
Clinkle doesn't seem to have tarnished a16z, why would uBeam?
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I've come to the conclusion that most VCs do not care at all about technical due diligence, or more broadly speeking analyzing the idea from the inside. They look at trends, momentum, traction, etc. It doesn't help that they are i
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by murbard2 11y ago
To quote the great Scott Alexander: "because Neoreactionaries react to comprehensibility the same way as vampires to sunlight." Joke aside, I do like what I'm reading so far about Hoon. I sense a mix of APL and LISP, but with
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The convoluted way they tie this to DAH is somewhat hilarious.
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> One outcome of this interbreeding is that these animals have lost their fear of people, but they retain their predatory instincts, making them quite dangerous. They're going to find out fairly quickly that this combination is mala
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In addition, even if they have no hope of liquidating their position, the VCs involved have every incentive to hide problems so as not to look bad in front of their LPs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome
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> You've proven my point that name collisions are undesirable. But there is no collision. In the example I'm making, the people chose to humor me, they chose to introduce a collision because they always have context informa
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First of all, you can insist all you want, it won't make it so, people will call you what they want. Second, I can insist on being called "Warren Buffet", and people may even humor me, but that won't let me sign checks
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by murbard2 11y ago
Mathematically, identity is indeed a relation. If I say: "Look over there, it's Elizabeth II, Queen of England", I am establishing the sameness of a person referenced by in three different ways: by a geographical position,
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Once you lose a master key, blockchain or no blockchain, your identity splits. The person who stole your key can impersonate you perfectly. Having a blockchain does not help at all in telling the attackers from the honest party. What a bloc
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My point is precisely that this property isn't critical for identity. And no, blockchains aren't trustless, at least not in the sense in which trustless is generally used. In the case of Bitcoin, you have to trust that the miners
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by murbard2 11y ago
Anyone can get Edward Snowden's public key on the Internet, so no, Blockchains clearly aren't the only system which is censorship resistant enough to achieve this goal. I've been thinking about blockchain use cases pretty ext
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You publish a signed statement revoking your key. Publications are kept and replicated by volunteer nodes or in a DHT. There is no need for consensus or coordination, which is what a blockchain achieves because you act as the central auth
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by murbard2 11y ago
"Satoshi Nakamoto" is human readable. The fact that a train model hobbyist shares that name only seems to be confusing to a Newsweek reporters. What people care about is: the Satoshi Nakamoto who created Bitcoin, and his public ke
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Of course there is no way you can prove exclusive control, you can always let someone else impersonate you. A blockchain is not going to solve that.
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It depends what properties you want for your names. If you want everyone to recognize your globally unique name, then it behaves like a piece of property and a blockchain is indeed appropriate. Otherwise, web of trust models, pet names, cen
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by murbard2 11y ago
A chain of signatures starting from the key you initially accepted. There's not need to prove to anyone that someone else doesn't have the same number as you, I have no idea where this is coming from.
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Identity does not require consensus, naming does. If you want to have a decentralized DNS, a blockchain might make sense. However, a global consensus on who controls what name isn't as relevant as one would think. As more and more inte
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Any other intepretation requires new, undiscovered physics. You have to make additional assumptions in order for the equations of quantum mechanics not to give rise to many world.
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I really doubt it's going to be found in quantities large enough to make harvesting it economical.
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One way around that problem is to use lossless compression. Unfortunately, if you have merely 1 bit of static noise per pixel (so +/- 0.4% intensity), you won't achieve better than 12.5% compression.
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Yes, I understand it's primarily a health concern. I just wonder if, just like for the Tour De France, it also affects stamina. I don't intend to imply that it would a silver lining, I'm merely trying to test my understanding
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by murbard2 11y ago
Totally tangential question, but does the "too many blood cells" translate into greater endurance and stamina for you?
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I would understand the material better if it were presented as an armadillo analogy. http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3892
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There are two parts to your question. 1) What technology is appropriate for a decentralized reddit, and 2) What technology is best for a decentralized cryptocurrency. Regarding (1), a small proof of stake stamp for upvote is fine. So, someo

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