mwilcox

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by mwilcox 9y ago
It's a lot more likely that the attackers make money via the markets than via a direct ransom.
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by mwilcox 10y ago
Palantir is hardly a startup
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Are we living in a Simulation? – The Saint(alexstjohn.com)
4 points by mwilcox 10y ago|9 comments
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by mwilcox 10y ago
They have chips dedicated to video encoding/decoding with the latest cards doing h265. Nvidia has an ffmpeg patch here https://developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg
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by mwilcox 10y ago
It's more similar to Blockstack: https://blockstack.org
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by mwilcox 10y ago
Not quite. Ethereum's trie allows transaction paths like this to be clipped with almost no collateral damage to the rest of the data structure. Bitcoin's UTXO model makes it very difficult to roll back transactions since it would
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by mwilcox 10y ago
The generic privacy policy along with the free price concerns me. What is their plan for monetisation?
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by mwilcox 10y ago
It's a reference to 21 million - Bitcoin's issuance limit
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DirectX Launch Party October 30th 1995(youtube.com)
2 points by mwilcox 10y ago|0 comments
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by mwilcox 10y ago
I believe Halide is limited to 2-dimensional (Image Processing) use cases? Either way, it's designed to make it easier to find optimal parallel implementations rather than write code that can fluidly execute across a CPU and GPU.
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by mwilcox 10y ago
Yes tumbling is much more secure if your goal is to anonymise your money. MML is much more easily traceable as you just look at the guy who mined the block and send the authorities to go and speak with him. Especially if the large mining op
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by mwilcox 10y ago
Ethereum gets a mention :-)
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by mwilcox 10y ago
It's all based on the same book (Connectography). I highly recommend instead reading The Stack that just came out from MIT Press, which gives a much deeper analysis on the relationship between cities, software and geopolitics: http:&#
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by mwilcox 11y ago
I'd say those are features of agent-based systems as opposed to problems. But it depends on the application
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Mesosphere raises $73.5M with Microsoft participating(venturebeat.com)
136 points by mwilcox 11y ago|13 comments
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by mwilcox 11y ago
Most of the application does not run on ethereum itself, but on the client. It's the business logic that does. User registration, transactions, etc. So it depends how resource intensive the business logic is.
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“Three things I learned during 4+ years at Uber”(medium.com)
1 points by mwilcox 11y ago|0 comments
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by mwilcox 11y ago
They have a pretty good shot at owning customer relationships and becoming a channel for that structured data (a market sites can sell data through) if that does become the case
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by mwilcox 11y ago
FLIF is based on context mixing so it's extremely slow but has an extremely high (lossless) compression ratio. It's designed for image archival and not for real-time streaming video. It does have some interlacing techniques for pr
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by mwilcox 11y ago
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151211005837/en/Bit...
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by mwilcox 11y ago
We already have one: Hacker News
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Chris Kelly – From Source to Society(youtube.com)
1 points by mwilcox 11y ago|0 comments
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by mwilcox 11y ago
Where does the money come from?
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by mwilcox 11y ago
For disk, sure, but not for Flash / NVM
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How Bitcoin wallets can handle real transaction fees(lists.linuxfoundation.org)
18 points by mwilcox 11y ago|2 comments
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by mwilcox 11y ago
It's similar to the strategy they're running on Web Components with Polymer: http://polymer-project.org . They have a number of Material Design web components that are very easy to integrate into your site but also more
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by mwilcox 11y ago
Github is having issues at the moment https://status.github.com/
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Ethereum Alarm Clock(ethereum-alarm-clock.com)
94 points by mwilcox 11y ago|42 comments
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Ethereum Alarm Clock(ethereum-alarm-clock.com)
4 points by mwilcox 11y ago|0 comments
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by mwilcox 11y ago
You would have to create a new contract, and broadcast to people that they should use the other contract. All these systems heavily rely on decentralised reputation - not just for users but for contracts as well.

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