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The volatility of Bitcoin has been decreasing over time.
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I'm sorry, I thought we were discussing the paper.
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They didn't demonstrate that AlphaGo Zero can beat Stockfish in a fair contest: i.e. take the amount of money they spent on Stockfish's CPU and RAM, buy a commodity GPU for AlphaGo and then see.
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The other side is that net neutrality is just a bandage around the more fundamental problem: that there is not much competition between ISPs in the USA. The seemingly endless debate around "net neutrality" arguably benefits ISPs,
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OK let's ignore protein for a second. You're saying that if you eat the same number of calories, but as fat instead of carbs, your body will store less of it. i.e. that the human body is much more efficient at extracting energy fr
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This actually makes a lot of sense. From the outside, it's hard to see why anyone uses Go. Using Go feels like going back in time 20+ years. However if someone is coming from PHP, Go must look positively modern. Considering the million
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It was a government policy, not a law. It is basically meaningless.
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The value of a dollar only changes if some people decide they want a jstanleytoken more than they want a dollar (i.e they start to buy jstanleytokens). Otherwise the value of a jstanleytoken will remain at 0 and the value of a dollar will
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by namelost 9y ago
I agree with what you're saying and I'd also like to add that SpaceX could have failed. Based on the evidence available in 2002 there was no reason to think that reusable rockets were necessarily going to work. Musk is a gambler
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Practically it needs to be perfect, because whoever makes the self-driving car will be liable every time it kills someone. And there's going to be millions of these things.
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Sounds like the UK has effectively given away the atoll to the US. The US is not going to pack up their very important torture base just because the UK asks them to. Denying the islanders permission to return is just a face-saving move to a
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by namelost 9y ago
The world is full of fakes and liars, especially where there is money to be made. Some comments in this thread amount to encouraging that we should blindly accept that a person is who they say they are because they are the "right kind
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by namelost 9y ago
But the contradiction is in the mathematical model not reality. Even a totally random universe follows some kind of distribution, which can then be modelled (which is exactly what QM is).
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For the US to start taxing Apple's foreign income abroad is not like taxing an American living in Ireland (and even that is crazy). It's like if the US started taxing an Irish person in Ireland[1]. However obvious it is that EU
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by namelost 9y ago
The US is a corrupt country, the laws are written figuratively or sometimes literally by corporations with the intent on profiting from them. Given that, it is unsurprising that the laws do not represent the interests of the common person.
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by namelost 9y ago
This article isn't what I was expecting, but to satisfy my curiosity, the strongest known base is (according to Wikipedia) Ortho-diethynylbenzene dianion . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortho-diethynylbenzene_dian
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by namelost 9y ago
The forked currencies are just the same as altcoins, you can't sell 1 Bitcoin Cash for $7000. The fact that people are willing to accept money for them doesn't change the value of one Bitcoin.
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I don't mean that. Xcode is itself a Mac app, but Apple hasn't cared about the technologies for building Mac apps for a long time. The UI framework for building Mac apps (AppKit) was designed in the 90s. In ~2007 it was revamped
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FWIW authors on mathematics papers are always listed in alphabetical order.
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One problem is that Xcode is written using AppKit, which was a state of the art technology 25 years ago and hasn't changed much since. Apple stopped caring about Mac development a long time ago and Xcode is the highest profile casualty
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How do these people get visas?
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> All that being said, the modulo world that the article mentions does't make sense to me. If 6 doesn't exist, how could you have modulo 6? It's finite so just write out the addition and multiplication tables: http:/
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by namelost 9y ago
We have gone from one standard interface, to now three interfaces (headphone jack, USB-C and lightning), and one of them is proprietary. We move from a world where you can buy any set of headphones, and use them with any device, to a worl
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by namelost 9y ago
Several countries have already committed to ban cars with internal combustion engines in the next 10-20 years. London is introducing a new "T-charge" today whereby owners of older and more polluting vehicles have to pay an extra f
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Concorde was a British-French aircaft, so it was allowed to fly over the UK. If it had been American, it would have been banned instantly. It was horrifically noisy.
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Words have meanings. Growing wheat for private consumption on one's own land is not "commerce" whatever the honourable idiots of the US Supreme Court think.
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I think you or the mods should remove your comments because they are potentially defamatory. There is indeed no evidence that the Dash author himself was responsible, he says it was a family member.
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The conventional wisdom for Chess engines is that aggressive pruning doesn't work well. Chess is much more tactical than Go, selective algorithms tend to lead to some crucial tactic being missed, and the greater the search depth, the m
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Lack of operator overloading limits the audience of a language to non-numerical applications (e.g. no gamedev).
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> - Freedom and democracy are different things, if some people think democracy isn't that important, it does not mean they do not value freedom. e.g. Switzerland's infamous vote to ban minarets[1]. A lot of European countries s

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