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by new299 14y ago
Contributed, but I too would have like to have seen an anonymous contribution option, also I'd rather not have to use my creditcard directly, either Paypal or (ideally) Bitcoin.
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by new299 14y ago
I guess what you need is too find two sorting machines, with either different OCR or differently calibrated cameras. Then write two addresses, one of which each machine can read, neither of which exists (or perhaps a 3rd that exists?). Then
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by new299 14y ago
I thought the PGP encryption was optional?
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by new299 14y ago
This is kind of an interesting quote from Gavin Andresen on the whole experiment thing: Gavin Andresen, the 46-year-old lead software developer for the Bitcoin project, is eager to find the answer. "I'm hoping to learn," he says, whether "a
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by new299 14y ago
Yea, it's interesting we kind of dumped Applets because they were a massive pain and now JS is trying to turn into the bytecode of the browser. Let's hope it works out better this time.
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by new299 14y ago
> Android is vastly better than iOS (I use both, and using iOS always makes it feel like my hands are tied behind my back). It's really in no sense "vastly better" the market pretty much bears this out. From a developer/technical standp
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by new299 14y ago
I don't know about the rest of the world, but it's still a lot worse than Google Maps in Japan. I'm sure it will come in time, but it's a difficult problem and one that google has a better handle on with it's background in "big data".
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by new299 14y ago
Your comment seems unduly negative. But, after reading the article it really does seem like a forced analogy. I suppose in some ways it's quite surprising that writing code is so much different than writing a novel. They are after all linea
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by new299 14y ago
ex·per·i·ment /ikˈsperəmənt/ Noun A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
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by new299 14y ago
As do the developers I think. It is a really entertaining and interesting experiment though. :)
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by new299 14y ago
yep, as you probably know the proof of work idea came from Hashcash which was designed as a spam filtering system. I guess we've all just got locked in to email as it is. Looks like Spam assassin supports it, I wonder if mutt can be configu
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by new299 14y ago
I really don't understand why people are saying it's 20 bytes, the wikileaks cables are about 2mb, with a 100+ line python program. The latest issue is a long (at least 1000 lines) FAQ containing urls. I think part of the problem is that pe
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by new299 14y ago
err, yes it is just ASCII text. I suggest you run "strings" over the blockchain yourself, which I have done. If it wasn't I doubt anyone would find it. I don't know if they used Kaminsky's technique or something else but it is plain text.
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by new299 14y ago
Hmm I should read up more about the legal obligations. Thanks. However by that definition it seems to be that if they are operating in the best interests of the shareholders they can't act in anyones elses interests if that causes any expen
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by new299 14y ago
What did you have on Symbian?
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by new299 14y ago
The only wat this is true is if 17% of people hold stock in Google. Corporations are I believe legally obliged to only have their stock holders interests at heart. If this survey measures anythings it's just how much goodwill exists toward
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by new299 14y ago
"you at least have to convey the fact that you've encoded something in the blockchain so that the receiver knows to look for it there. How is it easier to convey "you should download the bitcoin blockchain and run strings against it and the
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by new299 14y ago
pastebin doesn't work over tor, most of the exit nodes appear to be blocked.
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by new299 14y ago
I have a B9Creator on order from kickstarter.
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by new299 14y ago
SEEKING WORK Tokyo / Remote. C/C++ Embedded, algorithms develop and devops. www.sgenomics.co.uk
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by new299 14y ago
Interesting the act of marking coins with messages is not new. In Ireland coins used to get marked with political messages from the UVF and others, I believe it was quite common for a time. http://www.cointalk.com/t195082/
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by new299 14y ago
This is actually a big issue for bitcoin, I don't think we should avoid it by saying it's the "standard bullshit". We also not really talking about small amounts of data (at least at the moment) a few megabytes is relatively significant...
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by new299 14y ago
The "encoding method" is ASCII text. The data can be extracted by running "strings *.dat" on the block chain on any UNIX system. After that you can grep through the output. This is not like XORing data, or as some people have said "everyth
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by new299 14y ago
Interesting, I guess the thing about the WiiU is you've almost got two devices in one, does the game pad need jail breaking independently? Or is it just a display as far as the console is concerned?
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by new299 14y ago
"Philosophical Zombies are not falsifiable, as they are necessarily completely indistinguishable from conscious beings in any way we could test or measure." You might impose an additional criteria such as complexity limits as I suggested, w
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by new299 14y ago
I actually find iOS almost universally easier to use in terms of software than Android devices. This pains me because I'd much rather use a more open device running Android, and would much much rather not go through the awful experience of
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by new299 14y ago
I actually think that Searle's Chinese room experiment neatly defines the divide between the mind from matter and dualism groups. The dualists believe that the Chinese room can not be squared with their notion of consciousness, the qualia,
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by new299 14y ago
I find it grating too. I thought this was an interesting point: "Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) don’t target specific countries. If your site has a generic top-level domain, such as .com, .org, or any of the domains listed below" I actua
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by new299 14y ago
I wish there were more things like the for C/C++ and backend developers like myself.
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by new299 14y ago
There's a great quote by Teller on that: "You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest. My partner, Penn, and I once produced 500 live cockroache

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