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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Absolutely. The best comment among the first few pages in that thread is this: "Really depends how many interviews you feel like doing :)"
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
You really have to put parentheses when building "towers" of exponentials. The bound is (2^n)^2, which simplifies to 2^(2n). This is of course still horrible, but much less so than the 2^(n^2) for which what you wrote may be mista
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Well, there is a "most likely" there ;) But yes, I highly suspect that technology will never reach a point where multi-layer cores make sense. Part of the reasoning is that even if you reduce distances, you're still fighting
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
You're right that going 3D is a natural thing, but there appear to be pretty serious manufacturing challenges. The most obvious one: chips already take a pretty long time to manufacture - apparently the "latency" of a typic
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
The real question is: Would Thiel's idea be successful of you scaled it up to millions of people? This is one of those times when I wish it were possible to run controlled experiments in the social sciences.
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Taxes back fiat money. More generally, currencies are backed by demand for that currency. A lot of that demand is ouroboros-style circular demand of two kinds: (a) shops demand the currency for their goods because their suppliers and employ
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
There's a stack exchange comment saying it's harder to forge $20 to $320 than it is to forge 20$ to 320$. This is why you fill the empty part of the field with a long horizontal line.
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Quite frankly, this type of system is the future. Moreover, this type of system already almost exists in many places (consider, for example, how regular people can easily transmit money within SEPA, the Single European Payments Area). Bitco
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
I agree. I like this topic, but I have to say that there are better, more fundamental arguments in favour of 3 space dimensions. For example, two space dimensions only allow planar graphs, which seems pretty limiting for the development of
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
You're absolutely right, and I think this is more an assumption about cooperatives rather than how cooperatives actually work. For example, Mondragon is a federation of coops some of which have hundreds of employees; they're not
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
The answer is to increase security by having widely adopted imperfect security rather than supposedly perfect but also imperfect[0] security with marginal adoption. Having a secure initial message exchange is difficult and will always be di
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
I think we're largely in agreement about the economic analysis here. However, I do have to ask: Why do developed countries need to grow the middle class, specifically? This is not directed at you personally, by the way. It's som
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
The reason is that floating point instructions are executed on a separate unit (the FPU), with a separate decoder. I don't think that has been true for a very long time. If the backdoor depends on some "magic values", it w
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
There's an obvious trade-off here, though. For example, why stop at basic lint-style checks? You could make a static analyzer part of the build process and fail the build when a defect is detected. The trade-off is the same as with gro
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
I give you: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Target/X... I agree with you that gcc is much less pleasant than LLVM+Clang, but to say that LLVM is better becauses it uses C++
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
The construction they're using has trivial collisions, which are only avoided because the size of the file comes from a trusted source. Could somebody elaborate on this? I assume that you're referring to the fact that (without t
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Banks and other corporations will never lend money to poor people again. Keep in mind that many countries have laws that allow private individuals to declare bankruptcy and default on their debt. Yet, banks still lend money to poor people
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
I think you're right about our mostly-agreement :) Just to clarify, I think we have to distinguish between the likeliness of a bank run and the effects of a bank run . Indeed, the FDIC makes a bank run extremely unlikely. Perhaps th
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Please, actually read the article. The numbers in the last diagram are relative unit labor costs. In other words, they are labor costs divided by the (market) value of the produced goods. This division incorporates everything you claim
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Competitiveness is a matter not just of value, but also of price, which is largely a matter of how much you pay your employees. Germany achieves its competitiveness by paying employees badly. That is a not a virtue, it's a vice. That&#
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
To be fair, the ECB has largely come around. They're even going to do a form of quantitative easing now. Unfortunately, monetary policy cannot do very much when the interest rates are essentially zero. You'd really need fiscal pol
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
1 & 2 basically elaborates on what I said ;) And no, FDIC protection intentionally protects deposits at bad banks. This is not an accident. Trying to put the burden of evaluating what a bad bank is onto regular people is not going to
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
> Nothing about Greece's current situation was forced on them. What would you call the fact that the Troika has forced the Greek government to implement brutal and deadly austerity measures? I mean, sure, technically Greece could ha
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
TheOtherHobbes used a bit of an ellipsis here. There is no outright refusal of imports by law, but there is a refusal to allow the kind of economic conditions (such as wage increases in line with productivity increases) that would lead to a
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Not quite. If a bank is solvent but illiquid, they can get a loan from the central bank. This is the central bank's "lender of last resort" function. So no, a good bank cannot be put under by a bank run. We will probably neve
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
How else do you get these people to change? We're not talking about a problem at a single company here. It's a wide spread issue of people apparently being either unaware or just not caring enough about security. A well-connected
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
There are good things about the ribbon, true, and you're spot on about using horizontal space. I wonder though whether the LibreOffice team have enough solid data about user behavior to make good decisions in what would be a huge redes
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Even if it does, so what? I'm all for having designers on the team, but gratuitous redesigns often end up for the worse. Something like LibreOffice is a giant piece of software produced by a team that is far too small. They have to be
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
While I appreciate your concern about premature optimization, having 2D arrays as fundamental data structures in this kind of thing is so common that it just seems bizarre that you even call it an optimization. The resulting code is just as
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
This kind of thing happens way too much. For example, I've seen it with currencies as well. It's amazing how many people appear to implicitly assume that when you can buy, say, X >> 1 yen for one USD, that somehow means that

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