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by nhaehnle 12y ago
In my experience the best way to answer this question is by asking a different question: How do bank transfers work? That is, when you, as a regular person, transfer money electronically from your account to somebody else's, what'
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Actually, this is not what is happening here. A negative interest rate for central bank deposits means that instead of the central bank paying money to commercial banks, commercial banks are now paying the central bank. So if anything, this
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
One important dynamic is that contracting, due to its slippery nature, attracts the kind of people whose skill is siphoning money away from government while minimizing what they deliver. Think about it: Even contracted physical construction
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
> Everything stops for food. Fast food of course exists in Korea. But no matter what's going on, how critical it is, or how behind everybody is, my experience is that Koreans will drop everything during meal time and take a remarkab
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Genuine question: Have there been examples of socialist countries or unionized jobs where profit was made and shared among employees rather than taken either by private capital ownership or by the government? At least as far as I know, ther
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
I think it is fairer to say these things are, for all practical purposes, the result of capitalism. Socialism was really just a backlash against capitalism. To be slightly more precise and elaborate, historically the fixed work week and w
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
This is true for many modern high-speed trains (though those tend to not be diesel trains...), but those are only a small fraction of all trains. Upgrading all existing freight cars with dedicated motors would be a crazy effort. Of course y
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Somewhat counter-intuitively, security flaws in banking can be beneficial for customers. The argument is simply that security is hard for clients; passwords and PINs get written down no matter how much you'd like them not to. However,
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
For the time being, it only applies to elliptic curves. However, the curves in actual use are over fields of large characteristic, so this result does not break them. Obviously, any advance in understanding the discrete logarithm problem ma
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
A 6-character password is only insecure if you have unlimited attempts to guess it. If an attacker is blocked after something like 10 attempts, a 6-character password really provides all the security you need.
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
The personal data is somewhat vulnerable, but the actual money is more secure. This is very important. It is nice that a purely distributed system can essentially achieve non-reversible transaction, but that's not something that most
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
The article reminds us of some very good points about our relationships with developing countries. Education does so much more for spreading democracy than drones do, but our monetary priorities don't reflect this, unfortunately. I stu
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
I don't know whether the actual history of mathematics is useful for understanding mathematics. However, I do believe that a plausible story of how somebody came up with concepts is very important. It can be tempting to structure a mat
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
It would still be nice if you (or somebody else) pointed at those examples. That would open new avenues for learning and communication.
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
A curious "definition" I once read (sorry, don't remember the original source) goes something like this. Mathematics is the smallest subject that satisfies the following: 1. Mathematics is the collection of topics for which t
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
No, Github work demonstrates what work you have done on projects that happen to live on Github. Saying that that is "who you actually are" shows a rather narrow idea of what "being" means. There are other things than cod
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
This option is also really annoying when you have switches over really large enum types, such as key codes, where it is usually legitimate to have a default case. I guess even more annotations are needed ;)
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The thing is, all the relevant page table data should already be in L1 caches when the page fault handler returns. The TLB miss on iret should not require raw memory lookups and should be much faster than 300 cycles. Probably it's more
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I am >99% confident that this is false for default setups. write() itself may return even before a command has been sent to the physical disk, and definitely before the disk reports that it is done. Waiting for the disk on every write(
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
My bet is that the vast majority of those funds has been in the form of BTC for a long time, and a large part has always been in the form of BTC. Think about it: You're sitting on a large BTC mining fortune, and you've been watc
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I believe kolektiv's point was about how the author wrote her/his piece kind of assuming that their readers think tight deadlines lead to inspiration. That is, the point was reflecting on how warped the subculture of WSJ readers m
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
This has nothing to do with laziness, because laziness does not affect the semantics of a program that has bounded recursion. [0] The problem is that the quoted part of the article is written as if the >>= operator had side-effects (w
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
From the article: The infix application function (ma>>=\a->f(a)), commonly called bind, executes the computation ma to expose its effects, calling the resulting value a, and passes that to function f. This is the kind of imprecis
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Guideline: if an article about random generating functions doesn't include the word "entropy" in the first 1000 words, it's not worth reading. I don't feel like that applies to the field "covered" by thi
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I liked your comment, thank you. I don't quite agree though, because I get the feeling that you're not really talking about centralization of the economy , but about the centralization of power . True, enforcing a decentralized
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
If your hosts have, say, dual 4-way CPUs, and you're giving your VMs 8 vCPUs, then a single VM can execute per clock cycle since a VM needs all of it's vCPUs made available to the guest OS. This seems wrong to me. We're tal
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I think it's important to keep in mind that people acting to support each other's healthcare without external assistance is one of those things that government is . After all, European societies with solid health systems did not
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Bash scripting is one of those domains that people just randomly enter without a full walk through the documentation. It's one of those things that almost everybody learns by copy and paste. Given that, I think it's nice to be a b
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
To be fair, if comparing Bitcoin to a sandcastle is a fair comparison, then it's better for this to be made obvious to everybody before it reaches critical mass. Perhaps more importantly, this feature doesn't actually rely on mine
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The problem is that your statement "all is legal for the sovereign" is just plain false according to the most widely accepted definition of legality. By propagating it as if it were true, you are in fact playing into the hands of

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