nhaehnle

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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Dependencies between services exist, and for good reason (e.g. various services depending on a database). How do you propose to deal with them?
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The question is: does he or she make fanny packs a cause for themselves outside of threads like this? If not, then they're actually showing a pretty healthy attitude.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I disagree. Every such story has the potential to make people re-think their false belief that "I've got nothing to hide". I for one have added it to my list of bookmarks, and hope I remember to pass it on when somebody downp
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Do I have a moral obligation to pay said employee more than the current value he is providing to me? Now, most economists would say, "No," I seriously doubt that. After having gotten to know some actual economists (you know, aca
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Often, you need IPC merely to communicate with a child worker process. I've seen quite a number of projects that needlessly roll their own solution when one can just use the built-in process.send() method. Of course, this doesn't
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
And yet the actual functionality of Bitcoin - a simple ledger - could be implemented using much less resources than are used to maintain the Bitcoin network. It's curious, isn't it?
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The history of Wörgl is a bit debatable. There are some accounts that state that their alternative currency quickly devolved to essentially circulating within the city hall, because others became disillusioned about it, in particular its lo
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
At the very least, it's going to be an interesting time for BTC when new sites accepting it stops being news. That's going to be the next test for whether BTC can carry itself on its merits rather than on hype.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The article is vague on the "is" versus "feels", but keep in mind that there is no objective notion of fairness. Every discussion of fairness or - on this topic - distributive justice must acknowledge the different start
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Actually, my response to your first point gives you a very clear and useful test for deciding whether "criminals can use $FOO, therefore $FOO must be tightly controlled" actually applies to $FOO. That test is: Is owning/deali
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
It still does not justify the redundant comments. Keep an eye on that signal-to-noise ratio.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
On your first point: The world is not as black and white as you tend to see it. jahewson probably does not think that government should control everything related to money. However, society has a legitimate interest to keep a check on
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Anarchism very explicitly calls for a power vacuum to be created. That's actually what the word means . Now, I can easily believe that a majority of people wouldn't want to be ruled by anyone, but what do you do about the minorit
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
What you call anarchism is really a very specific subcategory called anarcho-capitalism. In any case, it is similarly naive as other strands of anarchism. Power vacuums will inevitably be filled. The question is: What do you want them to be
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Looking at the very bottom of that page, I do not understand how that function would prevent ASIC mining from being significant. You still need to compute a huge number of (SHA-3) hashes, and speeding these up could still make a significant
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
You can use whatever language you like. There's really not much special about VR from the programming point of view. The Oculus Rift is really just a display that gets recognized as an additional monitor plus a USB device for head trac
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
+1 for actually coming back, even if not with exact links. I must say that I find it hard to get a good picture from the links in a simple Google search, and your numbers seem weird. South Africa has a population of 50+ million, how do you
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
If there really hasn't been any meaningful innovation in that other technology stack, then the situation looks actually looks worse for the long-term fate of Bitcoin, because it means that the other technology stack could easily improv
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The micropayments claim is a red herring. If Bitcoin were to actually take off for micropayments, it would no longer scale, and/or the operation of Bitcoin nodes would be limited to people with very serious hardware. At that point, we&
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I find that fascinating as well. A thorough probabilistic analysis could be fun, but I'm too tired for that right now. One thing to keep in mind is that even supposedly uniform distributions can have outliers. For example, if you just
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Yes it would, though that kind of modelling is some orders of magnitude outside of the scope of the toy model in the article.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
At least in the case of Python, "batteries included" decidedly works badly when it comes to graphics. The really usable and used GUI and graphics libraries for Python are all third-party. It is indeed helpful in other areas, thoug
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Here's a thought that I was recently introduced to: All such discussions should always be prefixed with "Given that/As long as society's distributional mechanisms are accomodating, ...". In this particular case: &qu
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Do you have some links to sources?
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The datapoint in your last paragraph fits well with the pro-social safety net sentiment that is sometimes expressed here: It is much easier to take the risk of creating a startup if you have a guaranteed safety net. Kids from a genuinely ri
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Could it be that, given the existing setup of the market, Uber is a good guy in the US, but a bad guy in France? This is probably not a popular opinion here, and I'm neither USian nor French, but hear me out: In the US, there is a syst
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Even 14nm fabs exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14_nanometer Vendors are pretty tight-lipped about yield, though, and your other points stand as well, obviously.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
On the other hand, the vast majority of the population produces something that somebody else is interested in. It's just that not everybody contributes everywhere. Specialization is useful.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
It's easy to argue that abstract privacy as a concept separate form physical privacy simply did not exist at that time in history because of a lack of electronics. A corollary is that they probably would have added abstract privacy if
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
This is pretty accurate, actually, and has been studied by economists, for whom this was a huge problem: If the free market is supposed to be so great, then why are firms not organized as markets internally? In fact, why do they exist in th

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