nlperguiy

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by nlperguiy 9y ago
I would not say that the system disproportionately affects non-white Americans. I would also not say that the system is biased, there's not a law, a rule, nothing, creating a bias in the system. I would also say that bias of the indivi
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
So, my characterization of the cop might seem like I'm victimizing him. I'm not. Your characterization of the cop just proves my point. It is not the system wide conspiracy to kill, it's that people who want to kill and are s
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
That whole situation was a mess. A scared cop with an assault rifle, an intoxicated suspect. Instructions that are a mess, a victim that can't comply with the instructions because of intoxication. Then the victim reaches for the right
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Still, subsidies given do not really indicate long-term sustainable food supply. The most efficient way to guarantee food for the population is by growing plants directly. If it turns out that the farmer that uses the water for his grain fe
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Imagine if farmers were growing luxury vegetables like tomatoes, potatoes, beans, instead of growing several magnitudes more of cheap crappy grains that are then filtered through bodies of animals. Of course issues exist, because inefficien
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
These successful tests are research-level developments, just like lightning network. Bitcoin is extremely early stage technology. It'll take years for a bunch of scaling developments and blocksize is just a temporary measure.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
That's why they call them fake news. They really need to tone down the emotions and improve their fact checking and concentrate the news on facts, otherwise the people will just classify them as biased, lying, conspiracy media instead
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Why would bitcoin mempool be oversaturated year after year at Christmas time if not for the people buying stuff?
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Of course, if they knew this was still early stage technology that does not even work as it is meant to be working and that a bunch of new developments are research level discoveries that take years to finetune, they would never put in that
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
> With the additional benefit that it keeps people warm/cool? Most of that energy is wasted because of the architecture and irrational desire of 24/7 comfort AC blasting at the coolest setting. > Can you please tell me why y
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
I'm not sure you're aware of the real numbers? The amount of energy used for heating and cooling is extremely huge. Bitcoin is probably 0.0x% of that amount. Internet is 2% of the whole CO2 emissions, heating and cooling is more t
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
The amount of energy used on heating and cooling is several magnitudes larger than whole mining for bitcoin. It's not a monster, it just sounds ridiculously big, but Internet uses more. Airplanes use magnitudes more, even cow farts are
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
On some exchanges it was an opposite direction. Down to 12k then up back to 15k.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
I know two projects (fairly simple implementation) of sequential SVM. I believe vowpal wabbit can also do max-margin optimization. http://leon.bottou.org/projects/lasvm http://leon.bottou.org/projects&#
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Yet taking too much B12 increases risk for lung cancer. [1] [2] [1]: http://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2017.72.7735 [2]: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/22/health/vita
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
True, cyanocobalamin for people like you won't work. Although consuming just methylcobalamin leaves out adenosylcobalamin.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
The amount of energy used for BTC is nothing compared to energy used for Internet. It's equivalent to 0, compared to usage for heating and cooling.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Not if it's mining running on solar.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
I've always wondered why data for some huge meta-analysis studies isn't availabe. If you're not a researcher you can practically never verify the result that there's no link between vaccines and autism, or any other simi
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Some exchanges offer fee-less withdrawals (like Bitstamp), which makes arbitrage more profitable. I'm pretty sure they'd ban you ASAP if you're withdrawing like crazy (they are paying your fees in BTC). As for transfer times
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
for arbitrage you want to move all currencies, not just one. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets for example, bitcoin is now huge on bithumb, I'd buy it at bitstamp and sell it for 10% more,
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Main source of instability is price manipulation by big players and market inefficiency (not easy enough to arbitrage between exchanges). It would be interesting to see them do the same thing if BTC market cap is in couple of trillions. For
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Ethereum had a master node too. Other than that, yeah it's weird. Although I'm not sure why there's so many announcements of businesses like Microsoft, Fujitsu doing partnerships with IOTA. Sounds very weird and overpumped.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Yeah, I'm quite confused that there's no mention of SEARN or LOLS or similar imitation learning algorithms in the references of the Alpha Zero paper. The algorithm for learning looks severely derived from that 10 year old idea.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
2nd layer solutions would provide fungibility and ultimate privacy. Cryptocurrencies like Zcash, Dash or Monero, especially Monero, could be illegal.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
largest bitcoin miners can't attack blockchains whose proof of work algorithm is ASIC resistant or just a completely different calculation algorithm. Monero is a one good example (feasible only on GPU and CPU, probably needs some R&amp
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
I'm not sure if materials on edx are still available but Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing [1] course there was mindblowing. I was surprised how the ideas and maths were simple enough. [1]: https://www.edx.org/cou
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
There's an optionable Payment ID you can attach (also encrypted), so receiver can confirm that the payment received was for a particular purpose. Let's say payment id is user id + product id, so receiver could easily confirm that
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Money laundering and terrorist financing can be done and is done with fiat currencies too. Bitcoin is also not a private coin, ledger is public and anyone can analyze the flow of money. The only private coin I know of is Monero (XMR). Analy
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
These bugs can be tested. You launch a testnet, and test them. There was no reason why one wouldn't run a testnet and see how fork will go after block XYZ. I'd rather have a global ledger with consensus than allow a few companies

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