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by o_nate 11y ago
I think most likely Satoshi was a pseudonym jointly created by Kleiman & Wright for their collaboration, but after Kleiman died, Wright went back and faked emails to make it look like he alone was Satoshi.
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Or Kleiman & Wright formed the Satoshi identity as a collaboration, and after Kleiman died, Wright decided to edit the historical record to take more of the credit for himself.
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by o_nate 11y ago
I think you have a limited view of what counts as literary. Well-developed characters are not a rigid requirement. Many classics of literature don't feature them. Have you ever read Kafka or Borges?
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by o_nate 11y ago
The idea that the Hugos were a "celebration of something deeply unliterary" seems bizarre to me. Looking at the winners over the years it seems pretty clear they are generally works with higher than average literary merit within
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Big data, technology, and the elderly(mathbabe.org)
1 points by o_nate 11y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 11y ago
Hahaha... This post made my day.
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A VIC-20 was my first computer. I still have fond memories of writing random-sentence generators in BASIC on that thing.
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by o_nate 11y ago
This particular article is rather basic, but the article and paper about FREQ and its improvements over IRR are fascinating, especially if you've ever spent time banging your head against the wall of trying to come up with the best way
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by o_nate 11y ago
The title of this article seems a bit misleading. It was "glorious" - except that it broke many of the most popular sites on the web. Also, the discussion of "open source" javascript seems a bit confused. For anyone wh
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by o_nate 11y ago
Still a happy Zune 30GB user. One nice thing about using a discontinued device is that the manufacturer doesn't keep bloating up the software. (Also you can get refurbished replacement units cheap.) I guess at some point it won't
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by o_nate 11y ago
I assume if we went to war, the US government would immediately seize all assets of the enemy government that were within its jurisdiction, presumably including any Treasury bond holdings. So it would keep paying the coupons, but it would
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by o_nate 11y ago
I still use a Zune 30GB player. When my original one finally stopped holding a charge, I got a refurbished one for under $100 on Amazon to replace it. The sound quality is pretty decent, which is the main thing I care about, and the Zune
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by o_nate 11y ago
These stories came around a few years ago when swap spreads went negative, and it seems like the same mistakes in interpretation are being made again. Negative swap spreads do NOT imply that big banks are more creditworthy than the US Trea
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by o_nate 11y ago
"The Danes’ dirty secret is that its public sector has been propped up by -- now dwindling -- oil revenues. In Norway’s case, of course, it’s no secret." Lots of places have oil wealth, including the US. But whereas in the US the
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Scottish Nurse Who Had Ebola Is Back in Hospital and Critically Ill(nytimes.com)
2 points by o_nate 11y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 11y ago
I think the point of the refactoring was not to "solve" anything, and certainly not to make anything more abstract. Rather it was to make the code more readable. For me, a Clojure newbie, it succeeded admirably at that purpose.
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by o_nate 11y ago
Not sure the context of this question, but I'd be interested in hearing what people do about desktop-deployed applications that need to access a server with authentication (such as a database server).
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by o_nate 11y ago
It's been known since at least 2014 that real-world emissions from many diesel cars were much higher than lab-measured emissions. There was speculation about defeat devices as well. EU regulators had recently made moves towards requi
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by o_nate 11y ago
Ah, I see. It sounds to me like the issue is that there's not enough of a market to attract the interest of another company to get over the initial fixed costs to get the drug approved. Seems like a possible reform would be to stream
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by o_nate 11y ago
No, I understand that, but I thought once a drug's patent expires then any reputable pharmaceutical company could manufacture it as a generic (with the proper testing of course). Is that not the case here?
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by o_nate 11y ago
I'm not a patent lawyer, but I don't understand how 62-year old drugs still require licenses to be manufactured? Seems like another case of patent law gone mad.
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by o_nate 11y ago
Some people have a bit of an itchy trigger-finger with down votes. I wouldn't waste my time worrying about it.
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by o_nate 11y ago
The law is probably similar, but the technological ability to restrict access is not. Youtube allows you to stream only, not download. That makes it easier to get license holders on board. (Yes, there are workarounds for that, but most u
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The Tech Productivity Mystery(bloombergview.com)
3 points by o_nate 11y ago|0 comments
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By listening to music that I enjoy. My commute is mostly highway driving, so it doesn't require too much conscious concentration, which allows me to focus more on the music. Of course, I have to tend towards louder stuff that doesn&#
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by o_nate 11y ago
At many finance shops, the CIO can even outrank the CEO, in reality if not on paper. For instance, during his glory days at PIMCO, Bill Gross was CIO while others, such as Mohammed el-Erian filled the CEO role, even when Gross was basicall
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by o_nate 11y ago
The point of the puzzle is to show that there is not a unique way of applying the Principle of Indifference when there are different ways of enumerating the possibility space.
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by o_nate 11y ago
This seems the more credible AI threat to me: not that an AI will go rogue and decide on its own to start killing people, but rather that humans will design an AI with the express purpose of killing people.
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by o_nate 11y ago
Explaining how a cell works is not the same as explaining how cells first came to exist. Once a cell exists, given certain conditions, it can replicate itself - we can explain each step in the process with reference to laws of chemistry.
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I agree. This seems to me an abuse of the term "paradox". Lots of math results are surprising to people who've never worked through them. I think "paradox" should ideally be reserved for things that have two logi

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