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by oillio 10y ago
We have to assume Satoshi saw this problem and actually did something about it. No one can come out and say, "We must change bitcoin. You should follow me because I created it." By removing the founder role, Bitcoin is just that
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by oillio 11y ago
Dynamic features in a language make tools impossible because communication is expected to be one way. The interaction between languages and their tools currently have a rigid design that is shared by almost every modern language. I would l
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Building a 3D model from paparazzi photos(homes.cs.washington.edu)
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Amazon crowns winner of first warehouse robot challenge(engadget.com)
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by oillio 11y ago
I tell them that my salary is covered under an NDA and that I cannot disclose it. I don't mention that the non-disclosure agreement is between me, myself, and I. I can't imagine a situation where you would lose a job offer becaus
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by oillio 11y ago
Posting to HN is consistent with his plan, as long as he doesn't respond to comments. He has said he will be write-only. He can post tweets, hn articles, etc. However, he cannot read the responses and comments to his output more than
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by oillio 12y ago
And then the world fought back. Cyanobacteria kickstarted a massive spike in bio-diversity. Why wouldn't this be the same? The grey goo won't be released in isolation. There will be other entities with the same technological le
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by oillio 12y ago
The cynic in me says that this may not be the point of SV ageism. Maybe young founders are preferred because they are cheap and they fail fast. They don't have the proverbial family to feed, and they don't have enough life experi
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by oillio 12y ago
How many of those Chinese factories producing PV panels are being held responsible for 100% of their externalities?
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Tor de-anonymizing through traffic pattern analysis(mice.cs.columbia.edu)
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by oillio 12y ago
We had these for the EE department doors in college. They were pretty cool. Nowadays I don't want another key. I want a standardized RFID protocol (active and passive). I have two office RFID cards, a key-fob for my car, a card for
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by oillio 12y ago
I personally like the idea of the Nymi. http://www.getnymi.com/ There are plenty of NFC-like standards, and smart card-like authentication protocols. Can we just standardize on one of them, get the hardware out there, and
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by oillio 12y ago
Very cool. Thanks. One feature request: The ability to order by things other than rating, like release date.
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by oillio 12y ago
hehe, cool. I thought the separation of concerns sounded familiar. I expect Eve will have an open architecture? So that those of us that like to plumb the depths can play too. Most of these "programming for the masses" projects
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by oillio 12y ago
I am a bit disappointed about Light Table, though it was obviously coming. Good luck with Eve. I am sure you have read it already, but the paper "Out Of The Tar Pit" by Ben Moseley and Peter Marks might be of interest. http:&#x2
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by oillio 12y ago
Hydrogen storage is significantly more difficult than LPG. The pressures need to be higher, which means stronger and more expensive tanks. It also means we must input more energy to compress the gas for storage. Hydrogen is also significan
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by oillio 12y ago
The story claims that they are "locking up the hydrogen in a liquid." They say they are actually producing the hydrogen in a different chamber from where the electrolysis is done. They don't discuss the possibility of storag
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by oillio 12y ago
You said there was $28M in leverage before the crash. Do you know what the leverage is currently?
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by oillio 12y ago
There is also Maidsafe: http://maidsafe.net/ They are building a distributed file store system. They use consensus algorithms to ensure data integrity. There is a specification for a crypto-currency on top of that. I do n
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by oillio 12y ago
You just made my counter argument for me. Ninjas are definitely gendered. Yes, the argument is about formality. The claim is that "diva" is degrading because it is unprofessional and narcissistic, where "web developer"
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by oillio 12y ago
From the article: "It seems so degrading," Wheat said. "If you're a girl interested in building websites, you're a 'web diva.' If you're a boy, you're a web developer." ---------------------
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by oillio 13y ago
This might be workable with an exchange (there still needs to be trust in the guy holding the USD). However, options markets require margin accounts. It is pretty hard to offer anyone credit without a lot of trust.
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by oillio 13y ago
This is effectively how bitcoin transactions work now. It gets considerably more complicated when you include multi-party signatures. In this case, transactions are signed by multiple private keys, but none of the parties will know the ot
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by oillio 13y ago
Due to the intricacies of ECC (the cryptography used in signing transactions) the signature can always be mutated to produce a different, but equally valid signature. If the developers want to avoid transaction malleability, they will not b
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by oillio 13y ago
You cannot make your currency resemble official US currency in any way that would confuse a normal citizen. This has been interpreted rather broadly. The Secret Service has shut down a number of private currencies due to this rule, includ
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by oillio 13y ago
True. This is economics, there are no hard and fast rules. In fact, I would say that the moment a hard and fast rule is discovered, is the exact moment that it becomes invalid. However, even in your example, the higher prices will only co
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by oillio 13y ago
I think it is performing as you would expect. When China/Russia bans Bitcoin, it reduces the demand as law abiding citizens stop using it. Reduced demand leads to reduced prices.
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by oillio 13y ago
At the end of the day, there must be some applications that cannot be fixed by increasing concurrency to the limit in a standard dyno. They would not bother implementing XL dynos if this was not the case.
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by oillio 13y ago
This is assuming the application developers understand the problem and write the application accordingly. There are workarounds, which require some legwork and forsight. Reducing the pitfalls inherit in deploying a web app is generally what
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by oillio 13y ago
It seems to me this move is to compensate for the well understood issues in their routing layer. You can call these issues "bold decisions." In my opinion, it reads more like, "We don't know how to fix the problem. If

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