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by osswannabe 4y ago
Disclaimer: dumb questions ahead. Who is this project intended for? I was under the impression that browsers and Adobe products implement their own VG renderers (not client-side JS code provided by websites). If that's correct, is this
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The connectome (kind of) doesn't matter!!(biorxiv.org)
3 points by osswannabe 5y ago|1 comments
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by osswannabe 5y ago
Summary: for the first time ever, researchers were able to record whole-brain activity for all 302 neurons in a freely moving C. Elegans. Further, they found that the map of which neurons are physically connected to which neurons (i.e. the
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by osswannabe 6y ago
For the first question, here are the features I thought would be beneficial to this brand new coin. 1) ASIC-resistant proof algorithm (like in ETH 2.0 iirc). 2) Fixed mining rewards. For example, offering 1 REcoin per mined block forever. T
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by osswannabe 6y ago
I think the problem is bigger than that. Consider the NYC housing market. Even though there's almost no vacant real estate, rents are always rising due to the constant flipping of property. I say flipping since most of these purchases
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by osswannabe 6y ago
My thinking was that real estate's lack of volatility comes from its illiquid nature. You can't buy and sell property on whim so there's less chance of temporary events (e.g. Trump tweets, earnings call results) having an out
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by osswannabe 6y ago
Of course this crypto wouldn't give you a physical asset (that's kind of the point). But if it were to be possible, maybe that 3-bedroom apartment wouldn't be so expensive...
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Ask HN: Cryptocurrency To Replace Real Estate?
3 points by osswannabe 6y ago|9 comments
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by osswannabe 6y ago
This is something Netflix has been doing for a while. I think it's called adaptive bitrate streaming - the video quality automatically adapts to your network connection.