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by pakitan 10y ago
The cold hard numbers suggest that Minecraft is well past its peak. MS sold 50M copies for 2 years, which is ~ 70K/day. 2016 they have sold 50K/day. Also: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=minecraft And
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by pakitan 10y ago
And then you'll have ransomware-review sites popping up, separating the "good" from the "bad" ransomware.
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by pakitan 11y ago
> Computers don't "even out spectrum" Not "on purpose", of course. But with a bad PRNG, the probability of 10 heads in a row is lower compared to a proper PRNG so in a sense the bad one is "evening out spect
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by pakitan 11y ago
No, it was MCRed who originally said low/no carbs. I was pretty clear that you get some carbs with your food no matter how hard your try to avoid it. What I said is that it's generally accepted that you need less than 30g carbs&#x
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by pakitan 11y ago
Are you seriously trying to use a blog post with zero referenced studies to back up your opinion? Was I supposed to be impressed by the harvard.edu domain? Did you even glance over the wiki page I posted above? Low/zero carb diets are
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by pakitan 11y ago
> You need carbs for energy No, you don't. Of course, no carbs at all is impossible as even meat contains trace amounts but keeping it under 30gr (which is what's generally accepted for keeping a nutritional ketosis state) is p
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by pakitan 11y ago
A valid certificate only allows you to have a secure connection without errors and warnings popping up all over. It does nothing to guarantee that the domain is "legit". You can already set up thecitibank.com and get an SSL certif
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The Economist Who Realized How Crazy We Are(bloombergview.com)
8 points by pakitan 11y ago|0 comments
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by pakitan 11y ago
The main purpose of roads is to handle vehicle traffic. Here I see solar panels covered with glass and I just don't get it how it can be used for anything else but to generate hype. Even if the glass was somehow more damage resistant t
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by pakitan 11y ago
When you're threatened with jail time and million dollar fines, your first thought isn't "yeah, screw it, I'll appeal". Most rational people will just play it safe and comply. Knowing that, authorities can use it t
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by pakitan 11y ago
> As much as I hate to admit it, there is such a thing as dangerous information I do agree with you on that but the problem, as always, is who decides what's dangerous information? What if I published the blueprint of a blinding dro
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by pakitan 12y ago
> Why wouldn't it be a huge mycelium? Why hadn't it? I mean, not only doesn't it posses a drop of intelligence, there isn't even something similar that does. And that's after billions of years. My guess is someth
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by pakitan 12y ago
I used to think that way but not anymore. We didn't just pop out of somewhere with randomly created features. We are the result of an evolution and (almost) everything we have serves a purpose. If we imagine a distant planet similar to
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by pakitan 12y ago
Note that the biggest reduction in mortality was found in people who walked for an hour a day. Yet that group probably contained the most of what you call "subclinically ill". After all that's one of the easiest forms of exer
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by pakitan 12y ago
There is quite a big difference. At the computer I have a myriad of distractions available at a click away.
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by pakitan 12y ago
Is there any chance the effects of meditation can be achieved by, say, trying to solve a puzzle in your head? Meditation sounds great and all but when you actually start doing it, it's painfully boring and feels like a waste of time. A
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by pakitan 12y ago
Tragedy of the commons. It may be bad for bitcoin as a whole but it's beneficial for that single miner because bigger pool means less variation of miner's income.
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by pakitan 12y ago
> In chess I'm good at strategy but terrible at calculating Chess is 99% tactics/calculation. What we call "strategy" is just a set of heuristics that we use to avoid having to do endless calculations. However, a lot
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by pakitan 12y ago
Don't stop there. Architecture = putting thoughts in a "virtual building" form. Therefore everyone should learn how to design their own house. Seriously, you're making quite the jump putting writing on the same level as
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by pakitan 12y ago
> There was a time when 'writing' was a specialist activity best left to professionals. Imagine if that never changed? Writing = thoughts put on paper. When writing was a "specialist" activity it was due mostly to tec
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by pakitan 13y ago
The signs were there, we all knew that. It's just that hindsight makes you believe the signs meant 100% probability Gox will go down. But back then with the limited information everyone had, that was definitely not the case. At some po
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by pakitan 13y ago
I would have some sympathy for them, if they had shut down immediately after realizing they would not be able to pay their debts. Instead we were fooled with "everything is ok, we are reopening soon" PRs while massive insider trad
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by pakitan 13y ago
> a depositor could expect to recover no more than fifty-nine cents to the dollar 59% is a wet-dream scenario. Apparently they are trying really hard to value the lost 750K BTC at the closing MtGox price which was around $100. And Bitcoi
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by pakitan 13y ago
I'm curious if any sane investor would be interested in acquiring Gox and promising to pay, say, 20% of its debts. In that case, a large percentage of customers may simply sue and the investor will be in a real bad position. So, if the
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by pakitan 13y ago
As far as I recall, their last tweet was something like Jan 7. So, while I can't make sense of their actions either, I haven't seen much damning evidence in their tweets and they stopped tweeting long before the current debacle st
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by pakitan 13y ago
You're mistaken if you think full reserve banking somehow doesn't "stretch" the money supply. Let's say I deposit $10K in a "full reserve" bank. The bank then loans it to someone who buys a car. The car de
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by pakitan 13y ago
I'm quite surprised to see caffeine ranked so close to modafinil. I've never used modafinil but from what I've read, for some people it's almost a wonder-drug. Caffeine gets me "high" but if anything, it can ev
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by pakitan 13y ago
> Is it true that as long as an exchange keeps functioning, then it's "here to stay" no matter how badly they behave? No, and that's evident by the fact that Mt.Gox has been losing market share steadily since their wi
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by pakitan 13y ago
How is Dogebook different than Facebook? I mean you can create an account in both, follow your friends, "like" stuff...etc. They are essentially the same so they must both be worth billions, right? What makes bitcoin different is
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by pakitan 13y ago
I'm thinking this: http://pastebin.com/GW1hTXwD Dying to know if I made it through the math FizzBuzz :)

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