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by pash 10y ago
The legal history of the concept of citizenship in the United States is remarkably circuitous. The original text of the constitution referred only to citizens of individual states, never to citizens of the United States. Consequently, feder
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Each block's header contains a hash that is the root of a Merkle tree [0] of the transactions in the block. The Merkle-root hash effectively summarizes all of the block's transactions, which allows the overall block hash to be a h
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by pash 10y ago
I re-phrased my summary of the reviewer's portrayal of Thomas Mann before you posted—but, yes, I agree that it's an unfair and misleading picture of Mann. Mann became an outspoken opponent of the Nazi regime after he emigrated, es
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To flesh out and challenge the writer's portrait of Thomas Mann as a "great respecter of authority" who rolled over for the Nazis (a basically unfair portrait, as the comments below develop), I will submit one of my favorite
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I've been waiting for this release before finally trying to switch from Vim (MacVim) to Spacemacs. Anybody have any tips for somebody who's never really used Emacs?
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Everyone in the space who was paying attention knew the DAO was likely to be a debacle, which is a major secondary reason that many people opposed forking to save it. This is what moral hazard looks like in the world of cryptographic "
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The OP specifically calls them elements of F_2. There's no harm in thinking of the elements of F_2 as the ordinary numbers 0 and 1, as they retain all the properties of those numbers that are pertinent in the restricted setting of a tw
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by pash 10y ago
I wouldn't say they don't mean the usual numbers 0 and 1 in this setting. F_2, also called GF(2) in another standard notation, can readily be interpreted as the set containing only the natural numbers 0 and 1, together with the op
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by pash 10y ago
Yep, I looked it up too, and indeed par and impar seem to have been the standard Latin terms for even and odd in the mathematics of the era. See, e.g., Clavius's 1574 translation of Euclid's Elements [0]. 0. https:&#x2F
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Yes, that's more or less what I meant, though from what I understand of pre-modern mathematics, I still think it's likely that power-series representations were the inspiration for applying the terms odd and even to functions.
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I did not mean to imply that Wikipedia was my source for the etymology of even and odd as classifications of functions. (I hadn't really meant to make an etymological point at all, and I added the link only so that readers unfamili
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It's a bit odd (pardon the pun) that the words Taylor series [0] appear neither in the blog post nor so far in the comments, since that's the origin of the terms odd and even in this context [1]: the power series of odd func
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The excavation of the Malta near the Missouri River east of Kansas City started this spring. The exploration group has a blog [0], but it hasn't been updated since March. A newspaper article from April has more details [1]. The Arab
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Your point, it seemed to me, was that a judge's decision would trump the blockchain's. My point was that a judge might decide (a) that he has no say, or (b) that what the blockchain says goes. In either case, the law would effecti
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You have vastly oversimplified the matter. In common-law jurisdictions, contract law pertains only to agreements which are made with the intent to contract , i.e., with the intent that the agreement should be enforced by law. In the case o
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I imagine you know that insolvency has a very different meaning for a central bank than it does for a commercial bank. Cash is nominally a liability of the central bank, but it does not represent a real claim on the bank's assets, so a
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by pash 10y ago
I'm not sure why you consider credit derivatives to be positive feedback mechanisms. They damp the losses the system otherwise suffers. The point of having the central bank play the role of CDS-issuer is that (a) a central bank alone h
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By auction at issue, and then in secondary markets. The securities would protect against default over a fixed timeframe, so overall the market would look much like the market for treasuries. But, no, a central bank wouldn't really have
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One overlooked mechanism to forstall the next systemic credit crisis—this occurred to me when I studied these topics in graduate school in the years after the last crisis—is to have central banks issue credit-default swaps against the failu
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This reflects basic properties of the real numbers, e.g., that almost all of them are irrational, almost all of them are transcendental, almost all of them are uncomputable, etc. The familiar real numbers, those that people (including mathe
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One of the things I dislike about graphics displaying live (or otherwise unfinalized) electoral results is that the viewer must know something about political geography in order to interpret them: Are the tallies I'm seeing in line wit
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Opening a payment channel requires an on-chain transaction, as does finalizing a sequence of transactions sent over the channel. So for every sequence of off-chain transactions on a Lightning Network, you must put two transactions into the
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As I explained in another thread [0], there is a reasonable argument that so-called "smart contracts" are not legally contracts at all, because they are not intended to give the parties recourse to legal enforcement of their terms
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> Contracts are agreements that are meant to be legally enforceable. You have hit on an important point, but like most commentators here and elsewhere, you seem entirely to have failed to recognize its significance. In the American and
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Yes, you're right, more or less. (And this is the reason I edited my post to claim "little advantage" rather than "no advantage" from increased prices, possibly after you replied to it.) But analyzing the effect you
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> Why is the non-price way of rationing better than rationing based on who is willing to pay the most? It's not. But rationing by price has little advantage if you're not going to allow anybody to build more housing: the basi
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Instead of mining the bio guide, I would mine Wikipedia. There is a page listing all members of the current U.S. Congress [0], and that page links to each member's own Wikipedia page. Almost without exception, each current member'
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Do these new rules expand the claimed foreign jurisdiction of US federal courts or not? The amended rules provide new authorities for issuing warrants when "the district where the media or information is located has been concealed thro
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SQExcel? The domain sqexcel.com is available.
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Microsoft seem to be more interested in Ethereum [0]. They introduced an Ethereum blockchain-as-a-service offering on Azure [1] last year, and they are working with R3 [2] and some other Ethereum-using players in the much-hyped blockchain s

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