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631.
The Spread of Feynman Diagrams in the USA, Japan, and the USSR (2004) [pdf](web.mit.edu)
41 points by pja 9y ago|2 comments
632.
by pja 9y ago
That's a good idea. Done.
633.
by pja 9y ago
There's a sweeping exemption from the DPA for the purposes of "national security". Any minister can issue a certificate stating that a given activity is for the purposes of national security and therefore exempt & these c
634.
by pja 9y ago
Refusing to provide the password to a BitCoin wallet found on a computer you own is probably going to fall under that particular doctrine. I look forward to the first test case...
635.
by pja 9y ago
Nope, but a quick Google suggests that this paper: “Spreading the Tools of Theory: Feynman Diagrams in the USA, Japan, and the Soviet Union” by David Kaiser, Kenji Ito and Karl Hall http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/
636.
by pja 9y ago
And you could still refuse and accept your jail time. In most jurisdictions (including the US) the sanction for contempt of court is potentially unlimited: the convicted individual may find that they are only freed when they comply with t
637.
by pja 9y ago
So essentially what you’re saying is that the unique value proposition of BitCoin is that it allows you to make payments that break the law in your jurisdiction. I mean, I agree with you entirely: that is BitCoin’s unique value propositio
638.
by pja 9y ago
History shows that knowledge transfer is really, really hard. Humans are just not very good at it :( (A similar story is told of the spread of the use of Feynman diagrams in physics - I’ve read that their spread was far slower than you’d ex
639.
by pja 9y ago
Here’s a blog post by the programmer in question: http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=06.+Thoughts&proj=02.%20Android... I think that covers most of the main points. Of course, it may be that it all came down to support contra
640.
by pja 9y ago
IIRC Google cut support for the Nexus 4 whilst maintaining support for their tablet that used exactly the same chipset. One of Google’s Android engineers even did their own cut+paste builds for the Nexus 4 from the new Android release at th
641.
by pja 9y ago
Indeed - there’s no anonymity in BitCoin itself as all transactions are trackable. What anonymity there is exist because of external services like mixers/tumblers and the difficulty level of directly tying a given wallet to an individu
642.
by pja 9y ago
If Google cared about Google Finance, they would have done that five years ago (or more). It’s clearly in maintenance mode, with the bare minimum spent on it to keep the lights on but no active development.
643.
by pja 9y ago
Google Finance is a dead product walking: Are there any developers actually working on it at all?
644.
Scott Aaronson’s “Big Numbers” Talk at Festivaletteratura(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by pja 9y ago|0 comments
645.
by pja 9y ago
& if you want evidence of this cycle in action for BitCoin, try this: “The price of BitCoin has a 91% correlation with Google searches for BitCoin” http://uk.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-correlation-goog... Obviou
646.
by pja 9y ago
On ChromeOS & on Windows with the Edge browser it integrates with the OS notification system. Not sure what Firefox does.
647.
by pja 9y ago
Timing bubbles collapses is notoriously difficult. (In my personal opinion: It's like asking when the next collapse in a sandpile will happen & how big it will be. Not possible.)
648.
by pja 9y ago
Once a security has entered bubble territory, by definition its price has become disassociated from any underlying fundamentals - bubbles form when rising prices drive positive sentiment which pulls in fresh buyers who buy into the rising p
649.
by pja 9y ago
1) Shorting into a bubble is usually a terrible idea. 2) The only realistic way to short BTC is to do so via a very small list of exchanges. Even if you trust them (which, given the history of cryptocurrency exchanges is hardly a given) the
650.
by pja 9y ago
UK traffic lights changed the green colour to something closer to cyan at some point for exactly this reason. (This might be an EU wide thing.)
651.
by pja 9y ago
Point! I did have something like that in the original version, but was experimenting with other approaches and lost the digits somewhere along the way.
652.
by pja 9y ago
I’m sure there's a way to define the main function above in an Applicative fashion, but my Haskell isn't really up to it!
653.
by pja 9y ago
No where near compact (or possibly obtuse?) enough for a Haskell version, surely? Here's one I found elsewhere on the net sometime ago: (~>) :: (Integral a) => a -> String -> a -> Maybe String (n ~> str) i =
654.
by pja 9y ago
Some of them are just pre-sales of whatever product the token is supposed to be about. This sort of ICO is (probably) legal: it's just a re-invention of the Green Stamps of the C20th. And about as useful.
655.
by pja 9y ago
Exactly. Only yesterday, my partner was complaining about how the like icons on her FaceBook page had become animated. Mine were static at the time - clearly FB had put her in a test bucket for some 'do animated like icons increase eng
656.
by pja 9y ago
Do you mean Change Ringing ?
657.
by pja 9y ago
Ethereum is BTC with an even greater wealth transfer to early adopters built-in in the form of the switch from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. What's the acceptable stake? Ether. How do you get Ether? You're going to have to buy
658.
by pja 9y ago
Honestly, this doesn't read like much of a recommendation to me. I think a native English speaker would probably write "I always check my article with it before publishing" - reversing the negation avoids the awkward "ne
659.
by pja 9y ago
Not if the tax cut is used to pay down debt, or is "saved" by buying government issued securities. Neither of these result in more economic activity. Sounds an awful lot like the post 2008 environment, no?
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by pja 9y ago
Being on the gold standard means occasional depressions caused purely by the inability of the supply of gold to keep up with the expansion in the economy IIRC.

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