popinman322

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   by popinman322 9y ago

   If identification were readily accessible and free then it would be a reasonable measure. But we don't live in a country like that-- instead we live somewhere where banks and credit unions get away with using SSNs for identification th
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   by popinman322 9y ago

   You can get a little safer than escrow via multisignature wallets; you need M-of-N signatures before bitcoins can be sent. You can tie the extra signatures to machine-interpretable signals like the state of a tracked package (when it hits d
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   by popinman322 9y ago

   Shopping with cryptocurrency has always seemed safer to me, personally. I keep all my BTC/LTC/ETH in Coinbase wallets, and whenever I want to send money from those wallets I need to go through multiple 2FA prompts. My debit/c
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   by popinman322 9y ago

   As for the former portion, I think the goal here is to force the applicant to be as succinct as possible to make the review process faster. I think you're right in that it would result in a larger number of patents, and there are certa
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   by popinman322 9y ago

   Honestly, you don't even have to make all the AI heroes separate. We automatically assume that each would be controlled by a separate virtual player, but one virtual player could very well control all controllable units on a team. That
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   by popinman322 9y ago

   Well that's interesting. Do new affiliate links push the old one(s) out? Do they stack?
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   by popinman322 9y ago

   Or Amazon may have added the tags as the writer was copying the URLs. Honestly, it doesn't seem like something to fault the writer for.
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   by popinman322 9y ago

   Actually, based on the site content I think they're using it to create an archive of speech data to train speech recognition systems.
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   by popinman322 9y ago

   Any short term returns from the market should be remarkably small per individual managed by a firm. It's the long term growth that you're banking on when you prepare for retirement years in advance.
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    by popinman322 9y ago

    But there is limited space in a physical newspaper. With finite space some choice has to be made as to what goes in and what doesn't. It's the same filtering that occurs with new media, except on a less personal scale and for diff
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    by popinman322 10y ago

    Run option A in one location, and option B in another, then see which works better? Of course the key would be to replicate the results in other locations to make sure the "better" option actually pans out. Are there any policies
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    by popinman322 10y ago

    I used to use Lua for quick calculations, but I've recently started using R because of operator vectorization. For conversions, why use GNU Units over, say, Google in your browser? I find that most of my unit conversions happen in my b
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    by popinman322 10y ago

    This is one of the best suggestions I've seen in this thread. Not only does it let you get the message out, but it also lets you track the proportion of licensed/cracked software in circulation. If your cracked versions overwhelm
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    by popinman322 10y ago

    There are basic units that were discovered and then those lead to more abstract/complex structures like what we're seeing here. "Collision-Based Computing" may be of interest to you. (Springer's prices are outrageou
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    by popinman322 10y ago

    Sorry to nitpick here, but... Ubuntu is a linux distribution; Canonical is the company that maintains, serves, ships, and provides support for Ubuntu. I feel like you didn't make that distinction clear in your comment.
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    by popinman322 10y ago

    So does this mean that if I have sensitive information and travel that I should just purchase computers in both inside and outside the US and never travel across the border with any electronics?
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    Ask HN: How do you access journals outside of academia?

    3 points by popinman322 10y ago|3 comments
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    by popinman322 10y ago

    As someone who grew up on well water with no fluoride in it I can confirm that my teeth are looking fine after all these years of regular dental checkups and twice daily tooth-brushing.
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    by popinman322 11y ago

    You'd think there would be some sort of global torrent network that simultaneously distributes binaries and signatures. Doesn't seem like a horrible idea to me: you could just add the developer's key to your client, have your
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    by popinman322 11y ago

    Consider JetBrains' products, most of which are JVM based. I can't remember any instances where IntelliJ was "laggy" except during processes that inherently take time for larger code bases (indexing, etc.).
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    by popinman322 11y ago

    I mean, if it were made out of stone it would still make for a nice paperweight long after the components are obsolete.
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    by popinman322 11y ago

    Just curious, what do you think of Stellar's consensus system? https://medium.com/a-stellar-journey/on-worldwide-consensus-...