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by powera 8y ago
With one major difference. We know that fusion in some form is possible (for example, in the sun, or in a hydrogen-bomb). The difficulty is doing it at a reasonable scale. It's less clear that quantum computing is possible.
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by powera 8y ago
This isn't a "billion-dollar business"; it's an overhyped company that gives credit cards to startups that raised money at a billion-dollar valuation. They may have already reached their entire market for their existing
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by powera 8y ago
TLDR: A sufficient amount of ignorance about how insurance works can solve all crime through magic.
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by powera 8y ago
This is very nearly "yelling fire in a crowded theater", he's deliberately making false statements (or statements he should have known to be false) from a position of authority with the intention of manipulating the stock mar
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by powera 8y ago
cgroups were written at Google, and have been used internally for a very long time; they provide "container"-like limits on resource usage for a group of processes. I assume that Google isn't using Docker internally for produ
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by powera 8y ago
If Bitcoin Gold weren't worthless before, it is now. If it weren't so difficult and risky to sell this, it would be worth almost nothing already.
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by powera 8y ago
"Cryptocurrency is slower than card networks." - not really, on a per-transaction basis. If you buy something at a store with a credit card, it takes weeks to get the money. With Bitcoin, you can spend the money in an hour. For
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by powera 9y ago
That is the whole point of socialized medicine . The point of insurance is that you pay slightly more than the expected value of your claims. So if you know you need $5000 worth of medical treatment for asthma, your insurance premium s
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by powera 9y ago
This insistence that everything always has to be about diversity is both insulting and counter-productive. Maybe some of the time we can talk about things that work for all people?
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by powera 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Universalis is a slightly more approachable (and very slightly shorter) game along these lines.
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by powera 9y ago
"But even software ARX gets into trouble when protection against power or electromagnetic analysis is a threat." - I still don't get this. If attackers have physical access to your machine, you should consider it compromised
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by powera 9y ago
The author doth protest too much. Craig Wright is not Satoshi. He could have proved it a dozen ways, and has not done so. I neither know nor care if the rest of his resume is fabricated.
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by powera 9y ago
This is more a story of "Why the Union movement has been dead since the 1980s". Amazon employs tens of thousands of people. These people are trying to organize 27. And failing.
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by powera 9y ago
First: ignore the people who say this is a successful start up. By your account it wasn't. If your company had enough publicity, you might want to say it was a success publicly and join FaceGoogSoft. Otherwise, take another three month
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by powera 9y ago
TLDR: "I'm special too, give me more credit for whatever I'm doing." Egregious logical errors throughout. Would not recommend others read this article.
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by powera 9y ago
There’s a terrible trend in the San Francisco tech scene where “engineer” is viewed as a synonym for “software engineer”, which is itself a synonym for “programming”. It isn’t. That said, I tend to disagree with people who believe the solut
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by powera 9y ago
At a certain point, you have to run the company. Mark Zuckerberg couldn't sell $40 billion of Facebook stock and put it all in a Vanguard mutual fund.
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by powera 9y ago
I wouldn't expect Wikipedia to accept "WikipediaSucks.com" as a source either.
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by powera 9y ago
I call shenanigans! No way a six-page paper demonstrates "an experimental realization of a quantum-safe blockchain platform that utilizes quantum key distribution".
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by powera 9y ago
When the rebuttal letter literally says "I am aware that there was significant controversy over SNCF in 2010, emanating from their role in deporting French Jews to death camps during WW II", I suspect the reasoning is more politic
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by powera 9y ago
If this project makes financial sense, ideally an existing railroad company would run it. Berkshire Hathaway (as the owners of the BNSF railroad) is the only US-based company that has the capital and railroad experience to even consider it.
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by powera 9y ago
Bitcoin. This, and not the money nonsense, is what Bitcoin does, if you do it right.
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by powera 9y ago
What you need to do is go to the company acquiring you, and make sure that the deal allows for you to leave a year and a day after the acquisition closes with "minimal" penalties. You'll get less money, but you should get at
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by powera 9y ago
You could also create your own repo on Github and not destroy something else.
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by powera 9y ago
Between dark matter and the problems with inflation theory ( https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cosmic-inflation-... ) I think there's enough evidence to show that the Big Bang model of the universe is flawe
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by powera 9y ago
It's too weird and obscure to become a tech bubble, but making "pre-purchasing new digital coins" easier is not something I would support or encourage in any way.
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by powera 9y ago
I hope this is a predecessor for him taking over from Jack Dorsey. I don't understand how anyone thinks Dorsey can run both Twitter and Square at the same time.
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by powera 9y ago
At some point people will stop pouring cash into this money hole.
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by powera 9y ago
Despite all the claims of "major cyber-attack", what I see here was a virus that infected the entire British NHS, but otherwise had very little impact.
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by powera 9y ago
The general masses neither know nor care about this API. "Business" folks will see they have a year to transition to an improved version of the product.

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