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by rfugger 11y ago
Go see a good doctor that will be thorough in checking all other probably causes of fatigue. You should probably end up seeing a few specialists as well. The major symptom of CFS is post-exertional malaise, meaning you feel worse after su
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by rfugger 11y ago
They intend to replace IP's stateless data plane with a stateful data plane that they argue is more efficient: > In Named Data Networking (NDN), packets carry data names instead of source and destination addresses. This paradigm shi
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by rfugger 11y ago
I don't know what they have planned, but this would be a perfect opportunity to adopt a more decentralized approach to name registration, like Namecoin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin Using a Bitcoin-style
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by rfugger 12y ago
You obviously wouldn't. But lots of people depend on them already because lots of other people do and they don't want to spend any more time thinking about it than they absolutely have to. If you can convince them to change, mor
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by rfugger 12y ago
Hey Jed. I'd be interested in a post mortem on the fork, how the network broke down, and how the new protocol addresses those issues. Reading the paper, I can believe the new protocol works, but it's difficult for me to pinpoint
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by rfugger 12y ago
Ripple formalized its topology requirement in its consensus whitepaper (page 5, section 3.3): https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf Basically, any two UNLs must have 20% overlap to avoid any risk of
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by rfugger 12y ago
Ripple Labs' response: https://ripple.com/why-the-stellar-forking-issue-does-not-af... (Ripple Labs develops the software that Stellar modifies for their own use, and the original Ripple network still runs on unmodifie
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Device democracy – Saving the future of the Internet of Things [pdf](www-01.ibm.com)
3 points by rfugger 12y ago|0 comments
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Adept: IBM, Samsung, Bitcoin?(two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com)
2 points by rfugger 12y ago|0 comments
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The Simple Technology That Accidentally Ruined Baseball(theatlantic.com)
40 points by rfugger 12y ago|64 comments
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by rfugger 12y ago
Thanks for the mention. I was happy for the new Ripple project because it is a good implementation of my original vision for an open, decentralized payment network. Now there's a fork called Stellar, which uses the same software, and
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by rfugger 12y ago
The war made defense contractors rich, and drove up the price of oil, which continues to this day to make oil companies rich. The Bush administration had strong ties to defense contractors and the oil industry. Dots = connected.
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Obesity research confirms long-term weight loss almost impossible(cbc.ca)
35 points by rfugger 12y ago|52 comments
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by rfugger 13y ago
> The obvious conclusion of this is that this implies you should have no goals for the future, you should work towards nothing, and just take life as it comes. That kind of black-and-white thinking is exactly what the article is nudging
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by rfugger 13y ago
There's a decent explanation here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/12/the-danger-of-naive... There's also a more complete story about the online poker exploit here: http://www.cigit
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by rfugger 13y ago
Most of those arguments apply to the internet itself . The author sounds like a conservative in the 90's upon hearing about the web.
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by rfugger 13y ago
I wrote the earlier Ripple designs [1]. To me, the main thing XRP adds to the concept is a way of bootstrapping the network by providing a way to bridge the gap between islands of nodes with no trust pathway for monetary value to flow betw
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by rfugger 13y ago
You could say the same for gold, stocks, or bonds. But at least Bitcoin has the ability to be cheaply, easily, and quickly transferred to anyone else in the world, meaning it has the potential to be useful for paying for your house, car, t
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by rfugger 13y ago
XRP is trustless, like Bitcoin.
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by rfugger 13y ago
A 51% attack only gives you the ability to double-spend coins you already control. It doesn't give you the ability to crack the private keys of others. So there is no straightforward economic incentive for a 51% attack unless you own
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by rfugger 13y ago
Ripple contains a Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency called XRP that only takes a few seconds to confirm transactions and does not require mining: https://ripple.com/ https://ripple.com/wiki/Introduction_to_Ri
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Coalition to remove NSA facilities' access to electricity and water(offnow.org)
4 points by rfugger 13y ago|0 comments
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Stone Age hunter-gatherers lived beside farmers, didn't interbreed(cbc.ca)
37 points by rfugger 13y ago|21 comments
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by rfugger 13y ago
So the vehicle basically surfs a sound wave?
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by rfugger 13y ago
More info on "blimp" vs. "zeppelin": http://www.airships.net/dirigible A zeppelin is a rigid airship manufactured by a particular company [...] A blimp (technically called a “pressure airship”) is a pow
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by rfugger 13y ago
The key part of the article for me is this: I don't practice every day because I'm disciplined. I practice every day because I'm obsessed. I love dancing and my body craves it. If I didn't have this raw hunger, there&#x
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by rfugger 13y ago
I agree with everything in the article. However, my experience as a coder has been more positive on fixed-price contracts than on hourly contracts. On hourly contracts, which I started with and have done more of, I tend to feel like I&#x2
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by rfugger 13y ago
The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond makes an excellent argument for textual protocols in Chapter 5: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/textualitychapt...
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Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are (youtube.com)
2 points by rfugger 13y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 13y ago
I don't see that his personal drama detracts from the NSA story at all. If he was being painted as a liar or a Chinese pawn, or mentally ill, or a sociopath, that would be sheer distraction -- but what happens to him is of great impor

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