riemannzeta

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by riemannzeta 12y ago
Those who feel they have discovered a treasure here should consider reading Seneca "On Anger" and Musonius Rufus also.
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by riemannzeta 12y ago
Interesting, but pretty thinly supported by facts. The demographics, in particular, could be explained as a function of relative disposable income as much as immunity. Would be far more persuasive if backed up with a cohort analysis over t
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by riemannzeta 12y ago
I can't remember reading anything more pompous.
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
Perfect. Why don't you tell me your idea now and I'll write you this check for 100,000 and no part of the profits. That's even better for you, right?
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
The Wire had a great summary of where things now stand in our culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5d4hH1CPQ I understand that ideas are not nearly as important as the action taken on them to bring them into reality.
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
Well I found a partial answer to the question I asked right in Andreessen's essay, but it's not the one you give here. I guess I think of the authentication of sender and content for recipients as being equivalent to the eliminati
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
This is the closest that I have seen to an answer: <i>Since Bitcoin is a digital bearer instrument, the receiver of a payment does not get any information from the sender that can be used to steal money from the sender in the future,
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
This is my issue with A16Z's claim also. So Bitcoin eliminates one of the failure modes of digital transactions -- namely, confirming that a particular ID indeed is associated with a particular account value -- in a way that avoids th
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
I'm not an expert, but I read the paper. So you don't need an intermediary to confirm that a particular digital transaction took place between two people. By analogy to the original problem as stated, that's like saying you
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
Bitcoin is a digital bearer instrument. It is a way to exchange money or assets between parties with no pre-existing trust: A string of numbers is sent over email or text message in the simplest case. The sender doesn’t need to know or tru
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
Another win for xkcd http://xkcd.com/374/
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In search of Mike Gimbel, the Moneyball revolution's forgotten man(grantland.com)
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
Life imitates art? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress Is Mike already lurking in some massive instance?!
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The Vegan Self-Experiment Part II – Results(biohackyourself.com)
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
The Bridge of San Luis Rey might be my favorite novel.
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
What's a workform? Look at the claims, people.
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by riemannzeta 13y ago
Is Noether's theorem preserved since we still have energy conservation? How? Very cool.
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by riemannzeta 14y ago
Your analysis seems not quite right. Metallizing, for example, is a public use case in the sense that the legislative history uses the term even though the public could not have understood how to make the invention from the public use. I th
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by riemannzeta 14y ago
These guys are going to make millions on baby monitors alone.
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by riemannzeta 16y ago
Very interesting. Thanks.
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by riemannzeta 16y ago
Risk of default on these bonds has never been higher -- hence the yield. The market has plummeted in the past few months, but don't try to catch a falling knife.
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by riemannzeta 16y ago
Any large cash positions are vulnerable to the high rate of inflation that is an inevitable result of Fed policy in the last few years. Best bet in this economy if you want safety is large cap equity issues from companies with highest quali
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by riemannzeta 16y ago
Still chuckling about Bucheit's suggestion of spreading cash out into a huge number of FDIC-insured savings accounts -- "Think of it as RAID for your cash" he says, as I recall.
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by riemannzeta 16y ago
Sorry. Here's the link: http://www.google.com/patents?id=nrxzAAAAEBAJ That's General Washington's signature in the middle, and Edmund Randolph's (first Attorney General) on the bottom. The cabinet was the PTO in 1790.
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by riemannzeta 16y ago
Google has these too http://bit.ly/8X7Ydw
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by riemannzeta 16y ago
The number system came later. X series gives the earliest patents, including the first issued: X1 http://bit.ly/8X7Ydw
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by riemannzeta 18y ago
This is a fascinating and dangerous account of systematic errors in how we raise children. Lies are damaging because they make truth harder to find -- the opposite of a lie is almost never the truth. But, once revealed as lies (a key prob