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by rytill 6y ago
That part at the end in parenthesis is just completely wrong. The cost of a simple trustless transaction can be much lower. Bitcoin is extremely inefficient compared to the theoretical cost.
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by rytill 6y ago
But one of the events must be the least likely. And why would it not be significantly less likely than the next least likely event, given that they are uncorrelated?
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by rytill 6y ago
We’re saying the time, space, or some other metric of the solution scales with the size of the input number in a way that is not constant. The number could be any input (arbitrary).
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by rytill 6y ago
Factorization of arbitrarily large numbers? I doubt it.
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by rytill 6y ago
That question has gotten stale and game-able. Ycombinator has a motif of not asking the kinds of questions that could be gamed on a test, but this question is exactly that.
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by rytill 6y ago
I have heard this elsewhere, but when I looked into it, it seems like it’s not that big of a challenge compared to the other difficulties of space. More of just a consideration that has to be part of the design. See: https://en.m
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by rytill 6y ago
Eliezer Yudkowsky: https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/
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by rytill 6y ago
Such vague AI predictions. “Academic rumblings about the limits of Deep Learning BY 2017” “The technical press starts reporting about limits of Deep Learning, and limits of reinforcement learning of game play.” “ VCs figure out that for an
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by rytill 6y ago
What are some of your favorite projects built with Python?
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by rytill 6y ago
You are providing immense valuable to your target audience. I would love to see an article about threading and asyncio.
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by rytill 6y ago
I can’t tell if this is a manufactured pattern, or if it’s true and I’m missing something because I haven’t been alive long enough. From what I can tell, once upon a time we had mainframes and server rooms and big expensive computers, and t
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by rytill 6y ago
I once did an experiment on identifying based solely on keystroke timing: https://github.com/mturnshek/keystroke-timing-identifier I did not test it on a large group, but it worked pretty well for a group of ~8 styles
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by rytill 6y ago
It happened, therefore it happened somehow, someplace. What’s the difference between something having happened and not having happened? It doesn’t intrinsically mean anything. In addition, most humans learn to accept that there’s a good cha
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by rytill 6y ago
I don't see how it's possible to un-make-something-happen. It already happened. It's gone. You can't kill what's already dead.
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by rytill 6y ago
The "AMT trap" occurs when you exercise and is calculated based on (options exercised)*(FMV - strike price). By not exercising, or exercising a small amount, you will not be subject to AMT. However, I completely agree with your se
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by rytill 6y ago
Also agreed on Diem. My best guess is it’s a way to legally get around the legacy financial system to some end. Which end I don’t know yet.
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by rytill 6y ago
Then the market decided that the new chain was more valuable than the original. Still decentralized. Forks are fair game.
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by rytill 6y ago
Paying US taxes doesn’t count. That’s like saying I can pay gas fees with ETH.
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by rytill 6y ago
I agree with the argument that it doesn’t make sense for the United States. Other countries using USD already don’t have control over monetary policy.
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by rytill 6y ago
Shared speculation is pretty powerful.
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by rytill 6y ago
It’s just a long number with no intrinsic worth. Like money.
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by rytill 6y ago
> O(30 minutes) So, O(1)?
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by rytill 6y ago
> because you couldn't rely on them to do their jobs. So they would not be selected for. Wouldn't a 20% chance of a novel, useful interaction and 80% chance of no effect be almost as good if you are producing a lot of them?
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by rytill 6y ago
Isn’t the only reason the speed of causality is the speed of light because light is the fastest thing? And if you were able to go faster than it, that new speed would be the speed of causality?
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by rytill 6y ago
Why is that difference in phrase key?
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by rytill 6y ago
Perhaps, but if/when word got out that this was occurring, an arbitrage opportunity would be available. Unless it were only a very marginal amount cheaper that would not cover the cost of arbitrage.
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by rytill 6y ago
Not meaning to infringe on the unassailable beauty of mathematics, but the statement that it is “perfect” requires some qualification. Something like “it achieves exactly what it sets out to do?” Given your definition of perfection and why
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by rytill 6y ago
Where do you work that complex ffmpeg flows are part of the modus operandi?
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by rytill 6y ago
Awesome news! While we will never get to perfection (Arrow’s theorem), there must be some measure on which ranked choice voting can be quantitatively compared to single-choice vote. For instance, if you took the sets of all candidate pools
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by rytill 6y ago
For me, Java’s ties with Oracle and the nightmare stories about complicated `MetaAbstractBaseClassFactoryClassFactory` are why I seek alternatives, or would be dismissive.

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