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An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Improving Reality 2013(futurismic.com)
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you realise that if someone is buying real estate, someone needs to be selling it, right?
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If i understand you correctly it does not show the full picture in degraded quality (more compression artifacts, framedrops), but it takes the center part of the image (so perhaps the center 70%) and upscales it to full size. With proper up
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by simbolit 13y ago
I advise everyone to stop smoking and research the options on vaporising out there. There are good portable products from $50 upward. It is much better for your lungs than inhaling (potentially carcinogenic) combustion products such as tar,
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Why don't they (potential competitors) write an open source app based on openstreetmap? Their mapping data is usually on par, often even superior to that of Google. Plus, its free (in both senses of the word).
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by simbolit 13y ago
>the internet makes my day feel like running with a parachute this phrase gets you an upvote. thank you! :-)
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by simbolit 13y ago
is the nobel prize still the cornerstone of rewarding achievement in the sciences? sorry to be so snarky, but i am genuinely interested, having long lost any trust in the peace prize comittee[0]. not to speak of the economics prize (which i
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by simbolit 13y ago
having a messy desk itself is nothing useful. while it _may_ be true that greatness breeds a messy desk, it seems extremely doubtful that a messy desk breeds greatness.
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i am terribly afraid that if this "works", they created a great incentive for the city council / government (whoever is responsible in your jurisdiction) to cut corners at the PD. s/ libertarian dystopia here we come &#x
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I am not terribly taken by the book as a whole, but you would probably profit from reading the first chapters of "23 things they don't tell you about capitalism" [0]. [0] you can find an epub with a simple google search, or l
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I am sure you read about the early-access scandal at Reuters [0], which the quants found especially spooky as they (by definition) weren't first. So releasing high-value financial information this way is my first idea for a use case. C
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Disclaimer: I have no idea what factors are relevant for cryptographic functions. In 1999 they had coppermine 1133 single-core @ 1.1ghz (~ 2 gflops), in 2012 we now had sandy bridge 3970 quad-core @ 3.4ghz (> 100 Gflops). So at least acc
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Your proposal is no better than the 3 letter server farm working alone. If the poisoner is not inside the wealthy attacker, then the attacker knowing this scheme is better off not cooperating with anyone, including you. Even if that were no
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Nice idea IF we had such mirrors. Afaik the farthest away is on the moon.[0] Also a one-time pad needs to be as large or larger than the data used to encrypt it.[1] So your plan cannot be used for the several gigabytes wikileaks insurance f
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And now you don't have to trust the math, but all kinds of things in the physical world. A photo sensor for example is disabled by darkness. Digging up the phone by night, anyone? Bad idea, IMHO.