sirclueless

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by sirclueless 9y ago
I believe the comment you are responding is making a distinction between the public key cryptography used to authorize spending from a private wallet, and the act of including a cryptographic hash of the previous block in the current block
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by sirclueless 9y ago
No one is disagreeing that this is the technical process behind creating a pull request. It just turns out that a number of companies including Github and GitLab are willing to do all of these steps with a few button presses for free for an
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Actually, this is basically how it is done in circuits, with some minor optimizations on top and without the explicit doubling operation. It's about as simple as you can make a task like this. The grade school mechanism doesn't lo
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by sirclueless 9y ago
There is certainly a lot of comfort in knowing the car will be exactly where you left it last night so you can load your kids up to go to school, go to the hospital, evacuate in an emergency etc. Also, cars are status symbols. Everyone has
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by sirclueless 9y ago
There are certainly cases where going to another location will be impossible. If the passenger opens the door and does not exit, for example, there is no way to close the door or to move the vehicle. But I agree with the overall point, whil
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I've certainly seen gambling sites around bitcoin, where there is an indelible audit trail if not an actual enforceable contract.
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by sirclueless 9y ago
That's the title, but the main innovation was using a random number generator to choose from among more positions than symbols that the physical wheel possesses, thus allowing different odds for different symbols. The interesting bit c
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I like the copy. "Even if we get hacked, they can't read your ..." is a real claim. It means something concrete, and is an interesting hook for someone who's technically literate. Something more generic like "We kee
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by sirclueless 9y ago
TCO is classically a compiler/runtime optimization, but that's only because people didn't commonly implement fundamental control flow as libraries until relatively recently. Whether it is the runtime introspecting function ca
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by sirclueless 9y ago
It's not even a particularly unexpected leak. When you create unbounded recursion, you leak memory. This is true if you don't use Promises, and remains true when you do. This is really just another complaint about lack of Tail-Cal
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Not really a solution. It works for repeat visits to sites users visit often, it doesn't really work at scale. Users want sane defaults; most of them will never change them. A world where sites are by default as malicious as users allo
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I don't understand this argument. They are the owners of the patents in question. That gives them a limited monopoly on the rights to use those patents, and can create any number of products using the patents, and offer them to you und
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by sirclueless 9y ago
That's still a better status quo than passively having access to all of it.
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I believe that number is purely the water used converting pulp into paper, not water consumed growing trees. I've heard it's 400 parts water and one part pulp, not sure how accurate that is.[1] [1]: http://www.alternet.
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Well, somebody better know the structure of the metals in use, or else you get turbine disks shattering jet engines and landing 1,000 yards away [1]. Just because it's not important to know every day doesn't mean you won't fi
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by sirclueless 9y ago
There's a difference between "I know how to do this but it would be a buggy mess and require a week or two of effort, therefore I shall use a library," and "I don't know how to do this but this library seems roughly
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by sirclueless 9y ago
Huh? Electric bill is the #1 useful metric for any workload at scale. If you're small, maybe human administration costs dominate that, but otherwise it's virtually guaranteed to be the primary operating cost.
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I don't agree. Any input string that violates the strcpy invariants (must be a valid null-terminated string with length <= destination buffer size) will also violate the strncpy invariants if you subsequently treat the destination b
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I'm not so sure. Step 1 is making sure people want a toilet. If you give someone a toilet without their understanding its purpose, it is going to be neglected and considered pointless. If people want toilets, they can spend some free t
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by sirclueless 9y ago
I think the actual argument is the converse: "We had this awesome idea! We tested it and we were right!" (In this context "violations" are the desired experimental result.) It rests on whether bi-locality is an empirical
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by sirclueless 9y ago
To someone who doesn't actually know many of the terms here, it sounds like they didn't accomplish much. They defined a stronger form of locality called "bi-locality" and found a way to violate it. The structure of the a
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by sirclueless 9y ago
You're misreading the blog post. Choosing React because it's a well-engineered solution to a specific type of problem that plagues front-ends is fine. Choosing React because it's currently the most talked-about and blogged-a
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by sirclueless 9y ago
The number of confounding factors is enormous. 1. The man may be more likely to acquiesce to the wedding if they have a stable income and can support a family. 2. The interested parties on the bride's side may be more interested in pur
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by sirclueless 10y ago
I wouldn't say assuming infinite density of black holes involves an absence of evidence. It is a hypothesis made in advance of evidence, and it leads to specific predictions that should be falsifiable, and in that sense it's consi
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by sirclueless 10y ago
Filing motions is not their main business. Their main business is putting down competitors. In fact the only reason it works is that they have enough revenue that they can retain lawyers (expensive) to do these things without affecting thei
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by sirclueless 10y ago
One reason to be so nonchalant would be that the guy did in fact copy someone's patents wholesale, and was just waiting for the day someone would notice. If you know the lawsuit is unwinnable and not frivolous, no point complaining abo
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by sirclueless 10y ago
In a sense it is manipulative to consciously direct someone else's behavior in a way that benefits you. But interacting with people is rarely a zero-sum game. Whatever benefit you derive, warm feelings and enjoying the person they are
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by sirclueless 10y ago
There's an argument to be made the other way too. If you're using an unusual default rounding direction and you care which direction your PI constant is rounded, you might prefer it if PI rounded in the same rounding direction as
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by sirclueless 10y ago
"I took VC" probably parses out to "I took venture capital" in this same context, but it's a strange phrase and less common than "I took VC money." I think this is because "VC" is only one type o
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by sirclueless 10y ago
The point being that the AGPL licensing of RethinkDB caused problems selling SMC to customers. So why invite those same problems again by replacing it with other GPL'ed software?

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