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by sktrdie 11y ago
I don't think there has been any empirical evidence regarding the idea that proof-of-stake method can reach consensus, so I'm not sure about the quality of this document. It is sort of implied, but in reality one can easily fake
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by sktrdie 11y ago
I'd suggest you delete this post. It's a false alarm.
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Actually, as a young researcher, I find the complete opposite. Sites like researchgate or facebook or any other "comment-ie" thing is sort of superficial in the sense that even though you might get some comments, they're usua
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by sktrdie 11y ago
They should rename it to "a simple 20 video course on how to slow your computer down to a halt" /irony
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Actually with time dilation the people on the spacecraft could reach several close stars in decades - if we construct fast enough spacecrafts (just needs to be a small fraction of light of speed).
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by sktrdie 11y ago
This is such a bad analogy (I think you got it from Neil Tyson or something). What you've done is that you've taken examples of things that we got wrong. However, there's a lot more things we got right back then, that are s
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Neanderthals are our cousins. Meaning it's essentially a species in the same genus tree (very closely related to us). Characteristics which are "not rare" are found across species in various branches in the tree - think of vi
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by sktrdie 11y ago
I really think that the great filter (of the fermi paradox) is behind us. Meaning, some stupefying rare event happened either when (i) life began in the first place, or when (ii) we evolved into advanced technological species. For (i) I re
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Meh, given the hype for this press-release, I was hoping for something more extraordinary frankly. Not that finding other exoplanets isn't amazing, just that we're all waiting to find out whether we are alone or not in the univers
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Yeah I think so. You'd need a telescope bigger than our earth.
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Could you name another good use of money that is better than SETI?
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Great story expect the last part. Where you're sort of implying that all smart people are coders and others that do other types of jobs aren't. I met a lot of people that were a lot smarter than most "startup developers&q
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by sktrdie 11y ago
I don't understand why everything we do in society has to rely on capitalist concepts. The internet has shown that we can have a system that works without the usual capitalist market concepts that are somewhat needed in the "real
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by sktrdie 11y ago
So a photon can get anywhere it wants instantly to them?
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Huh, but if light takes 2.5 million years to get to Andromeda, how does it take us a few decades? You're saying that from the point of view of the photon, it takes much less time?
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by sktrdie 11y ago
I just can't help but think that we'll reach a wall when it comes to exploring the real world. Even if we get to travel at the speed of light, we're still limited by it. In 20 years of light travel we'd only visit relati
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Doesn't iBooks Author already provide a platform to develop interactive books? https://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Is it as reliable as AppEngine?
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by sktrdie 11y ago
The only reason I use AppEngine is because they offer free hosting. I guess we have to pay the price of using proprietary APIs for free stuff.
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by sktrdie 11y ago
I feel we should get there by empirically studying the whole thing. We need more data. Also we need this research to be more user friendly, that everyday people can read and then decide for themselves if that can be the way forward. Changin
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by sktrdie 11y ago
This is great and you're of great inspiration to young artists or simply anybody that wants to pursue their dreams. I think that living a humble life doing simple things that don't necessarily lead to professional success, is stil
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by sktrdie 11y ago
I know I will be treated as an extreme futurist, but we live in this little tiny spec called Earth and we're all in this together. The idea that there are laws about environmental protection in one country and none in others, calls to
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by sktrdie 11y ago
This has been on a couple of times. It's an interesting concept but user's reputation isn't really stored anywhere. It's just a synch of data between peers. So someone can very easily simulate many points, or upvote cont
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by sktrdie 11y ago
That's probably because you've found a job that you like. In reality however most people hate their jobs and would rather do something else. This idea of living in a society where people need to do something they don't want
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by sktrdie 11y ago
I strongly believe in universal basic income and that being forced to work is a form of slavery. I also believe that if you let people do whatever they want, sure you'll have 90% or more just doing nothing all day, but you'll have
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by sktrdie 11y ago
Isn't that node.js?
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by sktrdie 11y ago
This is cool because it breaks the complex SPARQL query into sub-patterns and it then sends multiple HTTP requests to several web-services, and results are streamed back. Here's an example: http://bit.ly/cubist-works E
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Federated SPARQL queries in your browser(ruben.verborgh.org)
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by sktrdie 11y ago
I think UI really shines using the Web stack because it was built using async tools from the very beginning. UI development should be async from the get go. In other non-webby systems you do UI using async but you're still using blocki
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by sktrdie 11y ago
You should think of the SW more of a thing that exists in nature rather than a piece technology. You seem to use the technology part of the SW and fail to understand that it would exist even if it wasn't thought about.

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