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by smaddox 10y ago
Great talk; hilarious how he keeps almost falling over,
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by smaddox 10y ago
Fixed for latest version: https://gist.github.com/scott-maddox/dadb6c74f3e5db98aad6bba...
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by smaddox 10y ago
Ideally, it would be financed using a mix of fiat currency and taxes. Then it could take the place of debt growth for building the monetary base. If inflation becomes too rapid, the mix would be tilted more towards taxes. If deflation hits,
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by smaddox 10y ago
Not quite. It presumably only concatenates the headers, which are read any time a dependant file is complied. The advantage is that the compiler doesn't have to open and read a header every time it encounters an include at the top of a
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by smaddox 10y ago
Much larger resonant tunneling effects were observed over 20 years ago in III-V heterostructure devices at room temperature. This is a slightly interesting result, but the supposed implications are just your typical research marketing. Tunn
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by smaddox 10y ago
Yeah, something like this is very much needed, but it's not the hard part. The software is the hard part. The software is the reason we have the multiple levels of cache we have now. Without solving the software challenges, there can b
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by smaddox 10y ago
Because more things will make then happier!
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by smaddox 10y ago
Entropy is not the negative of information, it is the expected quantity of information: H(X) = E[I(X)] = E[-log(P(X))] The rest seemed just as confused.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Closer to 99.99999999%, i would estimate.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Don't worry, I'm sure Trump has a solution in mind.
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by smaddox 10y ago
It seems that people often confuse complex with clever or impressive. Impressive is unifying the falling of an apple with the orbiting of the planets into three simple universal laws. Complexity is an emergent phenomenon. It occurs when the
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by smaddox 10y ago
You need more than an advanced type system. You need a declarative constraint solving and proof system. Instead of telling the compiler how to perform a task, you would declare the assumptions and the desired relationships and then, with th
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by smaddox 10y ago
I went back and read your post beginning to end. I have no nitpicks---only disagreements. Fist, I must say that upon reading your data points on average new housing size, my default mental response was "averages can be misleading"
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by smaddox 10y ago
I apologize for not directly addressing the issue of affordable housing. The reason I did not directly address it is that I see it as one piece of the puzzle, though certainly an important one. Housing prices in California are high primaril
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by smaddox 10y ago
Yes, on second thought, I was mistaken. Stock shorts do counter the instability of stock purchases. I suppose the real problem, then, is that stabilizing the stock system would require perfectly counterbalancing the two, which is infeasible
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by smaddox 10y ago
I skimmed your post, but nothing in there convinced me that basic income would worsen stability. I agree that basic income will not eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor, but that's not the point. Nothing can permanently elim
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by smaddox 10y ago
May I ask why you think basic income would worsen stability? Based on the sentence before, I would have thought you a supporter.
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by smaddox 10y ago
I don't see that working for the same reason having a mechanism to short stocks can't prevent stock crashes. Adding a positive feedback mechanism can't stabilize a system (at least not in the real world, where you can't
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by smaddox 10y ago
Reputation systems are nice for providing a carnal motivation, but moderation is likely going to be necessary to maintain a high quality density. Crowd-sourced moderation a la slashdot is a reasonable place to start. I think there's a
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by smaddox 10y ago
Taking the diet advice above a bit further, you might consider trying a Keto diet, which is a high fat low carb diet. Keto diets eliminate the blood sugar swings that cause highs and crashes throughout the day, making it significantly easie
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by smaddox 10y ago
Stated platform != Voting record Of course even if you required people to know a politician's voting record before voting for them, politicians would find some way to game the system.
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by smaddox 10y ago
US Congress decided to sell off the US stockpile. Since they're selling lower than anyone else can produce, they're basically the only source. Therefore, they are the global supply and they are setting worldwide prices.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Could this threat be neutralized by salting before compressing?
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by smaddox 10y ago
Doesn't this also imply that the bank is storing plaintext passwords instead of salted hashes? I'm pretty sure I would not use such a bank. Edit: Just saw that others have already brought this up below. Sorry for the redundancy.
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by smaddox 10y ago
My mistake, thanks for the correction!
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by smaddox 10y ago
I still remember one of my highschool English teacher's quoting Chaucer: "The mind is its own place, and in itself, Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven" I've found this quote, and the generalization to personalit
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by smaddox 10y ago
I bought the Dev Kit 1, but with the move to include DRM, combined with the fact that the Vive seems to better in every way except for Audio, I really don't see myself buying the retail Rift.
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by smaddox 10y ago
This would require a quantum chemistry simulation many orders of magnitude larger and longer than what we currently capable of simulating. Though I suppose you could in principle use heuristics to greatly reduce the conputational complexity
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by smaddox 10y ago
I would have to agree that formal education is by no means a guarantee of intelligence and critical thinking skills. The latter are unfortunately much more rare.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Citation? I thought I remembered reading that reducing the size of the devices, and therefor the cross-section, more than compensated for the increased susceptibility to bit flipping from a direct hit by a cosmic ray.

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