tdaltonc

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by tdaltonc 10y ago
The "proof of stake" vote wasn't binding. In the bitcoin world, this would be called a 51% percent attack. What really matters is what the miners choose to do.
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If Ethereum is just another way that humans muddle through (and not the dispassionate justice of machines), is it still something different then the legal and political systems that came before it?
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>> Microservices are seemingly designed to match the developer’s mental model of their system. Often, services are literally divided by the team who maintains them. > Good Lord, I sure hope that's not true. Maybe if the non-te
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
But how do you make sure that the military has the right "fundamental principles"?
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
Isn't it illegal to "zero-rate" a service in the US?
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T-mobile: Free Unlimited Data for Pokemon GO(twitter.com)
6 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|2 comments
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
Actually I think SpaceX and NASA do think quite differently about things. NASA has to engineer toward maintaining their national mandate. Every launch is a PR game targeting the American public and congress. SpaceX instead has to worry abou
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That sounds good to. I think 3pt14159's implicit question was, "should Tesla be allowed to continue doing this the way they want?" not "Is tesla take the best of all possible approaches to car automation?"
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
Tesla was talking about their NHTSA VSS, your talking about EURO NCAP. I'm not sure how to compare the two.
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
The point of a crash test is not to show that the vehicle is super rigid and impervious to damage. It is to show that a human inside the car is safe. To that end, the car should "crumple." It shouldn't remain 100% rigid, an
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Forget Beanbag Chairs. Amazon Is Giving Its Workers Treehouses(nytimes.com)
1 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
It seems like a parsimonious state-space for a drug would just be the agonistic/antagonistic affinity for every neuro-receptor. There would be some partial coronations (between all of the subtypes of the GABA receptor for example). It
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
I have automatic in my car, and it can read my gas gage. Could I just loop it in on this process and never have to think about gas again?
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nianticlabs-google#/...
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
Nintendo is also an investor in Niantic Labs. If you think the price is high, you're welcome to short it.
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
Yes it's a very big problem. One of my favorite meta analysis tools is used to detect and correct for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_plot
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
I use Dopamine. http://www.UseDopamine.com/ Full disclosure, I'm it's co-founder.
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
Every time I see Dennett deliver his, "free will exists, but it's not what you think it is" line. I imagine him in a Santa suit, with his grandchildren, when they realize that that is grandpa Dan in there. He must certainly s
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
I hope that they take that moxie and go build something great.
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
What would be an ingenuous comparison?
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Is it brunch time?(medium.com)
3 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|0 comments
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Until someone finds an edge-case or a way to reverse engineer it. http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
> I generally choose to use console automation to mute the spaces between the notes. I recently had to make a promo video for my startup on short notice, with a less-than-idea setup, and I did the exact opposite. I filled all of the &#x2
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
Non-human animals have all the same "noise canceling hardware" as humans (It's mostly in the hind-brain), so it can't just be for speech. I know that that echo/noise canceling hardware plays a big role in sound loca
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A new crop of hands-on universities(economist.com)
60 points by tdaltonc 10y ago|18 comments
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I'm saying that it kind of already does. Judges are picked for a case partially at random.
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A lot of projects have ambitions that they can't accomplish on day 1. It would be a safety net. If everything goes right, then it won't get used.
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
What does 'mono-space' even mean if they're going to do that!
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
This is the best argument I've heard: "Would you like to own an asset where at least 5% is controlled by 1 person known to be a scammer?" Me neither. The hard-fork is distasteful, but it's the best move for the fast majo
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by tdaltonc 10y ago
If it ends up just being just the DAO that get's "bailed out"(that's not the right phrase for what's happening, but I don't know a better one), then it would to hard to make a just moral argument. But there hav

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