tjaerv

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by tjaerv 13y ago
This research certainly supports the view that it is.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Fascinating research suggesting how consciousness as an emergent phenomenon needs to cross an activation threshold to boot up.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
There are already reports of two suicides related to the Mt.Gox fiasco, so yes, it does matter. http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...
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by tjaerv 13y ago
http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...
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Brain zap rouses people from years of vegetative state(newscientist.com)
53 points by tjaerv 13y ago|51 comments
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by tjaerv 13y ago
The article also notes that there may have been two suicides linked to Mt.Gox, thus far.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
http://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-statement-claims-made-conscio...
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Would be interested to see a source for this figure. I might have thought the estimate to be somewhat higher.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Thanks for the link, it does clarify matters.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
"We are currently at a turning point for the business. I can't tell much more for now as this also involves other parties." No shit it involves other parties: all your customers, for one.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
The excellent "Blame it on Mt.Gox" music video from last spring seems rather topical again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ku1A5Ox8U
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Some context: http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001076.html "What they propose for the new HTTP/2.0 protocol is nothing short of officially sanctioned snooping."
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The unlikely tale of how ARM came to rule the world(businessweek.com)
8 points by tjaerv 13y ago|2 comments
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Still cheaper IPv6-only hosts exist. For example, €3/year: http://www.lowendspirit.com/
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Likely would have gotten more upvotes with a better title.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Potentially interesting, but my interest waned considerably when I saw it's GPLv3.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
False dichotomy. There is more than one dimension. For starters, see the Nolan chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart
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by tjaerv 13y ago
https://core.telegram.org/techfaq#q-why-do-you-use-sha-1-in-... > Q: Why do you use SHA-1 in the place of a MAC? > Technically speaking, in our implementation SHA-1 can be seen as a specific case of a MAC (but not HMA
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by tjaerv 13y ago
A government court ruled in favor of the government? You don't say?
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by tjaerv 13y ago
I assume you're being sarcastic. The other alternative is vastly ignorant.
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by tjaerv 13y ago
http://filmingcops.com/cops-execute-80-yr-old-man-in-his-own...
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by tjaerv 13y ago
"I wish things were that ruthlessly efficient," President Barack Obama has said of Netflix's original series, House of Cards: "It's like Kevin Spacey, man, this guy's getting a lot of stuff done."
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'House of Cards' characters are too competent to be believable(reason.com)
1 points by tjaerv 13y ago|1 comments
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Meet Cody Wilson, creator of the 3D-printed gun(theguardian.com)
8 points by tjaerv 13y ago|8 comments
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by tjaerv 13y ago
Also reported on at Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU5Njk
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GCC and LLVM developers to begin collaborating?(gcc.gnu.org)
9 points by tjaerv 13y ago|1 comments
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by tjaerv 13y ago
"'The West Wing' arrived in 1999 as a televised fantasy of what we wished our government could be. 'House of Cards' arrived in 2013 as a nightmare of what we fear our government has become. [...] The politicians in
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The Post-Hope Politics of ‘House of Cards’(nytimes.com)
47 points by tjaerv 13y ago|42 comments
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by tjaerv 13y ago
"You can see the entire problem set online, thanks to the U.S. Library of Congress, which recently digitized and posted course materials from this and one other class Sagan taught, at Cornell University. [...] Sagan may have been best

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