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by zodiac 7y ago
> While proof of stake does have a lot of advantages over PoW, it cannot handle more than 1/3 of the voiting power acting incorrectly. The 1/3 bound is without any synchronicity assumptions; with strong synchronicity assumption
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by zodiac 7y ago
What "simpler auction system" would you propose?
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by zodiac 7y ago
Iterative squaring is not paralellizable - to compute x^4 as (x^2)^2 you have to compute t = x^2 first before starting the computation of t^2. Calculating x^(2^t) mod n takes t squarings.
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by zodiac 7y ago
The computation described (compute x^(2^t) mod N) is designed to not be parallelizable.
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by zodiac 7y ago
The circuit is not a circuit :'(
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by zodiac 7y ago
> If minimum wage were $15, they could find another job that paid their basic living expenses. Why is this necessarily true? Couldn't it be the case that minimum wage were $15 but they still couldn't find any other job?
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by zodiac 7y ago
> And there's no immutable collection in Python besides strings frozensets, tuples?
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by zodiac 7y ago
This etymology is an urban legend.
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by zodiac 7y ago
But this would make it much harder to sight-sing typical melodies, eg one whose notes are all diatonic to G major. Reason: a melody whose notes are all diatonic to G is almost indistinguishable from one whose notes are all diatonic to C in
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by zodiac 7y ago
[citation needed]
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by zodiac 8y ago
> It should operate like a good old paper calendar. In that case, you enter a recurring 10 am conference call every Monday, and the moment you move timezones you miss the call. The problem really is (as mentioned in this thread) that the
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by zodiac 8y ago
There's a "simple memoization" version of fibonacci that takes more space than `fibsViaUnfold`. I think the term "simple memoization" (and equivalents used in these comments) are a bit too imprecise to be useful.
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by zodiac 8y ago
If you jaywalk across a road with a 60km/h speed limit and get killed because the driver couldn't possibly have stopped in time, I wouldn't really want to blame the driver
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by zodiac 8y ago
I agree with this and my comment wasn't trying to use "no one" in that strongest possible "absolutely no one" sense
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by zodiac 8y ago
The claim was that no one would have any faith in it though ^^
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by zodiac 8y ago
Maybe the federal shutdown? https://www.secureworldexpo.com/industry-news/nist-governmen...
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by zodiac 8y ago
If you didn't read the paper, at least read the title: "unsolvable" does not mean NP hard
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by zodiac 8y ago
This is unrelated to your main point but I've always been confused why people cited an "over the board" ELO. Is your 1600 rating FIDE, USCF or something else? Aren't they not calibrated against each other?
169.
by zodiac 8y ago
Even assuming that AWS adds no value, what exactly is wrong with offering a "no value added" hosting service and charging for it?
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by zodiac 8y ago
Or they could have used a billing address different from where they live to start with.
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by zodiac 8y ago
R as in REPR
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by zodiac 8y ago
In what real-world prediction market / sports gambling / poker tournament etc are you betting on anything other than the output if some consensus process?
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by zodiac 8y ago
If your definition of a good license is "the terms are as unrestrictive as possible" why not release all software into the public domain? There's legitimate arguments to be made for more restrictive licenses, even if I don&#x
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by zodiac 8y ago
Couldn't it be argued that a design without these unintereuptable states artificially constrains the user (of the driver) by preventing them from entering a state where all signals are blocked? Not saying these should be the primary c
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by zodiac 8y ago
The link you posted doesn't support that etymology; there are some proposed etymologies here https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/145376/what-is-t...
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by zodiac 8y ago
If you just want to annotate sounds, it seems like your goals overlap a lot with some uses IPA is designed for. Wiktionary gives /sɑs/ as one pronunciation of sauce. In any case, you'd have to solve the same problems people a
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by zodiac 8y ago
For sure, we should be careful of biased reporting and also evaluate Matt's arguments critically. But you seemed to be suggesting that Musk's prolificity somehow means we shouldn't take any criticism against him seriously
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by zodiac 8y ago
His prolificity as a maker is orthogonal to the practicality of his proposal and the legality of his statements, the things Matt Levine talks about
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by zodiac 8y ago
Sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to say.
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by zodiac 8y ago
> At that point they are no better than simply looking at the stocks (the predicted market). Are you assuming that prediction markets are only over stock prices? What about a market about the winner of the next US presidential election?

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