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by DoctorBit 7y ago
You'll understand when you're older.
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by DoctorBit 7y ago
An interesting article about the US army's fight against malaria in the pacific theater during WW II: https://armyhistory.org/the-other-foe-the-u-s-armys-fight-ag... TL;DR: By spraying DDT everywhere, and coercing troo
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by DoctorBit 7y ago
An interesting discussion of that here: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513781/moores-law-and-the...
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by DoctorBit 8y ago
Nice try, IBM!
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by DoctorBit 8y ago
I wonder if tin foil can block this :p
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by DoctorBit 8y ago
I love this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz2SeEzxMuE
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by DoctorBit 8y ago
In Newport, Washington, electricity is so inexpensive ($0.05/kWh) that almost everyone uses electric baseboard heat - and it gets very cold (10 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter. Those baseboard heaters could be swapped out with bitco
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Tech giants still stumbling in the social world they created(apnews.com)
1 points by DoctorBit 8y ago|0 comments
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by DoctorBit 8y ago
A couple of suggestions for improvements: 1) Use quaternions instead of Euler angles for rotation 2) Show latitude and longitude grid so it's easier to identify equator and polar regions, etc...
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by DoctorBit 8y ago
For wartime use. Military convoys might need to go off-road or around road damage.
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by DoctorBit 8y ago
They could do brake and other inspections there too.
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A survey of attacks against Intel x86 over last 10 years (2015) [pdf](blog.invisiblethings.org)
86 points by DoctorBit 8y ago|40 comments
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by DoctorBit 8y ago
RTFA
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
"Despite a government plan to cut pesticide use in half by 2020, sales in France have climbed steadily, reaching more than 75,000 tonnes of active ingredient in 2014, according to European Union figures." That's an incredibly
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
Interesting that three of the top five destination states (Texas, Nevada and Washington) have no state income tax.
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
http://gafw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/UGA4799073-clear-...
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
That was interesting, but I think their conclusion about the linux kernel being comparatively top-heavy with relatively few "work horses" was probably greatly influenced by the fact that they only analyzed the linux kernel, not li
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
Interesting subject matter and story, but terrible writing. I'm having difficulty believing that it was really written by an associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: https://en.wikipe
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
Tezos - Participate in the governance of your cryptocurrency. Read the source code of any smart-contract on the blockchain. As I understand it, the source code of tezos itself is stored on its own blockchain. Any modifications to the sour
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
LOL, that's an interesting new metric for financial transactions - I like it! I sure hope Vitalik et. al. can pull off Casper as advertised.
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
No. XT and Classic were code forks, not blockchain forks. If certain runtime conditions had been met, they would have become blockchain forks, but those conditions were never met.
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
You're (understandably) confusing a code fork with a chain fork: Code fork: taking the source code from one project, modifying it, then offering the result as a new project. This is what the overwhelming majority of altcoins are. For e
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
Less than 12 hours.
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
I'd like to see this too.
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
This brings up two problems based on the fact that very few people take the time to pay for and use a tumbling service unless they are trying to launder money: 1) Governments know that criminals use tumbling services, so there is a non-triv
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
Please stop linking to pay walled articles.
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
Weird. I distinctly remember at the time that it was reported as a car crash, but everything I can google now agrees with you. Ok, he died from malaria. I also loved his comedy movie "Contact High" (2009). Basically a European
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by DoctorBit 9y ago
Michael Glawogger, an Austrian documentary director, who died tragically in a car crash in 2014, made a 2005 documentary partly about Pashtun workers in Pakistan who dismantle ships. The part about the ship-breaking workers starts at about
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by DoctorBit 10y ago
Spelling error: MOSFET is misspelled as MOFET the first time.
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Forum Topic: A Day in the Life of a Cable Tech(dslreports.com)
1 points by DoctorBit 10y ago|0 comments

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