Isomatik

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by Isomatik 5y ago
Looks like the original version is driven by a coil electromagnet which deflects rare earth magnets in the brush head. https://www.powerelectronictips.com/teardown-whats-inside-a-...
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by Isomatik 5y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/technology/twitter-new-yo...
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by Isomatik 6y ago
This looks like the original paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2737441_An_Evolved_...
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by Isomatik 7y ago
Some additional downers: - The Roosevelt Institute growth numbers are based on this initiative being 100% funded by increasing the federal deficit. The same report deduced that if the initiative is paid for by increasing taxes on the remain
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by Isomatik 8y ago
That's only useful as a hedge for ETH. A mortgage where you have to put down 373% of the value of the house in liquid currency as collateral is not competitive in the slightest. https://mkr.tools/
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by Isomatik 8y ago
This method appears to just measure the Tx and Rx paths on an off-the-shelf modem, so you'd have to physically check the router, or I'm sure this could be handled in firmware. They're measuring phase and amplitude differences
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by Isomatik 8y ago
Proof of work mining is just a bunch of computers trying to brute force the password for the next block so they can get the mining bounty and fees from the transactions they include, so the vast majority of the results are thrown away. For
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by Isomatik 8y ago
I can say at least that the Xbox 360's standard ban for pirated games that failed verification checks was a console level ban, as in, you can take your hard drive and plug it into a new console and you're gaming again. There were
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by Isomatik 8y ago
But the knowledge that he's stealing others' work comes from sources other than the blockchain record, if you don't count the fact that it's internally invalid for a living person to claim a work created in 1506. So the
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by Isomatik 9y ago
Proof of work is intentionally useless to the miner to increase the cost of attacking the network. There are initiatives like curecoin and foldingcoin which integrate folding@home into their proof of work, but the output of that is still &q
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by Isomatik 9y ago
I think it's really only comparable for online transactions, where all credit card transactions are Card Not Present and you aren't able to 100% guarantee that the delivery went to the correct person or that the card wasn't s
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by Isomatik 9y ago
Depends on how comfortable it needs to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery...
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by Isomatik 9y ago
Representing a physical product as a unique cryptographic hash that the consumer can independently verify is generally a lot harder than attaching a photo. From a comment below: > Leanne Kemp, an Australian who in 2015 founded a company
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by Isomatik 9y ago
I can't find very much information on Everledger's features process, just on the blockchain aspect, which doesn't inspire confidence. It's not enough for them to create 40 features you can fingerprint a diamond by, they
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by Isomatik 9y ago
The audit log already exists, or else how would China have found and prosecuted those executives? The problem at hand is ensuring that the information that makes it on the chain is correct, or at least that other members of the chain have a
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by Isomatik 9y ago
Officially, PLEX can only be redeemed for subscriptions, but it can also be traded as an in game item for ISK (standard in game currency). The only real difference between it and a cryptocoin is that selling PLEX on a secondary market is ag
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by Isomatik 9y ago
Yes and yes. This is the big pitfall i see so many ignoring - the real challenge if you're trying to interface with the outside world is establishing what the internal token means in the outside world without depending so heavily on a
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by Isomatik 9y ago
I think the biggest hurdle regulators will have to overcome if they want anything other than a blanket ban on ICOs will be verifying "good faith" execution of their business plans. If you create a cryptotoken that has a real busin
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by Isomatik 9y ago
In general, any game that has a manufactured annoyance that can be bypassed immediately by paying money/watching an ad. Usually achieved by a stamina system (You can play up to 5 levels in 30 minutes, or play another immediately by pay
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by Isomatik 10y ago
This is the SEC, their entire reason for existing is to regulate transactions between USD and the rest of the world. If you want to transact on the blockchain directly, you are absolutely free to do so, but if you want a situation where law
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by Isomatik 10y ago
Bitfinex could have moved to a cold storage system to make the bulk of their bitcoins secure, but doing so would have required them to register as a futures merchant and submit to additional auditing (which makes perfect sense, you can&#x27
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by Isomatik 10y ago
Yep. If you're open for business to US citizens, or even really just moving USD around, you can't escape the USA's jurisdiction. And it appears Bitfinex compiled fully to AML/KYC laws for US customers dealing in USD, so
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by Isomatik 11y ago
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/could-you-charge-a-smartwatch-b... This guy did some napkin calculations which show this kind of energy generation can barely keep up with the energy needs of a smart watch, let alone