bbosh

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by bbosh 12y ago
I think this idea first appeared in the United States. I'm sure there's a story about how Ford sold the Model T. Few people could afford to purchase up front, so groups of people joined together and paid a set amount each month. S
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by bbosh 12y ago
Is it necessary to buy books? At my university (in the UK), they have lots of copies of textbooks in the library. And if there's a book they do not have, you can ask them to buy it and they most probably will.
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by bbosh 13y ago
Yes, I did an experiment tracking which coins I had were fake. I found 10 out of 200.
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by bbosh 13y ago
Does the data include power information? At least you could get some sort of bound on the distance it is likely to have travelled.
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by bbosh 13y ago
But what if you are filming from the public street/highway. Surely that should be legal?
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by bbosh 13y ago
Did you invest $500,000 in real dollars, or earn it from mining?
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by bbosh 13y ago
When each shipment nets maybe $30,000,000 for the shipping company and you pay about £20,000 for the crew during that time, you'd need to save a lot of money elsewhere to make this worthwhile.
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by bbosh 13y ago
From my understanding, a big part of its intended usage is for interfacing from applications in other languages. So you can offload all of the difficult calculations from your C/Java/PHP program and get Wolfram to do the work.
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by bbosh 13y ago
> I don't see any other way around this. Vote with your feet.
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by bbosh 13y ago
Or just contract the work out.
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by bbosh 13y ago
I haven't cited any statistic from blockchain.info, and haven't considered hardware at all. All I have done is employ economic argument, which I think makes sense. It doesn't matter whether or not particular individuals are u
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by bbosh 13y ago
A new block gets mined every 10 minutes, each with a 25BTC bounty. That's 600 * 25 * 6 * 24 = $2,160,000 per day. No rational person would spend more in electricity than the reward, hence the 1-to-1 conversion. (In fact, miners do spen
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by bbosh 13y ago
Here's a back of the envelope calculation. In theory (by supply-demand idea), you would make a negligible profit mining bitcoins. Each bitcoin is worth about $600. If our supply-demand assumption is true, the $2,160,000 dollars of Bitc
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by bbosh 13y ago
I'm not sure you can call the Euclidean algorithm a "computer algorithm", it having been discovered some 2,000 years before computers existed.
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by bbosh 13y ago
What's the chance of somebody losing their phone and their watch at the same time?
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by bbosh 13y ago
Personally, I'd rather my information be in the hands of the United States rather than my own governments (the United Kingdom -- unfortunately it's with both!) Your own government can do more against your interests than a foreign
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by bbosh 13y ago
On the other hand, any traffic that needs to cross the Atlantic, via the Apollo cables, takes a detour via GCHQ Bude, which is funded by the NSA ( http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/USA-spent-millions-Bude-spy-... ). I suspect a
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by bbosh 13y ago
When communicating with the general public, it's useful to use words they understand.
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by bbosh 13y ago
Those PDFs are normally watermarked with a unique identifier for your account. It's not worth it.
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by bbosh 13y ago
Don't eat processed food.
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by bbosh 13y ago
Here's another experiment. Eat 500 calories of 50% fat, 50% sugar. For example, ice cream. You'll feel much hungrier than both a fat and sugar only diet. It's fat and sugar combined that cause obesity problems.
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by bbosh 13y ago
While this technical analysis is interesting, I'm not convinced it is a significant reason behind Flappy Bird's success. I don't think any other game has created as much of a buzz. When you have your friends telling you to do
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by bbosh 13y ago
<script> should be in the body, but the type attribute is optional in HTML5.
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by bbosh 13y ago
The primary function of the stock market is to exchange ownership (shares) in a company. It's odd that we seem to have forgotten that. What value is there in a computer owning a stock for 10 milliseconds?
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by bbosh 13y ago
I don't know why you've gone to the effort of blacking out the other addresses, when the blockchain is public. Here's a definitive proof of the transactions: https://blockchain.info/address/1B45zbsPXDDwoC
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by bbosh 13y ago
I found this at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=447831.80 : "Actually, I set it up to prioritize the small transactions. The 1 BTC depositor will have to wait a while, and everyone else will get paid out as soon
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by bbosh 13y ago
It is either a scam or very poorly coded. I've seen one transaction in the blockchain for 7BTC from yesterday that hasn't been paid. But, people sending 0.01BTC today are being paid. Any proper Ponzi scheme would pay back in time
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by bbosh 13y ago
Yes, mine is just a few photographs on a page. No video. I guess you need to have a certain number of photos uploaded/tagged on Facebook to create a video, whereas I make an effort to not upload any such content.
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by bbosh 13y ago
I'm surprised the figures for the United States vs United Kingdom are are so far apart (550 vs 150). These leads me to think much of the usage is water lost during transmission, or used in farming/industry rather than in the home.
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by bbosh 13y ago
I'm sorry, but this isn't correct. Firstly, you need to understand what Binomial is describing. It is not describing the time between outcomes. It is describing the number of times you will observe a positive result amongst n inde

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