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by hyper_reality 9y ago
Excellent introductory article. My only gripe is that the following statement should have been qualified: > Datensparsamkeit suggests that you shouldn't store the IP address directly, perhaps instead you should hash it and only stor
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After reading the article I did some research into the background of the author. I was surprised to learn that he was a diehard socialist and later Communist, describing Stalin as "a very great man who did a very good job" as late
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by hyper_reality 9y ago
I'm from Britain and it rated my accent as 99-100% British the few times that I tried it. So not bad from my point of view. Meanwhile, I wonder what Cambridge Consultants are going to do with a dataset of thousands of Hacker News users
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by hyper_reality 9y ago
> Empirically, value of bitcoin relative to other cryptocurrencies appears unconnected or only weakly connected to the properties that we think give it value in the first place. This is an important point that anybody who has been into c
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I think you're right, and the article's claim that the drivers' ignorance is being taken advantage of is an unpleasant thing to say. It assumes that the drivers are financially naive, when in fact there are many legitimate re
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That is a bad example indeed. The event of the Black Hole of Calcutta, where soldiers were rounded into a tiny dungeon which few survived, was perpetrated against British soldiers working for the East India Company by the governor of Beng
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by hyper_reality 9y ago
I suspect that will be one argument used by the Spanish authorities as to why the referendum was invalid.
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by hyper_reality 9y ago
Thanks for finding this. Once you read a bizarre sentence like that, you begin to suspect that the level of research Brown puts into subjects which you may know less about, such as religious history, to be similarly dismal. I doubt these ki
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'Electronic heroin': China's boot camps get tough on internet addicts(theguardian.com)
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> Instead, we seek to design a system whereby computation can occur off-blockchain but ultimately enforcible on-chain This seems to be the direction that blockchain and smart contract tech needs to go if it aims to be scalable. Conduct t
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by hyper_reality 9y ago
This is also merely anecdotal, but I don't recall having ever received more than a few spam emails in either my Gmail or Fastmail inboxes.
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I highly recommend Life's Lottery. It's a nostalgic return to 80's Britain that should be entertaining even for anyone who didn't live through those years. The fact that you control the choices of a person from childhood
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It's funny you posted this, because today was examination day for the 'Functional Programming in Miranda' course at University College London, one of the last institutions to actually teach a course in Miranda. Indeed, it&#x2