kurotetsuka

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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
True enough - but carrying and exchanging large amounts of cash is rather unsafe. Not so with Bitcoin :).
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
You accept the risk you could die every time you step outside -- not because you think you're too smart to get shot or hit by a bus or whatever, but because the risk is so low and you kinda have to go outside to get what you want. Same
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
Neither of these are true. 'These people' don't want to let any particular party regulate their use of money, for better or worse. By using bitcoin, you implicitly accept the risks of a decentralized currency. Until there exi
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
“Inter-universal Geometer" - This seems to refer to the Geometers from Neal Stephenson's Anathem[0], or is at least inspired by the same concept. "Inter-universal" probably refers to the fact that math, analogous to geom
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
That made me laugh, thanks XD.
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
Sounds sort of like something I've been working on - Hyphaelia[0]. Users publish both respect and trust ratings for other users, and just respect ratings for content. This allows me to calculate individualized rankings of content for a
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
You might be interested in something I've been working on - hyphaelia[0]. Users publish both respect and trust ratings for other users, and just respect ratings for content. This allows me to calculate individualized rankings of conten
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
> the only way to correct that is to hire a greater share of them This is affirmative action, which has the following problem: How do it eventually end? This is especially true when the desired quota is impossible (It may or may not be i
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
How is this good? Isn't it a clear case of unfair gender discrimination? I get that people want to correct a perceived injustice, but isn't overcompensating just as bad?
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
I'd like one please :).
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by kurotetsuka 11y ago
Here's something I wrote a little while ago - an xkcd-style passgen script in ruby. Usage is just `./passgen.rb [number of words]`. Default word count is 5. https://github.com/kurotetsuka/passgen
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by kurotetsuka 12y ago
Is there a law for mentioning Zike's law? (kinda serious)