leviself

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The Gyms That Want You to Leave ASAP(wsj.com)
3 points by leviself 7y ago|0 comments
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by leviself 10y ago
I agree with this very much. The WMDs are an example of intelligence errors as casus belli. It's important to keep in mind the political context as well, with Cold War II emerging from the last NATO summit http://www.salon.c
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by leviself 10y ago
I agree that folks are latching onto any "proof" they can find even when it's not true. I don't know what those devices were, but there are white noise devices that look like that. Also, it's not unheard of for thes
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by leviself 10y ago
I think you're right that people paying attention already knew. But there were denials from DWS that she was being unbiased. The same thing happened with the Snowden leaks. Most paying attention knew, but it was still upsetting when th
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by leviself 10y ago
I think it is always egregious, regardless of whether it happens all the time or not. For example, the USG is known to meddle with other countries elections. I don't think that's excusable. I assume the RNC played all kinds of tri
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by leviself 12y ago
You appear to be thinking of the CPA requirement which is for accountants, not actuaries. I'm an actuary, and the education requirements are thin https://www.soa.org/Education/Exam-Req/edu-vee.aspx . You could
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by leviself 12y ago
I'm assuming you are ok with an association with cypherpunks / crypto-anarchy, because one certainly exists even if newcomers would rather relegate these roots to history. Hal Finney was a cypherpunk and bitcoin wouldn't be p
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by leviself 12y ago
There really was no "traditional approach" to creating a distributed digital currency at the time. The blockchain is a product of Satoshi's thought and is the central innovation in bitcoin. The principal issue was not anonymi
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by leviself 12y ago
This is not exactly correct. Nobody had proposed a system that was as distributed as bitcoin until bitcoin came on the scene. Szabo wanted to use lots of timestamp servers and Finney wanted to rely on "transparent servers" that bo
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by leviself 12y ago
The blockchain is not just a hash tree. There's other features that mesh together in the blockchain. For example a proof-of-work system that allows bitcoin to be distributed and trust-less by preventing Sybil attacks. While using rew
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by leviself 13y ago
I was a little surprised to see this getting traction on HN too. It would be like seeing a link to the Wayback Machine or Wolfram Alpha with no qualification.
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by leviself 13y ago
I interpreted this to mean that your private keys are probably not as safe as you think they are.
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by leviself 13y ago
Really like the site. Feature request: Shortened URL so the surprise isn't given away.
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by leviself 13y ago
Another interesting bitwise trick: flip bit 5 to swap the case of an alphabetic letter.
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by leviself 13y ago
Just curious, why is Mongo not good enough or do you just mean as opposed to BigTable?
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by leviself 14y ago
The part that makes the assertion false is "...all of which are currently occupied." Moving n to n+1 only works when that restriction is lifted.
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by leviself 14y ago
Yes. The statement as given doesn't work out. If you say "an infinite number of guests and an infinite number of rooms" it works. But when every room is endowed with the property of being occupied there is no room for more guests.
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Some Bitcoin Analysis(analysynth.blogspot.com)
2 points by leviself 15y ago|0 comments