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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
Isn't that sort of the point of raising interest rates? Makes debt more pressing to slow down money velocity and loan creation? (Thus curbing inflation). Sure, if you push the rates too high, you'll hit deflation, but the point wo
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
> imagine if you could pay 10 cents to read an article or tip a web site. This doesn't need crypto. This can be done with something like Paypal. > How badly does this torpedo googles ad biz? A solution based on spite is a bad sol
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by mostly_harmless 5y ago
This is a dumb comparison. An ounce as a unit is arbitrary. A Bitcoin as a unit is arbitrary (but arguably less so). I'm in a metric country so lets use that. 1 kg of Rhodium is trading around $493,189 vs $66,787 per Bitcoin. Rhodium i
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by mostly_harmless 9y ago
There is no 'true' value of anything. The entire fundamentals of trade depend on the fact that everyone values things differently. If I'm a rice farmer, maybe I want fish more because I have none, and likewise the fisher woul
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by mostly_harmless 9y ago
This is incorrect, that's not the reason they are linked. It is using the category box at the bottom of the page, and both Hitler and Gates were voted 'Times Person of the Year' at some point.
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by mostly_harmless 9y ago
It looks like it uses links in the 'category' box at the bottom of the page. Both MLK and Zuckerberg appear in the 'Times Person of the Year' category.
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by mostly_harmless 9y ago
It broke 9000 yesterday, didn't it? That's more than 10% in a day. Is there any reason it is up, other than speculation?
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by mostly_harmless 9y ago
I made a graph comparison between Toronto Tax and Bay Area tax. https://github.com/bsurmanski/TorontoSFTax Torontonians pay less tax for income up to 200k. Note: I also did not include the SF 1.5% income tax in the com
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by mostly_harmless 9y ago
You mention "fake solar observation glasses". do you mind elaborating a bit: how do you tell if they are fake? Is there something missing in the knockoffs? What is the effect of a fake?
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by mostly_harmless 9y ago
Theres other hidden costs as well. What happens when a harddrive fails in your colo? Unless you have best practice backups, you will lose customer data and trust. GCloud abstracts the issue of hardware so you can focus on real business deve
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by mostly_harmless 10y ago
I don't get the "Google shutting down a product" meme. I can't think of anything they've shutdown without a replacement, except for Reader. Are people still sour about that?
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by mostly_harmless 10y ago
> Zcash is a technology, and like any technology it has multiple uses. I suspect that many of the best applications of this technology haven't been conceived of yet. > 10% pre-mine to founders This smells super fishy. Altogether,
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by mostly_harmless 11y ago
so now drivers need to host their own cryptocurrency pool?
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by mostly_harmless 11y ago
My favourite way of looking at it is to imagine neurons in a neural net as analogue nand-gates. The logic within a computer processor is made entirely with nand-gates, and a processor is able to compute any function. Nand-gates have 'f
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
I imagine this was designed at a higher level, then exploded to smaller parts. For example, usually a 7-segment display controller is used to translate an input value to one usable by the display, but it looks like he soldered one up manual
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
Ideally, it would be a completely automated system. You don't need to understand machine learning to know that it would be better for the computer to do everything itself without human intervention
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
ereaders are a really nice platform but the current problem with ereaders is the lack of tactile feedback, and the difficulty of random seeking. The first issue is mostly just preference. being able to see how far finished a book you are an
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
In a more recent example, the F35 Jet is having delay and cost overrun problems. I hear that one of the reasons is that there is 3 different version of the same jet and it may have been cheaper to design 3 completely different planes orient
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
not quite. It is similar to longjmp except that this can jump down the stack. these labels can be jumped to even after the function returns
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
But programming is not equivalent to stenography. Stenography works on a stream of input speech converting it into text, whereas programming is separated into the 2 modes of browsing&thinking and actually editing. But I think it comes d
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
The biggest problem I see with these global addressing schemes is that they have nothing to do with the location, and they dont have any locality. Snake.Dog.Rabbit is in a location with no snakes, dogs or rabbits and is right next to Lamp.C
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
I think the idea is that the language is focused towards games. Games generally have some inherent shared qualities, mainly that they need to be real time and the language should be minimal overhead. On the otherhand, a language focused on
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
personal plug: I've also been working on a programming language in my spare time, called "OWL"; My language is, coincidentally, also meant to be a cleaned up C++ for game development. It is an object-oriented systems language
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
If it's a GC thing, you should also try using various D compilers to compare performance. There is: dmd (official D compiler), ldc (llvm D compiler), gdc (GNU D compiler). When I was messing around with D about a year ago, dmd compiled
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
I think it would be interesting to be able to travel up the subnet nodes to bigger boards. eg, with subnet A.B.C.D, being able to visit A.B.C.X, A.B.X.X, and A.X.X.X. Additionally, subnets are a bit opaque. what does each one correspond to?
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
I think this ability to compute any function is important, and useful in understanding why neural nets work. Neural nets are essentially a blank computation matrix that, through training, best approximates a function. comparing neural net n
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
I wrote about this a few weeks ago: http://serialprog.blogspot.ca/2014/07/neural-networks-like-c... My point of view was that neurons in neural nets are essentially analogue logic gates. Given that combinations of
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
I've used the leap motion, and so far the accuracy is nowhere near what they show in the video. simply forming the index finger and thumb into an O-shape was enough for them to disappear from existence. If this is an active demo of the
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
I feel that 1-99 should be broken down into a more granular scaling. something like: 1-10, 10-40, 40-100
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by mostly_harmless 12y ago
This is not a good solution. This adds complexity (syntactically and conceptually) without adding any feature. The immutability is already implied by the 'let' and 'var'. Additionally, specifying that the RValue "[1

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