nlperguiy

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by nlperguiy 9y ago
I'm pretty sure you lost weight by reducing number of calories. For example, consuming 2000kcal of refined sugar and 2000kcal of beans will result in different calories absorbed given that 2000kcal of beans requires much more energy to
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
I do not believe 2000kcal of beans is in any way damaging, yet it's mostly carbs, water and protein with a bunch of nice micronutrients. Eating diverse food that has a high volume to calories ratio will keep anyone satiated.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Bitcoin Core developers still didn't implement a SegWit wallet. I guess Coinbase can't be sure that their SegWit implementation is going to be used correctly.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
It's interesting how the focus is on almonds, grapes, tangerines, lemon etc. Much scarier than the polluted almond, is the amount of these pollutants that get into the grass, grains and other things the livestock industry in California
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM LightGBM also has GPU support for learning decision trees.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08439 The original paper. The references in the paper paint a much clearer picture of where exactly the idea behind reinforcement learning with optimal, suboptimal, random oracles comes from.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Yet our /glutinous/ gluttonous diets, irrational heating-cooling patterns waste magnitudes more energy. Let people be wasters, nothing wrong with that. If Bitcoin experiment succeeds it's going to be better than the Internet.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Yep, I've tried to do arbitrage on one exchange during dumps (there's quite a lovely way to realize there will be a massive dump done on the exchange) and most of my trades couldn't even execute because the trading engine can
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
It's nice to do that to banks that didn't set their trading prices to avoid arbitrage (did it couple of times myself). For cryptocoins it's nearly impossible. Because in most cases there's no idea when the actual transfe
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
> that would make Bitcoin accessible for everyday transactions for millions/billions of people, are not even being attempted I'm not sure if that's correct. There's absolutely no way bitcoin can support that many tran
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
> It isn't even trying to solve it through the most straightforward way: raising the block size limit. Okay. The blocksize is raised and now people find new uses when the thing scales better. Streaming money is one such use case. No
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Bitcoin is not just software. Research behind implementing Schnorr signatures, lightning network, confidential transactions, efficient confidential transactions (bulletproofs), is bleeding edge research in cryptography mixed with whole bunc
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
> This is false. What is false? Are you saying it is governed as a product? Incremental scaling improvements are research fun projects that are not being forced on developers (that are the users of bitcoin protocol). No one forced SegWi
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Bitcoin is an early stage technology that still hasn't solved its scaling problem. Bitcoin is also not governed as a product, so incremental scaling improvements are left for the user to use, and not to forced by protocol. Bitcoin is c
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Yet still, bridges, roads, piping cost more to build than ever before.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
There are limits to growth. The infrastructure bubble is cracking. No one was there to think through the long term investment in infrastructure. The prices have skyrocketed due to regulation and now the government can't pay for all tha
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
There's a good book called Primetime Propaganda, showing how exactly ABC, CBS and NBC were doing that, and are still doing it.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1159.pdf The above is a proper paper on how to do math for a DAG based protocol. Serguei Popov, the research mathematician behind IOTA DAG based protocol, claims that it is impossible to ma
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Dynamic IP. My IP is so heavily reused that there's hundreds of downloads, porn, tv shows, movies etc.
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Well, assuming that bitcoin can be tracked and deanonymized, it would. Although, all cryptocoins are a step back. There's no way they could support transactions-per-second necessary. As much as I like cards, I also prefer paying for st
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
All cryptocurrencies are a bubble. Technology is still not there yet. There's no scaling solution anywhere in sight. These valuations are for a product that does not exist. If scaling miraculously comes then the price might hold, other
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Facebook is the ultimate individualism app. Before, you had media that was consumed simultaneously by all members of the family or together with your friends. There were some, not that time consuming media sources targeting a certain age gr
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
http://zafar.cc/2017/7/19/hungarian-algorithm/ Article above describes a very short implementation of the most efficient form of the algorithm (40 lines of code).
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
None of these technologies are dominant enough. Not a single one is a usable product. All cannot support a large number of transactions, not even those that do not have proof of work. There's research-level problems being solved (like
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
Whey is waste in the dairy industry, yet it's sold profitably as a dietary supplement and used all over the processed food market. Unfit oranges, apples etc. are waste to the fruit producers, but juices love it. Cow shit is a complete
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
> You need to read on industrial history if this is not obvious to you. I'm asking questions to learn something from the discussion. Currently, my opinion is that regulations are necessary, but perhaps they aren't, and I would
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
> Not sure what a capitalist incentive is, but we have plenty of ways to potentially regulate this. Are you asking about technical feasibility of finding the actors responsible for it? I was thinking, in the framework of capitalism, what
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
How would there be a capitalist incentive not to do these things? Do we really need regulations? Why do these things happen? Why do people think it is acceptable to pollute?
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
I don't get it. Aren't Republicans for less regulation?
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by nlperguiy 9y ago
I read the article. When I was making "would say" statements I was merely copying the expression parent used. Facts are that black people commit more crimes. These are not fake crimes, these are real crimes. This obviously makes i

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