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   by null0pointer 6y ago

   Mining does not validate transactions. It settles them. Even in proof-of-work cryptocurrencies proving the validity of a transaction is a mere signature and unspent outputs check.
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   by null0pointer 6y ago

   This should not be a blanket ban. Actually I don’t think they would even need to implement any policy at all. By 2030 I would expect electric cars to be so economical that it’s the only viable choice for the majority of people. Not to menti
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   by null0pointer 6y ago

   > Why is it just expected that boys can’t pay attention According to this [0] boys have a 4x higher chance of being diagnosed with ADHD than girls. I think you would have a very difficult time arguing that that's because of how we s
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   by null0pointer 6y ago

   Besides the fact that DMCA was probably created specifically for the RIAA, is it possible for the EFF to push for the RIAA to be stripped of their right to use DMCA due to their abuse of it?
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   by null0pointer 6y ago

   Coinbase was never about the original cryptocurrency vision anyway. They always wanted to be the crypto ‘bank’ and be the middleman collecting fees. Even the name ‘Coinbase’ [0] was deliberately chosen to confuse people and make them think
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   by null0pointer 6y ago

   You're right, the real reason is the high density of companies and the talent they attract to the Bay Area. My point with cost of living was that companies need to pay $(CoL + X + Y) for people to be willing to move out here. Where X i
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   by null0pointer 6y ago

   I moved to the Bay Area in mid 2019 from another country. I've had discussions with my American colleagues where I asserted that we were overpayed for what we do. They insist that it's deserved because we're the top engineers
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   by null0pointer 6y ago

   Relative pitch can definitely be trained. And I've heard people with perfect pitch say that when they hear a note they just relate it to a known note. Though I don't know if that's true perfect pitch or a different means to t
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   by null0pointer 6y ago

   Major eyeroll at this. This site conflates algorithms, data, machine learning, math, and specific applications of any of these. Math _is_ neutral. Algorithms _are_ neutral, and are simply instruction sets for operating on data. Data is cert
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    You already mentioned shipping cost, which is improved by better shipping density with the smaller boxes. Shipping is a huge carbon producer, so it makes sense to me that increasing density both makes it more cost effective for Apple and re
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    I thought this as well. FB and Twitter are themselves the misinformation networks.
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    Short for "resurrect" maybe?
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    Are you thinking of dynamic programming? It's the most poorly named thing in CS, in my opinion. The name tells you absolutely nothing about what it is, and IIRC the name "dynamic" was chosen because it's difficult to use
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    That's true. It's more accurate to say the primary consumers are men, rather than that the primary producers are women.
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    I think it's unlikely you will get any recourse here. However what you can do is the following. 1) Find one of the input addresses for the transaction(s) you sent to the scammers 2) Use that address to sign a message like "alexand
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    Nothing, really. Except that it would be a taxation nightmare, since every time you spend some you need to report the difference in price between when you acquired it and when you spent it, and pay tax on the gain/loss. It would also b
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    I don't use Facebook but I hope they can do this with Instagram too. As a non-citizen, and hence non-voter, living in the US I'm sick of being bombarded with political campaign ads.
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    Yeah, this article is almost completely devoid of information.
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    Something I want to experiment with is IPv6 DNS. IPv6 has enough address space that individual devices are universally uniquely addressable. With an AAAA record you can point DNS at an IPv6 address. So I want to try setting DNS to point to
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    We should definitely be beginning to examine the mental health toll the lockdowns are having on people. Changing our behaviour for the sole purpose of extending our life expectancies as long as possible is not living at all.
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    I hadn't heard about this law. Seems it came into effect after I last filed a DS-160 in June 2019. Can anyone provide a reasonable justification for any non-nefarious reason for requiring the social media handles of all visa applicants
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    Jeremy Kun also has a good blog series on ECC. Although from memory it gets pretty technical into pure maths pretty quickly. https://jeremykun.com/2014/02/08/introducing-elliptic-curves...
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    I don't think it's fair to say it's pure populist though. A _huge_ portion of Spotify users don't actively select their music, they just select an autogenerated (or even manually curated) playlist to go in the background
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    One nuance about facts is that they change over time as we learn more about whatever the fact is about. Take SARS-CoV-2 for example, our best scientific knowledge about it has changed significantly since the start of the year. Some _facts_
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    It's even worse if you watch stuff that's not popular. Hollywood is not really my thing so I usually watch more arthouse or vintage movies. Eg. 60's French or Italian cinema, or 80's/90's Asian cinema. Not only
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    Ah I see, thanks for explaining.
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    That's actually a really interesting thought. I wonder if you can just serve a tiny JS torrent client and a magnet link and automatically download the content. You would need to have a way for visitors to seed the content too, otherwis
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    I'm not familiar with the SAT, so I might be misunderstanding. But how is returning to an earlier section of the paper after you've completed a later section considered cheating? In all the exams I took over high school/unive
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    Time to archive all clips from Youtube and all old episodes from his website.
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    by null0pointer 6y ago

    > I feel like firing a worker for running a NSFW OnlyFans account (or similar) would, if not should, run agrounds for sexual harassment or unlawful termination. I don't think it should be considered unlawful termination. Someones be