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imaginenore··on Attacked by Rotten Tomatoes
I can't believe Wonder Woman got 92%. It was one of the worst superhero movies I have ever seen. The dumbest story and the plot, the dumbest dialogue, subpar action and CGI, very mediocre acting. There are a few okay jokes in it, I admit, but that's about it.

Same with John Wick: Chapter 2. 90%, dumb as a bag of bricks.

imaginenore··on Cryptographic vulnerabilities in IOTA
It's not really a vulnerability. Miners don't have an incentive to destroy the currency with a >50% attack, they are heavily invested in it.
imaginenore··on Bitcoin's Golden Future
Yes, in your case it's "whoever accepts the dollar".

Huge difference /s

imaginenore··on Bitcoin's Golden Future
I'd argue more, according to your definitions, the "fundamental value" of the dollar (which you conveniently didn't specify) relies on violence (as in, pay up of guys with guns will put you in prison). Whereas the fundamental value of Bitcoin is determined by the free market.

It's quite clear to me which one is a more moral system.

Again, based on your own definitions.

imaginenore··on Bitcoin's Golden Future
Ok, then the fundamental value of 1BTC is 1BTC, since it allows you to pay of 1BTC of any liability to whoever accepts Bitcoin.
imaginenore··on Bitcoin's Golden Future
Do you realize Bitcoin is accepted in orders of magnitude more places (as in physical stores) than gold as a direct method of payment?

And then Bitcoin is accepted in tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of online stores.

Also only something like 10% of gold is used industrially, the rest is regular hoarding.

And Bitcoin has other uses as well.

But even if you ignore all that, you still can't answer what the fundamental value of 1kg of gold is - it's value is determined by the supply/demand, and has a lower limit, which is it's mining cost, which also changes all the time due to depletion, fuel costs, technological advanvements, land costs, etc.

imaginenore··on Bitcoin's Golden Future
"Digital currencies have no fundamental value"

That argument never made any sense to me. What's the fundamental value of $1?

People assign value to all things based on how desirable they are (the demand). There are rare exceptions, like when a government ties their national currency to something like the dollar, but that immediately creates a black market, where it trades for its real value, and because of that, the government exchange only works one way (to buy or to sell). See Bolivar as a current example.

imaginenore··on Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit
Your argument is more absurd. Toll roads don't have a mechanism to identify and stop the rapists.
imaginenore··on The N-Queens completion problem is NP-hard
If you can solve it at all for even 50x50 would mean a revolution in certain algorithmic fields.
imaginenore··on The N-Queens completion problem is NP-hard
It's currently solved for up to N=27

Both 26 and 27 solutions came from supercomputers/FPGAs and took months of compute time.

http://www.nqueens.de/sub/WorldRecord.en.html

imaginenore··on CTBTO statement on the unusual seismic event detected in the DPRK
It's Status-6, and it's not necessarily real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanyon

imaginenore··on CTBTO statement on the unusual seismic event detected in the DPRK
That's not a convincing argument. Whatever is shown to us doesn't work well.

From 2 months ago:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-missile-defense-test-fails-...

imaginenore··on CTBTO statement on the unusual seismic event detected in the DPRK
None of the countries have a technology that can reliably stop a modern ICBM, let alone 7000 warheads simultaneously that Russia has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ballistic_missile#Current...

imaginenore··on CTBTO statement on the unusual seismic event detected in the DPRK
"It constitutes yet another breach of the universally accepted norm against nuclear testing"

The norm is toothless though. If a country wants nukes, they just have to suffer through the economic sanctions by a few countries.

NK government has every incentive to continue with the research and development. They don't give a damn about their starving population, and they get the ultimate terror card that they can milk for decades.

We really need to develop anti-ICBM tech to save the humanity.

imaginenore··on Rapid release at massive scale
It's not clear from the text how they deal with the severe production bugs. By the time the bug is found, the master branch is full of new code. So your bugfix has to deploy with all that new code?

And with so many people checking in to the master branch, how is it not permanently broken? With 1000 devs pushing code, you're bound to have severe bugs daily.

imaginenore··on Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
That's rich, considering Google just fired a guy for an internal memo full of apologies and facts backed by citations.
imaginenore··on Vast deposits of lithium could change the global politics of battery production
It's 3£, which is $3.88. For a 600mAh battery. You can buy an 8-pack of 2800mAh batteries (each) for $15 on Amazon. So the manufacturer is definitely making money.

The recycling part is potentially interesting. Whoever figures out how to get a ton of these discarded can make money by making power packs.

imaginenore··on Rumours swell over new kind of gravitational-wave sighting
We could build a second detector, sync their clocks, separate them, and measure the speed directly.
imaginenore··on Go 1.9 is released
Then you have to merge them on every read (after any modification).
imaginenore··on $40M Pizza
Some of which must be cold/hot wallets for large projects, like exchanges, police-seized stashes, investment funds, the proposed ETFs. So it's not that bad.

And it's not like Bitcoin has been some secretive project for the super-rich, anybody could get in, and still can.

imaginenore··on Spacex Launch Webcast: Formosat-5 Mission
They were supposed to attempt to land/rescue some other part of the rocket this time. There was nothing about it in the webcast.
imaginenore··on Billionaire Porn King Reinvents Himself as Japan's Startup Guru
That's on average. You can double-triple it for peak.
imaginenore··on [dead]
Why would you remove all the context, and then publish all this drama, clearly blaming the guy, and making him look horrible?

Isn't that against your own CoC?

imaginenore··on Ask HN: What is the best HN like site for crypto currencies?
Various Reddit subs.
imaginenore··on Ask HN: What is the future of browsers?
Browsers seem to be converging.

It's quite obvious that they will all implement next JS standards, with some experiments here and there.

They will add API access to more hardware like VR helmets, controllers, maybe even USB devices (which would be great for web hardware based security, like 2FA).

Probably voice control and typing (like on Android).

Probably automatic translation (not just by Google).

Built-in free VPN (limited obviously) and TOR would be nice.

imaginenore··on Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight into useful compounds
Burning wood becomes carbon-neutral only after you grow that amount of wood (and in dry weight).
imaginenore··on Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Could Have Caused 2 Years of Darkness
> The speed was 24mph

No way. It was 24 km/second.

imaginenore··on Cracking random number generators (xoroshiro128+)
I said without knowing the seed, so f(1) is not public, only f(n) formula is.
imaginenore··on Cracking random number generators (xoroshiro128+)
Can you crack this PRNG without knowing the seed?

    f(1) = 1 // seed

    f(n) = sha512(f(n-1) . f(1))
imaginenore··on All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1
It is an argument, what a "reasonable person" thinks is a standard judicial system consideration

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person

You have no expectation of privacy in a public space, and the courts have agreed with that many times

https://www.wired.com/2010/09/public-privacy/

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