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redog··on PowerShell 7.0
docker run –it mcr.microsoft.com/powershell:preview
redog··on Ultrafast laser pulses produce a previously unseen phase of matter
> "What if all you need to do is shine light on a material, and this new state comes into being?"

Wonder if it's related to photosynthesis?

redog··on We Need to Map the Ocean Floor
I used to do this as well except we were transitioning from ship mounted multibeams to AUVs carrying multibeams and subsurface arrays. Simrad EM3000's IIRC. The difference in the amount of necessary data processing was quite a bit. Just the noise from the ship could be quite distorting and then the sea life would hear you and come try to play.
redog··on We Need to Map the Ocean Floor
It's probably a lot like trying to document the internet. Once you've begun you have to start over because of how much will have changed.
redog··on Making My Own Glasses
Good story but I'm a touch disappointed as I came in expecting a story about making the lenses.
redog··on Cypherpunks Tapping Bitcoin via Ham Radio
> except that communications directly related to the protection of property may be provided by amateur stations to broadcasters for dissemination to the public where no other means of communication is reasonably available before or at the time of the event.

Are transactions or "coins" property? Wouldn't this exception cover the case where you've lost internet "no other means of communication" and are protecting your transactions?

redog··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
What makes them not a "publisher"?

A publisher is a person or company that prepares and issues books, journals, music, or other works.

Their site literally prepares recordings and streams for issue over the public(?) network.

redog··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
I like your thinking on this but Cannons existed...I think our failing maybe to fully understand their definitions of their times. That said, I don't think their definition of speech and property would be much different even if we're actualizing them in virtual realms. That would have been covered by "freedom of the press." You're literally just still publishing an opinion to someone's virtual press. There's no reason they must publish your writing either.
redog··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
>Free speech is a natural right. .... that doesn't mean you wouldn't have that right.

Yes but still they have theirs also. That's what people don't seem to connect between the two. You have no right to my property and all the right to say what the hell you like. Just because I offer my property as a place to speak doesn't mean I have to offer my property without restrictions, how about bearing arms? Why then could a church or school prevent my being armed?

If an individual can change the terms of our property use agreement by saying anything he wants on my property when I object then cannot I change terms by kicking him and his "publication/broadcast" off of my property? Seems a pretty straight forward contract dispute to me. You may enjoy your rights on your property.

redog··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
Wait what? The first amendment protections are just a limit on GOVERNMENT power. The right is that THE GOVERNMENT won't prevent your speech. Youtube isn't the government, therefore they can limit the fuck out of your speech when you're on their property.

I think most agree that Government needs to be prevented from preventing our speech not that our neighbors must allow us to grandstand upon their property even if their property is listed as a public place to grandstand. They have been given rights over the venue and we're supposed to be intelligent enough to recognize government activity vs private activity.

Why can't the voice actor of mickey mouse say fuck more often? iTs hIs pHiloSoPhicAl rIGhT!!! Sure, he can say fuck and then get fucking fired.

redog··on Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless
They could still corner the Fantasy Sports Market.
redog··on One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)
People are selfish and wish to capitalize on the viral nature of reuse. So they make up "legal rights" to protect their ability to out gain you even after they're long dead.
redog··on “All accredited journalists at the #KimTrumpSummit get a free USB fan.”
They're might only be one intended target.
redog··on A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
> How will blockchain help in tracking shipments in an accurate, reliable and secure manner and most importantly, how does it stop corruption?

We already had double entry accounting in order to establish immutable book entries but that gives us a problem of a potential multiple sets of books. The publishing of these records to the blockchain via PoW therefore establishes a sort of triple entry system where the Proof of Work idea is intending to prove a single unmodified ledger.

I work IT for a retail manufacturer. We have to track ingredients for every product we create and what products they each go into and to which customers they ship out to. I'd say it's reasonable that we trust our own database but do you? Is it reasonable for you to trust my database? What if there's a huge recall because of a tainted ingredient? What if I found out I'd lose my job or the company would fold because of this recall and maybe I was lied to and told the tainted ingredient is harmless(Im no food scientist)? I think we have enough evidence to show that companies will sometimes alter books and lie to avoid responsibility but not me no, I'd NEVER do such a thing, i'm a good boy who would never get fired for doing such a thing but maybe that's what would get me fired....fuck what do I do? Oh you meant data corruption....yea no one has double spent yet have they?

redog··on A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
> 'if there's a sysadmin, the system is broken.'

Am sysadmin, is this best practice or just us being reciprocally lazy again?

> It may very well be the case that they are creating a new world that will be marginalized and outcompeted by incumbent systems and organizations, but that's how I understand what's 'actually going on'.

I keep telling people exactly this! Just because X makes sense or is the best doesn't mean the crowd will agree with it's application. See also all politics ever as an example. I feel like I can say it because I identify as one but, It's just another libertarian fantasy.

redog··on A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
Isn't it just basically triple entry accounting?

Blockchain tech is ultimately about trust. Trust that the accounting hasn't been altered. You don't quite have it solved with just a double entry ledger right?

redog··on Google has started the global roll-out of its new Chat messaging service
hangouts
redog··on Monero Is Less Untraceable Than It Seems
To me this feels like concern without regard for the full differences. With bank accounts you usually have the restriction of "as many accounts as you can afford" where with bitcoin addresses you can have countless. So someone could just as easily watch you drive up to the bank and know you bank there. Keep your private addresses private, duh.
redog··on One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC per month
Like a used motor in a "new" car. Unregulated...
redog··on One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC per month
I think the only energy efficiency PoW can hope for is the demise of traditional banks and what energy they consume.
redog··on Aaron, 5 years later
Aaron robbed them of their prestige, that I think was his point. A big fuck you. You're not going to use me as your "example" of why you're such a fucking big shot. MIT failed us all and the powers that be are never going to apologize until apology is the only way to get elected.
redog··on Bitcoin dropping after BTC China said it is closing
Financial sovereignty is the goal of the authors. Getting rich is the goal of the crowd.
redog··on Bitcoin dropping after BTC China said it is closing
But that's not the long term plan. The way the community is pushing is out with fiat. If that's the case then the government is going to still want taxes....The way I see it they're either going to lose revenue due to the new market or facilitate cryptos to be converted for payments of taxes and all things electronic....If Bitcoin is THE success it claims to want to be.
redog··on Bitcoin dropping after BTC China said it is closing
> Can somebody explain what will happen if U.S starts to feel the pressure from Bitcoin and kills it at the point of exchange?

Can you explain how they would? To me this sounds like saying the US would ban World of Warcraft cash.

redog··on Bitcoin dropping after BTC China said it is closing
When others' are scared be greedy. When other's are greedy be scared.
redog··on Bitcoin dropping after BTC China said it is closing
No, his numbers are correct. The drops always settle higher than last "crash"'s peak. How long it will continue is anyones guess.. I think It goes on for quite awhile longer. BTC will eventually get expensive very to create but if the network is being used those creators should have lots of fees to help cover their work. If they don't then they're going to stop mining.
redog··on I downloaded an app and was part of the Cajun Navy
> you can talk halfway around the world while running off batteries and using a wire thrown over a tree for an antenna.

And then what when everyone talks. Isn't it already regulated for this same reasoning? Seems to me a combination of open protocols and mesh networking would be better than government restricted ham.

redog··on I downloaded an app and was part of the Cajun Navy
LTE is radio. and WTF is decentralized radio? I don't think you can run a transmitter on the blockchain.
redog··on The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined
478558 is the last common block 478559 is the forked one.
redog··on Bitcoin surges to all-time high above $1,700
That feels very apt
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