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Re: reading level: do give the Simple English Wikipedia a try!

Not really. A lot of people at Google are on Macs. I think it's more that the Chrome team doesn't prioritize Java support, which I think shows their priorities are pretty much in o…

Nah, there's several other active, established markets already - SR2 wasn't even one of the top three.

The thing is, in the absence of collective action people choose to defect in prisoner's dilemmas. Giving people the option results in everyone defecting. Having it be preset result…

Yeah, sure, but now suppose that you're going to decide the rule that everyone's car will follow. Are you still going to choose what amounts to defecting in the prisoner's dilemma?…

I've never understood this logic, especially since you're deciding on the rule for all cars , not just your car. Shouldn't you prefer that the rule be to minimize the number of peo…

> Who in their right mind would get inside a car that is programmed to commit suicide in certain "ethical" circumstances? Maybe you'll find this version more interesting: suppose t…

I don't know. This is admittedly not something I know much about, but from poking around a bit, it looks like the Gather-Apply-Scatter model - or any other vertex-centric model - i…

> Also, according to your response a domestic money transfer would suffer the same problems but these seem to work just fine (at least much better than international transfers). Ce…

Regulations are only possible because the technology to "transfer dollars electronically", as you say, requires lots of infrastructure and trust - the entire banking system, basica…

The answer to basically all of your questions is that to transfer money, you need to move money . This can be basically a promise of money, as with wire transfers, or physical, as …

... Well that's an ancient typo. Corrected, thanks.

I did basically this in my first year of college! See [1]. (Note: code was never intended to be visible to the public, and this is old and bad. But hey, it works!) http://kevingibb…

Well, I'm not going to have a compact answer for you, but to do so you need to develop some kind of self-reference. (Like Godel!) If you like thinking about this sort of thing, Ray…

One which doesn't exploit quantum-mechanical principles of computation.

Did you miss the bit in the OP where one of the coins has heads on both sides? The coin may or may not be biased, and the results of flipping it give you information about whether …

The coin is the coin, but your information about the coin has changed. Probability is a fact about you, not a fact about the coin. Here is perhaps a more visceral example: On any g…

Hm. Seems like it would make more sense for 'buyers' to submit btc along with the problem, which the market could then hold in escrow and release as soon as a proof passing the ver…

Wallbase is dying: see [1]. 4walled.cc is a similar if much less polished service. Also see WallHaven.cc, which some of Wallbase's staff is working to make Wallbase's new home. [1]…

Split second as in actually significantly under a second? I've never been able to get mine to take a picture without lighting up for very nearly a full second.

I'm still required to unlock my keychain to view the passwords (on OS X).

No mention of machine proof? Surely those raise the upper bound on our confidence in a new result significantly.

Actually, that would have been way better. If they had done the study you suggest, and the result had still been significant, then he would have been entirely justified in reportin…

Imagine if we grew up in a world like the one you posit, where humanity advances only slowly because it's held back by the ideals held by people 400 years old. You propose that the…

It's a reference to [1], not a description. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Co...