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P.S. I am awfully glad that in those 51 years I was never again put in a polygraph situation such as an investigation. I just know I'd fuck it up.

In 1967, as a soon to be graduate from a university in what is today called computer science, I applied to the NSA and nothing about that interview was nice. I failed the polygraph…

Payfuckingwalled.

Actually I did think of the desirability of exactly this somewhere around 1984 or thereabouts. It didn't go further than a wish though because the only access to the Unix system th…

If you believe your argument then you must find scientific study and discovery an exercise in making one dumber. I'm afraid I find your argument to be a defense of ignorance.

Perhaps he was simply clued to some seriously bad consequence of proving his ownership of the Satoshi hoard.

One thing I think we can count on is that now that there has been a retreat we will never hear another word about this from FBI or NSA. And probably from Apple.

Nonetheless interesting. I had not heard of him or his website and just spent a couple of hours there. Thanks to the O.P. for the heads up.

I'd bet it depends on the kind of ant and the kind of termite. I'm in Northern Ca and haven't seen trace of a termite since I stopped killing the ant colonies.

I think they are just as attracted to the termites themselves. They love the eggs.

I ceased killing invasive ants with borax, a substance taken back to the hive to destroy it, when during one such defense I saw them divert from the track I was poisoning to attack…

There is no question in my mind but that Don Herbert propelled me into engineering. My fascination with the show started in 1951 when I was 7 and came to an end with my entrance in…

As could be expected this has poked a hornets nest of opposition because of its implications regarding backward compatibility of extensions we use. Many of us are hoping for a fork…

That is correct. From the point of view of the infalling object, however, nothing changes as he crosses it except his position in space. I say who gives a shit about the point of v…

An amplitude is not a complex number. It is the real number one gets taking the root of the sum of the squares of the real and imaginary part of a complex number. In QM they will b…

Sorry man, but that's not even close to what happened.

I was the one on the other side of that bet (not under this name.) It was multiprocessing. I said OS/2 would be there first and he said NT would. I'm not sure who won but we were p…

He'd mop the floor with them. Systems, languages, environments, etc., etc., were trivial then compared to today. I worked back then in a few "labs" that looked a lot like that.

The importance of his answer and the care with which he framed it comes at the very end of the clip. Without specifying a context he cannot answer the question. Leading up to that …

Good god that was uninteresting.

What stands in the way of deployment of this for general usage? Invention, disclosure, coding or what?

That's great. I've followed her blog for a long time for her physics and her humor about it but never had a clue she was a YouTube personality and performer as well. A whole new Be…

> "Satoshi Nakamoto" is almost certainly an alias, and maybe even an alias for a group of people. Which would make it all the more appropriate.

There is no "Nakamoto Signature" entry on Wikipedia yet. Perhaps one with a tractable explanation would help get it going as a readily recognizable stand alone notion.