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"linear transformations with soft thresholds sandwiched in between"

Investment in mining hardware whose value is tied to a speculative asset without fundamental value beyond utility. None of the current implementations can scale, so even their util…

It's a winner-takes-all market, so there are absolutely strong economic incentives to build the best robovacuum control software.

> Play Store inherently allows for competition Really? https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/about/developer-distribut... > (4.5) Alternative Stores. You may not use Google Play to di…

> Mining new bitcoins makes transaction easier No. As long as at least one person is brute forcing hashes, transactions will be processed at the same rate of about 10 tx/s.

Sure you might not like SAP's business practices but there are very few large software companies in Europe.

How do you suggest writing a thin API layer to expose an interactive real-time stream consumed over WebSocket?

> The idea would be that you want sellers to pay something to participate in the market What? Why would you want to do that beyond covering expenses for scam prevention?

The network connection side panel also seems to never open when you want it to, only to open 2 minutes later when you are watching a fullscreen video.

The toy example referenced in section 6.4 is actually closer to Spectre. It's missing the crucial distinction that the speculatively loaded address should belong to a page inaccess…

AMD CPUs are completely unaffected by Meltdown, since AMD checks permissions before fetching memory into the cache.

Emphasis on "mitigate".

WRONG. You fell for the Intel PR strategy. AMD is completely unaffected by Meltdown, since AMD checks permissions before fetching memory into the cache.

Much more leeway for "unintended cheating" with 2D signals. Think of all the imperceptible patterns that could be used as distinguishers. ML methods basically search for these shor…

Same can be said of CryCash: https://crycash.io/ CryTek was on the verge of bankruptcy a year ago when they were unable to pay their employees. The one-time payment from Amazon in …

Bitcoin crashes at least as hard as the economy in times of downturn. Probably harder.

ELI5 why is the multiple patterning not additive in the same way as interference?

https://i.imgur.com/pA7w4Tf.png

Yep, I was actually debating whether I'd mention sendmmsg/recvmmsg in my original post but I left it out. Definitely an option for UDP, but you're out of luck if your game server u…