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Criticizing cryptocurrency for it's energy consumption is absolutely ridiculous. Every step in technology requires ever increasing energy consumption... hell... the universe expect…

I believe a simple moving average would achieve the same result and that mixing training and test data for validation invalidates your model results... On a positive note, nice sho…

can we stop telling other people what they should do? these tech giants are worshiped for what they achieve and how they transform the world, not for their flaws. And yes, they are…

there's a relevant gap in his 'history of the internet' analysis where centralized web was basically all that existed for users (i.e. AOL walled gardens). as many things in society…

I believe the issue here is not doing a hardfork. Hardforks are needed sometimes. The issue is the purpose of "The DAO" hardfork (in practical terms, a bailout) and how it was done…

Watching this documentary ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY ) about Shenzhen I got a very strong cyberpunk vibe, especially the last 1/3 of it. People at the streets fi…

I don't think they are talking about having NO sense of reality. They are saying that having filters that 'simplify', or make these signals more 'user friendly' bring evolutionary …

I disagree with that. I have put more than one hour in and have found many interesting planets, creatures and geological formations. I'm also captivated by the small stories. What …

It was meant as a sarcastic comment, of course it is inaccurate. :) IMHO: Unfortunately democracy doesn't work, in practice, as the theory might suggest. What we have in the majori…

Isn't that the deal that Hector Monsegur (sabu) got?

Ah... these hackers just don't understand that hacking, invading people's privacy and stealing their money is a government monopoly.

You can find some great resources (although more unstructured) on Youtube. I recommend the following: - Computerphile ( https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile ) - The Secret Li…

compounding on the other responses, the increased emissions of CO2 in the atmosphere are also changing the ocean's chemical properties (acidification).. and this has a huge impact …

If capitalism is as good as they say, BTC entrepreneurs and miners should be pouring money into cleantech anytime now ;) The second point is something I've asked myself without any…

Thanks for the reference! I've seen some implementations ( https://github.com/asdofindia/python-whatsapp-bot ) but usually Whatsapp bans accounts that do it.

I believe this an amazing move by Telegram. I firmly believe that open platforms tend to win in the long run. Whatsapp should take the hint and open up their platform for developer…