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Yes, but a "smart contract" is not a (legal) contract: it's just a fancy name for "a software program that runs on a blockchain". Thus, "smart contracts" behave like software progr…

https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=europe If you don't want to follow the rules (against anti-competitive practices) of a certain set of countries, perhaps you shou…

I don't necessarily disagree with what you are saying. But, when the price of ignoring the problem for the consumer is "disappointment", rather than "bankrupcy", it still seems to …

> I don't disagree with anything specific that you said, but the reliance on "reasonable" means that you don't get a trivial guarantee about the lack of a short period from the str…

> Assuming its a permutation and you output the whole thing. I'm assuming the state-mixing function is a permutation (i.e. the counter affects the whole state in a reversible way),…

> You can ban sandwich shops in your city, and there wont be a viable model for sandwich shops. No one banned sandwich shops (or paywalled newspapers) in this context, though. The …

It's a recent anti-pattern they added. Possible solution: replace the "twitter.com" portion of the URL by "nitter.net" and you won't be nagged by things like that.

Just a small comment: you can do things to ensure that the period of a PRNG is longer than a certain lower bound for any input seed. For example, if you make the state-mixing funct…

I mean... I empathize with your feeling. I'm not telling you how I think things should be, but more about how things are, in practice. In practice , algorithms are not copyrighteab…

> 2+2=4 is not copyrightable. "2+2=4" is a computer program as much as "Hello world" is a literary work: you need to use better strawmen. > I’d further that any program in a CS101 …

Computer programs are as copyrightable as literary works, and generally are counted as such within the context of copyright (see https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/295166 ). Please p…

They generally do open source their crypto systems (at least the algorithms themselves), given that that is practically a requirement for any crypto system to be adopted in a wides…

Note that no one is complaining about them locking-out "new identities" (which could be easy to create), but about them locking-out "old identities that have paid thousands of doll…

Seems like the person in question re-invented "NNLS chroma" or "Harmonic Pitch Class Profiles", which are often used for automatic chord transcription and related tasks. See, for e…