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I'm pretty sure you lost weight by reducing number of calories. For example, consuming 2000kcal of refined sugar and 2000kcal of beans will result in different calories absorbed gi…

I do not believe 2000kcal of beans is in any way damaging, yet it's mostly carbs, water and protein with a bunch of nice micronutrients. Eating diverse food that has a high volume …

Bitcoin Core developers still didn't implement a SegWit wallet. I guess Coinbase can't be sure that their SegWit implementation is going to be used correctly.

It's interesting how the focus is on almonds, grapes, tangerines, lemon etc. Much scarier than the polluted almond, is the amount of these pollutants that get into the grass, grain…

https://github.com/Microsoft/LightGBM LightGBM also has GPU support for learning decision trees.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08439 The original paper. The references in the paper paint a much clearer picture of where exactly the idea behind reinforcement learning with optimal, …

Yet our /glutinous/ gluttonous diets, irrational heating-cooling patterns waste magnitudes more energy. Let people be wasters, nothing wrong with that. If Bitcoin experiment succee…

Yep, I've tried to do arbitrage on one exchange during dumps (there's quite a lovely way to realize there will be a massive dump done on the exchange) and most of my trades couldn'…

It's nice to do that to banks that didn't set their trading prices to avoid arbitrage (did it couple of times myself). For cryptocoins it's nearly impossible. Because in most cases…

> that would make Bitcoin accessible for everyday transactions for millions/billions of people, are not even being attempted I'm not sure if that's correct. There's absolutely no w…

> It isn't even trying to solve it through the most straightforward way: raising the block size limit. Okay. The blocksize is raised and now people find new uses when the thing sca…

Bitcoin is not just software. Research behind implementing Schnorr signatures, lightning network, confidential transactions, efficient confidential transactions (bulletproofs), is …

> This is false. What is false? Are you saying it is governed as a product? Incremental scaling improvements are research fun projects that are not being forced on developers (that…

Bitcoin is an early stage technology that still hasn't solved its scaling problem. Bitcoin is also not governed as a product, so incremental scaling improvements are left for the u…

Yet still, bridges, roads, piping cost more to build than ever before.

There are limits to growth. The infrastructure bubble is cracking. No one was there to think through the long term investment in infrastructure. The prices have skyrocketed due to …

There's a good book called Primetime Propaganda, showing how exactly ABC, CBS and NBC were doing that, and are still doing it.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1159.pdf The above is a proper paper on how to do math for a DAG based protocol. Serguei Popov, the research mathematician behind IOTA DAG based protoc…

Dynamic IP. My IP is so heavily reused that there's hundreds of downloads, porn, tv shows, movies etc.

Well, assuming that bitcoin can be tracked and deanonymized, it would. Although, all cryptocoins are a step back. There's no way they could support transactions-per-second necessar…

All cryptocurrencies are a bubble. Technology is still not there yet. There's no scaling solution anywhere in sight. These valuations are for a product that does not exist. If scal…

Facebook is the ultimate individualism app. Before, you had media that was consumed simultaneously by all members of the family or together with your friends. There were some, not …

http://zafar.cc/2017/7/19/hungarian-algorithm/ Article above describes a very short implementation of the most efficient form of the algorithm (40 lines of code).

None of these technologies are dominant enough. Not a single one is a usable product. All cannot support a large number of transactions, not even those that do not have proof of wo…

Whey is waste in the dairy industry, yet it's sold profitably as a dietary supplement and used all over the processed food market. Unfit oranges, apples etc. are waste to the fruit…