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Its getting pretty tiresome for people to host super-alt-right events and then claim that they're moderate or politics-free. If your event is called "BasedCon" then you're knee-dee…

Spinning the spaceship is a pretty hard problem. There's all sorts of constraints on how fast you can spin it for a given radius, and you have to spin it fast enough to be useful. …

Benford's Law requires that the numbers being analyzed typically occur over a wide distribution spanning orders of magnitude, which typically doesn't happen in trading (except over…

None of those frameworks are slim and fast. No framework is going to admit that they are bloated, and many will claim to be slim and fast, despite the fact that they are not.

I've gotten a lot of flack for saying that advertising and marketing are terrible industries and need to be chopped down by 95% or more, but I think this only supports my point. Th…

> For the endless commentary on Trump profiting off the presidency, Trump running an "organized crime family", Trump this Trump that, we have actual hard, concrete evidence that a …

From my point of view, its not just about whether the company is private but also how easy it is to substitute the service. Twitter and Facebook are not close to the only means of …

Not sokoloff, but that would be a reason to move to another mail provider. If Twitter is censoring speech then the correct option is to move to another service or host your own spe…

That just demonstrates that there isn't an easily definable political neutral. From my point of view, the "Burisma scandal" got all the attention it deserved. The reason the media …

Is there much in the way of software development and data engineering? I clicked on some of your links but the focus was on engineering jobs involved with building the physical inf…

Can you use mechanical drives for long-term storage? I would expect that any long-term storage would involve a strategy including backups and redundant devices.

Small amounts of money can have outsized effect on a market if it’s thinly traded, which crypto markets tend to be.

It’s used in nearly every climate change discussion. Its not particularly profound or thought provoking.

Ideas like fascism rarely spread because they’re better. They’re simpler which makes them more appealing. Better ideas also tend to be less appealing on the face of things because …

Can you elaborate on what the bin packing problem is?

In stock trading, we say that there are a million reasons to sell and only one to buy. Sales aren't a particularly good signal, since they can be very specific to ones' personal si…

We’re not. The problem is with the “everyone got one” part. Every time I’ve discussed this issue personally with a republican they act indignant when I assert that the ids need to …

Proper key management is a hard problem. This is a fact that the cryptocurrency scene has been relearning for years now.

You're not thinking probabilistically nor in terms of risk. There's no way to know for sure that an exchange is insolvent or at risk of becoming insolvent, but there are signs that…

That's a pretty big point by itself. Lots of people with pre-7 phones looking for an upgrade that don't need or want all the X features.

My observation is this: The "killer app" of Blockchains are the trustless nature of the system. In most practical application, allowing actors without a trust relationship to inter…

No, because there is a block reward too that subsidizes the miners, so you have to account for that too. We don't really know the relationship between transaction rate and electric…

I think that depends on how much mining hashing power scales with regard to transaction rate. From a technical point of view, there's no reason that the hash rate has to increase t…

On a per-transaction basis? No. Those costs specifically end up being reified in the fee those processors charge to their customers, so we can determine an upper limit to how much …

You're assuming that a global system must be trustless. This is not really a requirement. Heck, in most cases its not even desirable.