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Here are my thoughts on your concerns:

1) There will always be exchanges even though some governments will outlaw these. I don't see a big problem in getting money into bitcoins but I guess it will be uquite hard to get money out of it. Let's assume you have 10'000 bitcoins with a value of 1 million USD. Who's gonna have the liquidity to get your money out if there are hundreds of exchanges and no big one as they will likely be the primary target of law enforcement in the future? I see the problem more in getting out the money and especially the cost that comes along should bitcoins be outlawed.

2) As interest grows, nodes will grow as well and the system itelf will be able to handle the transactions well.

3) This is also my main concern, bitcoin as every other currency can become a victim of speculation. At the moment this is harder to accomplish though as the marketplaces have not evolved yet to offer tools such as derivatives, options, futures etc. Nevertheless, speculation is a threat to bitcoin and the psychological factor is hard to predict. The best protection against it would be a high volatility (fast in - fast out) which also opens the door to speculative agents.

I see bitcoin succeed only if it gets mass adopted and this is not very likely in the near future. The concept works well on paper but as there is no tangible good involved, mass adoption is unlikely. The savior could be the black markets. Should they decide to even test out the system with a small percentage of their fortune, bitcoin will grow exponentionally in value and provide a very nice investment return for early-adopters.

just my two cents...
"Either" isn't ordered list of elements. It's result of a choice, a tagged sum of sets.

So Either is not a tuple by any mean.
It's a bit of a quirky conundrum. If you retain the scores, you encourage the nerd's competitive nature; the desire to 1-up another in conversation, to be the most right with passionate detail. Strangely, this type of nerd tends to get it right. If your game is to be better at knowing then you'd be sure you always had the most logical, concise rebuttal or point of view that you can possibly have. You can take just about any sport and find an analogy to pair well here.

It's my guess that the nerds who prefer the scores hidden aren't as competitive as the others, in which case, see the scores as a distraction of truth rather than an indicator of it.

Personally, I think the scores are a distraction, but I can't overlook that they do seem to encourage (in a backwards way, it seems) a much more pointed and refined point of view.
Not (much) more than a Tegra 2 running at 75% utilization. Each Tegra 3 core should run at 50-60% power consumption of each Tegra 2 core, if history is any guide. When every chip maker works on a new ARM chip generation, they try to increase performance while maintaining the same overall power consumption of the whole chip. You won't see an ARM chip with 1W TDP in one year, and 1.5-2W the next year, when the new generation arrives. That's why we see dual core phones now with the same, or even bigger battery life than previous single core phones.

Even so, they manage to improve the performance about 2.5x every 12 months, and about 4x every 18 months. That's twice as fast as Moore's Law for x86 chips. That's why the ARM chips keep impressing every year on how fast they progress.
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Thanks a lot. Yes, it's actually registered to me.

Also thanks for pointing out that I need to check whether the name is a registered trademark. I'm going to have a look on that.
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The problem with wind and solar energy is that you can't plan for when you need power, and you can't feasibly store large amounts of electricity. This means that wind and solar can't be the primary powersource, at least until the storage problem is solved which doesn't seem to be on the horizon.

On windy sunny days you'll have too much electricity and on windless nights you won't have enough.

There's a EU project underway to scale up powerlines so that electricity can be moved across the EU as needed. The thinking is that it's always windy somewhere, and though you can't store electricity you can move it without too much loss. So if the wind is blowing in Portugal they can export theis excess power to a windless Denmark and vice versa.
He means on the iPhone and iPad. Nvidia acquired PortalPlayer which was the chip used in the iPods, but Apple decided not to use them anymore and developed their own chip. Meanwhile PortalPlayer chips eventually became Tegra.

Also due to a lawsuit that was recently settled with Intel, Nvidia was unable to provide Nehalem chipsets to Apple, meaning that Apple ended up shipping Nvidia's Core 2 Duo chipset, but that won't last forever and Apple will eventually need a different partner (ATI). Nvidia announced earlier this year that they are developing their own CPUs based on ARM for desktops/notebooks, who knows maybe that will end up in Apple notebook line.
There's also an difference between the michelin system, where most restaurants get 0 stars and getting even one star is a biggish deal, and rating all restaurants from one to five, which is what the system used in the us seems to do.

Like the rating system on the web, it's useful for rating all things, not just the highest ranks.

The Michelin guide is also not particularly useful as a global system because it's heavily weighted towards french cuisine -- http://www.urbanspoon.com/blog/14/Fixing-Michelins-French-bi... -- and only serves major tourist destinations outside of europe -- six cities in the US for example.

The Michelin green guide, which is more the equivalent of other rating systems, does use a 1-5 scale.
That's more than 11 years to complete this task. Who can predict what will happen after 11 years? Generating electricity from nuclear fusion may be possible. Or we may move our nuclear plants to the moon.

We shouldn't ignore the fact that 70% of France's energy consumption is backed by nuclear plants, and this makes France one of the cleanest country in terms of energy consumption in the world.

I just don't understand why people are so hesitant to invest in nuclear energy, which is extremely cheap, infinitely available, non-polluting and moderately safe (burning coals may emit radioactive materials directly to the air).

Nuclear energy won't kill thousands of people underground (like coal), nor will it kill tens of thousands of bird (like wind mills). It also doesn't trap heat (like what solar panel does to retain all the heat), or emit greenhouse gases.

It seems that nuclear energy is an ideal energy source for the future. We should spend more time and money to find out better ways (like fusion) to build nuclear plants instead of worrying about the rare accidents (in terms of death per watt, I don't think nuclear energy is going to lose out).
A Marxist revolution is what brought these clowns into power in the first place. First, Marxists and other socialists topple the government, and then the Basiji started bombing and randomly killing people until they were the government.

Iranian socialist turned out to be perfectly content to destroy the only organisation that protects them from these muslim lunatics, even know what they were doing ... Only to find that muslims will attack, rape, ... anyone they perceive as weak, including women, children, babies. They would enter hospitals, guns blazing, because "your life should be in the hands of allah".

And socialists, well ... "fight for your right" is easy when you're not risking anything. "Non-conformism" is easy when it's really "conformism", when it's you standing between 1000s of like-minded individuals.

When shit really hits the fan, and muslims fire into protestor crowds and kindergartens alike, socialists, even if they massively outnumber the lunatics ...

surrender ...

The story of the "islamic" revolution of Iran is a sad, sad, sad story and, frankly, changed my ideas about the "morality" of protesting against America (or Israel) for that matter. If what you're doing pushes absurd totalitarian ideologies, and you know this, you're not innocent. No matter how much arguments about human rights, abuses or whatever are made.

Protesting works well against a deeply enlightened post-chrisian western government that would sooner commit suicide than knowingly killing a single protester. It doesn't work, at all, against "a tiny minority of extremists".
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It's a long story but at the end it's a combination of strong salary, extreme tax advantages, and sales from a startup medical services firm.
Apparently that page has been shut down by Google?

"This site has been disabled for violations of our Terms of Service. If you feel this disabling was in error, please fill out our appeal form."
Or Sandy bridge and a compatible graphics card.
I use GOLEM, a disassembler that allowed annotating the resulting source (adding lables and comments) and re-running the disassembler for ever-more-informative disassembly. It was also script-based so it could disassemble any machine code (if you were patient enough to write up all the patterns). It could also recognize complex sequences and produce pseudo-instructions e.g. Loop, TestAndBranch etc.

Anyway, not really related, this article is about detecting linux's signature and identifying the kernel, but it brings back old times.
Why do people want their favorite topic published on Wikipedia rather than on their own page? Because they want the additional authority which comes from being on Wikipedia. But this authority comes from quality control.

I actually find wikipedia's aggregation and summarization of information just as, if not more, valuable than the authority angle.

There actually are some quite interesting domain localized wikis around, on top of the random wiki for a game or fan wiki (or encyclopedia dramatica or conservapedia for that matter)

http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

http://www.wikispaces.com/
Consciousness as an object isn't even a scientific entity, it's something that can only be corroborated internal to the agent that has it.

If this were really true I would have no basis for thinking that other human beings were conscious, and thus I would have no reason to think that computers couldn't perfectly simulate other human beings.
I was disappointed when Google made the same mistake with Google TV set top boxes, and put first Atom chips inside Chromebooks, which led to expensive units.

I hope we can see Tegra 3 Chromebooks as soon as they can be shipped in products(August). That should make Chromebooks significantly cheaper and with much better battery life (and thinner).
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The Czechs and the French are most likely glad that Germany will become a permanent net electricity importer.
Bad expectations, low blood sugar, too tired, it's the slow point of the day, the lesson has nothing new - so many reasons why one lesson can be boring, but many people (some of my class) don't break the habit. The only reason I find more than one lesson boring is that I didn't have time to rest between.
I'm a German and I think myself that it is really stupid. The way to think should not be "Don't do nuclear power anymore" but "do X". We have no plan what X is. So we didn't solve any problem.It's so frustrating. We really had a chance with the strong movement from most people here.
This assumption alone holds OP's argument from folding:

> To determine the probability of not just one thing but of a whole bunch of things that are causally unconnected happening together, we multiply the individual probabilities

You can multiply probabilities of individual events only if you know they are independent, i.e. their correlation is zero (as opposed to anything involving causation). I am not convinced that the molecules that were once in one place would get distributed to zero correlation even after 2000+ years. Well, this at least requires an analysis on its own.
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I'm not saying there isn't a problem with their plan. Just trying to point out that of all the countries who could pull it off, Germany would probably be my first pick.

And it isn't just because of solar...they have aggressive energy goals in place already (some before 2022) which makes me think that Germany has an energy plan the likes of which I never saw while in Canada..and certainly not now that I'm in Asia.
The issue here seems the same for all the mentioned emulators, while he have developed a common lower layer graphic library for them, the actual emulation code is from other famous open-source emulators (original project or ports, all with non-commercial licenses). E.g. snesoid is based on a snes9x port.

Anyone with a G1 or G2/Magic will remember when all the yong's emulators suddenly appeared on the market nearly two years ago, at the same time he published nes/snes/gba/mame emulators. Considering the time needed to develop a single platform emulator that supports a good share of games (usually years, maybe with few exception in the history of console emulation), developing them all from scratch would have been impossible imho.
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> The only solid argument against nuclear goes along the lines,

The main argument against nuclear goes that it creates a dangerous set of problems that must be handled over many human lifetimes. People simply cannot do that.

In fact, it's a little ridiculous to safely assume your successors perhaps 100 years hence will have the means to shut down a plant and safely store all the waste. What if things have gone all Mad Max? What if the financial condition of the nation happens to be worse than Greece, but theres this massively capital intensive need to decommission several plants that are now quite dangerous? Heck, what if there's a financial crisis only ten years after the thing is built and all the people who keep it running safely aren't getting paid?

Nuclear is definitely taking a dump on the grandkids, so to speak.
Germany is also one of the main suppliers for regenerating power technologies. So they do have an industry branch that benefits from that move.
That's more than 11 years to complete this task. Who can predict what will happen after 11 years? Generating electricity from nuclear fusion may be possible. Or we may move our nuclear plants to the moon

Or, far more likely, we'll still be burning coal.

Hey, it's no skin off my nose, I'm an Australian. If the Germans wanna quit importing our uranium and start importing our coal instead then that's cool, I just think the German greens are gonna wind up looking pretty stupid when they suddenly need to build fifty new coal power plants by 2011.
The funny thing is that some of the German nuclear power plants are owned by the Swedish Company Vattenfall.
Maybe I'm picking a nit here. But even a single core processor can do multi-tasking, that's what a modern OS such as Windows and Linux is doing.

In your case, it could be caused by many factors. One possible reason is that your task switching itself is the bottleneck, say, saving current context into stack and loading previous context from stack. It's very fast in computers just a few memory access and overwriting a few registers, human brain cell is different storage, the process may take much longer. Not sure if it can be trained to be faster though.

Another possible cause (and maybe worse) is that the main memory is very limited, such that only one of tasks can stay in the memory, every time you need to switch to another task, you encounter a page fault that triggers the OS to load the task from the much slower hard drive. I guess maybe it's the case in brain as well, there are areas for storing short-term memory and for long-term memory respectively, while the former has faster access speed but much limited capacity.

In your case, in order to maximize your throughput, you make the multitasking OS running into a batch mode.
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My side project turned into a consulting company and fed my family for 4 years. Now I'm on my own again, still consulting. Its kind of like every project is a side project - they change from month to month and lots of new development.

Now my main project gets to be my family, which is really a great life. Envy me.
Here is a quote from Richard Dawkins: “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” {Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1996, p. 1}

He even uses the word "overwhelming": “Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the illusion of design and planning.” {Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 1996, p. 21.}

Your attempt to get me to do your research for you is noted. The fact that I got voted down for expressing my (perfectly valid) opinion is also noted. This is why I do not like atheist/religious debates on HN. It's not the right forum for it. If I wanted my religious views attacked I'd be subscribed to talk.origins. This is a tech aggregator, not a forum for atheists and Christians to battle it out.
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It's not infinitely available, you could not run the whole world on it. You'd have to build a plant per day for (IIRC) 20 years, and since that's their lifespan, you'd just keep on decommissioning and building plants. And, if you were using them for all the world's energy, you'd quickly run out of Uranium. So, no.
I've heard that argument before. I'm actually inclined to believe the general sentiment (in the sense that producing and burning most non-renewables, or building huge dams is disgusting). However, I'm highly skeptical that they are accurately tracking long term health effects of radiation poisoning.
Debunking myths:

"This won't have consequences, it didn't have any in Sweden either."

=> After the nuclear phase-out was enacted in 2000, two power plants were shut down as planned (Stade 2003, Obrigheim 2005).

=> After the Fukushima incident, eight additional plants were shut down and will never return to the grid again.

"This just leads to increasing energy imports."

=> Germany exported 9 billion kWh in 1Q2010, can hands-down afford shutting down nuclear power plants. Source:
http://www.klimaretter.info/energie/hintergrund/6271-deutsch...
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To elaborate:

> "Either" isn't ordered list of elements.

Although the Either<T,U> type looks like a pair definition, an Either<T,U> return value contains only one element of type T or U.
Yup. Thorium fuel cycle is the holy grail of Indian nuclear research. Its the main focus if not the only major focus. This could change but with our investments in renewable energy and closed thorium cycle, we could be looking at a more cleaner future for the world.

As for the risks associated with the nuclear power, its clearly a necessary risk. India consumes 1/25th of the American per capita consumption. Even assuming we consume less than US that's a lot of new electricity that has to be added to the grid. Something renewable energy can't provide. I would rather have us build reactors than coal plants. Of course all bets are off, if we ever tame fusion.

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http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/19093.asp
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The limit to how fast you can clock a CPU is mostly due to how long the chains of CMOS devices run before they hit a cocked latch. Having one CMOS drive 10 other devices takes longer than having one CMOS drive only 1, so there's a standard metric called the FO4 (Fan Out of 4) that can be used to measure gate delay. IBM has often put more effort into having low fo4s for its processors (usually around 15 or) vs. x86 (around 20).
> I would also be interested in hearing you expound upon those things that are "very important for 2010s performance".

I'm not particularly an expert in this area, but my understanding from articles/mailing-lists/etc. was that there were inadequacies in the previous machine-description and IR frameworks that led to the revamping with Gimple and MD-RTL over the past few years. Some of that was just maintainability, but I thought there were also optimization-related issues with the old internals. Is that not the case?
Learn a bit of Java first if you don't know it. Try thenewboston's tutorials on youtube. You can also find some Android tutorials on youtube.

Also go to anddev.org, androidsnippets.com and p-xr.com for code snippets.

I prefer learning with the video tutorials a lot more. It's too bad there aren't too many of them right now, but you can find a couple of decent series on Youtube. Do the projects in the same time with them. There are also several books for beginners. Just google top android books for beginners, or something like that.
Sounds fine (and does not create confusion) in Portuguese as well.
My-Vee-Us. Not bad at all. Good luck with whatever you're doing.
St. Luke understood the brain to be the home of mental faculty and the situation never really changed. Especially once Aristotle re-appeared, the brain was definitely understood as an organ that processes sensory input can be affected like other organs. Caffeine, exercise, possibility of surgery all known. Brain speculated to be involved in comas. Existence of neurons speculated.
I feel that if they own your creativity they should pay you for it, and creativity does not stop when you clock out... demand 24/7 pay perhaps ?
A technology that can - by the core physics behind it - make large parts of a country uninhabitable upon failure has no future. And is crazy for a small country like Japan.

Maybe it is better than coal. But Germany plans to replace them with renewable energy.
> [...] client code is free to not check for errors. The process will not stop nor even print backtrace if the programmer forgets to check; the process will happily go on with invalid / unsupported / mangled / whatever data. [...]

This statement is simply not true, at least in languages that actually have Either data types (read: Haskell). But I'm not sure how to implement the generic class Either in Java.
Thats the bet nvidia made when they lost the chipset business. I'd say they are more interested in their own CPU specially now that Win8 is compatible with it.
Thanks nussbi, great answer. Just on point 2, as the number of transactions grow, my understanding is that all the nodes have to have a copy of the transactions (otherwise how could I verify the coins source coins without a complete trail). Have they come up with a clever way around this or am I missing something?
Agreed. Though the videos are easier to consume on a crowded subway: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

Plus, if you make it to the end he puts on his robe and wizard hat. (Can't believe I got to type that sentence for real!)
Thanks a lot. I thought it can also be pronounced as Meh-Vee-Us
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