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New comment by stephengillie in "A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada"

stephengillie — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:28:51 +0000

> Every resident and employee will have what amounts to an Ethereum address, which they will use to vote on local measures and store their personal data.

Maybe repurpose the pods to hold ETH mining gear?

But you've caught me. I obviously don't know what I'm talking about. Congratulations, CyberDildonics, you've won HN today!

New comment by stephengillie in "A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada"

stephengillie — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 09:06:19 +0000

They could have combined their similar goals and pooled their money.

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stephengillie — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:48:24 +0000

New comment by stephengillie in "A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada"

stephengillie — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:36:33 +0000

Subtitle tells the whole story:

> A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.

He could have joined up with the Bitcoin mining group in Wenatchee WA, where they spent millions building custom "mining pods" to house the ASICs.

New comment by stephengillie in "Why the “circumcision solution” to the AIDS epidemic in Africa may increase it"

stephengillie — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 23:36:53 +0000

> After all, if someone knows (or thinks) that they’re getting a great big helping of medicine, they might act in various ways—whether consciously or unconsciously—that have the effect of generating positive health outcomes but which have nothing to do with the intervention itself.

That sounds strangely like the Hawthorne Effect[∆].

[∆]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

New comment by stephengillie in "How to Handle Monetary Values in JavaScript"

stephengillie — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:23:52 +0000

Collecting the rounding leftovers into another bank account was the plot of Office Space.

New comment by stephengillie in "Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks (2017)"

stephengillie — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:18:29 +0000

Bit of a typo in the title. Original: Advantages of Using R Notebooks For Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks

New comment by stephengillie in "How much does a cable box really cost? The industry would prefer you don't ask"

stephengillie — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 02:11:43 +0000

NFL and other leagues have streaming on their own sites now. NFL is $75/year for all games on-demand.

New comment by stephengillie in "Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole"

stephengillie — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:59:40 +0000

> Astronomers call it Sagittarius A* (pronounced “A-star”).

Why do astronomers call the black hole "A Star" when they know better than anyone else that it's not a star, but a black hole?

Why don't we call it "Sagittarius A-black hole"?

New comment by stephengillie in "Create your own dysfunctional single-page app"

stephengillie — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:27:15 +0000

If web browsers could interpret another language, would you make the same argument against it?

New comment by stephengillie in "Create your own dysfunctional single-page app"

stephengillie — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:23:25 +0000

Last year, I wrote a small single-page app engine that takes a JSON representation of HTML, and writes it to the DOM to build the page in the browser. The entire app is described in one JSON document, so it's quick to download and needs no network to change pages. I'm slowly starting to develop it again. The demo site is still up (with a SPA builder) at https://sparational.com and you're welcome to suggest any improvements.

New comment by stephengillie in "Google Home (in)Security"

stephengillie — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:09:06 +0000

We need an internet of firewalls. I dislike tech legislation, but sometimes I think all networked devices should be required to have an internal firewall.

New comment by stephengillie in "‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails"

stephengillie — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 22:34:13 +0000

Sorry

New comment by stephengillie in "15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620"

stephengillie — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:46:44 +0000

I haven't worked with arrays for years. Sorry for the mistakes.

New comment by stephengillie in "‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails"

stephengillie — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:13:35 +0000

Musk missed, and his car is headed for the asteroid belt instead of Mars.

New comment by stephengillie in "‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails"

stephengillie — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:22:54 +0000

If we send a Voyager-sized probe to Alpha/Beta Centauri, could we use a similar gravity assist to slingshot around one of the stars?

How good is our aim across 4.4 light years?

New comment by stephengillie in "15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620"

stephengillie — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:15:13 +0000

I get RAID 01 and 10 mixed up all the time. These names are too similar. Please understand that I meant the better of the 2.

New comment by stephengillie in "15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620"

stephengillie — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:49:56 +0000

Multiple "0" drives can be added for further redundancy.

New comment by stephengillie in "15TB HDDs: Western Digital Unveils the Ultrastar DC HC620"

stephengillie — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:48:22 +0000

Do other manufacturers produce this size of drive? It's difficult to source from 3 vendors if there's only one making the product.

New comment by stephengillie in "Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice"

stephengillie — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:44:33 +0000

Powershell has Compare-Object, which will diff .NET objects. It has the convenient alias "diff". JSON can be converted to .NET objects by ConvertFrom-JSON.

So you can import 2 JSON files and diff them in Powershell.