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>the concept of mathematical expectation is at the heart of every decision under uncertainty I see strawberry and chocolate ice cream at the store. It's uncertain how good each of them will taste. I decide on the strawberry ice cream. Where is the mathematical expectation here??? >Under normal conditions, we assume that people have concave
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This guy's head looks similar, is he related? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/half-head-man-from-famous_n_1279337.html
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>Even still, they said it has a brain to body ratio of 3 times that of homo sapien sapiens. A proton-sized mass operating at Bremermann's limit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann's_limit performs 10^7 - 10^8 times more computations than the human brain does. I really doubt that spacefaring superintelligences will appear as viridian homunculi
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Piltdown Alien
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>USG has a finger in every pie, even if they have to bake the pie from scratch, themselves. Ever since 9/11, the news has been 90% phoney-baloney. Just like the Standard Model and Big Bang theories are phoney-baloney, right Clayton? >I will predict the future...they are going to kill the other young russian boston suspect. So, any idea when this
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The Miranda warning is always optional "While arrests and interrogations can legally occur without the Miranda warning being given, this procedure would generally make the arrestee's pre-Miranda statements inadmissible at trial. (However, pursuant to the majority opinion in United States v. Patane , physical evidence obtained as a result of
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>What are your thoughts. Deflation threat? Evil banker smackdown? Cyprus situation resolved? It seems to be "Crimex"-related. If I had any money I would load up on phys while the "Crimex" patsies are stuck holding the bag (i.e. gold claim checks).
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Dave, surely MtGox fixes the historical, objective exchange value of a single BitCoin? Arbitrageurs would ensure conformity among all such exchanges. But MtGox does not fix a value for all extant ~11 million BitCoins. You are right that the hoarders liquidating their holdings would quickly cause a precipitous drop in the price. Based on the work of
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>And yay, a single global ledger, I'd love to have the world's money tied up in that It sounds similar to the BitCoin block chain. FYI: https://ripple.com/wiki/FAQ "Ripple is a distributed database secured by cryptography. The database is used to store the ledger" i.e. the ledger is distributed.
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>an increase of trade that ultimately froze the trade engine! Exactly what you don't want: a medium of exchange that freezes up and can't be exchanged! BitCoin is too centralized and vulnerable to DDOS (and government attack!). It can't even hold up to normal use.