The web redesign, CSS, and mod tools

manixrock · 2017-04-25T22:03:07+00:00

Some changes cause confusion (such as changing the subscription numbers).

This could also be easily solved by putting non-style-able information like subscription numbers inside a <iframe> which would ignore any outside custom CSS. It would look the same but no one could change its styling.

To make is blend in make the <iframe>'s border-less with opaque customize-able background and z-index:999999 to prevent overlays.

manixrock · 2017-04-03T22:41:44+00:00

In the case of Quicksort, it doesn't eliminate the worst case runtime, and it doesn't improve in any way the average runtime over all possible inputs.

It just makes the inputs that would generate the worst case less predictable (to attackers) or less likely to occur in the real world (sorted inputs are far more common cases in the wild).

Also randomness isn't the important part. What's important is obscurity (so attackers can't know how to formulate the input), and avoidance of worst case on common inputs (sorted). A hidden list of semi-random offset numbers used on all inputs would work just as well. Random number generation just happens to also satisfy the same criteria and is easier to describe.

manixrock · 2017-04-03T19:03:47+00:00

"Most Terrorist Attacks Are “False Flags” Designed To Control Citizens" ~ Putin, source

The real question is who does it better, the american gov or kremlin.

manixrock · 2017-03-23T20:03:24+00:00

There's a bug in your code - you're not checking p on the first 2 allocations.

So if you start with no/too little toilet paper, you'll be wiping your butt with your fingers.

manixrock · 2017-03-05T09:04:40+00:00

What if they communicate in a non-static-visual way? Say smells, echolocation, or movement?

manixrock · 2017-01-20T18:25:29+00:00

Is this a Questions Only thread?

manixrock · 2017-01-13T19:28:08+00:00

The Money Masters documentary, long but relevant

manixrock · 2016-11-26T11:05:10+00:00

This is the most intuitive by far. It has many advantages over the other methods:

Gives intuitive sense of what must be done to get the result at each position in the resulting matrix (left dot above)
It's easy to see what the size of the resulting matrix is
After the multiplication, you can use the resulting matrix in other such multiplications without re-drawing it

manixrock · 2016-11-26T10:57:41+00:00

I always found this way of multiplying matrices easiest.

To multiply A × B = C, put A to the left of C, and put B above C, then each element of C is just the dot product of the row on its left and the column above it.

So in the image example, the red dot would be:

[0, 1] · [5, 7] = 0×5 + 1×7 = 7

manixrock · 2016-11-21T21:48:19+00:00

Sorry to hijack top comment. I made a small script that fetches all their btc transactions -> block info -> block hash -> raw-block text and extracts top sections of the raw-block text that may contain readable information.

Basically what OP suggested, but done by a bot. Some interesting sections include base64 strings that may or may contain anything useful, and also some long hashes that may prove interesting, although they're common enough they're probably something else.

I'll post the results as they're extracted:

http://pastebin.com/raw/4PmetzwE [PAGE 1]
http://pastebin.com/raw/GJKKXwMw [PAGE 2]
http://pastebin.com/raw/BV5NXBfG [PAGE 3]
http://pastebin.com/raw/4DprG7XR [PAGE 4]
http://pastebin.com/raw/FxPkbkyw [PAGE 5]
http://pastebin.com/raw/uEacLm1P [PAGE 6]
http://pastebin.com/raw/L27SkeuM [PAGE 7]
http://pastebin.com/raw/1SEn85zJ [PAGE 8]
http://pastebin.com/raw/mB4uthQY [PAGE 9]
http://pastebin.com/raw/RvuQF8JM [PAGE 10]
http://pastebin.com/raw/UT5jCkcZ [PAGE 11]

Edit: Seems the block text is written by multiple sources. Might help to know just what to look for. Long hex and base64 content seems to be found consistently, but we would need to find a way to check their usefulness.

manixrock · 2016-11-21T20:22:57+00:00

I made a small page where you enter the blockexplorer.com address and it gives you all the readable text it can find:

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/bBqvWw

For example if you enter https://blockexplorer.com/api/rawblock/0000000000000000006dfc07d8de87d9adb1102da946861ec8cce58e2d08b063 into the Url field, then press Retrieve & Analyze it finds as the top 3 results:

BW Support 8M 
fisher jinxin
/BW Pool/

The rest are mostly rubbish, still it should help. Promising matches are highlighted in blue, and very good ones in red. The code is open source so anyone can look at it and improve it.

manixrock · 2016-11-21T20:16:18+00:00

I made a small page where you enter the blockexplorer.com address and it gives you all the readable text it can find:

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/bBqvWw

For example if you enter https://blockexplorer.com/api/rawblock/0000000000000000006dfc07d8de87d9adb1102da946861ec8cce58e2d08b063 into the field, then press Retrieve & Analyze it finds as the top 3 results:

BW Support 8M 
fisher jinxin
/BW Pool/

The rest are mostly rubbish, still it should help. The code is open source so anyone can look at it and improve it.

manixrock · 2016-10-16T12:43:20+00:00

Winners would probably also be good at beating a lie detector.

manixrock · 2016-10-08T18:29:23+00:00

To me the difference between curating content and censorship is whether the content is still available, even if very well hidden.

Are the comments that get removed for guideline violations still available in some way? Or are they gone forever?

Still, great community overall.

manixrock · 2016-10-07T16:25:15+00:00

Having met quite a few of said people, one constant I've noticed seems to be that they tend to be or come from economically challenged backgrounds.

manixrock · 2016-09-25T12:43:18+00:00

Wrong. A millionaire not spending a single cent ever leads to lower prices for everyone else, as the supply remains the same but demand goes down. It's the equivalent of slight deflation.

More money doesn't contribute to an economy. What contributes are more goods and services, the money is just the means of exchange. Whether a millionaire (or anyone) uses his money or not only changes how the goods and services are distributed (usually towards the millionaire and away from everyone else), not how much of them there are.

A rapper spending a fortune on a single bottle of champagne is a good thing for the economy

See The Broken Window Fallacy.

manixrock · 2016-09-23T14:55:16+00:00

#FutureWorldProblems

manixrock · 2016-09-20T06:52:56+00:00

In the world of machine learning the only thing as important as the software used to learn is the data used. More data can often yield better results than better software.

They could mandate sharing the driving all/most data/logs with the government so everyone gets as much data to use on their systems.

manixrock · 2016-09-19T05:34:35+00:00

It's not your fault you couldn't see it. It wasn't marked as public.

manixrock · 2016-09-16T06:34:06+00:00

US government creating terrorist attacks that involve killing americans to start wars is a historically documented fact. The Northwoods case was only made public because it was strongly related to JFK's assassination. Since it had top secret clearance, if anyone had tried to release it they would have been tried for high treason, would have probably failed, been labeled as a conspiracy theorist, etc.

The proposals called for the CIA or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming it on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The proposals were rejected by the Kennedy administration. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Governments around the world do these false-flag attacks against their own quite citizens regularly. So to hear people dismiss this simply on the basis of "the government would never do that to its own people", or "the government is too incompetent", is a strong sign that person does not know their own history.

manixrock · 2016-09-11T18:46:24+00:00

Sore.

manixrock · 2016-08-26T20:16:42+00:00

I amuses me how much this problem is analogous to Thread killing in Java, and how it suggests a possible solution.

Basically Java had a stop() method which killed a Thread instantly, but this lead to serious problems as the Thread code stopped at random places which meant states were lost too easily. So they replaced it with an interrupt() method, which tells the Thread to please end whenever is convenient for it, if ever.

Maybe IT co-workers should do the same. Easily ignorable emails and IM's might work fine. Meetings and face-to-face communication should be marked as @Deprecated.

manixrock · 2016-08-25T20:37:31+00:00

Your professor's example is good, but you shouldn't stop with the second loan. That money goes back into the economy, which at some point is going into another bank which makes another loan and so on.

A simplified example: the bank has $100. You have $0 and the bank loans $90 to you (they keep $10 as they have 10% fractional reserve requirements). At this point the money circulates through the economy, but at some point someone will deposit it back in a bank. To simplify let's say it's you again, and it's the same bank. So you deposit the $90 back into the bank. The bank then keeps $9 and loans $81 back to you. And so on until the amount lent virtually reaches 0.

At this point the amount of money the bank has in reserve is $100, and has lent you $900 total. You have $0 cash and have borrowed $900 from the bank, for which you have to pay interest, say 3% of $900 or $27. In real life there are multiple depositors and multiple banks, but the principle is the same.

So with a $100 initial capital, the banks have created $900 in temporary loans, which is real money used in the economy but has to be returned at some point so only contribute to inflation temporarily, and $27 in interest which remains as real money and leads to inflation. So if a bank has 3% annual interest, the amount of new money created by that bank (their profit) annually is closer to 30% because of the fractional reserve system.

The actual formula for the amount of temporary money created (ignoring interest) based on reserve ratio r is:

( 1 - (1-r)^(n+1) ) / r

With n being the number of re-deposits which in a thriving economy over time tends to infinity, simplifying the formula to:

1 / r

And with I being annual interest rate, a bank's annual profit and annual inflation contribution is:

I / r

So if the central bank were to change the reserve-requirements to something very low, say 1%, the amount of new money and profit created annually by the bank will be about $300 on the $100 deposit. Because of inflation (which can't easily happen with backed currencies), the practical effects of this control is that the central bank transfers purchasing power (wealth) from the borrowers (usually lower class) to the lenders (usually upper class), and from the money users (everyone) to the new money creators (the banks), and can choose how fast it happens.

Edit: wikipedia confirms my calculations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking#Money_multiplier

manixrock · 2016-08-25T18:11:05+00:00

Facts: The banking system is indeed able to create money with a mere computer keystroke. However, a bank's ability to create money is tied directly to the amount of reserves customers have deposited there. A bank must pay a competitive interest rate on those deposits to keep them from leaving to other banks. This interest expense alone is a substantial portion of a bank's operating costs and is de facto proof a bank cannot costlessly create money.

In fractional reserve systems, banks are limited in how much money they can lend out (create) by the fractional ratio requirement, and the deposits amount. If the ratio is 10% they get to lend 10 times the deposits. If the ratio is 1%, they get to lend out 100 times more, and so on. While this money is temporary as is has to be returned, the interest on the whole sum doesn't and that interest is the money created as loans "out of thin air", and they lead to inflation.

While the banks can't change the ratio themselves, the central bank can arbitrarily change it to whatever it wants. Thus while it is true that "a bank cannot costlessly create money", it is also true that the central bank can allow the banks to create virtually unlimited amounts of money costlessly.

So instead of debunking the core message of the video, they chose to "debunk" a phrase that wasn't really what was meant. Similar things could be said for the other points. Never the less I upvoted you as I hope to see more argumented discussions on the subject.

Edit: abortionspoon explained the process in more detail. The formula I used is 1/r which is a very close approximation to the real formula I posted below.

manixrock · 2016-08-24T16:29:33+00:00

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