ATsch

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by ATsch 4y ago
It works better for entities that were able to gobble up all of the ipv4 space before the rest had a chance in general
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by ATsch 4y ago
It's days like these where you really wish there would be some sort of legislative body that could do something about this sort of thing.
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by ATsch 4y ago
Hey, at least we have a good example of what "voting with your wallet" actually looks like if brought to it's logical conclusion.
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by ATsch 4y ago
"boost liquidity" what a wonderful euphemism
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by ATsch 4y ago
I think a similar thing as with the ICO boom will happen: The current mechanisms of fraud (ICOs) will become regulated, so the industry will move on and create new ones (NFTs, DeFi/"yield"). This cycle will continue until the
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by ATsch 4y ago
People say this as a gotcha but it's really not, "small government" has always just been a euphemism for austerity and anti-welfare politics. It's like "family values" or "states rights", you're
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by ATsch 4y ago
Indeed, but it's been steadily deliberately undermined as the idea that a government has no responsibility to it's citizens except to keep the line going up and trickle down economics took root. It's easy to see how pension f
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by ATsch 4y ago
I personally have a lot more trust in the competency of a central bank than some random, unchangeable numbers an anonymous person pulled out of their hat in 2008. Or the gold mining cartels, for that matter. At least the central banks have
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by ATsch 4y ago
Alternatively, one could imagine a pension system where the state gives one money to ensure one can continue living, paid for by taxes, without inserting a casino in the middle. But perhaps that's a tad radical.
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by ATsch 4y ago
As far as I can tell, the ASF is just where many companies send their failed Java projects for palliative care.
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by ATsch 4y ago
> they are entirely public Yes, you're just not clever enough to understand all of the jargon I just invented and refuse to explain, audit every line of code, audit the organization that actually controls the project, spend a month
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by ATsch 4y ago
The answer even according to this framework is pretty much a blanket "yes, unless it helps you buy illegal drugs", considering that's the only thing you can really purchase with cryptocurrencies that has any value outside of
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by ATsch 4y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I'm curious though, how would auditors ensure the asset is marked to reflect the risk? If one organization thinks the risk is substantually lower than another, what do they mark? Or is there generally enough arbit
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by ATsch 4y ago
I'm not very well versed in how selling debt works, but the way I assume it works is the following: Say someone still owes me $1M over the next 10 years, but I think that there's now only a 50% chance of the debt being repaid. It
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by ATsch 4y ago
I have absolutely no way to substantiate this, but I feel like if you needed to be able to say that you technically had a few billion in reserves as cheaply as possible but didn't actually think you'd ever need to liquidate it, bu
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by ATsch 4y ago
> What are the practical implications for internet users and infrastructure maintainers? For users: the widespread deployment of NAT has eliminated global end-to-end connectivity of the internet. That drives further centralization of the
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by ATsch 4y ago
Making such a requirement sounds like a very speedy way to find yourself suddenly very restricted by US sanctions and notice a mysterious uptick in discussions about the democratic illegitimacy of your last election. Of course the World Ban
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by ATsch 4y ago
I'm personally happy to mess around with docker for an hour once if it lets me save 50%+ on running it. It's true that Heroku has a better experience, but that doesn't matter if the NRE for making it work on a cheaper platfor
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by ATsch 4y ago
It was also a great disaster for the thriving and competitive asbestos industry. The number of new applications for it have dwindled ever since.
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by ATsch 4y ago
Child Labor Laws and the Lost Generation of Innovative Coal Mines
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by ATsch 4y ago
I feel like people are less getting worked up over Hare itself, and more what it represents. It is very much a reactionary language, defined less by any grand new ideas or visions and more by rejection of things that many people see as valu
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by ATsch 4y ago
I feel like not running a datacenter on backup diesel generators is going to have a slightly bigger impact than cutting back a few VMs
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by ATsch 4y ago
This list is actually quite interesting for a few reasons. One is that a large fraction of these security issues are not real, potentially exploitable vulnerabilities, but merely the fact that it is possible to abuse an API to subvert Rust&
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by ATsch 4y ago
Sorry that was unclear. I mean that by claiming that PoS is ready and just around the corner, one can have the cake and eat it too by claiming that the waste issues will be solved soon, without actually having to make the risky political de
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by ATsch 4y ago
> The same order of magnitude of energy is expended to ensure the security of the blockchain whether a large NFT mint happens or not so long as the blockchain exists. That's not completely true. The amount of resources wasted per ho
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by ATsch 4y ago
At this point I can't help but feel like the main deliverable of "ETH going PoS" is being able to dismiss claims about the obvious wastefulness of the system, not the actual transition.
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by ATsch 4y ago
As everything in this measure, the point is to make the whole procedure as useless for independent repair shops as possible. Independent repair shops desperately want these tools and that's exactly why Apple isn't giving them to y
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by ATsch 4y ago
You need to know the serial number of the phone before ordering the components. That means repairs will for most people take two to three visits to the repair center over a week, whereas apple can do it in one visit. They know this makes in
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by ATsch 4y ago
> But this program is rather clearly not aimed at repair shops but seems much more for the retail DIY crowd. Yes, which is the point. They are offering a compromise for a tiny market (self-repair) in hopes of this distracting from and pr
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by ATsch 4y ago
I totally agree with you, however when society at large is built on the back of such a belief, you can't just pull it out from under everyone overnight without major collateral damage.

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