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by Expez 8y ago
Specter is a fantastic solution to a problem you should aim to avoid.
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by Expez 8y ago
> To be honest though, I don't really understand how normal money-you-buy-stuff-with works for people who are billionaires when most of their wealth is in stock and options. He takes out loans with his shares as collateral to get sp
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by Expez 8y ago
Not yet. A hard fork later this fall is expected to bring Bulletproofs to main net. Right now the code is being vetted by 3 external auditors, hired by the community through fund-raising. The benefit to Monero, once this is implemented, is
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by Expez 9y ago
Ardoq | Clojure Software Engineer | Oslo, Norway | Onsite Ardoq is a SaaS platform that brings state-of-the-art business intelligence and visualization capabilities to the governance, risk and compliance market. Our company is growing rapid
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by Expez 9y ago
Every single sentence you wrote contains a factual error. /thread
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by Expez 9y ago
Your accepting coins on one fork or the other won't have any bearing what so ever one which chain has the most cumulative PoW. The only way you can influence which chain is the longest, without mining, is to pick a preferred chains and
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by Expez 9y ago
You're absolutely correct. The 51% example that you bring up would be an undesirable outcome (from our PoV), but the incentives are in place to ensure that it is extremely unlikely to ever happen. Distributed consensus is a non-trivia
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by Expez 9y ago
Non-mining nodes do not get a vote in Nakamoto's consensus model. That is by design. They have to make a choice on what chain to follow just all other actors on the network. Doing nothing is a valid choice of course, but it might not
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by Expez 9y ago
Here's a quote from the conclusion of the whitepaper in which Nakamoto laid out Bitcoin: They vote with their CPU power, expressing their acceptance of valid blocks by working on extending them and rejecting invalid blocks by refusing
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by Expez 9y ago
Ardoq | DevOps Engineer | Oslo, Norway | Onsite Ardoq is a SaaS platform that brings state-of-the-art business intelligence and visualization capabilities to the governance, risk and compliance market. Our company is growing rapidly, and we
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by Expez 9y ago
With withdrawal limits being what they are, this is easier said than done for a lot of users, I'd guess.
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by Expez 9y ago
There is no evolutionary pressure to increase the life-span of individual organisms, past a certain point. To the contrary, there might be an evolutionary benefit in having your parents die off shortly after they've done all they can t
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by Expez 9y ago
Incredibly poignant and insightful post. Thank you!
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On Fungibility, Bitcoin, Monero and why ZCash is a bad idea(weuse.cash)
78 points by Expez 10y ago|42 comments
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by Expez 11y ago
None of these estimates seem to take into account that dumping huge quantities of precious metals on the free market will move the price by a substantial amount. Asteroid mining might only be profitable for a short while...
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by Expez 11y ago
This was a wonderful read. Could someone who's gone down this path provide a reading list for someone interested in learning more?
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by Expez 11y ago
Moore's law is more of an implementation detail than anything else. Nobody really cares about transistors. What we all care about is computational density, computational efficiency, and exponential progress. Thus the interesting met
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by Expez 11y ago
Check out https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el The intellij plugin for clojure called Cursive also has support for project wide renaming.
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by Expez 11y ago
Links to some of the tools used clojure and clojurescript https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el (refactoring) https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider (IDE) https://github.com&
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by Expez 11y ago
This is actually only half the problem. Classical music is one of the genres where the profit-sharing model doesn't work very well. Spotify pay out every time a track is listened to (IIRC, this is triggered when you're 30s into
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by Expez 11y ago
Every time universal basic income is discussed someone claims it can't be done because if we were to do this tomorrow the costs would be astronomical. That's true, but it's a bit like stating in 1950 that the world will neve
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by Expez 11y ago
This recent kickstarter might be of interest to some of you: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01... Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9719773
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by Expez 11y ago
You'd do well to stick with existing syntax conventions. People care about this stuff and introducing changes just because you can seems like a bad idea if you want your language to get wide adoption. So I'd like to see ; be rest
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by Expez 12y ago
This is great, but I recently switched to restclient-mode and I'm not going back. http://emacsrocks.com/e15.html
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by Expez 12y ago
This reminds of one of the greatest april fool jokes I've ever witnessed. In one of the papers there was an announcement by the parks department or some such about an effort to clean up the Vigeland park. The public was encouraged to
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Extraordinary gene transfer between cells observed(malaghan.org.nz)
12 points by Expez 12y ago|5 comments
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by Expez 12y ago
That looks absolutely amazing! The large wheel makes it a lot more usable imo. But what's plan b when something goes wrong? On the electric skateboards you can at least break in the good old fashion way.
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by Expez 12y ago
When are you hoping to release the book?
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by Expez 12y ago
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” - Ben Franklin
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by Expez 12y ago
None of that money is used to pay for this. Well, indirectly it might be, as some of the profits from invested oil money are made available to the government to spend each year.

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