Goladus

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by Goladus 9y ago
It depends on what you mean by "it." The is that lightning networks are "off-chain" transactions that aren't validated by block miners unless/until they need to be. The idea is that off-chain transactions can
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I think the prequels tried to tell a good story. Apart from a few glaring mistakes(like the idea that Anakin built C-3PO) the story and plot ideas were good enough. But scene to scene, it was poorly executed, with stilted dialog, bad dir
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by Goladus 9y ago
The problem with these sorts of plausible, hypothetical explanations is that they don't necessarily answer the question of why this particular plot device couldn't have been replaced with something more appropriate for the establi
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by Goladus 9y ago
Its interesting to see people pick this movie apart, as if the originals had perfect acting, no flaws, and were the epitome of originality (were you expecting your life to change after watching this?) That's not what I'm seeing
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by Goladus 9y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disingenuous S: There are lots of sh--ty white male programmers working in the industry. wpietri: Personally, I'd be very interested to see Damore's code. We alr
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by Goladus 9y ago
People get fired for that. I call bullshit. Show me three examples of people "getting fired for giving the impression of claiming they had a PhD on LinkedIn" when there's a plausible case to be made that it was an innoce
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by Goladus 9y ago
He did not invite the entire world to look at that LinkedIn profile for any material reason. You're playing fast and loose with the term "published" and holding Damore to absurd standards that you obviously do not even adher
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by Goladus 9y ago
Yeah that's another point. It's a category error to apply interpersonal social expectations to a "man vs media+internet mob" scenario. When you mislead an individual in real life and that person suffers actual consequen
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by Goladus 9y ago
Bitcoin as anarcho-capitalist proof of concept It's not conceptually proven, though. As a mechanism of exchange it does work, but that is a very low bar. Many things can be used as a mechanism of exchange (such as Poker chips). Bu
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by Goladus 9y ago
It's all the same thing every year on HN. People trying to find all sorts of excuses for Bitcoin existence - blockchains, smart contracts, ICOs - as long as they don't have to accept that Bitcoin's main purpose is and always
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by Goladus 9y ago
A person who had made an innocent error generally feels bad about the error and says so. That's what he did! That is, that's what he did when someone finally got around to asking him about it in an environment where he trusted
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by Goladus 9y ago
It's not clear that the Venezuelan case is due to inherent property of Bitcoin, or merely that Bitcoin just has good timing and is the most conveniently available alternative to cash out of a tanking currency. Basically, saying that bi
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by Goladus 9y ago
> cryptocurrency is a financial MMORPG and a pure value-free bubble. Frankly, I think the MMORPG economic model is more sane. At least in-network consumption is part of the core use case and they've demonstrated 20 years of (incred
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by Goladus 9y ago
> Both mining and staking are competitive industries that require productive activity by their participants. Validators also charge rent for their services, which especially in the case of miners, is a staggeringly inefficient use of ele
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by Goladus 9y ago
I have never understood the "fixed supply" fetishism. I have never understood why people dismiss the issue as unimportant. Any new coin that uses a scarcity model similar to Bitcoin's (which is almost all of them) should b
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by Goladus 9y ago
Provable [X] without a central authority. Under a limited set of conditions, with some cost [Y] to keep the system running. The bitcoin network is extremely expensive, for example. The key question is for what values of [X] does the val
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by Goladus 9y ago
Bitcoin is still in the early stages I would say that Bitcoin is entering phase 3 of its lifespan, having just "rounded the bend" of its money creation curve. 75% of the Bitcoin that will ever exist are already in circulation.
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by Goladus 9y ago
I agree that it is backwards, but it's heavily ingrained in US politics that decisions revolve around classes I think it's made to seem that way by media coverage and political propaganda(especially from the left) more than it a
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by Goladus 9y ago
"American women" as a class now have a sufficiently loud voice Why is it important that they have a sufficiently loud voice "as a class?" This seems backwards to me. The whole point of liberation is liberation to be
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by Goladus 9y ago
> We already know that he lied about a PhD No, he did not lie about this. You are lying about it. His linkedin listed him as having been part of a PhD program and people took it to mean he had a PhD. There is absolutely no evidence
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by Goladus 9y ago
Yeah, I do see the difference; the second sentence is spelling out plainly the bigotry he's trying to cloak in faux intellectualism. If you want to make a case that someone means something other than what they clearly say (or write)
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by Goladus 9y ago
There are only so many ways to signal that you’re not a shill. It’s not a great solution, but we don’t have better. Or, people can learn to read and act on the content of an argument rather than immediately trying to discredit someone wit
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by Goladus 9y ago
So long as we're being completely arbitrary without any regard whatsoever natural language sensibility, let's just convert time to a metric/decimal system. In 1998, the Swiss watch company Swatch introduced the concept of a
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The key feature of crypto currency (to me) has always been that it can't be easily manipulated by a government. Right, instead of being easily manipulated by governments, it's manipulated by its founders right out of the gate, a
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Well, I think the parent just wanted to clear up any confusion about the validity of comparing the dotcom bubble with the crypto bubble. Also, to be fair, the TC Article's author is fairly optimistic about the possibilities in crypto&
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I believe the real-world costs of transactions are actually going up, not down. As more miners are added to a network, the difficulty rating goes up and more CPU cycles are required to compute the next block.
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by Goladus 9y ago
Frankly, I was more optimistic about Bitcoin before I knew the technical details. What I heard back in 2009 was that it was a way to trade money using cryptographic hashes without a central authority. I didn't really think about it mo
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Can we at least articulate a useful application, one that takes into consideration economic viability in the context of the decentralized consensus engine's extremely high resource cost and extremely poor performance?
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If the point the author is trying to make is that Amazon and Google were made possible by the dotcom boom, and that the collapse of the dotcom bubble was part of the price we as a society had to pay to have the services provided these comp
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by Goladus 9y ago
> One could argue that a blockchain's only real world purpose is as a shared database, just as http's only real world purpose is the transfer of data between computers. So far it seems like the only thing anyone actually makes

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