PretzelPirate

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by PretzelPirate 2y ago
Are you talking about frontrunning? That happens in both blockchain-based trading systems as well as private systems, but on the blockchain it's easy to see that it's happening and what address is doing it (transparency). Anyone c
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by PretzelPirate 2y ago
For very large customers, the cloud providers do compete with each other on cost. They often pay different prices than are advertised.
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by PretzelPirate 2y ago
A contract can reference a list of addresses that have been marked as suspicious as long as someone stores that list on chain. It doesn't need to be client side.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
His follow up book, "After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations", comes out on April 16: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691192130/af...
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
I dint think there are any big blockchain networks left that use GPU mining. Bitcoin miners don't use GPUs and Ethereum moved to proof of stake.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
> Society has become significantly wealthier, despite the absurdities of inflation and interest rates. Are you two talking about different time scales? Individuals in the workforce get poorer as their buying power drops, but each generat
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
I dont know if this is causing the difference in your experience, but Microsoft puts a lot of guardrails around their GPT deployments to avoid giving "harmful" answers, so you do often get worse results than you do asking OpenAI&#
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
I used to be a laborer. Carbs were more important than protein.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
According to the article: "At this point, the Darklang team is composed of Paul (the founder), myself (Stachu), and Feriel. As of the start of the year, Paul has stepped away to focus on Tech for Palestine. While focused on TFP, he con
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
> I don’t care about working weekends. This seems like a take I don't hear often. I won't work on a weekend unless the service is on fire and I'm the only one who can save it (which means I've done a bad job). I'
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
Was your professor Amer Diwan? His Principles of Programming Languages course was amazing. This is one of his papers in Pl-Detective and Mystery for anyone interested: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220094473_
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
I had a gate agent joke about needing to check a replacement plane for bombs before we can board. She said it over the intercom and then said "I probably can't joke about that at an airport." There was a lot of laughter and i
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
> The "security" of any cryptocurrency is proportional to how much energy it wastes This only applies to Proof of Work blockchain.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
You're now making a different argument: it's unethical for an ad blocker to have their own ads? Why is that? I don't like ads on websites because they track me, slow down loading times, use my data, etc... So I'd like to
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
> puts their own ads on top. I haven't used Brave for years and don't own their token, but that's just not how Brave ads work at all. The ads are shown as notifications and aren't replacing ads embedded in websites. W
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
Dupe from the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39190947
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
I used to live in a 3rd floor walk up in NYC. I appreciated my carbon bike. I even considered buying carbon wheels.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
> unboxing an apple product is a bit like undressing a lover for the first time. We have very different experiences opening Apple products. Getting the box open is a bit annoying because of the vacuum and the everything is wrapped in tha
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
They should auction it off. For pickup only, of course. I'd like to own the first helicopter on Mars.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
> as proven by the NYT lawsuit filing I would be careful in asserting that it's proven until the evidence is heard in court and we have all the data.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
Wierd headline. The price went up because of the tweet and then went back down to its re-tweet price once it was revealed to be the result of a hack.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
Are you sure you aren't just misunderstanding how the UTXO model works? If you are a miner and you are rewarded with 1 BTC and you decide to send someone 0.5 BTC, your transaction will send 0.5 BTC to one address and send 0.5 BTC back
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
Vegans don't need to worry about the protein content of vegan cheese. Protein is widely available in vegan food and you don't need to eat a pile of beans to get it.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
They should remake this movie with the same script and the same actors.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
The actual headline is being misrepresented here: "Pregnant women are missing vital nutrients, a situation that could worsen with plant-based foods" Pregnant woman are already lacking in vital nutrients, even without a plant-based
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
> it means something that is produced while disregarding the truth. The Cambridge Dictionary says it has two definitions[1]: 1. a rude word for complete nonsense or something that is not true 2. a rude word meaning to try to persuade som
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
> which has become increasingly littered This isn't saying that the toolbag has become litter in the upper atmosphere, but that the upper atmosphere, in general, has become littered by other things.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
Since sex is villanized in the US, parents have to kick their children out so they can have sex again.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
Being forced to live in a cell with your parents would be a horrible punishment.
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by PretzelPirate 3y ago
I find it interesting how we can be so aware of how dogs and cats are living being who experience life and should be protected, but at the same time, we ignore that cows, chickens, pigs, etc... all have those same experiences. We end up car

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