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781.
by Taek 6y ago
> PoW energy use scales superlinearly. Citation needed? I don't believe this is true. And techniques like payment channels allow you to stretch a significant amount of mileage out of a single transaction. The Sia network for example
782.
by Taek 6y ago
> 1) Proof-of-work systems are pure, unadulterated energy waste (and an ecological disaster as long as we depend on fossil fuels). They cannot, ever, be allowed to become significant in the economy, lest our future will be building a Dys
783.
by Taek 6y ago
I hate to be that guy but you are vastly underestimating the challenge of formally verifying these software systems. Blockchains are highly adversarial, open source, and doing a lot of innovation. Innovation which means that nobody has ever
784.
by Taek 6y ago
This DeFi stuff is playing with fire because the products being released have significantly outpaced the state of the art in building safe smart contracts. To make an analogy, imagine that instead of DeFi, we were talking about skyscrapers.
785.
by Taek 6y ago
> I also think it's telling that even though Blockchain has been this hyped thing for 6+ years at this point, we haven't really seen it actually be used for anything outside of cryptocurrency, which in and of itself isn't
786.
by Taek 6y ago
I'll stick it out as long as you 10x my networth every year
787.
by Taek 6y ago
Same boat here. More often than not DDG has substantially more useful results than Google does. Sometimes Google is better though, especially when I'm looking for something specific (an article I know I read or a video I know I watched
788.
by Taek 6y ago
It's similar to making a taller building. You end up supporting more weight as the structure grows in height. Diameter in this case being similar to height.
789.
by Taek 6y ago
I have to say this is the most disappointed I've been with a comment section in a while. Not that the comments are awful or in bad faith, it's just not got any of the topics I was hoping to read about.
790.
by Taek 6y ago
Less hassle. Plus if you are part of the community you get a better view on what tools are getting more prominent and what fixes or updates are being released. I'm sure nobody who uses Kali needs it to exist, but that doesn't mean
791.
by Taek 6y ago
Downvote and move on, no need to start a fight.
792.
by Taek 6y ago
I would suggest having a bank or similarly regulated institution manage identity recovery. They can declare a login invalid, and they can go through the process of KYC (drivers license, SSN, in-person visit, etc) to get you a new identity.
793.
by Taek 6y ago
Personally I dream of the day that we are a galaxy spanning species consuming the energy equivalent of a lifetime of our sun every couple of days. I think net energy consumption is a decent measuring stick for how advanced a society is. I&#
794.
by Taek 6y ago
At some point in time we decided that email addresses control the keys to the kingdom. If you lose access to your email, there goes your social media accounts, your bank accounts, your gaming accounts, and potentially many of your commercia
795.
by Taek 6y ago
At what point is the stuff happening with the USPS criminal? I've only been watching from a distance but the post office drama has struck me particularly sharply as a big red flag of corruption, a large threat to our democracy, and som
796.
by Taek 6y ago
Google has gotten a lot worse over the past 2 years. The SEO spam has outpaced Google's ability to find actually relevant results.
797.
by Taek 6y ago
No you can do things about it. If more people are talking about deforestation, political parties realize it becomes a way to swing voters.
798.
by Taek 6y ago
I think you misunderstand what a 1 of N system means here. It means out of N participants, any of them are sufficient to keep the network safe. In any system, if N out of N participants are down, you are going to have a hard time resetting.
799.
by Taek 6y ago
>If you invert the colours in the chart, you also get the consequences of their failure modes. Forgive me if I am misunderstanding what you are saying, but it sounds to me like you are suggesting that the consequences of a 1-of-N failure
800.
by Taek 6y ago
This tends to be a focus of the Bitcoin community a lot more than other cryptocurrency communities. Bitcoin has technologies such as ASN based sybil attack protections [1], satellite broadcasts that cover most of the land area of the earth
801.
by Taek 6y ago
There are obvious cases where you are improving efficiency without eliminating slack. I'm not making my application more fragile by rewriting an n^2 operation over a large dataset to an n*log(n) operation that provides the same output.
802.
by Taek 6y ago
This comment thread is making me realize we don't have a good word to distinguish between efficiency as in "we only have 7 hospital beds because that's all we need on 99% of each day" and efficiency as in "we replac
803.
by Taek 6y ago
In my mind it's a good enough reason to justify trying to fix it.
804.
by Taek 6y ago
For my commute, the cost of ridesharing breaks even with the cost of buying a parking space in the city (Boston) if you go to work an average of 4 days per week or fewer. (at least pre-covid, I'm not sure if parking is cheaper these da
805.
by Taek 6y ago
A brief glance at the comment history and account history makes me think that this is likely a genuine comment. Multiple years old account, lots of karma, recent comments cover a wide range of topics.
806.
by Taek 6y ago
Can address this with probabilistic checks. Download random pieces of your data and ensure it has acceptable latencies. If not, move the data to a different provider. By erasure coding your data over many providers, you minimize the amoun
807.
by Taek 6y ago
That's the thing. Not very expensive to also give money to the rich, and also there are extenuating circumstances. I know multiple people who had no jobs and no savings yet didn't qualify for covid checks from the US because they
808.
by Taek 6y ago
Toyota has a history of getting things right. They may well respond to feedback here. In the meantime, their cars last forever so we can probably keep driving Toyota for another 20 years.
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by Taek 6y ago
The state is likely to see this as a positive anyway. Insurance companies can bill this as a major boon to law enforcement, traffic regulation, parking violations, and of course think of the children.
810.
by Taek 6y ago
Your smartphone already knows your driving habits. Mine likes to remind me where I parked my car. (It knows because I connect it to the Bluetooth music player). I honestly think regulation is the only solution here.

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