Torgo

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by Torgo 9y ago
Permissioned blockchains contain almost none of the interesting properties of a public, untrusted-node blockchain, and function mostly as a signed-transaction append-only database.
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by Torgo 9y ago
How sad that a human-created and human-run endeavor turned out to be merely human after all.
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by Torgo 9y ago
both sides are in many ways right in their criticisms about the other side, they are just fundamentally conflicting visions of the long term nature of the network. In my opinion the problem here is the network was built so that it operated
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by Torgo 9y ago
If you're interested, this is called triple-ledger accounting, you just have to keep all the receipts. This has the advantage that you can keep transactions private until the point that it needs to be made public.
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by Torgo 9y ago
There are all kinds of problems that unforgeable append-only public ledgers make less crap while not solving the fundamental problem that people are at the center of all people-related transactions. For instance I can bribe a notary to back
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by Torgo 9y ago
Sometimes the way you achieve idempotency feels like hacks, like when you have to ignore errors, always consider a task unchanged, stat files then test if the stat found anything, etc. But in the end I look at what I've accomplished, a
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by Torgo 9y ago
>overtaken in popularity by the "Unlimited" implementation in mining power. Remember when you guys accidentally DDoSed your own network with an assert statement
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by Torgo 9y ago
It became a news story because certain miners (allegely) run by ASIC companies were blocking segwit[1], and it turns out it's because fixing the transaction malleability[2] bug in Bitcoin breaks ASICBOOST[3]. ASICBOOST adds nothing of
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by Torgo 9y ago
Wikipedia is filled with speculative cryptozoological connections to extinct animals, the notes are more of an acknowledgement that such speculation exists as a cultural artifact connected to that animal, rather than that the speculation is
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by Torgo 9y ago
Frame your needs however you want, if you sign up for a federated network you assume some responsibility to do things with consideration for interoperability and standards.
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by Torgo 9y ago
FBI infiltrates and places provocateurs in "militias" also. Hoodwinking dopes into plotting crime seems to be anti-terror SOP, I guess it keeps your courageous and necessary defense of the public in the press.
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by Torgo 9y ago
If you have a problem, reach out using the !gnusocial group and there may be some people who will help you.
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by Torgo 9y ago
>only mastodon supports important features like CW and message privacy flags CW was a bolt-on feature that was developed without any consideration for other fediverse servers and how they communicate using shared protocols, privacy isn&#
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by Torgo 9y ago
Everyone I know who has tried Twitter Bridge has found it utterly destroys the performance of your server.
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by Torgo 10y ago
Yes? I haven't played games in a while, but when I did, crashes were frequent enough to be annoying, and ~100% of the time it was video drivers.
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by Torgo 10y ago
Everything in this article was extrapolated from 140 characters.
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by Torgo 10y ago
In Europe and Japan a lot of TVs just had SCART with RGB pins so I don't think it was too unusual for people to have setups like this at the time. Not discounting what the author is saying, but I have to assume that designers planned f
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by Torgo 10y ago
Awesome.
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by Torgo 10y ago
How do you get a "burner phone"? everywhere requires an ID and SSN to buy one.
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by Torgo 10y ago
That's not what he did or said, and your inability or refusal to recognize that is why a lot of people are against you trying to create a moral justification for mob attacks. You don't get to decide that for yourself because you l
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by Torgo 10y ago
I want to know why there are considered to be "indigenous peoples" of Hawaii at all, it was a normal, internationally-recognized country ruled by a Hawaiian with subjects as its inhabitants for almost a hundred years before the US
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by Torgo 10y ago
Depending on the profession, "diversity" means black people or women. If you are diverse but don't have many women, you aren't actually diverse for the purposes of media hectoring. If you are diverse but you don't h
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by Torgo 10y ago
If I tried to apply that logically, it is probably an argument for diversity in the field overall rather than intra-team. There should be more all-women software teams/companies, half-half, etc rather than a domination of all or mostly
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by Torgo 10y ago
The entire network has never been big enough to need a comprehensive solution beyond individuals blocking content they don't like.
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by Torgo 10y ago
Were the problems primarily regulatory?
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by Torgo 10y ago
You're ignoring the part where they organized a campaign on Facebook that got hundreds of cars and boats to move people, and finally only stopped when they were trying to rent multiple buses and were told by the police to stop it.
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by Torgo 10y ago
>It is time to rethink the “good leader” prototype of being masculine, dictatorial, and charismatic. Good luck, there's a reason those attributes are dominant.
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by Torgo 10y ago
His normal column hasn't been much better, for years now.
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by Torgo 10y ago
Arnold might not be a self-made man, but he took what he was given, and did a million times more with it than I would have. And that counts for something.
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by Torgo 10y ago
Every time a friend of mine updates his Mac's operating system, a piece of his music equipment stops working.

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