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541.
by Traster 5y ago
It was truly amazing to hear him say that and follow it up with utterly trivial considerations.It's not like he has some amazing insight that no one else has, he literally has just made a decision to force a load of value judgements on
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by Traster 5y ago
I think to a large extent the last decade or two of Intel's product strategy has been to build a design, and then arbitrarily segment the market. So you end up with different clock speeds, different core counts, enabled hyper threading
543.
by Traster 5y ago
An article back in 2019 said they had already seized 50 BTC from him. So that's quite a decent chunk. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-47913780
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by Traster 5y ago
>Thomas White, now 26, took over the running of the notorious dark web site Silk Road after it was first closed in 2013. How on earth does someone take a look at what happened to Ulbricht and think "I fancy doing that". Honestl
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by Traster 5y ago
No it wasn't, it was something a lot more niche.
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by Traster 5y ago
I really hope this transparent dodge to avoid regulators doesn't work out. The first time Zuck says "Oh, don't subpoena me, subpoena this human shield" Congress needs to turn around and say no.
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by Traster 5y ago
I remember being in an intel engineering meeting, and some guy was showing a roadmap of how the next generation the chip was going to allow our solution to be almost on par with Nvidia's solution. That was at a time where the "n
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by Traster 5y ago
For me, carbon removal is a quite good answer to the international crisis of the commons. A constant difficulty with international efforts for carbon reduction is that different countries think they should have different 'budgets'
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by Traster 5y ago
You would have thought Braille for cards is pretty trivial to learn - there's only 13 values and 4 suits.
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by Traster 5y ago
Down 50k from 2 days ago? https://www.wsj.com/articles/hertz-orders-100-000-teslas-116... (and discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28991162 )
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by Traster 5y ago
You don't need to invert it, if the hash is used to issue a token on a centralized system you can ping the centralized system. At minimum you can establish whether someone has an existing account, and at maximum you could identify that
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by Traster 5y ago
Well I mean, let's add up all of the news organisations that have joined together and pit them against their single largest competitor. They're still less than 1/10th the size of their neartest competitor (facebook).
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by Traster 5y ago
Sure and maybe that slows people down a bit, but the second device they get their hands on they’ll be smarter. This isn’t a new issue, look at video games, look at blu ray and hd dvd, security against a sophisticated attacker with physical
554.
by Traster 5y ago
I thought I'd look at the actual company after hearing about this. I'm just not a silicon valley person. Here's their how it works page - https://worldcoin.org/how-it-works . It includes a projection graph th
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by Traster 5y ago
My point was that there are plenty of examples of systems/requirements where the dimensions of a problem are just comically out of proportion for that question- where you can't just fit this in memory, you can fit it in memory on
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by Traster 5y ago
Well, let's start by saying that we should be comparing Enterprise value not market cap because other than Tesla, car companies tend to have a huge amount of debt on board (which artificially decreases their market cap). Plenty of the
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by Traster 5y ago
Well, I think "can this be held in memory" can be a stupid question. What I thought was more of a problem is: > And they were right to fail me for that: the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’
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by Traster 5y ago
I think one thing to consider is that WhatsApp is probably by nature a scalable application. It is in the end, simply a client app that sends data to other client apps. So by nature, you scale in parallel very well, there are no 1-all commu
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by Traster 5y ago
I also looked into this at one point, and MSTR value was so incredibly correlated with the spot price of BTC that it makes sense their results didn't imapct value - everyone knows their value is entirely BTC and are trading it as a bit
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by Traster 5y ago
Well, if Tether isn't backed by dollars, then there's some pretty big questions to answer - for example: "When people buy tether using fiat currency, they hand $1 to bitfinex, and in return get 1USDT. Where did that real $1
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by Traster 5y ago
The real question is basically how much is it leveraged. We learned this from so many other frauds/crashes. It's not so much that "as long as there isn't a run on the bank it's fine" it's that an outflow o
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by Traster 5y ago
Well aside from the fact it serves to give you space for a better camera (I've heard Apple are working on some periscope style thing that'll negate the need for this) what Google are doing is smarter than Apple because by having i
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by Traster 5y ago
I think it's a bit more subtle than that, it's not clear if the answer is wrong, the question is wrong, or both are correct and the universe is wrong (although the story does hint towards one in particular being wrong).
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by Traster 5y ago
A tangential question that has always bothered me is "How do you get to Alpha Centauri". Or to put it another way, I can probably set off to Alpha Centauri using today's technology. My corpse would arrive there probably in
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by Traster 5y ago
It’s not always that straight forward. In the hft space you’re essentially always responding to 1 event, a trade, an order, a cancellation etc. Events are generally spread far enough apart that you can consider them independently (obviously
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by Traster 5y ago
Well, plenty of traditional prop trading firms have moved into crypto. So I'm sure a lot of those routes are actually already being pursued to an extent. The biggest problem though is due to the relative lack of regulation, most trader
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by Traster 5y ago
I think both work.
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by Traster 5y ago
One of the things that my most recent job really highlighted was - speed matters, but you need to know how it matters. In my particular niche essentially there were cliffs. If you were faster than x, you got y, if you were faster than x2
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by Traster 5y ago
First observation: their research points out 80% of transactions are via exchanges and it seems their research basically does nothing to analyse that 80%, it's all on-chain analysis (ie, completely worthless and extremely ironic since
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by Traster 5y ago
It is so hard to know whether these reports are really done with the vigour that justifies trusting the conclusions but I guess I'll spend some time finding out.

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