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by Zamicol 6y ago
I'm not the biggest Bitcoin fan, but this article is dumb. I'm not a Bitcoin "believer" in that I don't believe the modern Bitcoiner's dogma. But many newcomers don't know the history: a significant numbe
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by Zamicol 6y ago
Where is the source of direction or vision for the project? Rarely is this task evenly divided.
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by Zamicol 6y ago
- USDC was regulated from the start and has been submissive to regulators. I don't foresee issues for them. - Ripple blatantly flaunted regulation from the start. - Tether is illegal for U.S. persons: "Any individual who is a U.
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by Zamicol 6y ago
They are blatantly claiming centralization is a feature in their defense. https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/134121951954555699... You can't have it both ways. If you're centralized, you must be
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by Zamicol 6y ago
I don't understand why this hasn't happen sooner as it's been 8 years since their release. Ripple is a centralized, managed network. It's nothing like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or many other decentralized projects. Ripple is
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by Zamicol 6y ago
American politics have terrible naming schemes.
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by Zamicol 6y ago
>How is any cryptocurrency even considered an investment vehicle? [...] [Y]ou are investing in a business by owning a part of it which naturally means that you will and do get the returns on it[.] That is how Ethereum works. Validators g
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by Zamicol 6y ago
There's a 32 light year volume that encompass my whole history. The universe seems to preserve every point of my life to a resolution. If https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity turns out correct (or some
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by Zamicol 6y ago
Related: An "arbitrary base converter" that treats all strings as numbers: https://convert.zamicol.com/
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by Zamicol 6y ago
Merkle tree.
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
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by Zamicol 6y ago
I hope someone knowledgeable is still reading comments this late: I was thinking about this last night. How does this fit into GR? I understand how it fits into SR, but in GR space is just curved. Unlike velocity time dilation, under Ein
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by Zamicol 6y ago
Ethereum and Defi products are now creating money as well through lending. Lock some amount of ETH up, get some amount of stable dollars out, which inflates the total amount of money in the system.
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by Zamicol 6y ago
Nice find on that YouTube link. Thanks.
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They wouldn't be doing this unless they had serious reason to do so. They aren't dumb, they know everyone is looking. The far more likely reason is that they know we have an issue. They've been monitoring and they don'
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by Zamicol 6y ago
My household has started calling them "Bone Apple Teas". https://old.reddit.com/r/BoneAppleTea/ My favorite being a friend called a cul-de-sac a "culture sack". Years later we still laugh abou
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by Zamicol 6y ago
I despise the big bounce because it's dogmatic in origin. "It makes sense that the universe just bounces instead of 'coming from nowhere'!" Every time cosmologists looked, the universe got bigger and suggested grow
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by Zamicol 6y ago
What is a good "web scale" solution?
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by Zamicol 6y ago
It's hard to explain because I found it so unremarkable and banal. But there was a small part of the book I took particular issue, "Your expectation on answering the question why goes deep. (No duh!) You might need to adjust you
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by Zamicol 6y ago
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman was a waste of money and time. It was one of the worse books I've ever read.
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by Zamicol 6y ago
It's a lie. It's not a QR code. I don't know why they say it is. Look at the code. It's nothing like a QR. They should have said "2D Barcode" but they might be assuming an ignorant audience.
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by Zamicol 6y ago
I would love to see some links or further conversation on this. If the reproduction issue was really nailed down, I would support UBI. Without strong protections preventing runaway reproduction I'm firmly anti-UBI. This is the biggest
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by Zamicol 6y ago
This is my biggest concern and I never see it addressed.
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JSON is one of the best things to ever happen to software development.
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How GitHub's Arctic Code Vault Digital Storage Works(earth.esa.int)
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No, it is not QR-encoded. This is the method: https://earth.esa.int/documents/1656065/3222865/170922-Piql-...
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by Zamicol 6y ago
They __are not__ using QR code for storage as has been misreported by a few media outlets. See https://earth.esa.int/documents/1656065/3222865/170922-Piql-... for piql's storage method.
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by Zamicol 6y ago
What is the amplitude of a single photon's wave? Yes, it's well taught that wavelength is related to frequency. Higher frequency is higher energy energy and lower frequency is lower energy, but it's the frequency of what? U
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Another masterpiece. https://i.imgur.com/Z90o6x5.png
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The choice is programmatic. You can disable cookies on your browser. You can delete cookies you don't want. Done.

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