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by ahnick 5y ago
I think the best concise definition I've run across is what I heard Yann LeCun say in his recent interview with Lex Fridman. “The essence of intelligence is the ability to predict.” -Yann LeCun
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by ahnick 5y ago
heck, just giving approximate long/lat coordinates would be a huge improvement.
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by ahnick 5y ago
what on earth is the explanation for that? Edit: Okay from the summary it says... "Russia accounts for about 10% of the global nickel supply, mainly for use in stainless steel and electric vehicle batteries. Nickel was already rallyin
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by ahnick 5y ago
So in theory if someone was to ever accidentally or intentionally reset the location info for where all gmail accounts have logged in from, then effectively everyone would be unable to access their gmail account?
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by ahnick 5y ago
I believe there is a plugin for tiddlywiki. https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/PvoDxAWgziE
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by ahnick 5y ago
After radioshack.com I think the chances went up substantially.
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by ahnick 5y ago
Autonomous drones with weapon systems coupled with sufficiently advanced obstacle avoidance, facial recognition, and other AI/ML identification based systems, could swarm cities and eliminate entire battalions or local populations with
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by ahnick 5y ago
Fortnite
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by ahnick 5y ago
For those interested in pass for use in shell script based contexts, you may also find encpass.sh ( https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh ) useful. This is a simple tool I wrote (a while ago now) to encrypt/decrypt s
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by ahnick 5y ago
In this scenario, if USDT drops low enough, might you not have trouble actually procuring enough USDT to payback and unlock your BTC? It would seem like a sudden collapse of USDT might cause a complete stop in all trading of USDT pairs, no?
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by ahnick 5y ago
So basically urbit without all the weirdness?
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by ahnick 5y ago
The Chia community is much much larger than the number of employees working at Chia Network and the community is all on Keybase. At times Keybase has strained under the load from all the users. The #general channel has something close to 2
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by ahnick 5y ago
Hard disagree. A global identity network that has end-to-end encrypted chat that can be used for secure authentication in a variety of scenarios and allows users to exchange data is a much bigger market than video conferencing. If anything
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by ahnick 5y ago
I still use it regularly as well. There is definitely a thriving ecosystem of users on it, which tells me that it is providing real value to some people. Either someone is going to breathe new life into Keybase or someone is going to come a
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by ahnick 5y ago
I encourage everyone who liked Keybase to add a comment to this issue to support opensourcing the server portion of Keybase. https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24105 Hopefully if enough people make thei
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by ahnick 5y ago
It is being maintained and still actively used. The largest user, afaik, is Chia Network ( https://www.chia.net ) and they rely on that for the bulk of their internal and external community comms. If Zoom decides not to host the
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by ahnick 5y ago
What's special is the ability to publish cryptographic proofs on public social media profiles to link back to a central identity. You could say this person on Twitter, Facebook (discontinued), Github, HN, etc. is 100% the same person.
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by ahnick 5y ago
Flexa is basically Stripe for crypto and it supports ETH and XLM. https://flexa.network/currencies
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by ahnick 5y ago
I think your best bet will be to go with Flexa. It is already well integrated into many PoS systems and can handle many of the popular cryptocurrencies. Also, customers who have exchange accounts with Gemini will already be able to checkout
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by ahnick 5y ago
This is cool. Never seen the local application take before. I'd be interested to know how people respond to having a dedicated app and if they enjoy that UX more than a website. In a similar vein, but more focused around finding simil
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by ahnick 5y ago
> To expand on this a little bit, non-default privacy means that use of privacy features becomes de facto suspicious activity, thus rendering them useless. That's not a true statement as far as I understand how Zcash works. Right n
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by ahnick 5y ago
Yes, I understand. That's why I'm specifically asking about the advantage of Monero vs when shielded transactions are used on Zcash.
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by ahnick 5y ago
I'd be curious to hear from Monero fans why one might select it over Zcash? Zcash seems to have stronger security guarantees when shielded transactions are used.
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Parliament passes law to legalize cryptocurrency in Ukraine(kyivpost.com)
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by ahnick 5y ago
Chia's nodes are not all running in the same data centers and owned by a single company like Amazon's. To imply that is disingenuous at best. They are operating all over the globe in independently owned data centers and people&#x2
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by ahnick 5y ago
It sort of depends on your process right? If you just want to download the client software and point it at your existing drive and start plotting in the background while doing something else, then I tend to think why not? Worse case scena
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by ahnick 5y ago
> First, when the network space is growing exponentially, the value of preexisting work is decaying exponentially. I do grant you that completed work is nonzero in value, but during a growth phase its value might as well be zero. Wheneve
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by ahnick 5y ago
> Companies have spare storage…but it sure as shit ain’t worth it to them. This is the hubris of most crypto projects: they have no real economic grasp of the problems they jump into. Amazon isn’t going to fuck around with Chia for what
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by ahnick 5y ago
> I definitely want to destroy my Home Nas in a matter of months to make a little money. That won't happen unless your NAS is a bunch of consumer grade SSDs, which I hope it is not.
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by ahnick 5y ago
Again, it was only cost-effective to build farming rigs in the very beginning. It is no longer cost-effective to do so. Even major companies will eventually have a tough time competing with the amount of storage space that is already deploy

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