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angry_albatross
4y ago
The main problem in my mind with the Lightning network is that in order increase transaction speed, it is reducing the decentralization by requiring participants to trust the other network operators that they create channels with. For the l
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angry_albatross
4y ago
Well, I would disagree that Bitcoin or Ethereum are doing anything useful for us. Bitcoin fails as a currency due to being impractically expensive and slow to perform transactions with. In addition, since there is no central organization to
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angry_albatross
4y ago
My argument for why it is irrational is that bitcoin as an asset has nothing backing it. It does not produce anything, it is not a liability on anyone else's balance sheet, and it can't be used for anything other than hoping that
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angry_albatross
4y ago
What do you consider to be the good ones? I think it is likely that whatever argument you would give for most of crypto being a scam probably also applies to the ones you think are good. Crypto has caused us all as a society to waste a huge
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angry_albatross
9y ago
Which positions? I didn't find any that were under-constrained.
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angry_albatross
9y ago
In the expression in the second row, the 5th character must match the 12th character, which must be R.
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angry_albatross
9y ago
There's an error in the second "Across" expression. [^PZVJG]{4}(.)[EFUG]{6}(.)[^\sPZVJI]{2} should be [^PZVJG]{4}(.)[EFUG]{6}\1[^\sPZVJI]{2}
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angry_albatross
12y ago
I wouldn't say I'm an expert in maze generation either, but I would agree that it would be nearly impossible for the following reasons: 1.) The specific maze style used, with the semi-random angled lines within a circle shape, isn
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angry_albatross
13y ago
Wait a minute... I'm pretty sure that Seinfeld and the iPhone did not overlap in time...