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by atweiden 5y ago
That’s rather uncharitable; the fallout would at least be similar to what would happen to the holders of SGD, NZD, DKK, and dozens of other currencies smaller than Bitcoin were they to implode. [1]: https://fiatmarketcap.com&#x2F
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by atweiden 5y ago
> Generally my point in this discussion is that you should not bundle together factory farms and slaughterhouses in the US with, e.g. small dairy farms in the Pyrenees or Austria, or Bantu farmers in Africa, etc. There is one way that pe
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by atweiden 5y ago
In that case, could you please expound upon why increasing the human population by X% increases our technological advancement by X%? I must’ve missed where you supported that assertion with facts or evidence.
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by atweiden 5y ago
The French AOC [1] regulates what’s allowed to be marketed as Comté etc by stipulating location, breed, population density, etc; however aside from cheese, I’m not aware of a similar set of standards existing for animal products. As someone
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by atweiden 5y ago
Despite claiming “a direct and (emphasis added) bidirectional link” exists, you’ve only argued for a link between technological advancement and population size, and not vice versa. So it would seem we actually agree? (E.g. you don’t seem
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by atweiden 5y ago
Technological advancement and human overpopulation are orthogonal concepts. It’s perfectly reasonable to believe the planet is heavily overpopulated with humans and also that technological advancement is desireable. There is very much not a
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by atweiden 5y ago
> Part of this problem is our societal failure to build enough housing to keep up with the increasing number of people. The issue is human overpopulation, not our society’s “failure” to destroy the fabric of closely knit communities. Hum
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by atweiden 5y ago
See: 1971 Cost of Living [1]. New House: $25,200.00 Average Income: $10,622.00 per year New Car: $3,560.00 Average Rent: $150.00 per month Tuiti
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by atweiden 5y ago
I drove an Electra Meccanica Solo in Victoria BC a few years ago, and it was exactly this. The founder of the company wanted to design the air cooled Porsche of EVs. All analog, minimal electronics, incredibly nimble. One of my favourite as
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by atweiden 5y ago
> If you owned all the Bitcoin in the world, the world wouldn't accept its use, and would just create another currency with identical properties. Don’t all modern currencies work like this?
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by atweiden 5y ago
Fennel combines the simplest general programming language (Lua) with the simplest syntax (homoiconicity). The result is like a Lisp without all the esoterica. Embedding Fennel in Rust allows you to ship user-facing macros written in Fennel
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by atweiden 5y ago
Similarly, Fennel [1] is a Lisp which compiles to Lua, and Lua is well supported in both C++ [2] and Rust [3]. Fennel’s a very reasonable option for delivering S-expression based user interactivity — e.g. REPLs and scriptable config [4]. [1
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by atweiden 5y ago
Unfortunately, oweing to the fierce competition in the Bitcoin space, it’s long since become difficult for onlookers to distinguish between an argument of the form “PoW bad, PoS good, insert weakly anti-PoS sentiment as controlled oppositio
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by atweiden 5y ago
> Unlike Proof of Work based blockchains which require seizable factory infrastructure to break even, Proof of Stake doesn't need one. This isn’t inherent to PoW consensus. In 2010, Bitcoin was CPU mineable on any ordinary Windows P
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by atweiden 5y ago
It would seem so, yes. But I disagree with the GP’s premise: claiming economies rise and fall based on monetary policy alone is like claiming the Roman empire fell because they debased their currency. It’s a contributory factor, but certain
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by atweiden 5y ago
> A currency needs stability. The word “currency” is inherently a tautology. How does something become a currency? > Speculation only works when there's a stable currency to dump your value into when the the security is going in
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by atweiden 5y ago
> If they want to actually send money to someone using bitcoin, they will have to get their balance on to the main chain Strike payment recipients can withdraw their USD balance as BTC to any Lightning-enabled wallet (or any other wallet
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by atweiden 5y ago
Doesn’t the Lightning Network scale to millions of transactions per second, which is what El Salvador will be using? Fees are miniscule on LN, as well.
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by atweiden 5y ago
Given the success of AlphaGo, and Pluribus’ ability to dominate humans 1-on-1, I’d be surprised if Pluribus couldn’t eventually be generalized to ring games. I’d also be surprised if today’s batch of online poker bots weren’t actively infor
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by atweiden 5y ago
If you like VSCode, you might be interested in Onivim — it’s a VSCode/Vim hybrid.
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by atweiden 5y ago
Basically none of that is consensus breaking. And I acknowledged the potential of a deep reorg leading to needless network downtime. In the author of the article’s opinion, this deep reorg would’ve resulted in utter chaos, which seems hyper
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by atweiden 5y ago
Janet is what introduced me to Fennel. Conjure [1] sold me on Fennel over Janet. The Neovim community is rallying around Lua. (And in fact, what sold me on Rust was its truly excellent Lua FFI support [2].) [1]: https://github.co
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by atweiden 5y ago
Great idea. Reminds me of a previous HN comment [1]: How to build the next Google: all good results these days are within communities, and Google search has become useless for most of these searches. So don't build a
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by atweiden 5y ago
> The authors acknowledge that an enriched social, educational, economic and intellectual environment can and does raise intelligence scores, but they insist that even when due allowance is made in terms of statistical comparisons of all
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by atweiden 5y ago
> there is something to be said for having roots and knowing your neighbors I think knowing your neighbors is overvalued. My evidence is Tokyo and living in transient, largely ethnically homogenous sharehouses — in ethnically homogenous
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by atweiden 5y ago
Not to belittle the problem of spam, but spam isn’t really what people are increasingly taking issue with. “Political” moderation or just plain obstinance are the biggest shortcomings of present day moderation policies. It leads to de facto
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by atweiden 5y ago
Social bookmarking site moderation is in need of an overhaul. Moderators have turned into gatekeepers who can’t be unseated. I’m dreaming of an “old Reddit”/HN-esque discussion board where moderation policies are opt-in. E.g. submit a
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by atweiden 5y ago
> Finance requires lending and borrowing. And representing corporate shares on a blockchain isn’t in the purview of “finance”? Everything old is new again.
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by atweiden 5y ago
> The ongoing coin-days staked in that fork specifically is what allows it to continue making forward progress. Coin-days staked has no bearing on a pure PoS chain’s risk of being 51% attacked, nor does it have any bearing on the risk 1&
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by atweiden 5y ago
If “coin-days staked” is massively higher on one side of a PoS chain fork, that doesn’t impact the other side’s security in the way PoW hashrate imbalances would. To use a real world example, Bitcoin PoW mining consumes in excess of 100 Ter

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