brian_cloutier

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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Apparently, all of these links point to people who are building nothing but "fraud, scams, and greater fool schemes": - https://weekinethereumnews.com/ - https://filecoin.io/blog/posts/fi
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
You are very sure there is nothing of value here, and you have no reason to trust me, so there's not much more to be said. Some day you might find someone you kind of trust who tells you that no, there really is something to this crypt
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Well, now you're arguing a different point. Are you saying that your definition of ponzi really included an implicit third term? Ponzis are not ponzis when they involve an asset with intrinsic value? That doesn't seem right. In an
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
crypto is no stranger to shitcoins and to true ponzis, the illegal kind. Unfortunately, shitcoins and ponzis require hype to survive and will generate voluminous amounts of it. This generates a selection effect where most crypto hype will
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Is gold a ponzi scheme? 1. Gold bars are just collections of atoms and always stay exactly how they are, the material never changes, so the intrinsic value of a gold bar never changes. 2. It seems that the only way to make money while tradi
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
By what definition is crypto a ponzi scheme?
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That is not the only useful thing which which has come out of cryptocurrencies. There is also Filecoin, which provides a similar service to S3 but at a wildly cheaper price point. There are also more examples of actually useful things you c
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
For nearly everybody who is not European trying to send money to other Europeans, cryptocurrencies are the easiest way to make international payments. For example, I have at various times sent money from the US to Turkey, with bitcoin I was
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Most important questions have multi-causal answers, without additional information I would guess that both "tourism is the economic engine" and "military bases are the economic engine" are likely to be incorrect. Haw
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
This is only true in an extremely technical sense. For practical purposes Ethereum is not running PoS. When you make an Ethereum transaction you are interacting with the PoW chain. Every single NFT transaction runs on the PoW chain. Yes, th
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Astonishingly low quality article for a publication as wonderful as Nautilus. For now I just want to comment on one piece, this meme that NFTs are killing the planet through consumption of insane amounts of energy is silly and falls apart w
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
> You can, of course, write test cases that check your entire database for unintended state changes, but I struggle to find that a reasonable amount of effort. I think you're overthinking this. I'm not suggesting they should ha
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
When you open metamask there's a dropdown in the top right. It lets you choose which network you're using, and defaults to "Ethereum Mainnet". If you hit the "Add Network" button you can configure which server
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
I'm not sure it's that subtle. In the screenshot it looks like a random user was charged each time the method was called. A test for "run the query, notice the user was charged" would have failed. Maybe they got very unl
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
In the general case you are right, but in this specific case... this test case should have been covered. Even a rudimentary integration test would have caught this bug. It sounds like the user story is: - A user runs a query - The user does
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Two parts really blow your mind: - the images are stunning, especially if you search for "super kamiokande boat" - even with 50 kilotons of water they record just tens of events per day: https://www.slac.stanford.edu&#x
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
As someone who has spent the last year or so trying to make Ethereum more stateless I strongly disagree that it is an easy problem to solve :)
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
This kind of comment is extremely unproductive. The idea of Sweden has no connection at all to the topic at hand. You are using the word "Sweden" to make an argument because you believe the connection between Sweden and conversati
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
It depends on what you mean by elitism. Languages are not undifferentiated, it is perfectly possible to talk about some languages being "better" than other languages, especially when you are talking about specific tasks. The paren
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
If it's a bug and everybody agrees it's a bug then pushing a fix is very easy and uncontroversial. e.g. two months ago the Geth team (and other community members) were able to change EVM behavior without even telling people what t
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
> Has this ever happened in the history of cryptocurrency? You're replying to a comment which mentions that yes, in fact, this has happened. https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao However, it
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
I assume another component of the problem is: why would you have the phone number of any of your co-workers? Facebook runs on messenger!
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
> But I will say this, I've long been thinking that there should at least be a programming language and OS that does its best to not change. Believe it or not this is a core design goal of the Urbit ecosystem. The core bytecode shou
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Your comment deserves a much longer response than I can give it, but you seem to be saying that it's impossible to know anything with any certainty, and that is absolutely true. I'm sure all the authors of this work would agree wi
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
spell checkers which account for keyboard layout absolutely exist. [1] is one example, but in general it's hard to believe that any trained model would fail to notice that certain mistakes are more likely than others, and it's har
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Even if you don't intend to publish your list I highly recommend keeping a note of every bug you run into. Once you're looking for bugs you'll start to notice them everywhere. I've built up a lot of habits around reloadi
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
this all makes sense, I guess I misunderstood, thanks for the response
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Have they always been in control? Yes, for the entire existence of the US it has been legally capable of creating a US Dollar and of turning it into a fiat currency. However, for large swaths of the time the US has been around that has no
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
Yes, Bretton Woods isn't a good example of a time where the US literally lacked control over monetary policy. However, the GP stated that countries without control of monetary policy cease to exist. For the purposes of addressing that
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by brian_cloutier 5y ago
I think I've lost the thread here, I am aware that each of the member countries have some control. However, for example, my understanding is that Greece was _forced_ by the ECB and others to undertake some wildly unpopular austerity

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