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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
That's because these things elicit an emotional response, and people all react differently. Also, describing emotions is difficult. When I see an instance of good problem solving, I feel a rush of happiness. It sometimes makes me want
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Meh, big tech are private corporations. That's what they've been doing for thousands of years. If you care about censorship-resistance, support decentralized projects.
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Compared to the shit sysadmins normally have to deal with, setting up nodes and spinning up custom nets is a breeze in recent years.
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Petnames try to solve a trilemma known as Zooko's triangle. A naming system that is both permissionless and globally unique will tend towards unreadable names. You'll see lots of Sybil attacks on these systems, with botnets squatt
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
What you said makes a lot of sense. Also quite a few times I come to the conclusion that there's no satisfying answer to a topic, and that's fine. Just this time around I had a weird gut feeling. So I created this post to get a bi
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
I'm not always expecting a consensus, it's just that frustration-fuelled rants end up being noisy and sometimes difficult to differentiate from rational arguments. What also bothers me is the hostility and cynicism with which thes
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
If you mention that companies can have HA requirements you get hit back with "most companies don't actually run a cost-benefit analysis for the complexity of introducing X 9s of uptime" or "most outages happen due to mis
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
I guess that plays a part
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Ask HN: Why are distributed systems so polarizing?
71 points by c0mptonFP 4y ago|63 comments
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
> the beacon chain network wouldn't function properly if it had too many nodes The fact that a decentralized P2P blockchain can have "too many nodes" is such a massive failure of engineering. It's honestly mind-blowin
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Is there a word for this type of business model? Offering a service for free until they become the de-facto standard, and then start squeezing people?
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Your reasoning makes absolutely no sense. Either you have the budget for luxury, or you don't. If you have the budget to eat at the airport, drink cocktails and pay for early boarding, then you're most likely loaded. If you'r
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Imagine having "spare" 50€. Unless you're absolutely rich, you probably shouldn't default to using a cab in a city known for it's amazing public transport.
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
I like my company and I think the logo looks cool. Simple as that. But according to you I have an unhealthy identity problem or longing for validation if I wear a t-shirt?
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
The advice "you don't need scalable architecture" comes from the same place as "performance isn't important, code is all about readability and maintainability" It's just insecurity and pure coping. They&#x
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
> If you want to communicate a way this technology is useful then just do it and make me care I purposely didn't, because then I'm committed to defending dozens of attacks. I already do a lot to educate people on DLTs on severa
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Post your real name and address here, let's see how little you care about privacy.
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
That's probably the dumbest statement I've read on HN, by far. You're just projecting your apathy. You telling me people don't care about democracy? Or privacy? Or the environment? Wait until your country gets hit with h
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
What does "practical advantage" mean? Crypto is a fundamental societal shift. It's not a convenience app like Uber or PayPal, it's a redesigned version of our global financial ecosystem. It puts control into the hands of
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
For the record, I have met with bank directors, managers for portfolios and asset management, etc. These people are probably the most condescending, obnoxious, ignorant douchebags that I have ever met in my entire life. My confidence in D
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
As long as you are consistent in your decision making, I have no problem with that outcome. I'd rather have it that people are by default skeptical and do their own research. Crypto will win by default because of its merit.
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
If I was wrong they could just give me a sound argument instead of directing insults at me and throwing "witty" reductionist jabs. Do you think that argument structure is sound? By that logic quantum computing is a scam, because q
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
> until you described paxos and raft as untested I said unrelated , not untested. Raft is not an adversarial protocol, it doesn't share the same threat model as blockchains. They fulfil entirely different purposes.
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
That's what technical crypto skeptics always do, it's one of the most common reductionist comments you can find on technical forums: - Blockchain is just an inefficient linked list/database - Merkle Trees have existed since t
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Warren Buffet very likely doesn't understand the technology behind DeFi or decentralized governance. He's also heavily invested in the legacy financial system. So he'd be the last person I'd trust with advice on crypto
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
How does Mandarin compare on that scale
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Dude, operating system is one of the most fundamental things to consider when getting a dev machine. MacOS is literally useless for me, because I depend on the Linux kernel.
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Warmongering imperialist country leverages military power to exploit the rest of the world = honorable peace bringer. Get out with your American exceptionalism.
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Your thinking is human hubris in full force. Humans ability of conceptual modeling is entirely constrained by their perception. Humans can't conceptualize a tesseract. All of their conceptualizations are in some form related to their
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by c0mptonFP 4y ago
First of all, I'm neither invested in ChainLink nor ETH. I'm interested in working on oracles. Secondly, this is an informal discussion on a mainstream forum - one which is pretty strongly against crypto. So forgive me for not bei

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