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by corv 7y ago
This would make for a beautiful Linux device
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by corv 7y ago
Not only is the download behind a login but they also force you to receive marketing material. Other than that, I’m genuinely excited about this. Why is it so difficult to figure out how to get the software?
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by corv 7y ago
Having just had the pleasure of using Sphinx for the first time, I can only underline what you wrote.
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by corv 8y ago
I know this, You might want to try meditation, it let’s your brain dump these thoughts and then be more present.
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by corv 8y ago
Proof of Stake is unable to deal with network partitions, the likes of which every so often happen to cut entire countries off the Internet PoS is a disaster waiting to happen for Ethereum.
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by corv 8y ago
And why is that when many of their employees are from Europe? The antitrust cases were lost for a reason.
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by corv 8y ago
Still waiting on the day Google is going to discontinue Google. Used to love the company and what the people there stood for. Crazy how things have changed.
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by corv 8y ago
Bitcoin has HTLCs too...
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by corv 8y ago
You’ve ignored second-layer technologies. There need be only one decentralized, immutable ledger to handle all transactions, the store of value and registration of assets for the entire planet. While we’re comparing Apples and Oranges, cred
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by corv 8y ago
I should have been more careful in my wording here. What I meant by this is the total energy expenditure of current payment systems (Credit cards, PayPal, WeChat Pay, Alipay, SWIFT, ACH, SEPA) including the overhead of fraud detection, char
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by corv 8y ago
I didn’t say it’s currently more efficient. I’m saying what it is designed to replace eventually, is already using more energy. Currencies are adopted and developed on a different time scale than most other technologies we are used to. Sayi
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by corv 8y ago
Yes, the expenditure of energy is a defining feature of Proof of Work security, however there is going to be a plateau. The immutable base layer Bitcoin provides is also on a trajectory of feature completion and second layer technology will
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by corv 8y ago
It was part of a talk by Anthony Towns at Scaling Bitcoin 2018 in Tokyo. https://youtu.be/y8hJ0VTPE34 I suggest you ask him e.g. on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajtowns I think the jury is still out on Ligh
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by corv 8y ago
The comments reflect the (perceived) state of the technology. One has to admit that the reputation of the entire space has been tarnished by snake oil salesmen. For some historical context it is worth looking at countless examples such as t
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by corv 8y ago
I'm disappointed of HN comments whenever cryptocurrency topics come up. People are forgetting that Nakamoto Consensus is a legitimate CS breakthrough concerning the Byzantine Generals Problem. Is it acceptable to bash every stock in th
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by corv 8y ago
Except stable coins don’t work. No currency peg has ever been defended indefinitely. And pegging crypto to USD doesn’t solve the problem it was created for in the first place.
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by corv 8y ago
Ergo inflation tends to cause malinvestment as savers want to protect as much value as possible, whereas deflation is more likely to incentivize productive investments. After all if deflationary currency is worth more tomorrow, one wants to
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MacOS Mojave's security and privacy enhancements(tidbits.com)
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by corv 8y ago
Degiro has very competitive fees for trading. TransferWise has significantly better fees than Revolut for currency conversion and also offers a card.
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by corv 8y ago
I found emotional wellbeing and mental state to be significant factors when dealing with procrastination. Of course our emotional state is a derivative of our daily experiences, so we cannot always affect it directly. Regular exercise, good
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by corv 8y ago
The decline in tourism was a direct result of destabilizing the Middle East and North Africa due to wars and the resulting increase of terrorism.
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by corv 8y ago
You’re right, it doesn’t contact Google every time but it does contact Google periodically, something which many users might not be aware of. Ideally Firefox wouldn’t rely on contacting any third parties in their default browser configurati
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by corv 8y ago
I have not given a technical solution, but a practical solution that has been known for centuries. The current result is that Wil Wheaton has chosen to abstain from a certain social network and an alternative which he had hoped would allevi
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by corv 8y ago
Unless you've timed your real estate purchase and sale very well and happen to live in an exceptional city the average return of the public markets is most likely to exceed.
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by corv 8y ago
The idea that home ownership guarantees growth is a fallacy. In most cities prices only keep up with inflation. Ergo you are financially better off renting, and investing the money you would have spent on a house.
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by corv 8y ago
There’s no reasonable way of verifying a real name for an open source platform like Mastodon
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by corv 8y ago
I don’t want to argue for or against the “my free-speech is your hate-speech” conundrum. The question I’m posing is, why are we so attached to our identities online? If an angry mob follows us around online then why not use a pseudonym and
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by corv 8y ago
Obviously R&D spending is not high enough to make this website scale correctly on mobile...
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by corv 8y ago
Fully agreed. My overpriced Das Keyboard started to exhibit severe key bouncing just after the warranty ended. They refused to do anything about it. I only found out that the company had quietly changed what used to be Cherry switches for C
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by corv 8y ago
It seems that both primary and secondary are being used in round-robin and the primary gets relegated when secondary happens to answer faster.

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