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by cowthulhu 3y ago
The solution in that paper does require third parties, except the parties are unknown, the amount of parties is unknown, and the system breaks down if insufficient people are interested in running the chain. I’m really not convinced that so
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
Yeah, there's a huge difference! At relativistic speeds (AKA speeds you can express as a significant percentage of the speed of light) energy increases exponentially as you get closer to c. Put another way - since the energy of an obje
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
> "If you use “kind girl behind the counter” language about the 0.01% most aggravating customer once, you will not be a bank teller tomorrow. So bank tellers basically never use those words, and instead can inflect “Can I help you,
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
Interesting that the CFO and CTO also got the boot, but the positions weren’t eliminated. Is this a power grab? Or am I misreading?
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
I wonder if there’s any chance that they were using the same RNG on the server. Seems like you could theoretically exploit it if so, given a very low usage server, low ping, ability to get a decently precise window into the current state of
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
I’m pretty sure once you cede that you’re willing to use the energy required to move a container ships worth of weight from one end of the canal to the other, the cheaper option would be to pump water to refill the locks. Water is easier to
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
Sortof unrelated, I've been looking at moving some data from SQL Server to Postgres, and one of the big reasons is replication. SQL Server replication has been super brittle for me - it's always silently choking, getting desynchro
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
My struggle with it is mainly that it doesn’t seem to accomplish any of its goals very well, while having really big downsides. A few examples: It’s difficult to use it for circumventing government controls, since so many of the on and off
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
My (very naive) thinking would be that lawyers are the worst demographic to con, since they have the skills and resources to try and make themselves whole again (at the expense of the conman), maybe with a few NDAs throw in for good measure
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
Does anyone know if there any current or near-term applications for these? Seems super cost-prohibitive, especially if you can just throw more compute at the problem instead. Super cool (hah) either way.
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
"Dragged to Jesus"
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
I don't have a position on whether it's a good thing or not, but it seems like the anecdote about importing a part might be the desired path for the government: Make it a huge pain to import parts so that people prefer sourcing th
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
Wapcar.my doesn’t seem very authoritative, and either way 640 cars doesn’t seem like many in a country the size of China. I asked because I did Google it, and all the top results were either unrelated, or from sites I’ve never heard of befo
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
That’s a pretty dramatic claim - do you have any citations from major/reputable news outlets or the like to back it up?
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
Working in finance, significant digits are (of course) super important. You always want to assume a stakeholder doesn’t have a perfect understanding of the data definition, so provide less precision (even if you know the actual value to a c
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
I feel like trains are similar in a lot of ways, and many orders of magnitude cheaper. That’s definitely cool to think about though!
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
That’s a funny point, I guess I never really though of whether “related” was more correlation or causation.
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
I'm the de facto DB guy at work, WLB is fine... it's very rare that I have to work after-hours. The main reason for this is that our DBs are basically exclusively used during business hours, and if you set things up right it'
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
Gotcha! I don’t mean to dunk on you… sounds like a cool project if you take appropriate safety precautions, but the possibility of accidentally creating some poisonous (or carcinogenic) substances seems pretty high. I’m far from and expert
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
That seems like a terrible idea on many levels. Will definitely make for some fun anecdotes though (assuming nothing goes wrong). Also - I don’t know if I’d want to eat anything cooked on a baking dish exposed to so many toxic chemicals. I
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
I feel like history has shown repeatedly that having a good product matters way more than trust, as evidenced by Facebook and Uber. People seem to talk big smack about lost trust and such in the immediate aftermath of a scandal, and then qu
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
Yeah, the key “innovation” of crypto tumblers is that funds end up in a different wallet than they came from. If the tumbler just spat the money back into the wallet the money came from, it wouldn’t be very useful. But I suspect that as the
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
No, don’t explain it. It’s not a real Nolan flick unless everyone leaves the theatre confused about something.
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
If you need a lot of revisions/tweaks, the price could be pretty prohibitive.
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
It’s amazing how every action the board takes (or the new CEO chosen by the board) just makes them look worse. I’d like to offer my consulting services: my new consulting company will come in, and then whatever you want to do we will tell y
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
I might have a lack of perspective here, but the line "If someone puts 80 hours into something and regrets it, it's useful information to know" just doesn't map for me. I can't imagine a game that someone is enjoyin
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
Strategy gamers are incredibly whiny and entitled in my opinion. I struggle to remember a strategy game or DLC released by a major studio recently that wasn’t review-bombed on release. And yet studios aren’t going out of business, indicatin
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
My two cents from the perspective of smaller financial institutions - cores do not care about making it easier for you to move off of them. They probably wouldn’t mind making it easier to move on, but core conversions are such a nightmare t
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
I’d be interested to know more about the “break glass” mechanism. Anyone know of any blog posts from CF on this topic?
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by cowthulhu 3y ago
I don’t think the author fully understands IPO pops. For one thing, the beneficiary isn’t necessarily the company, but rather the groups (often large institutions) that bought the initial shares. In a lot of ways, an IPO pop represents the

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