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by cowtools 4y ago
From the opinion article I linked: >At the end of the day, though, what does it matter? What is a totally unenforced GPL? It's just a Cuck License—Isn't that what license cucks want? So why should they care? At their very best,
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by cowtools 4y ago
Shoutout to GNU Taler ( https://taler.net/en/index.html ) a project that aims to re-implement a DigiCash-like solution.
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by cowtools 4y ago
> -The largest cost is distributed state and the cost writing key-value in global state will be the same for any blockchain Okay but why do it all on the same ledger? All the different applications fighting for the same bandwidth and p
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by cowtools 4y ago
Okay, but why use a generic, bloated system like etherium? why not just fork etherium or create a system specificially optimized from the ground up (e.g. namecoin or something) for namespacing. this only serves to enrich pre-existing etheri
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by cowtools 4y ago
I disagree. Work on permissively licensed software typically has the net effect of decreasing global freedom by reducing the costs of corporations to produce proprietary software. I try to avoid contributing to permissively-licensed softwar
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by cowtools 4y ago
I would say that linux isn't able to strong-arm nvidia into complying because nvidia can just go back to distributing their closed-source driver on permissively-licensed OSes such as BSD.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The nvidia drivers sure are. I don't know about most drivers though. As for wifi, I own this ath9k card which I'm told is completely free, but I also own this intel 3160 chip that apparently requires some firmware to be loaded.
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by cowtools 4y ago
if FreeBSD had a copyleft license, maybe companies would have a reason to publish their drivers, or you could port drivers from Linux.
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How the Banks Bought Bitcoin [video](youtube.com)
2 points by cowtools 4y ago|0 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
like a 51% attack on a PoW through pool conspiracy, it will be impossible to tell if (when?) the network is controlled by a single entity. By the time the public has figured out the plot, it's too late: the attacker has already run to
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by cowtools 4y ago
this has been my experience exactly.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Something I like about HN is that down-voted posts will often come back from the grave. For some reason voters have a lot of sympathy. Back on reddit, people use votes as a way to signal to each other what to believe in: instinctively, you
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by cowtools 4y ago
If the price continues to fall, the bitcoin network will become susceptible to 51% and selfish-mining attacks.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I agree with the point you are making here. I just think that Proof-of-Work is usually a better choice for a cryptocurrency than Proof-of-Stake. Conventional currencies (notably the US Dollar) are also backed by signifigant military (and th
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by cowtools 4y ago
Those countries exist as client states to countries with militaries. Yes, the militatary spending is nessisary but not sufficient to sustain a currency.
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by cowtools 4y ago
The U.S. dollar is backed by a military many times more energy intensive.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't understand how PoS changes this. Also, that blog post does not consider CPU-mined PoW which is unprofitable for miners and sustained attackers.
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by cowtools 4y ago
There are cryptocurrencies like monero that have implemented a constant "tail emission" block reward to fight off selfish mining attacks. So that leads me to believe that's a threat specific to bitcoin's tokenomics and n
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by cowtools 4y ago
Some level of "convergence" works on linux phones (e.g. Pinephone, Librem 5), with the same "mobile" apps playing nice with the rest of the linux desktop/userspace. I think it will be the future of consumer electron
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by cowtools 4y ago
Malware with a strong command-and-control network will be able to change the merchant. Additionally, this blacklisting effect can be used strategically to target business you don't like by using the malware to perform a false-flag atta
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't know, I'm not a iOS developer and I probably never will be. hundreds is the figure from a couple years ago when I last looked into it.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>Ran into the exact same problem with a very simple camera app I made. >[...] >(Just by posting this, now I fear I broke some kind of TOS, and can never publish an iOS app again?) This is how your loyalty to Apple's racket is
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think the public has always been skeptical of three-letter-agencies. Whether the recent outrage is a product of "natural" politics or some soviet-style "active measures" is anyone's guess
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by cowtools 4y ago
Funny comment but in all seriousness, I am generally opposed to taking and treading regardless of the perpetrator. So I don't find these slogans to be that objectionable. This is like making the Black Lives Matter/All Lives Matter
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think the intergenerational aspect is intertwined with the "centralized" aspect if zooko's triangle, because traditionally in DNS you have some central authority (ICANN, IETF, registrar) that is expected to "solve&quot
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by cowtools 4y ago
It is not secure by merit of the fact that they were able to brute-force it. The v2 onion domains are weak. the v3 onion domains are much longer.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Those are protocols, not necessarily cryptocurrencies[0][1]. They were originally designed as improvements to the bitcoin network, but that never came into fruition due to stubborn bitcoiners like you who refuse to improve the network. The
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by cowtools 4y ago
I think referencing Moore's law is a good rule of thumb. The tokenomics parameters including block size (or, in the case of newer cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin Cash ABC, Monero, etc. the parameters for the blocksize algorithm) represen
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Big Blocks Can Scale, but Will It Centralize Bitcoin? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by cowtools 4y ago|4 comments
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by cowtools 4y ago
>It has better scalability if you don't care about decentralisation whatsoever That is not true by any meaningful use of the word "decentralization". The LN system is markedly worse: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F

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