cowtools

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by cowtools 4y ago
Pulled from payment processor, DDoS protection, etc. "If they don't like it, why can't they just create their own internet that we will not be able to access?"
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by cowtools 4y ago
Email and other Internet infrastructure is more analogous to the phone company than news publishing, because you do not need to "peer" with other newspapers to get published. Imagine if Bell was touchy about letting "undesira
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by cowtools 4y ago
It's controlled by Ycombinator, who uses the forum to showcase their own interests.
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by cowtools 4y ago
You can set up your own mail provider, but if GMail blocks messages sent from your new provider, it will never overcome network effects needed for success.
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by cowtools 4y ago
> Sure, if your computer is up to running the boss fight that many times over. The boss fights have to be very CPU and bandwidth-efficient because every other computer on the network will have to verify many of them. One exception could
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by cowtools 4y ago
Alright, care to enlighten us then? How would you go about implementing such a thing? The two methods mentioned here are quite flawed: Kerbonut mentions the use of the signature of a gameserver to verify the loot. This obviously is not dece
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by cowtools 4y ago
With a normal bot, you can only run one boss-fight at a time and you are subject to network latency and imprecision of your actions. In this blockchain scenario, couldn't you run millions of different simulations of the boss fight on y
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by cowtools 4y ago
I've seen this before when I was setting up postmarketOS. It's an alternative to the crapware on samsung """smart""" TVs.
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by cowtools 4y ago
I have considered this already. That does not solve anything here, for the reasons you have mentioned yourself. To the extent that it is broken in world-of-warcraft, it will be more broken here because there will be fees associated with pla
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by cowtools 4y ago
Who gets to trigger the web3 call? a centralized server?
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yeah I guess, but grinding/mining is not sybil proof. So the only thing that cryptocurrency improves is replacing that with buying and trading items with actual money, or mining stuff with PoW. You couldn't have a blockchain equiv
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yes, see David Chaum's original pre-bitcoin "e-cash" and the more recent GNU Taler project: https://taler.net/en/ The problem is that banks won't implement these systems unless they're forced t
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by cowtools 4y ago
I remember the silk road, and bitcoin donations to wikileaks, and bitcoin pizza. I think it all got bogged down after that with the irrational exuberance of the bull run, and everyone was too distracted to pay attention to the XT dispute wh
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by cowtools 4y ago
I don't understand why people are so excited about computers, integrated circuits have been around since the 60's. You have companies like Intel and AMD coming out every year with announcements like it's some new thing.
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by cowtools 4y ago
>So as that risk dissipates I would expect a decent price run. The risk you're describing is a social-political one. As long as the users do not fork with the etherium developers, that will not happen. Change to PoS has nothing to d
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by cowtools 4y ago
There's also chaum's e-cash
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by cowtools 4y ago
Here is a good video that basically explains everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4 This is not a very good explanation, but basically, you can have a "currency" using just asymmetric key cryptogr
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by cowtools 4y ago
No, in PoW those with the most hashrate determine what the order of transactions is. Most of the world's computing power is in personal computers, so it is at least somewhat fairly distributed.
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by cowtools 4y ago
You might want to keep following th- WAIT COME BACK DON'T LEAVE
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by cowtools 4y ago
Yes, as someone who does international travel and frequently switches phone numbers, dealing with phone-based 2FA """security""" is a major problem for me. At least I will not waste time on their website. I jus
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by cowtools 4y ago
I get the impression that discord users are mostly children and not programmers. While there might be some overlap as discord users grow up and decide to keep their discord account, I'm guessing that even in that case they will have a
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by cowtools 4y ago
Consider it a form of universal basic income
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by cowtools 4y ago
I've been advised not to use point sprites. Apparently, most GPU inplementations merely convert it into a quad in the backend, and gl_PointSize seems to have a soft maximum that depends on implementation. I've found a mechanism th
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by cowtools 4y ago
It is faster for the case of a "top-down" 2D game. You render this and just draw a single quad per ball. You do not really have any vert shader.
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by cowtools 4y ago
But surely there is a point at which the feature bloat becomes too great? the app becomes so feature-dense that users are turned off by the complexity, and the trickle of adventurous users doesn't satisfy the costs of development and m
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by cowtools 4y ago
I'm a bit tired of this flamewar. I'll just say this: the internet is well-equiped for the mentally unwell (from across the political spectrum) to broadcast themselves. One day I think we will create a new network that focuses on
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by cowtools 4y ago
>And the fact that the market quietly moved on from headphone ports, SD cards etc. shows that it was the right call. I doubt this. I think the market moved that way because it is more profitable to upsell users to wireless headphones or
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by cowtools 4y ago
It will eventually trickle into the low-end android market, especially if it can be used to save cost.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Sure, phones have been moving in a terrible direction in terms of privacy, but I don't really see what the difference here is with eSim. Your modem can communicate with cell towers regardless of whether it has a SIM connected.
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by cowtools 4y ago
Android would more useful and intuitive because it has an actual file-system, and the android phones generally come with replaceable storage. This has been my personal experience using an iphone myself and helping my family with their iphon

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