dgrin91

35 ms·

451.
by dgrin91 6y ago
It means orders of magnitude less. The part of the blockchain that proves your transaction was valid is now (oversimplifying here) just a boolean check instead of running a hash algo over and over
452.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Pretty sure there are lots of things that you use everyday that actually require precision time, such as GPS.
453.
by dgrin91 6y ago
This doesn't solve the problem. New person joins the team, doesn't do this. Now what?
454.
by dgrin91 6y ago
How do you enforce test being run without CI? I forget to run tests locally all the time.
455.
by dgrin91 6y ago
I dont understand the point of this CI argument. Is he arguing CI is bad in principle? For environmentalism reasons or something? I dont use Github, but I still run CI for all my projects even if the build is a single line. Its a requiremen
456.
by dgrin91 6y ago
I don't view it as micromanaging. I view it as building foundations in good and scalable ways. At the beginning when the map is empty (analogous to a green field project with no files yet) it may seem like micromanaging. But if you do
457.
by dgrin91 6y ago
The problem is that its super slow because you're limited by walking speed. Its also problematic for ghost prints
458.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Speculation, but I would guess no. Having good service means you need an ISP that provides last mile service. You can't just directly plug into the undersea cables, and I doubt the places you listed have good ISPs
459.
by dgrin91 6y ago
It doesn't, and thats total fine. But if it doesn't, it shouldn't say it does and is unbiased.
460.
by dgrin91 6y ago
I dont think this standard makes a phone a requirement. It just provides a new option. Is having a computer a requirement to be part of modern society? It certainly helps, and the vast majority of people use them for the convivence, but its
461.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Devils advocate against the tinfoil hat: If you weren't trying to do market manipulation, when would you make the move? It seems that waiting for the price to go up would be the time. As they say, playing the stock market is easy - jus
462.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Is it? These models do more than predict who is going to win overall, they attempt to predict details of the how. On that count they royally screwed up. To quote the article - > The forecasts were off. We were forecasting Biden to get 54
463.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Agreed, but no one has actually stated that GH is scanning for these commits, let alone make the claim that the hashes are illegal. If you're going to start making legal claims they have to hold up to scrutiny, which this does not.
464.
by dgrin91 6y ago
The author claims the commit hash is bad links to an article... but that claim seems entirely unsubstantiated? Its not the hash that is bad, its the files that are bad. If you manage to hack git to get the commit without the files (clever t
465.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Minor nit: I think he's had Alex on for 3 episodes. I've only seen the latest (1556), but he spends a great deal of time walking through Alex's claims with Alex and showing whats real vs whats a stretch vs whats total BS. It
466.
by dgrin91 6y ago
This stuff makes me REALLY nervous. Its one thing to have a discussion about the here and now and debate what is true or not. There are plenty of very good fact checkers to help with this. Wayback though is now going back and promoting a ch
467.
by dgrin91 6y ago
This seems incredibly dumb? I feel like I'm missing something obvious. A common behavior I have is to google something and then open 5 separate results as separate tabs. How would I do that here? At the bare minimum this landing page n
468.
by dgrin91 6y ago
To make it a bit more explicit - this requires a LOT of energy. Much more than is typically used on a regular space launch. The closest man made object to the sun is the Parker solar probe and it required a very large rocket AND multiple pl
469.
by dgrin91 6y ago
You're totally right, I basically just said put a CA on a blockchain. There is a lot of handwaving in my short HN comment as I wasn't planning on writing out my full RFC here :). Here is some general thoughts I had on the matter -
470.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Broadly speaking blockchain only solves a singular problem: Trust. If there is some work that needs to be done between parties and you don't trust the parties involved then you can use blockchain to do the work in a trust-less setting.
471.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Keep in mind there is no singular we. There will be code monkeys you agree with. There will be code monkeys you dont agree with. There will be code monkeys you sorta agree with. They would all start to make their own lists. You'll be o
472.
by dgrin91 6y ago
This is actually not such a big problem. Bitcoin's accounting methodology uses something called UTXOs (unspent transaction outputs). It gets complex fast, but short version is that if you send me some bad bitcoins, I can separate the g
473.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Correct, OFAC only works for people who abide by it (mostly banks). But how do you get your idea working? The whole point of bitcoin and crypto is that its decentralized. Even if governments bought in, they cant stop individuals
474.
by dgrin91 6y ago
The US already does this. Its called OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) and they maintain a list of bitcoin (and other) addresses linked to malicious activity. They are the ones actually doing the work to lock down bank accounts when y
475.
by dgrin91 6y ago
How is reversing the hash of an IP easy? Are you saying because there are only 4billion ipv4s? Hash should be fine for ipv6 still, right?
476.
by dgrin91 6y ago
As others have mentioned, you can turn off enemies. But the 'true' factorio way is to _automate your defenses_. You can automatically build turrets, have robots place them, build bullets to go along with them and have them deliver
477.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Cross-chain swaps are an extremely rare, very power user move. If you discount them you're still left with the vast majority of transactions on the chain. I would guess over 99.9999% Most people who want a cross-chain trade just use an
478.
by dgrin91 6y ago
This is not uncommon for bigcorps. Could be many reasons for this, including licensing, competition, or fear of data leakage. Bit surprising for this to come from Google though.
479.
by dgrin91 6y ago
My initial reaction to this was that this was dumb because Kickstarter gives you something very important: a large userbase. But Craigstarter makes a good point - > if you already have a community built up, and have communication channe
480.
by dgrin91 6y ago
Most blockchain clients have a DB with a cached version of the chain. This is typically done with a typical, off the shelf DB. For example Bitcoin Core uses LevelDB, but other implementations use SQL lite. As I said at the end, blockchain i

More ›