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by drdeca 5y ago
scalability is about things like "how many transactions per second you can handle", efficiency (in this context) is more about e.g. "how much is the cost of electricity used (and other such costs), divided by how many transac
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by drdeca 5y ago
I wonder if one alternate approach could perhaps be to do image segmentation on the original image, decide what segments are important enough to be preserved, and then, using other techniques to do the downscaling and color choosing, but wh
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by drdeca 5y ago
Ok, I may be wrong there? By parallel validators, do you mean more validators for each block of the... beacon chain(?) or, do you mean like as validators on different shards? As you can see I haven’t been keeping up with the details
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by drdeca 5y ago
>> On a compute basis, blockchain networks don’t scale except by becoming the very same plutocratic [...] > The word "plutocratic" is linked to the Wikipedia definition for Proof of Stake. > PoS is not meant to increas
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by drdeca 5y ago
my understanding is that much of the motivation for PoS is to avoid the electricity usage, and in some but not other ways of measuring it possibly has some better security properties, not really increasing the throughput or gas fees?
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by drdeca 5y ago
the videos may be decent, and I do kind of appreciate there being a part for only rather short videos, but the UI is terrible. If you want to write a comment on one, it keeps playing the audio on loop. Who's idea was that? It's a
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by drdeca 5y ago
relevant xkcd : https://xkcd.com/941/
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by drdeca 5y ago
Yes, the other article I read (which Wikipedia cites) mentioned great great grandchildren, but it wasn’t clear to me whether it seemed like it could continue indefinitely.
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by drdeca 5y ago
> Since the offspring lack at least the ability to make offspring. That’s describing the earlier design. The later computer made design was able to produce not only grandchildren, but, iirc, even up to great great grandchildren.
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by drdeca 5y ago
Eh? Can't miners refuse to include transactions that don't adhere to new conditions in addition to old ones? If 51% of miners decide to, after block #N, not include any transaction that doesn't satisfy the predicate P in any
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by drdeca 5y ago
The difficulty does and has (in the short term) decreased when the amount of hashpower being used goes down. Presumably if the price went down by a substantial chunk and stayed down for a while, the hashpower would also decrease, and so the
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by drdeca 5y ago
then tax the electricity use (or, specifically, the fossil fuel use)? (alternatively, tax the electricity use beyond a certain per-person allocation). I agree that there can be harms from PoW, but this is because of the electricity use, and
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by drdeca 5y ago
Iirc, Nobel specifically didn’t want there to be a category for math itself? But I could be misremembering or have misinterpreted what I saw, which was in a non-authoritative source.
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by drdeca 5y ago
Check out the concept of a "Everett-Wheeler telephone". If quantum mechanics had a non-linearity and... some other conditions, then you could use it to send, uh, some information between two sides of a branch point, uh, once, I th
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by drdeca 5y ago
my guess is "high value customer"
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by drdeca 5y ago
If it isn't relying on a blockchain thing, and it's based on you setting up a private key, there's no "run by a cabal of miners in China" issue. And how is "google accidentally bans your account" and &quot
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by drdeca 5y ago
Well, you could still use the multi-hash thing for the identifiers without distributing them on IPFS, though it would make it much more convenient for people to pirate them, because then people wouldn’t have to look up “what is the multihas
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by drdeca 5y ago
Though, if the solar panels absorb more energy than the ground, due to the ground reflecting more of the light, that’s still a little bit of difference, right? (Not a knock on solar panels, I’m just being pedantic)
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by drdeca 5y ago
Perhaps they are mixing up the “there is therefore a maximum safe rate of worldwide energy use (however far away we are from that)” point with the “CO2 emissions from fossil fuels contribute to greenhouse effect” point, and... ok, I’m not s
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by drdeca 5y ago
The legal notes at https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou say "By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, ful
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by drdeca 5y ago
I know that at least like, idk like 3-5 years ago, when I had gotten a new windows laptop (windows 7 or 8 I think), setting the main account to have the name "" (without the quotes), caused some problems with the basic functioning
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by drdeca 5y ago
Wikipedia lists S200114f (on page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_o... ) in a way that to me makes it sound like there’s substantial uncertainty about the cause of it; is that maybe because Wi
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by drdeca 5y ago
the use is often ironic. Referring more to political affiliation with people who, perhaps, consider themselves to be alert to injustice and such. Like calling someone self-righteous. Also, I don't think the "especially racism&qu
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by drdeca 5y ago
Do you not know? Are you unfamiliar with how it is used?
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by drdeca 5y ago
Ad blockers don't block the ad if it is incorporated as part of the video.
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by drdeca 5y ago
“No evidence whatsoever” is quite the overstatement. Not conclusive evidence, sure. But there are somewhat compelling arguments based on discoveries from observation, that the space of wavefunctions for a finite region of space, is finite
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by drdeca 5y ago
Why is it (not) being a person, relevant to the tasks at hand?
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by drdeca 5y ago
Sure, but, while presumably very similar, isn’t the source for chrome slightly different from the open-source chromium, and not public? (Does chrome have a setting to disable all DRM plugins like firefox does?)
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by drdeca 5y ago
by timestamping I didn't mean in terms of, getting the most precise time possible, but in terms of a very difficult to fake-in-large-ways timestamp. I have at least slightly more trust in the bitcoin blockchain not having the times be
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by drdeca 5y ago
There were timestamping services which people paid for before bitcoin. So, there is some price people will pay in order to be able to demonstrate in the future that some data existed at or before a given time. A decentralized ledger also pr

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