dsimmons

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by dsimmons 4y ago
Great Seinfeld bit :)
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by dsimmons 4y ago
A journalist/marketer telling us how to fix things, cool. "You just... easy!"
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by dsimmons 4y ago
ngl this is a large part of why I migrated from Atlanta -> Denver a few years ago.
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by dsimmons 4y ago
Clojure is hands-down the best programming language I've used. That said, I'm still holding out hope that it'll be hosted on top of something other than the JVM -- frankly, the JVM keeps me from using it more than I otherwise
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by dsimmons 4y ago
I was kind of wondering about this myself! Although they're putting a "positive" spin on it, surely this can't be good (for at least one party)?
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by dsimmons 4y ago
I can't help but wonder if this is in any way motivated by the fact that ENS could be viewed as a threat/competitive in a hypothetical future where web3 becomes more mainstream.
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by dsimmons 4y ago
This. Regardless of how you feel about "web3", I think most people (especially in technology) should see this as a problem and aspire to a brighter future where governments/corporations aren't making decisions about what
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by dsimmons 4y ago
This. Based on current activity, it gets close, but if/once fees rise again, there's a threshold above which it becomes net deflationary.
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by dsimmons 4y ago
To be fair, I think this is mainly aimed at developers (and ETH ecosystem developers specifically). While I don't disagree that there's a "vocabulary" problem (e.g. "dank-sharding"), in a perfect world, a normi
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by dsimmons 4y ago
Many/most people "in the know" peg it somewhere in the ballpark of ~90-95% chance of success from what I've seen.
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by dsimmons 4y ago
Why do we need bacon? I just want the mushrooms without paying an arm and a leg! For context, I live in the city and don't have a reliable way (or space) to grow them myself, or else I would. I'll be honest, these kinds of skeuomo
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by dsimmons 4y ago
To add: in addition to fees being used to thwart spam, EIP-1559 introduced a mechanism where these fees (not the block reward of course) are burned. One way to think of it is almost like a "stock buyback" from the Ethereum network
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by dsimmons 4y ago
> If the costs to run a validator are too expensive or need too many resources then you just end up promoting a centralized solution. If I recall correctly, the current number (32) was picked somewhat arbitrarily because, at least at the
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by dsimmons 4y ago
In the short-term, it's likely already priced in: folks have known this is coming for a while, and especially over the past 2-3 months where it became "real" versus "coming soon". Longer term, there may be uses for
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by dsimmons 4y ago
Gas fees don't materially change under Proof of Stake. It's a common misconception that The Merge reduces fees (it does not).
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by dsimmons 4y ago
It depends on a host of factors, so it's hard to predict exactly. As an example: it depends on the rate at which existing Proof of Work miners move the chain forward. We can make an estimated guess based on the current hash rate, but m
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by dsimmons 4y ago
Some of the better known ones are Lido and RocketPool.
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by dsimmons 4y ago
In some ways it's surprising that it took us so long to arrive here, but very exciting that things are moving in this direction nonetheless!
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by dsimmons 4y ago
For what it's worth, my "dumpster fire" comment encompassed far more than just window management (and admittedly extended to Apple hardware and Apple the company). See my comments elsewhere in the thread if you're curiou
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by dsimmons 4y ago
EDIT: I should point out that, although I don't like MacOS, I ditched Apple-related products first and foremost because of both the hardware itself and the company. Every Apple product I've owned has failed in some spectacular way
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by dsimmons 4y ago
God I genuinely hope they survive! I bought a gen1 laptop as an early adopter in part because I wanted to "vote with my dollars" and support their mission. A lot of people I know did the same. As someone who has used Apple product
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by dsimmons 4y ago
Been using a Framework laptop for close to a year and loving every minute of it! Installed 64GB of RAM and a high-performance 2TB NVMe for less than half of a comparable Macbook Pro. Plus, I get to run Linux! It worked right out of the box
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by dsimmons 4y ago
Second! I'm also using Kopia + B2 (as well as LAN-based filesystems), it's incredible! Would like to add a second cloud destination as a redundancy (especially because B2 is so cheap that it's basically free), but I haven&#x2
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by dsimmons 4y ago
I too used to use Crashplan! It steadily went downhill over the years though, so I was looking for an alternative. I ultimately ended up evaluating various options and deciding on Kopia: https://github.com/kopia/kopia
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by dsimmons 4y ago
Am I the only one that (wrongly) assumed this was in reference to application logs and not... literal logs? xD
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by dsimmons 12y ago
Someone call Kenny Loggins, 'cause you're in the DANGER ZONE. http://media.giphy.com/media/Kz420G0aGw5mU/giphy.gif
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by dsimmons 13y ago
Already a thread going on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707537
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by dsimmons 13y ago
Especially considering how much BTC-related money is flowing through Dwolla... it probably makes up a significant portion of their revenue. I have to imagine this is bad news for them as well.
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by dsimmons 13y ago
This is a big hit to US traders for sure, but there are other ways of transferring money (albeit not as convenient).
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Department of Homeland Security Bans Dwolla Transfers To or From Mt. Gox(dl.dropboxusercontent.com)
58 points by dsimmons 13y ago|13 comments

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