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by egd 10y ago
> You're also talking about systems 20,000x larger than what The DAO contract was [1]. It sounds like the contract was underspecified. In my experience, the basic core logic of a system's usually a pretty small part of the over
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by egd 11y ago
From the look of things around here, your average tech company ain't much better.
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by egd 11y ago
> If you work in tech you know more than the average wall street trader about tech companies especially the one you work at. I have never met a group of people less able to correctly assess a firm's proper value or more capable of s
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by egd 11y ago
> Those free units would translate into a sizeable discount for their paying retail customers I doubt it. Initial runs are always more expensive because you're paying for the initial tooling and investment, not necessarily because o
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by egd 11y ago
Great, thanks for the info - I'll check into those.
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by egd 11y ago
Thought ethereum was basically the BTC protocol under the hood?
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by egd 11y ago
Can you point me to some of the consensus protocol work? That's always seemed to be the more interesting aspect of BTC to me, but the other requirements of the currency have made that harder than just the smart contracts alone.
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by egd 11y ago
Autoimmune disorders are a large category - there's also some evidence that autism-spectrum disorders are caused by autoimmune responses in the mother.
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by egd 12y ago
They're cheap enough that my first thought was to pick up a couple and figure out what I'd do with them later, but the disadvantage here is that they're older boxes, which means they're going to be energy hogs (for the p
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by egd 12y ago
People getting robbed tend to prefer losing their wallet to getting shot. Doesn't mean those are the options they'd prefer to choose between.
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by egd 12y ago
We're a bit cynical here because we tend to make frivolous stuff and market it as life-changing, but conveniences can actually add up for people in need. The problem with poverty, as the article notes, is that it's only partially