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elevaet
5y ago
I'm a huge Aphex Twin and BoC fan, they've changed my life too, since the early 90s, but there's so much amazing music out there! It's heartbreaking to imagine listening to only them. Although, great picks if you were
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5y ago
There are two states in the USA that require gas to be filled by an employee, no self-serve allowed. New Jersey and Oregon. This was put in place as a measure to protect jobs - for better or worse.
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6y ago
Hauntology!
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elevaet
6y ago
I've dug around into this, and I'm certainly no more than an armchair biologist, but it seems highly unlikely to be a real risk. If spike proteins could mis-fold and become self-reproducing prions, this would have happened by now
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elevaet
6y ago
The F'ing M is often an afterthought, and sometimes you need to dig into the source code to understand how the thing works, or at least to find the right handles to grasp. Not necessarily the right approach for beginners, but I've
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elevaet
6y ago
Maybe it's not the "free duplicate copy" making the value disappear, but that the social context makes us feel anonymous and less obliged to reciprocate on the web. We're a social species that evolved in tribes. Street p
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elevaet
6y ago
The nice thing about 1-bit music is that you automatically win the loudness war
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elevaet
6y ago
Some of the brightest minds on the internet, and some of the earliest adopters of crypto on here... it would be a mistake to dismiss the very rational critiques here because "they hate that they missed the bus".
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6y ago
The worship of individualism has a blind spot to collective action.
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elevaet
6y ago
Kelp _is_ algae
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6y ago
Could hack this system by holding two accounts, each one making predictions in opposite directions, then burn the one that was wrong. This would work for the first prediction, but becomes geometrically more difficult to manage fabricating a
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elevaet
6y ago
"It’s an ongoing waste that creates little in ongoing value and gets less efficient and more expensive as time goes on. For most technological innovations the opposite is true." Reminds me of another cryptographic novelty that
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6y ago
The only possible explanation is that the Stealth Bomber was indeed crafted using alien technology. /s
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9y ago
"doesn't plan on using PoW to secure the chain" - IOTA uses PoW to secure the network (it's not really a chain), that's exactly how the network is secured. Every transaction performs a small PoW. "the only thin
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9y ago
Trinary logic hardware will perform better for the PoW in low energy environments, which is extremely important for IoT. It's either ambitious and visionary, or else insane. Personally I think it's the former, cutting edge technol
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9y ago
Well that's what happens with any digital currency if you share your private key with a malicious party.
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9y ago
"Are you making a blockchain product and want me to advise or review? I can be bought. Send me a paid message at https://earn.com/berken/" What is this guy, some kind of digital extortionist?