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by everfree 3y ago
Both your sources show that only 30-35% of nodes run on AWS. They seem to support my point that Ethereum would continue running during an AWS outage, not your point that Ethereum runs "solely" on AWS. Furthermore, the cointelegrap
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by everfree 3y ago
Okay, then it should be just as fair for everyone to ignore your claim that Ethereum runs "solely on AWS".
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by everfree 3y ago
You're free to hold whatever opinions you want, but I don't see how they're relevant to this conversation. It's not productive to spread falsehoods about how blockchains are hosted.
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by everfree 3y ago
Do you think it would continue or not? Your comments seem to hold conflicting points.
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by everfree 3y ago
Ethereum running “solely” on AWS is a myth. If AWS were shut down, the chain would continue as usual.
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by everfree 3y ago
After reading the lawsuit more closely, it seems like they’re arguing that Apple rejects applications that include cryptocurrency features but weren’t submitted by regulated financial institutions. One of their examples was a social network
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by everfree 3y ago
From the article: > They argued that a peer-to-peer app based on "decentralized" crypto technology "would allow iPhone users to send payments to each other without any intermediary at all." Kraken lets you access cryp
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by everfree 3y ago
Yes, Archive blocks Cloudflare DNS. People say it’s intentional, but whether that’s true isn’t clear to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702
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by everfree 3y ago
It's also a label that means nothing in practice, just like "uses ai".
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by everfree 3y ago
AI is already considerably more knowledgeable and easier to communicate with than the customer service representatives I interact with day to day. Interacting with an API through ChatGPT, I would have a lot more faith that my inquiry would
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by everfree 3y ago
I don't really know what you're arguing against. Are you arguing that cryptocoin users don't form communities?
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by everfree 3y ago
New models of computation are a given, and improved application-specific circuits for the most widely-used models are also a given (I believe current models run mostly on enterprise GPUs). Together these could easily make AI models 100x mor
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by everfree 3y ago
People said that about virtualized code, but then computers got 100x faster and now we're running 10 megabyte web apps in a 500 megabyte client to display a simple page of text, and it still loads acceptably fast. The AI algos will get
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by everfree 3y ago
OCR is a technology. Users of a particular OCR software form a community. Cryptocoins are a technology. Users of a particular cryptocoin protocol form a community.
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by everfree 3y ago
That sounds somewhat similar to the Chrome team's Web Environment Integrity proposal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999
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by everfree 3y ago
Third party site asks user's browser to request an image from the author. User requests an image from the author. Author says "sure thing", distributes an image of goatse to the user.
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by everfree 3y ago
In the USA at least, it's not legal for a passenger of a plane to use cell radios at all. That's apart from the signal being blocked by the plane's metal hull unless perhaps you're holding your device up to a window. So
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by everfree 3y ago
I'm tired of the propaganda on both sides, honestly. I don't really care what non-technical people think about a piece of software that they don't understand.
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by everfree 3y ago
If its purpose isn’t to advise people not to invest, then what’s the purpose of it?
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by everfree 3y ago
> He argues that even if the technical problems were solved, the social and economic changes promised by cryptocurrency are undesirable. I didn’t realize his argument is merely that crypto will change the world in an undesirable way. I t
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by everfree 3y ago
> people in a conspiracy theory don't really _read_ your post, so much as flag it as non-conforming then dunk on it. It goes both ways - people flag legitimate claims of conspiracy and dunk on them, too. For example in the 40s, the
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by everfree 3y ago
> the highest btc transaction-fees are public record and have (very rarely) ranged into the 10s of thousands of dollars That's not representative of the market rate, so is irrelevant to the discussion of whether fees are cost prohib
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by everfree 3y ago
Like I said I'm not planning to go back and re-watch the entire video to make a list (I'd be writing an entire essay), but here's one illustrative example I noted the first time I watched it: "[Proof of Stake] suffers fr
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by everfree 3y ago
Bitcoin network fees have never been $54,000, let alone $3.6 million. The most they've ever been is two, maybe three figures. You must be reading the chart wrong.
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by everfree 3y ago
It's not just you. I'm not about to go rewatch that video to pick out the inaccuracies again because it's such a long video, but he definitely could have benefited from running his script by a software developer for fact-chec
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by everfree 3y ago
So far, crypto has gone through multiple market cycles lasting about four years each. At the peak people get euphoric and think it will solve all the world's problems, then in the trough people think it's all on its way out - that
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by everfree 3y ago
I still don’t see what that has to do with the ability of an Argentinian resident to hold and transact in US dollars.
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by everfree 3y ago
What centralized US-dollar-denominated ledger does an Argentinian citizen have access to?
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by everfree 3y ago
Technically speaking, it's a JavaScript library used for interacting with EVM blockchains. Practically speaking, people use the term to mean just about whatever they want nowadays. Often it's used as a generic buzzword to sell pro
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by everfree 3y ago
> Duplicating a painting has a huge overhead. Duplicates don't sell. This is very similar in crypto - if you duplicate an existing blockchain, its block space doesn't sell. Art - and blockchains - sell because they are original

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