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by exdsq 5y ago
Sure it wasn’t in Satoshis paper but most of the largest block chains are now essentially virtual machines and transactions can be arbitrary code written for those VMs, where the fee is the computational cost for the nodes to run that code.
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by exdsq 5y ago
> Or how huge Bitcoin mining operations basically decide what chain to work on, with no accountability to anyone who "owns" Bitcoin? Out of interest do you have an example of the chain following a particular head due to collabo
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by exdsq 5y ago
Easy front-page on HN, easy shares on twitter, easy to regurgitate the same complaints for blog SEO. I can't think of other reasons - they all same the same thing.
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by exdsq 5y ago
I didn't mean it as a question. What I meant was that blockchains can be Turing complete and git doesn't have that level of sophistication as a system.
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by exdsq 5y ago
A blockchain can be a turing complete computer?
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by exdsq 5y ago
Her lawyers pressure resulted in Ian Gibbons suicide [0], they provided false medical results that could have missed crucial health results, the provided false medical results that could have caused high levels of stress and worry, etc... [
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by exdsq 5y ago
You’re right, because hair has a terminal length! Your hair falls out naturally and over time the chances are the hairs that fall out will be the long ones, you end up with a practically maximum hair length.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Yep! Amusing to think I used to think cross-platform just meant running on Windows and Linux and that was fixed with Docker. Had no idea the rabbit hole was deeper until Mac released the new CPUs.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Trying to fix some Rust docker builds that are being killed by QEMU on Apple Silicon right now. I always believed Docker was cross platform, I had no idea how much of a pain it can be to use with buildx and --platform to get stuff working.
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by exdsq 5y ago
That dude was the journalist who brought Theranos down, and if this was false Theranos wouldn’t have failed overnight like it did.
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by exdsq 5y ago
This is wrong. I read Bad Blood by John Carreyrou a few years ago and it mentions there were a lot of false results due to mishandling the blood samples (watering them down to run enough tests etc). I recommend the book if you're inter
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by exdsq 5y ago
For fun, could you ELI5 quantum chromodynamics?
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by exdsq 5y ago
Out of interest, do you understand how MRI reconstruction works?
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by exdsq 5y ago
The issue is training people to use the machines and keeping them running, not even the doctors themselves.
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by exdsq 5y ago
When I worked in Haskell I always found a type-driven top-down approach helped me work out what I needed to do literally starting from something like App :: Input -> Output Out of interest where are you working such that you're us
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by exdsq 5y ago
I read fentanyl killed more people than Covid in SF last year - don’t think there were any age brackets on that either
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by exdsq 5y ago
Yeah it can get that advanced! But the distinction is still generating junk until you get errors while pbt is about checking business logic (properties) hold under random generators. Saying this I’m sure the cutting edge of both overlap!
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by exdsq 5y ago
Written with such conviction and yet so, so wrong. "Theranos won’t go bankrupt, their investors are still going to get rich, and Holmes will still be on the cover of tech magazines. In fact, in the next few years Theranos will only bec
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by exdsq 5y ago
You're comparing fuzzing and property based testing. Fuzzing is a way of generating a load of random inputs for a system under test. For example if you had a function add(a, b) -> int you'd pass in numbers, strings, bytes, wh
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by exdsq 5y ago
Have an upvote - these things are all cultural and this could be solid advice if OP in a similar setting :)
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by exdsq 5y ago
Good luck!
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by exdsq 5y ago
Use a proof-of-stake chain and they're a few dollars, so much cheaper. That's why Visa and JP Morgan are hiring to build a blockchain to run inter-bank transactions to get around them.
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by exdsq 5y ago
I don’t scam people and I don’t work for projects that scam people. No one I know scams people. Some projects and people might, sure, but I’m not part of that. If I knew of a scam I'd be very vocal about it.
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by exdsq 5y ago
I worked on the Cardano blockchain at IOHK, then worked on a financial exchange but that’s NDA’d, and now work for a decentralized exchange trying to think of consensus methods that avoid front running (so problems like generating random nu
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by exdsq 5y ago
A third of GDP in Nepal is money sent by nationals working abroad and 1/4 of that is taken through high international banking fees. Use stable coins on a blockchain to get around those and you’ll see a 1/12 increase in GDP? Phone
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by exdsq 5y ago
I donate a lot of money to charity (>10% a year) - that’s my way of having an impact. If I can make that money working on cool tech problems and without scamming people then I am very happy. If the tech also becomes useful then that’s aw
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by exdsq 5y ago
> Sorry milord, continue working earnestly a little bit more before we have to bow and kiss your golden moonshaped shoes. You see, this is the issue I have. This is just twattish behaviour. > What do you guys work on all day long? Pre
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by exdsq 5y ago
Scepticism is fine but is pointing out bugs in crypto really so interesting 10% of the top page is almost always related to that topic?
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by exdsq 5y ago
Some of us just like to work on distributed systems, formal methods, compilers, etc… I’m skeptical about the whole thing and so are many colleagues I’ve worked with but the technical challenges are interesting.
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by exdsq 5y ago
Side note but I wish hacketnews wasn’t always so anti-crypto. Makes it a pretty depressing forum for those of us working in the space earnestly

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