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h0h0h0h0111
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>They don't have the scale to sway large parts of the public opinion According to some infographic in a thread on HN yesterday, reddit is currently the most viewed site in the US, Australia and a few other countries, so it seems lik
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4y ago
A similar scheme we use in drand is this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225722958_Secure_Di...
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4y ago
Of course fully anecdotal, but my experiences with ryanair have been mostly fine - the planes are shit and they try and sell you bollocks on board but they run on time and it all kinda works. Easyjet on the other hand... mamma mia, getting
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4y ago
easyjet wants a word
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4y ago
It's not really a consensus mechanism either really - the randomness in some sense is deterministic, it just requires participation. I'm unsure which 'classic ways' you're referring to - in principle it's not t
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4y ago
It's not consensus per se - each node releases a share of a secret and if any node gains a threshold number of shares, they can use interpolation to generate the signature and thus the randomness. Different nodes could even collect a
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4y ago
Round numbers are tied to a date time in a loose sense that each participant should be emitted a share for every time period since the genesis. A single node emitting its shares early or late wouldn't affect the network - only a thres
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4y ago
Essentially the hash of the round number is the encryption key and the randomness that gets generated at that round number (in the future) is the decryption key
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4y ago
>Is this basically just putting someone on chain, presuming that there wont be a 51% attack There is no chain or block creation. Also it's not a public permissionless network, so outside actors can't join for a sybil attack. &
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4y ago
there is no blockchain involved at all
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4y ago
>3. But another factor is less reaction time and more that the late 20s and early 30s players have spouses and more expansive lives beyond the game, so they simply cannot spend the 100+ hours a week perfectly tuning the midlane or hard c
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4y ago
I think you have mixed up players - it was beastyqt who made the switch from Starcraft 2 to become the top AoE player. HeroMarine is still playing Starcraft 2 professionally at a very high level.
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5y ago
>I actually like it's philosophy of not doing "useful" search queries Generalising this a little, it sometimes feels like the world has become all about optimisation and productivity, and the beauty of uselessness has gone
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Not OP (and not yet uninstalling firefox, but it feels ever closer), but it feels like mozilla have done something sneaky and questionable every quarter now for the past 2 years. For OP, this is possibly the straw that broke the camel'
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5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
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5y ago
I clicked through to the author's article on "small web" and also couldn't understand particularly what it was: "The Small Web, quite simply, is the polar opposite of the Big Web." ?!?!?
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5y ago
With all due respect, that measurement doesn't make a lot of sense! I spend 100% of my time waiting for my editor to open at the start of the day :)
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5y ago
I'm interested to know who you know spends 20% of their time on tooling issues... I use node, npm and webpack pretty regularly (albeit parcel has mostly replaced webpack for me) and other than setting up some npm scripts and a tsconfig
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5y ago
A large percentage of the population believe an invisible being in the sky created the universe in 7 days, why is everyone so surprised that a percentage of the population believe Bill Gates is implanting microchips in vaccines?
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5y ago
Generally low quality content too: "[some person with an obvious vested interest] announces that [some cryptocurrency] will be extremely valuable and fix all the world's problems"
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5y ago
>have you noticed that many of top subs are about either watching others humiliation or judging people This is something I've noticed too! I occasionally browse /r/all and it's awash with judgemental holier-than-thou
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>Western countries come much better for their record of wars over last decades than some others Are you forgetting about jetting across the world to Iraq and Afghanistan on dubious pretences? While I certainly don't condone (nor fra
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If the treatment of Assange has taught us anything, it's that crossing borders to catch your prey just requires a little extra leverage
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Unfortunately it's turtles all the way down (up?) - should they ignore the computer and make a mistake, they no doubt will face their employer confronting them with 'the computer told you so and you flagrantly ignored it'. Th
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I've never had surgery - how would you know? Is it even against regulations? (I imagine this is country dependent)
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OP didn't specify an ideology, and I think their statement stands for both people holding extreme and non-extreme views if they are held very strongly. EDIT: I'm no doubt the angry alcoholic archetype who doesn't want to disc
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>How likely is it, however, that even if Roy wrote an article in a major publication and gave talks at conferences about what’s not really REST, the community would change its use of “RESTful”? Ha if agile is anything to go by, people on
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5y ago
Is it even per year? I thought the fee was just upon first registration
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5y ago
Agree - it's a great concept but seems to involve an inordinate number of clicks (touches?) all over the screen
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6y ago
>There have been 0 real world applications for this tech in 8 years Geez, I mean that's simply not true so I don't know what to say to you. Granted, applications are not as wide-ranging as the moon-lambo squad might have you be
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