haakon

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by haakon 5y ago
After all these years, I still remember exact locations I walked while listening to that. Funny thing, memory.
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Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems(anandtech.com)
324 points by haakon 6y ago|203 comments
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by haakon 6y ago
They are also going to integrate a cryptocurrency: https://getsession.org/crypto-craze/
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by haakon 6y ago
Can you elaborate? Is Rust gradually becoming more complex?
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by haakon 6y ago
It was originally called Scala because the language itself could "scale"; the grammar was so flexible that you could use it to seemingly write new language constructs. For example `while` or `repeat` loops are expressible with fun
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by haakon 6y ago
Only new ones. At least my installation is still there.
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by haakon 6y ago
A pseudonymous individual called C0bra controls bitcoin.org.
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It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is(r6.ca)
3 points by haakon 6y ago|0 comments
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by haakon 6y ago
These people just spammed me, and they have created a shadow account with my name and public key. Jesus.
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by haakon 6y ago
Servo is a research project. Microsoft spends a ton on research.
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by haakon 6y ago
It's never safe to invest in Bitcoin.
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by haakon 7y ago
Here in Norway, ISPs are actually legally obligated to block access to The Pirate Bay. Mirrors work.
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by haakon 7y ago
Not sure how reliable you might consider this source, but here's some information: https://medium.com/@tradertimm/vitaliks-quantum-conundrum-34...
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by haakon 7y ago
Yes, and there's also SolarCoin which rewards users for producing renewable energy. The problem is that these coins are centralised, so while they may be very useful for what they do, they don't solve the same problem as proof-of-
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by haakon 7y ago
FYI, 47k feet is 14325 meters.
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by haakon 8y ago
It's not, it's just a popular and appealing narrative. Bitcoin was in development for at least a few years before the financial crisis, but its developer's own admission.
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by haakon 8y ago
Seriously, do take a look at it: https://dappradar.com/ The most used dapp had just over 4000 users in the last 24 hours, while CryptoKitties, arguably the most famous dapp, didn't even have 400.
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by haakon 8y ago
I never understood how Steem purports to be "censorship resistant". steemit.com is just a centralised, privately operated website hosted on AWS, so it's not any more censorship resistant than anything else hosted on AWS.
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by haakon 8y ago
The network effect is an amazing force and all too easy to underestimate.
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by haakon 8y ago
> Bill Gates, […] widely regarded as the crown prince of the World Wide Web I've never heard him referred to as this; what a strange title. So the internet is a monarchy and Gates will one day inherit the crown?
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by haakon 8y ago
You can, on CME and CBOE.
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by haakon 9y ago
Intel stock is down 7.3% currently.
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by haakon 9y ago
I mostly hear it described as Internet 2.0, or Web 3.0. However, analysts are starting to talk about Blockchain 2.0 now; this could probably fill the role of Internet 3.0. None of these people have any idea what they're talking about.
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by haakon 9y ago
Viewing this site without JavaScript enabled shows it's been 0 days. Turns out it's supposed to be 12.
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by haakon 9y ago
Lightning Ramp isn't a Coinbase project, it just integrates with them.
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by haakon 9y ago
Wow, I was going by who currently works for Blockstream, and who contributes to Core. Your list is not that. Luke was never an employee at Blockstream, Poelstra doesn't contribute to Core, Maxwell has left, BtcDrak only "supports&
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by haakon 9y ago
> The BTC chain's devs mostly work for Blockstream This is not true, at all . Only one of the regular Bitcoin Core contributors, Pieter Wuille, works at Blockstream. Other companies, Chaincode in particular ( http://chain
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by haakon 9y ago
Demand is probably almost entirely speculative, which is nothing new. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is launching Bitcoin futures in a few weeks, which I think contributes to the current run-up.
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by haakon 9y ago
It didn't exactly "crush" $9,000. It just nervously touched it, and then fled back. CoinTelegraph is generally garbage.
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by haakon 9y ago
Not really comparable, since IOTA is centralized in its current form.

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