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by hiq 4y ago
> Take the use case of global stablecoin transfers. The ability to send cash point-to-point anywhere in the world is obviously valuable and novel. You're not sending "cash" though, you're most likely sending USDT or s
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by hiq 4y ago
1. What's the point of using a public blockchain[0] if this decentralized NFT can actually be rendered moot by the legal system and a new one replace it at will? 2. Atomicity is a common property of database transactions, not something
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by hiq 4y ago
> many new applications have limited use today due to limitations in tech The Ethereum foundation has been focusing on technical problems since its inception, and your conclusion has always been the official motto: once we solve the &quo
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by hiq 4y ago
1. What happens if a user loses their private key linked to an NFT, and this NFT is then transferred to another private key? Who owns the property then? 2. Why does this need a blockchain?
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by hiq 4y ago
> Solidity, which is not Turing complete From https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf : "[The EVM] is a quasi-Turing-complete machine; the quasi qualification comes from the fact that the computation is
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by hiq 4y ago
I guess you can make the same statements about vim, given that there's a vim mode in most popular IDEs.
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Not only that, but at least some companies just increase the prices slowly before Black Friday, such that what is shown as a discount on Black Friday is not really one. You might end up paying less 3 months after.
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What does that bring on top of TLS? If you want to check whether an article ever appeared (even if it's no longer there), then something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency would be enough.
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by hiq 4y ago
https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/02/theres_no_g... explains why talking about "blockchain" for anything but a public blockchain (including consensus etc.) is uninteresting.
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> that isn't what makes them developed countries What does then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country mentions quality of life, aren't basic needs part of that? > how will you determine wealt
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Most market-based solutions have to be looked at carefully to make sure they don't just translate into more inequalities. Food, shelter, education and other basic needs are supposed to be taken care of in developed countries (by defini
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by hiq 4y ago
We're just arguing about definitions, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33637623 This is fully addressed in Schneier's article.
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That's using a specific definition of a blockchain that differs significantly from e.g. Bitcoin and Ethereum which are two of the most popular ones and the ones commonly referred to, along with their decentralization properties. The Sc
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> He can broadcast this on Twitter, but that is not a secure and tamper proof ledger, and it is centrally owned, and it's not a great storage mechanism for this system to scale to thousands or millions of signatures. Public blockcha
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by hiq 4y ago
> A blockchain powers Secure Scuttlebutt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt doesn't have the word blockchain on it, and from reading the protocol section, I don't think it uses a public block
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by hiq 4y ago
I know somebody who lost an instagram account like this. Provided fake info when signing up. Years later, get a request to post an id or get banned. Id didn't match the fake info of course, so account banned all the same.
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by hiq 4y ago
Also called "syntopical reading" in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book .
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by hiq 4y ago
Sure, I didn't say their model was correct.
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by hiq 4y ago
By just looking at prices, you'd think that tech also won't survive much longer.
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> why would a VC like Sequoia invest in such firms? I thought the rationale was already widely known by now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory Or in more charitable terms: if an investment has a posi
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You just get a different set of tradeoff on a decentralized exchange. E.g. many users don't have the basic opsec required to protect their private key without losing it. For a cryptocurrency owner taken at random, I think it's lik
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by hiq 4y ago
> I would argue that for high performers, it could become an excuse not to pay more. This is already used as an excuse, except that right now you can't easily check whether that's even true, so I think transparency would actual
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by hiq 4y ago
> That's also why I shy away from getting a job. What's your source of income then? I guess being a freelancer with somewhat flexible clients would work, is that the case?
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by hiq 4y ago
Why would it be any different from his other companies? I wouldn't apply, but if some people are willing to work at Tesla, surely some are also willing to work at Musk-Twitter?
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by hiq 4y ago
> Why should we trust browser vendors and certificate authorities? They're high value targets and therefore more likely to be targeted. You're mentioning that as if blockchain somehow solved this problem. It doesn't. At be
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> Key revocation certificates come to mind as a good case for a public blockchain. It's not. It already exists without a blockchain[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency [0]: since it'
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> I would kind of expect the energy consumption of a fridge to be related to the surface area of the cooled volume rather than the volume itself. I'd expect that for a fridge that's permanently closed, but what if you open it r
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One potential reason is that their release cycle is too fast for the official Debian repositories, and they don't want to slow it down. Supporting old versions is a cost they don't want to bear.
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> It's fair to call that a labor shortage in the transition period. I don't know about fair, but I find it misleading. When I hear "labor shortage", my intuition is that just having more people around (Advertise job o
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by hiq 4y ago
Reminds me of Aaron Swartz's stance: https://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

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