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by hudon 4y ago
Another use case aside from the typical "high perf" ones: if you're building a cross-platform library with bindings in various language (eg. Swift bindings, Kotlin, C#, etc.), I'd imagine you'd benefit in the long r
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Why This Crypto Crash Is Different(coindesk.com)
2 points by hudon 4y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 4y ago
They make their money from the large cryptocurrency trading market and focus on allowing more speculative tokens to be traded. They probably correctly assess that the market of people who want to use Bitcoin for daily transactions is compar
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Pfizer Covid Vaccine Protection Against Omicron Fades Quickly After Boosters(forbes.com)
9 points by hudon 4y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 4y ago
> A blockchain […] allows multiple entities (i.e. computers) to collaborate and do computations without needing to trust in either a central authority or in each other This article seems incorrect from the very first paragraph. Bitcoin,
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by hudon 4y ago
> Coordination in rollling out a bugfix is not a strong indication of bitcoin being centralized. It depends on how many parties, relative to the whole, are coordinating. It is a very strong indication when 2 devs are coordinating a funda
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by hudon 4y ago
It does not solve the Byzantine Generals problem... This has been apparent since Satoshi had to fly in to communicate from a place of authority how the protocol should be fixed to address bugs. This happened again after Satoshi's depar
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by hudon 4y ago
> It can be used for storing value It can only do this for as long as ownership of a certain private key is valuable. Some keys have shown to hold value for ~10 years (those tied to the BTC ticker symbol), but some keys have gone from va
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I won't let you pay me for my open source(world.hey.com)
5 points by hudon 5y ago|1 comments
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by hudon 5y ago
> The ultimate accountability to God is inherently at odds with my responsibility for those around me. If you believe that God is more loving than you are, it is not at odds at all. In fact, if you want what's best for those around
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by hudon 5y ago
wake up: offer my day to God, thank him for as many things as I can morning: read the Bible noon: pray a Rosary and offer the prayers for peace (generally) and healing (for specific people) throughout the day: thank him, praise him, tell hi
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by hudon 5y ago
Why would you believe in a God whose morality isn't superior to yours? Conversely, if you care for those around you and you knew God's will was ultimately better for them, why would you not obey Him over your own judgements?
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by hudon 5y ago
I did not claim that you can’t do good deeds without a belief in God, far from it. I simply stated that if you don’t have a belief in God, you don’t believe in the final and ultimate, judge. This makes it generally harder for us to do good,
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by hudon 5y ago
Forgiveness is from God, but can be through a priest, as long as you are contrite. The Church as a body of Christians obviously benefits from contrite brothers and sisters attempting (and yes often failing miserably, but at least attempting
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by hudon 5y ago
For forgiveness, you need to actually be contrite and willing to amend your life. God loves you and wants you to heal but you need to be open to it. Also he is just, so he doesn’t exactly let you do whatever you want as you imply. There are
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by hudon 5y ago
GutHub, Shopify, Coinbase, Square, AirBnB, etc. , can probably answer some of your concerns.
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by hudon 5y ago
Yes. Satoshi did it in 2010 [0], core devs did it in 2013 [1]. Most of the "community" are just sheep. They will turn on a dime and follow the shepherds wherever they go. So you don't have to convince so many individuals to r
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Vaccine Mandates Can’t Stop Covid’s Spread(wsj.com)
12 points by hudon 5y ago|5 comments
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Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to current spike vaccines [pdf](biorxiv.org)
9 points by hudon 5y ago|4 comments
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SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines, Breakthrough Infections and Lasting Natural Immunity(cure-hub.com)
29 points by hudon 5y ago|12 comments
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Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals(roundingtheearth.substack.com)
2 points by hudon 5y ago|1 comments
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Covid-19 Case Data in Israel: A Troubling Trend?(trialsitenews.com)
1 points by hudon 5y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 5y ago
You're moving the goalposts... The question is: do you have evidence of legitimate economies transacting in Bitcoin today? The question isn't about potential use cases , it's about data supporting the story that Bitcoin is a
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by hudon 5y ago
You still haven't provided evidence of "legitimate economies transacting in Bitcoin". El Salvador accepting Bitcoin as legal tender in the future is not evidence that a legitimate economy has been transacting in Bitcoin in th
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by hudon 5y ago
> Vastly, Deeply incorrect. Sorry to be trite, but can you provide any evidence that there are legitimate economies transacting in Bitcoin? As far as I can tell, Stephen is passionate because he recognizes various problems with Bitcoin:
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How to Destroy Bitcoin(stephendiehl.com)
31 points by hudon 5y ago|31 comments
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by hudon 5y ago
> [The chainsplit] was ultimately resolved with hashpower Did you read the article? Humans were needed to avoid catastrophe. Here let me post the relevant bit: quote: What would have happened if the developers had done nothing? Throughou
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by hudon 5y ago
> What’s the point in having a “blockchain” at all if under adversarial conditions, miners are necessarily demoted in favor of trusted human coordinators? If you want to see precisely how "miners are demoted in favor of trusted huma
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by hudon 5y ago
> Proof of work = trust physics to determine what happened. This is the kind of vapor Bitcoiners love to inhale and it's just not true. In the history of Bitcoin, it has happened many times where the "work" of a chain was
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by hudon 5y ago
I'm glad we don't hear much about "censorship resistance" anymore. I (and many others I think) used to think that was a major feature of Bitcoin, but we've seen that the USG has no problem blacklisting addresses, sh

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