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by hudon 7y ago
You're assuming in claim A that your node knows about all abandoned chains. Like I said, that's impossible because nodes don't have total information. I'll simplify and strengthen my claim for you: it's impossible t
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by hudon 7y ago
No, it's literally impossible. That's the whole point of a decentralized blockchain: nodes cannot (and don't want to) have total information about the network. That is, nodes don't know if re-org's are happening els
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by hudon 7y ago
transactions are “reversed” every time a chain is abandoned. It happened in 2010 when Satoshi himself called to abandon a chain, again 2013 when Luke and Pieter called miners to abandon a chain, and probably many times since then to fix var
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Messaging app Kik shutting down as company focuses on Kin, its cryptocurrency(techcrunch.com)
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by hudon 7y ago
We don’t understand the extent to which a wasp’s prey feel pain, so it’s hard to project a human sensibility like “cruelty” onto it. There isn’t strong evidence to suggest that they “feel” the way we do about things like pain and cruelty. A
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by hudon 7y ago
Who cares? No one stores their wealth in USD. You simply buy treasury inflation protected bonds. Problem solved. You only keep in USD your working capital.
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by hudon 7y ago
I get that in your application, you may want to keep a linked list behind its interface 90% of the time. However, considering your system as a whole, at some point you may want to take that linked list data and write it to a database, in wh
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by hudon 7y ago
The claim that "an object is a set of functions that operate on implied data elements" has a strange corollary because of how in modern OO languages like Java or C#, there is no syntax or popular naming convention to tell the diff
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by hudon 7y ago
According to recent UN reports, the United States is one of the countries with the most amount of resident immigrants [0]. In fact, according to their report, a whole 20% of immigrants (defined as people living somewhere they weren't b
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Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson(youmeworks.com)
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Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz [video](youtube.com)
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by hudon 7y ago
I don't know much about religion but to call something like Christianity "wishful" feels wrong... I mean you have to forgo immediate gratification, marry one person and one person only and never even THINK about another partn
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AI-generated Joe Rogan fake has to be heard to be believed(theverge.com)
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by hudon 7y ago
> Whatever that value is, it is more than that of life that hasn't been conceived yet. Please provide some form of evidence or proof for this. I can just as well argue that because my day-to-day work is related to fixing climate is
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by hudon 7y ago
I think this is an important discussion to have but unfortunately many are not ready to hear it because it involves taking responsibility for our actions. The truth is maintaining healthy family relationships is difficult enough, let alone
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by hudon 7y ago
also from the World Bank: in 1990, the percentage of world population in extreme poverty was 37%. Now it is 10%. It looks like as the population is growing, we are becoming less poor, not more, which dismantles the rest of your argument.
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by hudon 7y ago
Or maybe the people that will solve this issue aren't alive today but will be part of the next generation. So it's on us to have children, educate them as much as we can, teach them how to be strong critical-thinkers, leaders, or
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Israeli Scientists Say They Will Have a Complete Cure for Cancer Within a Year(forbes.com)
2 points by hudon 8y ago|2 comments
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by hudon 8y ago
Actually there were 2 persistent bitcoin chains to emerge from that conflict, one led by Bitcoin Core’s consensus rules and one led by Bitcoin Cash’s consensus rules. Nothing technical prevented the fork. And to claim one is more “bitcoin”
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by hudon 8y ago
It wasn't the last time that centralized decision-making saved the day. Another incident that is worth reading about if Bitcoin failures interest you is the 2013 Bitcoin fork: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07&
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by hudon 8y ago
Sorry but I don’t buy this anarchist ideology. Evidence shows that these are the most peaceful times in human history, and governments are bigger than ever. Sure, we need to be smart about keeping leaders in check, and progress is jagged, b
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by hudon 8y ago
Very true. I still believe this happened in Bitcoin in 2013... When Pieter Wuille and Luke DashJr decided to abandon the v0.8 fork and told the miners to hop on v0.7, they could have easily sold v0.8 coins...
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by hudon 8y ago
Not really. When the MPAA wanted action taken on torrented movies, they didn’t just throw their hands up in the air and go “whelp, it’s decentralized!“, they went after the authors of the protocol, the ISPs, hell even domain name registrars
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by hudon 8y ago
Short it.
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by hudon 8y ago
Haha, then “PoW is for security” is a myth. If you are correct (which is arguable), then you don’t need PoW, you just need an elected federation of validators. And validators won’t attack because of the counter-incentives you describe. So e
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by hudon 8y ago
Unprofitable to operate in friendly conditions* If you can flip a switch and 10x the hashrate of a network, all under your control, and you don’t care about killing the chain in your attack, it may be a perfect exit for you if you no longer
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by hudon 8y ago
The difference is that even if the difficulty adjusts, there will be dormant ASICs waiting to be used. If the price lowers enough and enough ASICs are out on the bench, it’ll at one point becoming economically beneficial to turn them all on
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Cryptocurrencies are like lottery tickets that might pay off in future(theguardian.com)
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by hudon 8y ago
If you’re not willing to send money to an address because you’re afraid of the repercussions, you’re being censored. I worked on crypto for many years and over time I realized meaningful problems were better solved by building trust, not ru
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by hudon 8y ago
I don't have a claim. I'm waiting for proof. Someone claimed that with Bitcoin, transactions cannot be suppressed or prohibited. That sounds like an extraordinary claim, don't you think? So we should require proof! Let's

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