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by hyko 6y ago
You can run whatever client you want ...if it conforms to the design of the protocol. you wouldn’t be able to replicate a chain of blocks with the same order of magnitude of work behind them ...I grant you that, but does it matter? If the
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by hyko 6y ago
:D
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by hyko 6y ago
The consensus protocol doesn’t help in removing either of these trust requirements? If I own the mechanism of root node discovery, I can mount an effective Sybil attack against a new network participant. The history of Bitcoin is full of h
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by hyko 6y ago
What do you mean by the money that circulates in it doesn’t leak out of it ? Do you mean having no forex markets? i.e. capital controls?
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by hyko 6y ago
These schemes always remind of Paddy’s Bucks from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. They are a monetary solution sent in to fight financial problems. The solution to those problems usually lies outside issuing your own money; it instead com
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by hyko 6y ago
In economics the word inflation refers to the rate of change in the buying power of a currency. What you’re talking about is the money supply (I guess the Bitcoin equivalent of M2) which in Bitcoin is for some reason increased at a hard c
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by hyko 6y ago
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2027/how-does-th... Do you trust whoever happens to own xf2.org more than you trust a central bank? Do you trust the domain name registrar more than you trust a central
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by hyko 6y ago
Except you have to trust lots of people for Bitcoin to work, from DNS record holders to developers to intermediaries and beyond. The whole system is dripping with trust, so why not just use standard currencies?
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by hyko 6y ago
It’s so crazy that it might just be completely crazy. Behaviour that is grounds for an investigation by shareholders. In a world where the governments can’t support their own currencies, nobody will give a shit about Bitcoin. “I don’t trust
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by hyko 6y ago
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as
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by hyko 6y ago
Can you think of another mainstream video calling software that’s as good as Zoom, for consumers? FaceTime, circa 2010. Styluses to capacitive touch. Taxis to Ubers. Torrents to Netflix. MP3s to Spotify Since when were torrents, MP3s, a
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by hyko 6y ago
“I am not a tech expert” != “There’s no such thing as a tech expert”. Edited to add: all of science is beyond the comprehension of one person, but we wouldn’t say that scientists don’t exist anymore. I think the shock experienced in these k
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes! I had an E105... What an awesome little computer.
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes, the rate of change for PC performance in the 90s was insane, and the effect was magnified by the fact that most horizontal applications benefitted from the extra power. The OP was claiming that there’s barely been any change in perform
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by hyko 6y ago
PCs have gotten a lot faster in the last 10 years. Not 10x every three years better, but significantly better. The high end PC of 2020 would crush the high end PC of 2010.
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by hyko 6y ago
Even worse, what if one or more children lose their bits and can’t provide their piece?
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by hyko 6y ago
Modern software is doing orders of magnitude more than the software of the past. The feature set of a word processor in 1980 is a rounding error compared to the 2020 word processor’s print dialog. The OP’s viewpoint is akin to claiming that
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by hyko 6y ago
I’m not really concerned about the first two, because they all apply to any low income. UBI will not–and is not intended to–remove relative poverty. The third is a potential issue, but the question is whether it will be an improvement over
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by hyko 6y ago
This article–and the many like it-assume that there is some universal truth that experiences will make you happier than mere things, when this is not true. I derive a great deal of happiness from nice things. I suspect I’m not alone, and th
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by hyko 6y ago
My point was that reducing the human population to 1 billion doesn’t necessarily improve the world, in fact the only known example of a world with 1 billion humans was pretty poor by our standards. Human progress could really improve the 1
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by hyko 6y ago
If the problem is human population growth then good news, it’s a self limiting problem that won’t outlive the 21st Century. A world of 1 billion people would be a very comfortable world compared to what people put up with now - this state
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by hyko 6y ago
Why is a “random sample” the right tool to determine Internet Service prices around the world?
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by hyko 6y ago
Smart but not wise. Certainly another tool in the privacy toolkit if you absolutely must surrender your likeness to someone else’s computer, but worth bearing in mind that this does not provide (and doesn’t purport to provide) the kind of
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by hyko 6y ago
I find all these anti-Russia and China articles tiring. The articles will stop once the bad behaviour stops. Don’t hold your breath. but the US and the UK are doing the same thing to them Really? What elections are the West trying to un
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by hyko 6y ago
It’s fun to think about the decline of civilisation and ponder where we might be in the history of the West, but the truth is we have no idea. Being a student of decline does lend you an air of gravitas that optimism or even indifference ju
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by hyko 6y ago
I’ll accept it, but not bet my life on it :)
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by hyko 6y ago
In principle, removing a ton of CO2 needs to be cheaper than the cost of adding a ton of CO2. And it will be, at some point in the future; it’s not intended to compete with preventing CO2 emissions today. We need to start work on the tech
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by hyko 6y ago
Dishwasher drawers have already solved this problem, at 5–10% of the cost of one of these robots (that can’t yet solve the problem).
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by hyko 6y ago
The difference between Bitcoin and ham radio is money. Money is an extremely powerful technology that has changed the world, but one of the most profound ways it’s done so is to distort the minds of those trying to harness it. When your int
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by hyko 6y ago
Here’s the document explaining how it’s physically impossible to use the microphone when the MacBook lid is closed: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/... Where is the equivale

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