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by iskander 5y ago
I want to store a few dozen TB of genomics data in a publicly accessible way. Are there any better alternatives to S3 or Google Cloud Storage? I've been waiting for Cloudflare's R2 but the beta is not yet open yet and I'm not
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by iskander 5y ago
So little memory? The now outdated Mac Pro goes up to 1.5TB, only 128GB available here.
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by iskander 5y ago
?
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by iskander 5y ago
There are a few counter-examples and Czechoslovakia is definitely one of them. The Catalan and Basque independence movements, however, have been successfully contained by Spain. They lacked external support and could not compete with the st
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by iskander 5y ago
My parents have gone to watching Fox News regularly and my in-laws are MSNBC junkies. It's brain rotting and emotional content that should be socially treated like a drug, keeping viewers addicted to drama and outage.
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by iskander 5y ago
Every country has regions with distinct cultural and linguistic identities. It often takes an outside power to enable them to split away. Like with Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, &c the central actor is Russia, not the regions themsel
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by iskander 5y ago
Diverse L2 layers sounds like hell. Where's your ETH? Evenly sprinkled between StarkNet, zkSync, Arbitrum, and the thirty competitors that will pop up in the next few years.
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by iskander 5y ago
These all seem different though. None function with anonymity by default and you can't sell or even transfer most of these memberships. I wonder if part of the divide on the "utility" of NFTs involves "internet native&qu
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by iskander 5y ago
> if youre not extracting a profit from people enjoying the art, why are you advocating for it? what is your skin in the game? if youre only advocating it to get rid of it by selling it, i dont think thats a genuine advocacy for the piec
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by iskander 5y ago
Is there a non-blockchain equivalent of gated access to resources based on ownership of a token? People do this a lot in the NFT space (access to certain chat channels based on owning an NFT), is anything like that happening (rather than th
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by iskander 5y ago
Re: #3, there isn't really a meaningful oracle problem now that there are reliable oracles. You can make synthetic assets which track prices of e.g. stocks. There are a few different protocols in this space, such as https://
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by iskander 5y ago
>The limited edition art is really just tracking receipts - you can do that over email if you want and it really doesn't have to be public. Non digital art does fine with private receipt tracking. You can also have a dedicated datab
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by iskander 5y ago
Re: limited editions, I'm not talking about monetization. As someone currently working on a big generative art collaboration, I think knowing that the output will have a finite set that is considered canonical is an essential artistic
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by iskander 5y ago
No problem! After a year of playing around with crypto I think I'm appropriately both skeptical and excited, which is hopefully a good starting point for non-trolling conversations.
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by iskander 5y ago
Infura is a single RPC endpoint, the underlying network it talks with has 5k-6k clients: https://www.ethernodes.org/?synced=1 You can choose one of ~20 different free RPC endpoints: https://ethereumnodes.com&#x2F
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by iskander 5y ago
I'll try to engage without pulling us into familiar debates. I have found, in a year of intensive use and research around the Ethereum ecosystem, here are a few things I like that wouldn't really work without an underlying immutab
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by iskander 5y ago
>In an instance where an L2 is compromised, the potential impact is limited to the integrity of data that individual L2 was contributing to the overall platform. I think distinction is only meaningful as long as L2s remain a niche curios
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by iskander 5y ago
This is a concerning aspect of Ethereum's strategy to push scaling to layer-2 networks: Ethereum is a heavily audited and tested protocol that runs an extremely decentralized network of diverse clients. L2s can be...an AWS instance run
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by iskander 5y ago
There are very few exchanges left which don't require KYC and even then the real final step is cashing to some kind of bank account. I don't think crypto->fiat privacy is possible beyond a certain level of wealth.
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by iskander 5y ago
They mention chain hopping and privacy chains. Maybe they slipped up using ZEC and made some of their transactions public?
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by iskander 5y ago
It's not just the voting mechanism, it's also the crowd-raised treasury and culture of dev-centric leadership and internet community governance. People seem to like pooling money in this way, even if it seems silly you probably ca
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by iskander 5y ago
I think a few DAOs are so divorced from physical concerns that they can remain on the internet and direct resources there without needing a corporate shell. But, as soon as money flows into the real world, they will need to figure out how t
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by iskander 5y ago
DAOs are a bit fluid, even evasive, in definition but there are plenty out there (e.g. VitaDAO) which essentially function as an alternative organizational structure to traditional corporations. To function outside the crypto space (or real
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by iskander 5y ago
Similar experience in my family, father-in-law spent 18 hours waiting in a ER. Needs a biopsy and imaging which are taking weeks to get done because, as several doctors have admitted, the hospital is both overwhelmed with Covid patients and
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by iskander 5y ago
Wallets != people. Without proof of personhood, you never know the distribution.
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by iskander 5y ago
I went to UIUC and paid ~$6k / year in-state (not including living costs). That has now increased dramatically to ~$20k/year. And, obviously, you still have to pay for living costs while you're a student and the part-time job
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by iskander 5y ago
That's not quite right. The JS source code is committed on chain via a contract interaction and every minted token gets a token hash which, when run through the JS source, can recreate the art. But...the execution environment is still
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by iskander 5y ago
Some NFTs are stored this way (e.g. Blitmaps, Terraforms, Corruption(*s), &c); it's a more restrictive artistic medium since storage costs are high and technical limits feel like a trip back to the 80s. If you can fit nice art into
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by iskander 5y ago
Are there any chains whose clients can run successfully on a cell phone, avoiding the need for intermediaries like Infura? Does a recursive zero-knowledge rollup like Mina create a sufficiently small state to remove the need for client&#x2F
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by iskander 5y ago
This is the most thoughtful critique I've seen of the web3 space because it engaged meaningfully with the stated intent of web3 as a movement (and found it somewhat lacking on its own terms).

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