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by ivoras 4y ago
It's about convenience: to move USD around, you need banks. To move USDT atound you just need access to the blockchain. This means you can easily create an exchange dealing strictly with crypto if you don't support USD.
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Fast Estimator Algorithms for Go: (Hyper|Super)?LogLog, Bloom Filter(github.com)
1 points by ivoras 4y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 4y ago
Hmmm, looks like one of those game-of-life-implemented-in-game-of-life things, set up in a way which simulates actual living cells on the 2nd level, including cell division.
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by ivoras 4y ago
Lua's simplicity is sometimes it's real selling point. I was just today searching for a small scripting language to implement in a mobile app in .net, where app size is a premium, and it turns out that the smallest useful JavaScri
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by ivoras 4y ago
Yeah, but that's kind of how human progress works. For each Edison or SpaceX which successfuly commercialised a technology, there are Nicola Teslas and Apollo programs which did it way before both the tech and the society were ready fo
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by ivoras 4y ago
Of course it's not that simple. In most parts of the world, if a person is in a public space, anyone can take a photo of that person, including shop owners. This photo could be considered as a type of "fingerprint" for that p
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by ivoras 4y ago
This actually makes me sad :( Hear me out: the Internet was supposed to be about peer-to-peer connected computers, and the privileged roles ISPs and later "cloud" providers assumed changed that for the worse. It was SUPPOSED to en
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by ivoras 4y ago
Nevermind... it looks like SmartyNames isn't reliably detecting which domains are free. I've made a search where it showed many "free" domains which ended up non-free. That probably means they are either not issuing DNS
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by ivoras 4y ago
Hahahahaha, this will wreak HAVOC on GoDaddy's domain-squatting spam-business. I can't prove anything but the last time we've brainstormed a brand and domain name, within a couple of days ALL of the name variants we searched
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by ivoras 4y ago
Interestingly enough, the concept of placing gliders at a distance away seems to touch on the relativity of space and time. Here, with space, we are also encoding the time at which a certain pattern (a glider) appears where it's needed
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by ivoras 4y ago
The need for strong human authentication will be more obvious. Biometrics as currently done with cameras etc will be easily hackable by AIs adapting signals to sensors. I don't see how this can be done in an absolute way, uniquely for
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by ivoras 4y ago
The armchair philosopher in me really wants to draw a parallel to a loose interpretation of Godel's incompleteness theorem to conclude that there's nothing which indicates we should be able to understand even us, let alone emergen
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by ivoras 4y ago
Crazy that once upon a time just sequences of machine code were written to files, without any headers, or checksums, or basically any modern metadata. Just plain machine code, to be directly fed into the CPU. Cue lamentations of today'
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by ivoras 4y ago
... and my axe!
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by ivoras 4y ago
I know they are talking about new sexy distributed / federated stuff, but we actually had what they were talking about a long long time ago, and it was distributed in a very similar way - orgs, corps and just plain people used to run N
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by ivoras 4y ago
Those ads are much more interesting (nostalgia-wise) than the articles! Like, they have schematics! And talk about expanding the 640k barrier!
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by ivoras 4y ago
One of these day someone will do OpenBazaar ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBazaar ) right. They were on to something, and just possibly, all this infrastructure built around web3 might not be completely useless for
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by ivoras 4y ago
Thanks for the great explanation! Would you mind answering a layman's question on where the energy comes from in fusion: my understanding is that the problem here is that energy has to be put in to overcome electromagnetic repulsion be
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by ivoras 4y ago
This is a US thing, right? Haven't received an SMS from a real person (in other words, all SMSes I get are 2FA etc) for, at least 5 years, maybe 10. Even people who use iPhones don't send SMSes, MMSes or anything as obsolete (incl
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by ivoras 4y ago
> I wonder how Blockchain explorers deal with more complex scripts. For example on blockchain.com one can look up coins by putting an "address" into the search bar. But how would one look up coins that are not locked by a scrip
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by ivoras 4y ago
I have a feeling the hedonic treadmill is to blame.
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by ivoras 4y ago
Not the audience for this (who's the audience anyway? can't think of any), so definitely not, but that mechanism has at least 1 major flaw: If a password is compromised / brute forcedthe attacker will have access to the victi
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by ivoras 4y ago
This is used to a very cool effect in Peter Watts' novel "Blindsight", about an alien species whose brains are so much faster than ours that they notice and exploit this deficiency in ours. It's also free to read, e.g. a
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by ivoras 4y ago
Therein lies the secret of corporate success. This was not dobe by an expert - neitger by a bearded guru who learned things the hard way nor an academician who studied databases and data representation, but by a reasonably competent employe
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Go refusing to make structs in maps mutable since 2012
2 points by ivoras 4y ago|1 comments
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by ivoras 4y ago
Is there an explanation of what would go wrong with the naive approach? E.g.: - Change the binary file format in repos to support arbitrary hash algorithms, in a way which unambigously makes old software fail. - Increment the Git major vers
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by ivoras 4y ago
Nah man, that's all been deconstructed because "All leadership is moral leadership." Nowadays, strange people named Nobody and Anybody are deciding what's good for you.
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by ivoras 4y ago
Money is basically just a way to motivate other people to do something for you :D We as a civilisation obviously CAN build houses, utilities, hairdressers, space rockets, grow food, etc. - the question is simply "why" (in the lite
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by ivoras 4y ago
I'd add one more thing: it doesn't change. Compared to most languages, Go hasn't changed at all over its 12+ year history. It took that long to get generics, ffs. It can be a good thing. It certainly reduces the cognitive l
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by ivoras 4y ago
How does this sound: Optimizing for ever higher economic prosperity has so far had the side-effect of ever higher economic inequality, in no small part because only a small number of people are able to succesfully get rich off of moments of

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