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by joosters 5y ago
Beta software: http://lightning.network/docs/ reports that the design of the network is still only in draft form, never mind the software! (those pesky details like routing, which are a difficult problem, are mostly
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by joosters 5y ago
Catch-22: To open a lightning channel, you need to make a transaction (and so pay the high fees), but to pay that fee, you'll need to already have coins in a wallet that you control - which you can only achieve by withdrawing some coin
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by joosters 5y ago
None of these are as good as the protection of your money in a bank. e.g. Coinbase's insurance covers just their 'hot storage', but that's only 2% of your currency. Plenty of exchanges have lost their supposedly secure c
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by joosters 6y ago
The original referenced paper is also very good: http://elucidation.free.fr/parachuteBMJ.pdf (can't find a better formatted link, sorry) Conclusions: As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effe
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Most artists are not making money off NFTs and here are some graphs to prove it(thatkimparker.medium.com)
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by joosters 6y ago
Betting with 'full' Kelly-calculated stakes is highly volatile. If I'm remembering correctly, if you get your probabilities/edge exactly right, you will still have a 50/50 chance of losing half of your bank at some
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by joosters 6y ago
I mean in terms of bugs, rather than a 'rogue' client, i.e. not a deliberate attempt to cause a chain divergence. If a 'broken' transaction gets accepted by a buggy client, and that buggy client has a majority of hash po
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by joosters 6y ago
Surely it doesn't matter what the specification says? If the majority of the hashpower is using an implementation which deviates from the spec, then the blockchain will follow that code and not the 'correct' version. By the t
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by joosters 6y ago
But the modifications might not be valid in the real system. For example, imagine a script that adds a new user to the system: in the container, it picks a new user ID that is free. A diff of the filesystem will show a new line being added
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by joosters 6y ago
... This structure would be composed of over 3,000,000 tons of steel ... ... living and interaction with wildlife and nature ... The only interaction with nature this monstrosity would have is by squashing it.
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by joosters 6y ago
So it's a way to dodge the law? (while ruining the environment, of course)
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by joosters 6y ago
Rendering a web page requires an in-page animated progress bar now?
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by joosters 6y ago
Plus all the news articles along the lines of "In a speech today, so-and-so will announce some thing " published long before the speech is made.
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by joosters 6y ago
Input latency is the problem for many terminals when a command accidentally generates megabytes of output text - the console locks up and won't respond to input until it has rendered and scrolled through every single line of output.
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by joosters 6y ago
Isn't it more accurately called 'Miranda warning '? The point is, there are no new rights being granted, the notification is merely informing someone of their existing rights. The fifth amendment was ratified back in 1791.
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by joosters 6y ago
2) MobileCoin Inc. intends to maintain an extreme minority of the coins once the dust settles. a.k.a. we intend to sell all of our vast stacks of pre-mined coins onto gullible users. This is exactly how a pump and dump scam works.
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by joosters 6y ago
I used to work in that Ionica building (after Ionica left). Like Ionica, the building design was cutting edge but didn’t live up to expectations! The ‘smart’ building used computer controlled cooling towers, vents and a giant block of concr
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by joosters 6y ago
The 'NFT company' maintaining the database would still show who 'owned' it long after Beeple is gone. Running such a company could be profitable because you could charge a small fee for the admin: right now it costs arou
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by joosters 6y ago
I think the author has got it all wrong. The blockchain (and the NFT contract) don't make digital art scarce, nor do they confirm 'ownership'. It's been pointed out many times that anyone can create an NFT on a blockchai
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by joosters 6y ago
I don't quite understand, what was sold here exactly? This question applies to all NFTs! All you 'own' is a smart contract on a blockchain. That contract might contain a URL, and that URL might have some content on it. Or
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by joosters 6y ago
All this was true and well known prior to the IPO, so I'm not sure why should it affect the price now and not earlier?
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by joosters 6y ago
Does this stop their kids from typing on their keyboard? (And anyway, surely viewing a web page counts as an interoperable web standard already?)
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by joosters 6y ago
It's not like the $9b of daily commerce that can't get through the canal is being set alight and tipped overboard, it will reach its destination in the end. Some of that produce might have gone off, or the delay in its arrival c
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by joosters 6y ago
Amazon’s search is terrible. If you sort by price, then the top pages of results are almost always complete garbage items that are completely unrelated to what you are looking for, no matter how specific you are. Almost like Amazon don’t wa
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by joosters 6y ago
Is that always true? It depends whether or not you think of the hash as a property of the hashtable, or a property of the key itself. e.g. you may have string objects that store their hash values internally - a useful optimisation if you ar
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by joosters 6y ago
Shouldn't that first graph have the axes the other way round? Time (date) should be on the x-axis, and the measurement on the y-axis? As it is, it looks terribly confusing to me.
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by joosters 6y ago
What are you suggesting, that we should ignore facts if they are highlighted by people whose views you don't like? Or that Amy is untrustworthy and lying? If that's the case, please point to some lies that she has told?
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by joosters 6y ago
https://pageviews.toolforge.org/siteviews/?platform=all-acce... en.wikipedia.org has around 260 million page views per day. Each page view consists of multiple HTTP requests (picking a few random pages shows twenty o
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by joosters 6y ago
Before stating *how* fighter pilots make fast and accurate decisions, surely we need to study *if* fighter pilots make fast and accurate decisions? I mean, do they really? What evidence is there that pilots are great, or even above average,
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by joosters 6y ago
It’s just like you having a paper receipt with #1 on it, and me also having a receipt with #1 on it. Both can be on the same blockchain at the same time, issued by different NFT ‘creators’. Or maybe on different blockchain... Which one is t

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