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by joosters 6y ago
As the article says, reference counting was not the problem. They got their improvements by disabling the garbage collector sweeps, but reference counting was still being used.
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by joosters 6y ago
There is privoxy - https://www.privoxy.org/ However, as most sites are https nowdays, privoxy is effectively limited to just blocking domains, making it pretty similar to pihole ...
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by joosters 6y ago
And yet Bitcoin plummeted in value at the same time as everything else at the start of the pandemic, so it's hardly uncorrelated. Buying lottery tickets would be uncorrelated. And you've less chance of being scammed or hacked when
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by joosters 6y ago
Thanks for posting that link, it's an interesting story in itself.
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by joosters 6y ago
Not really. The lottery organiser didn't lose out on any money here. The total prize money is going to be paid out to someone . In fact, the operators, through this mis-design, might have encouraged more lottery ticket buying than the
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by joosters 6y ago
Solana is centralized - it recently completely froze because a single server was giving faulty data. This weakness has been known about for a long time, e.g. https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/131342518063566028
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by joosters 6y ago
It's still vapourware at the moment, you can't even transfer money on it yet and you won't be able to for at least another year.
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by joosters 6y ago
What's the story with Zug? It seems to be popular for several blockchain hawking companies.
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by joosters 6y ago
No it won't. All the records will show is that X amount of energy was produced at time T. There's no way of proving that these values were legitimate.
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by joosters 6y ago
...and now we have one more incompatible standard (insert obligatory XKCD link here)
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by joosters 6y ago
We normally call that an 'API', no chains of blocks required!
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by joosters 6y ago
Was there ever any benefit to using a blockchain - other than marketing BS, of course? It was always Facebook (or their chosen partners) who controlled the coin, so the blockchain was pointless - there never was any decentralized trust, as
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by joosters 6y ago
They're just rebranding to annoy author David Gerard, who recently published a great book "Libra Shrugged" looking into Libra and Facebook's bad ideas: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/libra&#x2F
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by joosters 6y ago
There's no constant supply of cryptocurrency, there are new types of coins created every day.
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by joosters 6y ago
It's because you don't live in the EU. Millions of people have had instant money transfers for years now.
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by joosters 6y ago
The 'community' at large doesn't mine Bitcoin. A few gigantic mining farms mine bitcoin, and their self-interest could well change the bitcoin issuance. It's not as decentralised as you think.
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by joosters 6y ago
How exactly are you meant to do that when you are dealing with devices like employees personal phones in an office, or antendees laptops at a conference?
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by joosters 6y ago
There's plenty of fraud going on with smart contracts and blockchains in general, and everyone knows it. In fact, it offers newer and easier ways to commit fraud. How many ICOs walked away with their investors' money? How many exc
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by joosters 6y ago
You don't have to go back that far in time, 'hacks' and bugs in 'smart' contracts happen almost every day. Here's a recent $7M loss: https://cointelegraph.com/news/yield-generating-stableco
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by joosters 6y ago
A very good reason to avoid this company like the plague!
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by joosters 6y ago
Product idea: A program that makes your web app masquerade as any language that you choose! It rewrites and hides your .php extensions, and replaces error pages to make them look appropriate for the chosen technology stack. All the actual j
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by joosters 6y ago
'...Our incredible journey...' I hope they were thinking of https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ when they wrote this!
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by joosters 6y ago
There's a comment in the twitter thread that helps to explain why there are multiple color versions of the comics: From the Wikipedia page on Paws Inc: In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the Garfield comic strips from 1978 t
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by joosters 6y ago
This the same argument that the NSA used when they claimed they weren't listening to everyone's phone calls: it was just algorithms parsing the data so that's 'ok' then.
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by joosters 6y ago
Why? The smart speaker is designed to capture audio and send it to Amazon. The only dumbness is in the people who install it and THEN complain about their privacy. How did you think it worked?
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by joosters 6y ago
All the privacy protections are about preventing other users from monitoring the network. Amazon however will know everything, like what devices you have installed, where they are, who they communicate with, what they monitor, etc, etc.
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by joosters 6y ago
If you've already got an amazon smart speaker listening inside your home, surely this new mesh network is the least of your privacy worries?
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by joosters 6y ago
I found the install instructions, my point is that they clash with the rest of the presentation. How can you brag about a jailbreak being 'Fast. Really Fast' when your install process is long and convoluted?
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by joosters 6y ago
All that effort on designing a pretty looking website, and yet virtually no effort spent on making the install instructions friendly and readable!
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by joosters 6y ago
Any evidence for this? The stats seem to show the opposite, e.g. there has been 3x as much money lost to ponzi schemes pre -> post-Madoff : https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/ponzi-scheme-ber..

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