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keymone
7y ago
Bitcoin was literally designed with contracts (programs deciding transactions) in mind from its inception. Ethereum is just script kiddies piling JavaScript onto blockchain and calling it the greatest invention in human history.
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keymone
7y ago
If you know mass distribution between and around probes, could you account for it? or is it a case where we can only know the mass distribution by observing the curvature?
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keymone
7y ago
Lots of people say Java but of the more fancy and convenient (and correct , cough I’m obviously biased cough) ways to do development, I can’t stress enough how amazing it has been to watch release after release of Clojure consisting of mos
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keymone
7y ago
thanks! nice video, seems like gibraltar is getting a lot of action
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keymone
7y ago
Check out hiccup
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keymone
7y ago
is there any noticeable effect of earth’s rotation and uneven gravity field on distribution of sea-level change?
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keymone
7y ago
it was the right move. at that time flash was the biggest vector of attacks and the largest battery drain, why would you ever consider putting it in in the first place? apple was just bold, big and loved enough to survive the backlash from
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keymone
7y ago
It’s a study you know about. You don’t know how many studies you don’t know about. Nobody cares about other studies if they don’t turn out to make accurate predictions.
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keymone
7y ago
what if in 1982 there were a million such studies with predictions all over the place and that one just happens to match what really happened? what if Exxon uses this as an explanation for why this result wasn’t taken into account? “It was
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keymone
7y ago
> yet the chain you don't see is longer and everyone will switch there No. No it can’t. No it can’t without somebody spinning up 100%+ more hashrate. And in PoS it totally can because there is no objective truth measure attached to
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keymone
7y ago
> And even if they do you still could be on the wrong chain because of network problems etc. If you only see one chain you don't even know if there is another chain. this is the key thing you don't understand, i don't even
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keymone
7y ago
I don’t know about Elm, but regarding your point on evading html I actually see it as a pro rather than a con. If it’s the same as hiccup syntax in Clojure, it’s great decision. You build your Dom out of primitives that the language is desi
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keymone
7y ago
> You have to just hope (trust) that at least 50% are honest an cant be compromised at the same time. How is that any better than (optional, yes completely optional) choosing trusted Nodes? 51% attack exists for all cryptocurrencies. don
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keymone
7y ago
> High cost of mining in a cryptocurrency is not needed to limit supply. this is a bit backwards, high cost of mining is not needed, it's a consequence of demand in higher supply analogy does hold: there is demand for gold which cau
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keymone
7y ago
Please do, because until you actually try you will remain very confused about what is scarcity in context of bitcoin.
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keymone
7y ago
It’d be a fork either way and that’s the point. Still no trust involved.
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keymone
7y ago
> You're just entrusting a different set of un-elected un-accountable strangers with no economics degrees with your monetary policy -- the Bitcoin Core team no i don't. they just happen to maintain the reference implementation.
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keymone
7y ago
> core part demands efficiency what about development efficiency? maintenance efficiency? developer onboarding efficiency? there are many efficiencies companies care about.
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keymone
7y ago
What you’re saying is basically “things are horrible so why don’t you just bend over and let somebody fuck you in this other aspect as well”. Yes, that’s where I draw the line today. Governments used to challenge our right to free speech an
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keymone
7y ago
> Why exactly aren't you fine with that? because i don't want to trust anyone. XRP is not trustless or decentralized enough. > Every node always enforces all the rules. So your node checks if a Tx is valid anyway and if you
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keymone
7y ago
the thread is about Bitcoin mining using stolen energy
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keymone
7y ago
why?
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keymone
7y ago
> Each participant in the network chooses a set of validators, servers specifically configured to participate actively in consensus, run by different parties who are expected to behave honestly most of the time. maybe you're fine wi
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keymone
7y ago
Proof of work is the only objective datapoint that can’t be faked. It has value in itself proportional to how much energy went into the proof, so it’s wrong to say something was wasted - all the energy went into producing something of value
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keymone
7y ago
Bitcoin’s energy use is its most valuable feature. If you think it’s an issue - you don’t understand what’s valuable in Bitcoin.
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keymone
7y ago
> common for a wannabe Bitcoin millionaires to run mining software on computers and electricity they do not own or pay for Define “common” and provide sources for your claims please.
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keymone
7y ago
When will the monetary cost of gold mining start impacting gold ecosystem?
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keymone
7y ago
You’re wrong. If you think Bitcoin’s mining is wasteful you don’t understand what is valuable in Bitcoin. If you think there is duplication - you don’t understand how modern bitcoin mining even works. Proof of stake doesn’t work and trust b
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keymone
7y ago
i think anybody saying the word "microservices" is bullshitting. it's just services. if you are doing api requests anywhere from inside your app - you're already doing "microservice architectures". db is a &quo
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keymone
7y ago
Tool caved in, so will they.
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