keymone

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by keymone 8y ago
There is zero waste. You don’t understand bitcoin. Bitcoin is not about transaction efficiency or throughput, use MySQL for that. Bitcoin is about secure ownership of money, peer to peer exchange and immutable fiscal policy. What you call w
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by keymone 8y ago
> in terms of pure energy without any middlemen
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by keymone 8y ago
your understanding of bitcoin is very lacking. miners never waste any energy, they spend it to acquire proof that they spent it. that proof has value and while value of the proof is larger than market value of bitcoin rewarded for the proof
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by keymone 8y ago
there are few things on this planet that are less wasteful and more useful/important for our civilization than bitcoin. it's the first time in history we've been able to express and implement monetary value and security there
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by keymone 8y ago
Marketing is never about finding what customer wants, it’s about making customer want a thing marketer wants to sell.
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by keymone 8y ago
> People work because they want something nope. there is a deep psychological need to feel productive and useful to society in all but very few sociopathic humans.
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by keymone 8y ago
there's a difference between "non-economically viable" and "not useful". i have no problems with people losing interest in doing stuff that current market values because current market values turning people into zom
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by keymone 8y ago
the argument goes that if people get free money they lose motivation to work and spend all their time on a sofa killing time, which isn't healthy physiologically and mentally. it's quite idiotic argument, but i've personally
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by keymone 8y ago
progress towards type 1 civilization is good.
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by keymone 8y ago
the problem with study like airbnb is that while tooling would have caught X% of bugs of type A, it in no way means those wouldn't just be replaced by bugs of type B. bugs are (in part) function of code and tooling complexity, making s
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by keymone 8y ago
> When Firefox tried to make the "X is undefined" JavaScript exception message user-friendlier, it broke flipkart.com. The new exception message had to be reverted. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
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by keymone 8y ago
Payment channels solve this. It’s basically on-chain trading without custodial account, the exchange simply does order matching.
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by keymone 8y ago
Am i missing something? Who and where claimed it was a software problem? From what i read it’s always framed as Sensor issue (and non-redundancy issue). It boggles my mind that a plane can be certified to fly with non-redundant sensor of su
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by keymone 8y ago
$10M sounds like spare change for DARPA?
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by keymone 8y ago
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/96589 page 35
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by keymone 8y ago
yes, this ^ never said it's easy, but it is possible.
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by keymone 8y ago
There are ways to solve this issue with cryptography.
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by keymone 8y ago
Regarding calorie control - has it not been shown that in ketosis your basal metabolic rate and hunger are generally lower? So feeding people static amount of calories isn’t really measuring the same thing to what happens in the wild - eati
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by keymone 8y ago
What diabetics are told to eat has generally been bullshit for good half a century. The whole low-fat craze and cholesterol horror stories I mean.
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by keymone 8y ago
> However, some proteinand fat-rich foods (eggs, beef, fish, lentils, cheese, cake, anddoughnuts) induced as much insulin secretion as did some carbohydrate-rich foods (eg, beef was equal to brown rice andfish was equal to grain bread).
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by keymone 8y ago
It is very gentle indeed. Personally i've come to conclusion that computers are better at managing threads than i am, just like compilers are, for many decades now, better at managing CPU registers. It can definitely be enjoyable to p
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by keymone 8y ago
hype is usually not the greatest source of accurate information.
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by keymone 8y ago
It’s an interpretation of how things are. And unfortunately “let’s ostracize those who don’t behave ethically” doesn’t seem to be a scary enough stick if you consider that those banks have far more business with individuals that acquired th
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by keymone 8y ago
unfortunately for us, reasonable people, there is no such thing for banks (and businesses in general) as "unethical behavior" when it comes to money. their responsibility is to increase shareholders' (or clients') value
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by keymone 8y ago
Ketogenic?
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by keymone 8y ago
i'm surprised hiccup was never mentioned. ofc it's not for pure JS but there's this thing - https://github.com/lantiga/react.hiccup though i never tried and don't know how well it works. still inte
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by keymone 8y ago
and where exactly did i do that? will you provide a link to your claim?
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by keymone 8y ago
> erlang/elixir looks like a very good tool but for a very limited pool of use cases - routing/filtering/messaging. wasn't that the original goal for erlang?
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by keymone 8y ago
> Or BTC hodlers who've seen an 80% crash, perhaps zoom out, you're embarrassing yourself. > Your 'fix' doesn't actually fix anything and it makes a lot of things worse. That's why you get called on it. t
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by keymone 8y ago
they cannot without expending large amount of energy and even then it will look extremely shady to both old and new nodes. in pos you can generate an entire new blockchain from genesis and new nodes won't have a clue which chain is &qu

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