keymone

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by keymone 5y ago
eth feels like wild west of script kiddies writing javascript to manage billions of USD. far from being middle ground, it's quite the opposite of btc's "let's not ruin the foundation even if we'll be called unnecess
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by keymone 5y ago
A stretch that one enjoys is a waste of time because nothing gets stretched.
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by keymone 5y ago
> Both leaders are deeply committed to all of our employees; to the work ahead to ensure Blizzard is the safest, most welcoming workplace possible for women, and people of any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or background; to upho
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by keymone 5y ago
jq is nice, but the moment i need anything more complex than "pull this attribute out of bunch of objects" i vastly prefer spinning up an actual language runtime. or use a tool built around a language (e.g. https://gith
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by keymone 5y ago
unrelated: how do we know there are no alephs between 0 and 1?
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by keymone 5y ago
well i'm glad you've conceded all the ground from "it's unsolvable comp sci problem" up until "but one can DoS the tiny payments by spamming". i've covered a mile, you're still fighting for inche
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by keymone 5y ago
when you run multipath payment, each chunk that succeeds locks that capacity for some time until you figure out rest of the chunks. and since each chunk is tiny, the chance that all of them succeed on first try is actually quite large.
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by keymone 5y ago
> as I said, it can work with a few giant hubs right, there will definitely be huge hubs. what you didn't even try to demonstrate is why can't there be smaller hubs? > it just progressively works worse and worse. Doing multi
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by keymone 5y ago
> Thus, it doesn't scale you're wrong for two reasons: - hubs do exist (big and small) and can exchange connectivity information more efficiently (and take fees for that service), so the network isn't growing like a full m
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by keymone 5y ago
maintaining a perfect and complete connectivity graph - hard. maintaining imperfect and incomplete connectivity graph - much less hard. be careful, maybe you're invested into something that becomes irrelevant if LN works, in which ca
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by keymone 5y ago
> I am saying we don't have the map that we need to solved the shortest path problem, and we have no way to get that map. of course we do, connectivity graph and updates to it are gossiped all the time and each node has imperfect re
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by keymone 5y ago
> Routing in the Lightning network is an open problem in computer science if you're trying to say that routing in lightning is an instance of traveling salesman, you're not only wrong - routing is actually shortest path problem
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by keymone 5y ago
a toy form with 1800BTC ($54mil) only in public channels. i don't think you're familiar with it at all, it scales very well because payments are actual peer to peer, don't need to be globally broadcast and checkpointed. milli
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by keymone 5y ago
Nope, it’s probably in millions per second already, read about lightning network.
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by keymone 5y ago
lol, you're the one claiming a very non intuitive thing - that one's goals don't depend on tastes and preferences, if you can't back up that claim by anything then just say so. no need to weasel out with "don't
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by keymone 5y ago
> Somebody's goal is not a matter of taste or personal opinion citation needed > If my goal is X, then this what my goal is does this not strike you as circular? :)
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by keymone 5y ago
Most of that energy would not have been produced and it’s orders of mignutude more tps.
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by keymone 5y ago
how is goal not subjective? do you know what my goal is without me telling you? demonstrate please.
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by keymone 5y ago
we're all doing it already. with bitcoin you can at least choose how much in control you want to be.
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by keymone 5y ago
if you put your savings into something you don't know how to operate safely, maybe you deserve to lose it? ultimately all the services you rely on to keep your savings safe can be built by other companies on top of bitcoin for a fee (a
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by keymone 5y ago
no, my point is that you can apply this argument to anything: "how could X be safe if X is software that could be backdoored, delivered to you via internet tubes that can be mitm'ed, compiled by another software that can inject ba
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by keymone 5y ago
how does schneier write blog posts? he can't trust the keyboard or the screen or any hardware or software involved in the process. how do you even know it's schneier's post? how could you trust any digital signature schneier
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by keymone 5y ago
sure, but it is subjective what is the goal and what is it's value.
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waste is subjective
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by keymone 5y ago
important to note that amount of calories you burn is heavily affected by chosen diet. as you start consuming less, your body responds by lowering temperature, reducing your willingness to move and think, etc, all of which reduce calorie bu
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by keymone 5y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=best+thing+since+sliced+brea...
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by keymone 5y ago
> technologies you mentioned gained wide adoption much faster than blockchain has They really didn’t, do some research. > value proposition of instantaneous vocal communication at a distance was extremely obvious even before the telep
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by keymone 5y ago
It’s ok, people like you wondered why would anybody need to speak into a tube with a wire instead of meeting in person, why would anybody send a radio broadcast to nobody in particular, why would anybody send email when post and fax are ubi
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by keymone 5y ago
> However bitcoin is a technology which did not arise out of an engineering effort directed towards a specific problem or market inefficiency, but instead out of a anarchist political narrative that views democratic control of the money
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by keymone 5y ago
> electrical energy is used to break water down into its constituent elements, hydrogen and oxygen, via the process of electrolysis is this actually the process to get hydrogen on industrial scale? from wiki: As of 2020, the majority of

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