knocte

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1. 421.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   > - There is an immediate scaling problem: The mean and median blocksize is converging on the max blocksize of 1MB, and transactions waiting to get into the block blow out on a daily basis to 20MB. This backlog of waiting transactions ca
2. 422.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   > I can fork Bitcoin right now, make some random changes to the consensus code, and I have a useless token that has absolutely no value. The value and usefulness of the token you would create is directly proportional to how good your cha
3. 423.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   > So small block proponents are likely to be right in that on-chain scaling is unrealistic, but if the market must be forced by developers to adhere to an artificial limit, I think that in itself implies Bitcoin is unlikely to be able to
4. 424.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   > It is interesting to see but I think Solidity is the first software language/framework that people with no experience writing it or running it, comment and write about it on hackernews as if they did. It's interesting to see
5. 425.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   > but if I don't like the consensus driven code of Bitcoin my only choice is to sell Wrong. What's the choice you have when you disagree with what the maintainers of an opensource project do? You can fork. You're welcome t
6. 426.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   Even if most of what you say seems to be completely false, I wouldn't even worry a tiny bit even if it was true, in the same way I don't worry by the fact that many Gnome developers are paid by Red Hat.
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   by knocte 9y ago

   > I've said it before but anyone who put money into Blockstream You seem to have taken sides against BitcoinCore team, following the typical conspiracy theories. But FYI, Blockstream is not Core, Core is not Blockstream. More info:
8. 428.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   But since "everyone being a miner" doesn't solve anything (even if everybody decides to donate their electricity without getting profits), since the ASIC manufacturers would still control the majority of the network, then any
9. 429.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   Thanks so much for that analysis! My mind was not that irrational then when making that guess :)
10. 430.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Centralization is not a bool variable: true|false. There are degrees to it. Of course I'm not claiming that bitcoin mining is centralized (100%), but it's definitely not very decentralized.
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    by knocte 9y ago

    > Where is the centralization? If there was no centralization, people would still be profitable doing solo mining. Most of the pools these days are pools because they own huge mining datacenters already (not because they have a lot of mi
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    by knocte 9y ago

    This is only layer1 (like IP in the networking world). Wait until layer2 comes (Lightning Network, TumbleBit), then we will reach the scalability levels we need for the entire planet to use the same blockchain.
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    by knocte 9y ago

    Expanded a bit my answer. IMVHO, ASIC hardware provides such a huge efficiency boost that even if everybody in this planet ran a mining raspberry pi, the ASIC manufacturers would maybe still own more than 51% of the hashrate.
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    by knocte 9y ago

    > anybody can be a miner That is false, nowadays. > Let's not forget that anybody can be a miner! Even if you repeat a lie a thousand times, it's not going to become true :) Bitcoin's mining algorithm is so simple that
15. 435.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    HTTP2 instead of the horrid hack that are WebSockets or long polling.
16. 436.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Gatecoin ( http://gatecoin.com ) | Hong Kong ONSITE | Multiple Positions | Fulltime | (INTERNS also welcome, VISA sponsor) We're a regulated exchange for bitcoin, ether and other blockchain assets based in Hong Kong, with man
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    by knocte 9y ago

    Yes
18. 438.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    > Javascript, type-related bugs were very, very rare. That's because you're not seeing them. I bet that if you plug your frontend to an error-reporting tool (e.g. Sentry) you will be overwhelmed to see all the corner-cases you
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    by knocte 9y ago

    Gatecoin ( http://gatecoin.com ) | Hong Kong ONSITE | Multiple Positions | Fulltime | (INTERNS also welcome, VISA sponsor) We're a regulated exchange for bitcoin, ether and other blockchain assets based in Hong Kong, with man
20. 440.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Chrome is not open source. Chromium is.
21. 441.▲
    by knocte 10y ago

    You clearly didn't read the article.
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    by knocte 10y ago

    We ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541679#up_13548091 ) use F# in Linux and works very well.
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    by knocte 10y ago

    I hope this is not flagged as spam but I think another good way of learning F# is getting paid to write it :) see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13541679#up_13548091
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    by knocte 10y ago

    That's really baffling, I perceived quite the opposite.
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    by knocte 10y ago

    Gatecoin ( http://gatecoin.com ) | Hong Kong ONSITE | Multiple Positions | Fulltime | (INTERNS also welcome, VISA sponsor) We're a regulated exchange for bitcoin, ether and other blockchain assets based in Hong Kong, with man
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    by knocte 10y ago

    gitlab too, plus they are opensource
27. 447.▲
    by knocte 10y ago

    Losing 6 hours of data is not a big deal! Kudos!
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    by knocte 10y ago

    Yeah, and if you spend more than 60$ a year (which is low already), you can just have unlimited storage: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home (not an affiliate link, and I don't work for Amazon either)
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    by knocte 10y ago

    I don't think the kiss example is a good comparison because if you go to jail you gain nothing, whereas banksters do.
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    by knocte 10y ago

    I think he means that machine learning is not really AI.