kobieyc

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by kobieyc 3y ago
Yes but this clients, not nodes. So this actor does not control a large share of the network, they just use a large share of the network.
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by kobieyc 3y ago
Careful, there is someone whose name I shall not mention who is suing people claiming he is Satoshi and has copyright over the Whitepaper. He even got it banned from Bitcoin.org in the UK
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by kobieyc 4y ago
This gives you a good overview of what web3 is https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
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by kobieyc 4y ago
Sounds like you're getting all the benefits of a regular apple watch with cellular, no need for the Ultra
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by kobieyc 4y ago
Something that always trips me up about PoS is how a system that determines the transactional chronology (i.e. sequence of valid blocks) that uses, as a weighted input, the current transactional chronology (valid blocks determine your stake
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by kobieyc 4y ago
food waste generates 60x more emissions than Bitcoin, yet nobody is freaking out about that, which makes me think people are just riding the ESG bandwagon
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by kobieyc 4y ago
Don't forget about the Lightning Network
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by kobieyc 4y ago
Where exactly? I want to show my daughter some and there aren't any in my state.
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by kobieyc 4y ago
I don't understand why light pollution gets so little attention in the US.
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by kobieyc 4y ago
Yes, especially since Moxi cashed out and bought a big mansion after they released their spy-coin cryptocurrency.
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by kobieyc 4y ago
I think this is a safe assumption. Guilty until proven innocent, by making your code open source.
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by kobieyc 4y ago
Hmmm, that does seem somewhat suspect.
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by kobieyc 4y ago
That constraint is perfectly reasonable and rational, not a thumbsuck.
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by kobieyc 5y ago
Yeah, major wtf by this author. Clearly didn't do their homework.
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by kobieyc 5y ago
Yeah, at my company we spent a ton of R&D time adding first class git support in conjunction with drag and drop UI, WITHOUT introducing a DSL. Non-trivial problem but it can be done.
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by kobieyc 5y ago
check out helium.com
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by kobieyc 5y ago
Excellent straw-manning 10/10
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by kobieyc 5y ago
We use Discourse's hosted solution and it's effectively zero maintenance
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by kobieyc 5y ago
what you said slack doesn't have categories and tags and some search terms in slack bring up too many results without context to be useful
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by kobieyc 5y ago
This is an example of why I moved off Gmail to ProtonMail
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by kobieyc 5y ago
I agree that the title of this paper is misleading. I'm seeing more and more studies lately that try to extrapolate results conducted in noisy environments (microsft) to even noisier environments (all companies). Dunno wtf people are t
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by kobieyc 5y ago
I've been watching this situation from 50K feet and I think the reason they built their own wallet is for the ability, for merchants, to cash out any bitcoin payment in USD instead of BTC using the government swap system
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by kobieyc 5y ago
Fraud vs incompetence is an important dimension here. I think a lot of the time people are just incompetent. In fact I assume that > 80% of scientific papers in fields with high levels of environmental noise (social science, environment
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by kobieyc 5y ago
Honestly I was surprised not to see any mention of IVM in the original post. Many of the points in the original article apply to what's going on with systemic reviews of IVM - see for example allegations of misconduct/fraud by the
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by kobieyc 5y ago
yes
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by kobieyc 5y ago
This makes me furious
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by kobieyc 5y ago
Thank you for making this. Are you making the code available?
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by kobieyc 5y ago
Related to cloud cover: one of the biggest uncertainties in climate models is how to cater for the albedo effect also known as cloud feedback. It goes something like this: 1) The most potent greenhouse gas is water vapor (not CO2) 2) Increa
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by kobieyc 5y ago
I think there is more nuance to this. The problem is that YouTube literally claim "Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world." not the selectively suppress the views of certain groups. So I think it's cl
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by kobieyc 5y ago
This is real pravda stuff

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