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by legutierr 4y ago
The issue with Mastodon is that your network ID is tied to the domain of the server you are connecting to. If you get kicked off of that server you can move to another one, but you effectively have to create a new account. You loose all y
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by legutierr 4y ago
My mistake. Your perspective is not all wrong. You're just focusing on the wrong thing.
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by legutierr 4y ago
No, your perspective on this is all wrong. The outrage about AI art is not about how it empowers its users. Rather, the problem is that these systems only exists today because of the involuntary contributions of the very same people who ar
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by legutierr 4y ago
The people who wrote the Photoshop source code were paid for their contributions with full consent that their work would be included in the product and sold for a profit by Adobe. The artists whose work was fed into these systems did not co
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by legutierr 4y ago
I think what OP is saying is that onboarding all of humanity onto the lightning network would exceed the capacity of the Bitcoin network. Yes, once everyone is onboarded onto lightning the 1,000,000 tps bandwidth would apply. But to benefi
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by legutierr 4y ago
> A relay doesn't talk to another relay, only directly to users. Is this universally the case? I'm sure a relay could be built that pulls messages from other relays and shares them with its own clients.
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by legutierr 4y ago
How does someone use lightning on Nostr? I see a lightning link marked "Tip" on his profile page, but that seems to point to a plugin that you have to install in your browser: https://getalby.com/ . Is there some
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by legutierr 4y ago
I feel like the teacher could be either the hero or the villain in this story—pushing you to excel, or tearing down a gifted student. What was the outcome of that meeting?
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by legutierr 4y ago
> If someone steals my credit card, I’ll likely lose nothing other than some mild inconvenience updating numbers You might not lose money when someone steals your credit card, but someone does: either your bank or the merchant will suffe
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by legutierr 4y ago
This is part of the reason that a lot of people are excited about stablecoins and blockchain payments.
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by legutierr 4y ago
So you are saying this functional vaccine exists, and has been approved by the FDA for another use, so that it can be used off-label, but that people do not use it because people don't know about it... ...and you don't name the va
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by legutierr 4y ago
> The code itself is plain and readable: train.py is a ~300-line boilerplate training loop and model.py a ~300-line GPT model definition, which can optionally load the GPT-2 weights from OpenAI. That's it. What's the best sourc
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by legutierr 4y ago
Are you suggesting that Canada should renege on its defense spending obligations as a member of NATO, and simply benefit from NATO’s security umbrella as a freeloader? Or are you suggesting that Canada should drop out of NATO? I can’t rea
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by legutierr 4y ago
While the block reward remains high in USD terms, I think you’re right with regards to the power balance. But if the reward falls low enough—which very well might happen, if the price of Bitcoin stagnates and if transaction fees stay low—t
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by legutierr 4y ago
> But bitcoin, for the first time in history, sets monetary policy in stone There’s nothing preventing Bitcoin miners from modifying the Bitcoin supply algorithm and inflation rate, except for their collective unwillingness to do so. Bit
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by legutierr 4y ago
How do you think it compares to the Typhoon?
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by legutierr 4y ago
Canada is part of NATO. The US is obligated to take Canada’s interests into account with regards to the country’s defense. Canada is buying these planes because they are the most effective fighters available within the general price range.
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by legutierr 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
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by legutierr 4y ago
This may be happening, but the reason it is happening is that Sarbanes Oxley made it such a burden to run a public company that companies that otherwise would have gone public began to seek capital in the private markets instead. Regulation
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by legutierr 4y ago
Good points! Yes, public blockchains are often not suitable for private or confidential transactions. That being said, anonymization tools do exist, which can solve this problem for many use cases. Also, I agree that blockchains only work
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by legutierr 4y ago
Could you explain what you mean? As I noted, "by definition" a block that has reached finality will not be removed. Any attempt to add, modify or delete transactions or blocks prior to this point would be self-defeating because i
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by legutierr 4y ago
Reconciling digital records against physical assets is something that all electronic systems of this sort must contend with. But traditional multi-party systems also need to worry about reconciling each entity's records against all th
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by legutierr 4y ago
My point is not that the problem cannot be solved by traditional approaches, but rather to identify that it is a problem that somehow needs to be solved. It's something that people need to expend resources and take on risk to solve.
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by legutierr 4y ago
This should be possible to do only through standardizable contracts, with enforcement through arbitration and/or the courts.
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by legutierr 4y ago
To implement a traditional escrow you need an escrow agent and an escrow agreement, as you rightly note. In the event of a dispute, the escrow just holds onto the money until the question is resolved in arbitration or litigation. Expenses
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by legutierr 4y ago
One reasonable way to keep detailed records of transactions is a blockchain! The best thing about a blockchain in a situation like this is that the different participants don't need to reconcile their transaction records to make sure t
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by legutierr 4y ago
Yeah, but what if that decentralized network of trustless computers already exists, and transaction costs relative to costs you would otherwise incur are very low? The premise of your argument is that building a clearinghouse is cheaper and
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by legutierr 4y ago
What if there is no clearinghouse operating in that particular market?
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by legutierr 4y ago
If two rival businesses are transacting with each other, and they don’t really trust each other fully, which one hosts the database? Whoever hosts the database is in a position to manipulate data to the disadvantage of the other. Which ent
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by legutierr 4y ago
Per my understanding: most important functionality is implemented in the client; clients can connect to any relay server, and any number of relay servers; messages can be relayed by any number of relay servers; and anyone can spool up a new

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