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by leppr 5y ago
I'm surprised the author makes no mention of centralized chains over testnets, since the importance of "skin in the game" as a learning strategy is emphasized. To learn Ethereum, getting around the Binance Smart Chain or Poly
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by leppr 5y ago
Maybe they mean to counter trade you, i.e. short the terrible stocks you recommend and become immensily rich.
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by leppr 5y ago
If the history is completely gone, your government won't be able to find it either, so you can just fill in whatever you want to explain how balance A became balance B.
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by leppr 5y ago
But then you wouldn't post your product in the "vision impaired community forums" for example. I'd be curious to see the actual stats, but HN surely has a high percentage of Firefox users compared with the general tech-n
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by leppr 5y ago
There are many more games apart from the Flexbox and Grid ones from this creator[1]. CryptoZombies[2] is often the recommended start for anyone wanting to learn Ethereum's Solidity and associated front-end library. It's not as gam
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by leppr 5y ago
Random attacks on the street are a problem, but the "wrench attack" trope relates more to targeted attacks against known victims, which are becoming increasingly common. In many countries, kidnapping and torturing someone for $200
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by leppr 5y ago
They are not immune at all. The security assumptions are different. > A single actor would need to own huge amount of resources and then essentially burn the coins. To purchase such a dominant stake the price would rise very quickly...
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by leppr 5y ago
So you give them dust contained in your decoy wallet. The problem with cryptos with public balances is that attackers can know your net worth in advance, and thus know whether you're a valuable target, and exactly how much they can ask
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by leppr 5y ago
Privacy coins give you plausible deniability. Attackers don't know what you own, because the balances are private.
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by leppr 5y ago
You forgot one step (which further highlights the absurdity of this system): US citizens elect "presidential electors" who then elect the president.
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by leppr 5y ago
There's one thing that Bitcoin does better than almost any other cryptocurrency right now, and it's being secure against consensus attacks. Ethereum comes close, Chia arguably surpasses it, but otherwise most cryptocurrencies coul
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by leppr 5y ago
Just note that for now, most of those bridges are custodian. AFAIK at the moment the only trustless one is RenBTC. The more popular WBTC and others are essentially just some trusted entity issuing IOUs when you give them your BTC.
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by leppr 5y ago
It is, but there's probably more actual interesting development and design activity going on than you realize. There's simply a real discovery problem, because of the aforementioned gold rush. Participants have too many incentives
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by leppr 5y ago
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/shadow_economy/ A huge portion of many countries' economic activity happens outside the reach of their governments. This is the present reality, not some anarchist dr
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by leppr 5y ago
I know of no country where the average citizen can affect the monetary policy of their currency. Otherwise we wouldn't have had two full years of central bank-fueled upwards wealth redistribution almost everywhere in the world.
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by leppr 5y ago
Actually it's relevant as a reminder of the importance of privacy coins, for they are the only way to avoid wrench attacks.
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by leppr 5y ago
It's simple, portable, and you can just execute EXEs from it. Cygwin has a more complex setup and not great compatibility with windows executables, IIRC.
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by leppr 5y ago
This issue needs thorough investigative work, to reconstruct an objective timeline. But as far as I remember it, mask wearing was seen first as being something for paranoid conspiracy theorists, then selfish people, then the narrative was r
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by leppr 5y ago
Then use another browser.
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by leppr 5y ago
Ok but in this precise case, podcasts have not fallen to mono/duo/trio-poly yet. Joe Rogan made a decision to take the money and give in to a corporation trying to make a podcast monopoly a reality. Who is to complain when the i
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by leppr 5y ago
Proof of Stake protocols typically use variants of BFT consensus, which support only up to 33% malicious voting power. So no, they do not protect against 51% attacks like Nakamoto consensus protocols do.
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by leppr 5y ago
You don't care because apps these days have mostly sensible defaults (when it comes to visual design at least), and most often both light and dark themes. If the YouTube or Twitter UI was bright yellow backgrounds with comic sans MS fo
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by leppr 5y ago
Current government policies are the biggest causes of wealth inequality[1]. On the other hand global trade, which is an actual free market, seems to result in less wealth inequality over time[2]. As such, I wouldn't be so sure that cry
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by leppr 5y ago
A racket implies intentional malicious activity, which is the accusation I'm clearing up here.
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by leppr 5y ago
That is a fake narrative spun from a screenshot of a tweet[1] taken out of context by people unfamiliar with IP laws. I'm familiar with this DAO, they have been advised by a competent IP lawyer before even bidding on the book. There is
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by leppr 5y ago
These transaction fees are determined dynamically by the Ethereum network depending on network usage, and given to Ethereum miners, not the particular dApp with which one interacts or their developers. Anyone using ETH would presumably have
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by leppr 5y ago
You have to give app installation permissions to the app you open the .apk file from.
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by leppr 5y ago
You still have to trust that the server is not going to target you and send you a trojan version. Content hashes (like in IPFS or git) are needed to minimize the trust on servers.
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by leppr 5y ago
You don't need to use WordPress where themes can apparently run server code. Plenty of simpler solutions like Gatsby and others.
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by leppr 5y ago
> Why did Microsoft remove so much functionality for an OS designed for work? Because it's not designed for work, it's a launcher for video games.

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