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by lhl 5y ago
Over the past few years, my personal experience/perception is there's been less and less people with a technical grounding in crypto/blockchain who bother to engage on HN (on CT, it's often dismissively referenced as &qu
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by lhl 5y ago
execution node (ETH 1.0) diversity is important, but actually more important moving forward is the consensus (beacon chain, fka Ethereum 2.0) diversity. The crawled data here shows that Prysm has almost 2/3s of that: https:/&#x2F
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by lhl 5y ago
For those interested in the specific risks of various L2s as they stand, L2Beat has the best overview: https://l2beat.com/?view=risk While the various L2s are all pretty bleeding edge, the current state/alternative [1]
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by lhl 5y ago
I don't know the numbers for the general population, but Fig2 [1] illustrates the difference between the high-carb and low-carb arms between the elite athletes, and Fig3 [2] shows the difference in absolute fax oxidation rates between
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by lhl 5y ago
For those interested, Jeff Volek's team published a study in 2016, "Metabolic characteristics of keto-adapted ultra-endurance runners" [1] that compared fax oxidation. One of the "fat adapted" participants Zach Kibb
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by lhl 5y ago
Is there more detail/discussion on the optics posted anywhere? It would be nice to see some info like PPD across the image area, distortion (corrected and uncorrected) and chromatic aberration, pupil swim/eye box, focal distance,
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by lhl 5y ago
For Metamask alternatives, Rabby https://rabby.io/ (MIT-licensed) (it routes all queries through its own RPCs atm) and Frame https://frame.sh/ (GPLv3) are the best desktop alternatives I've tried. The
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by lhl 5y ago
A few years ago, there was an article on getting a fully functional Linux booted on an rpi in 3-4s which has a few other, maybe more generally useful tips for speeding up startup times: http://himeshp.blogspot.com/2018/
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by lhl 5y ago
I bought at <2, at 5, at 10, at 20, 30, 50, and most recently (just a few months ago during the last retrace) at 75. AMD has been an execution machine, and honestly, even if/when Intel finally brings back competition, AMD will be fi
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by lhl 5y ago
A few points of interest for those that want to dig more: * This is an analysis of what was actually passed. It's a big deal as far as "legal tender" goes: https://twitter.com/robustus/status/1402456
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by lhl 5y ago
I think it's easy to get lost in the weeds on this. What was the fundamental innovation of Bitcoin? It was a blockchain that functioned as a decentralized ledger that allowed un-trusted parties to verifiably exchange value without a tr
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by lhl 5y ago
That's easy and has nothing to do with what you're thinking (although you could hard-code/guarantee emission schedules if you built a smart contract on a decentralized platform) but let's ask, how and where do you rede
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by lhl 5y ago
To answer your last question first, crypto clearly is a superior platform for finance, exactly because of the explosion in "self-referential shell games" - it's in fact an extreme democratizer of "finance" - anyone
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by lhl 5y ago
Use of cryptocurrencies for transactions is also limited due to tax treatment - in the US and many other countries you are expected to calculate and report capital gains for every transaction. Of course this sort of treatment won’t be done
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by lhl 5y ago
Companies like Chainalysis have unwound and track the large majority (probably 80%) of Bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin’s lack of fungibility and any semblance of transactional privacy is actually one of the arguments against its suitability
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by lhl 5y ago
You can look up Stock to Flow and Bitcoin to learn more about that theory.
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by lhl 5y ago
The problem is you’re looking at a technological dead end (Bitcoin). There’s no innovation there, financial or otherwise, just momentum. However all you have to do is to turn your eye adjacent to the dapp space and see where developer and u
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by lhl 5y ago
For a basic transfer, it's probably best to use a gas tracker like: https://etherscan.io/gastracker to check on costs. It's about $6-8 at the moment. The average tx cost is going skew much higher because of DeFi t
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by lhl 5y ago
As the other @garmaine mentions, the currency conversion is at mid-market rates, no fees. I've compared the rates to Wise and other options and it's far less cost, and certainly less cost than the median tx fee of BTC by itself, l
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by lhl 5y ago
My Schwab account does international wires settled in USD or in a number of foreign currencies for free. (The official fee is $15 but it’s always been refunded for me.)
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by lhl 6y ago
I agree that the state of AMD's dGPUs still leave a lot to be desired, but they've been making some progress at least. On the consumer side, RDNA2 is raster, transistor, and power (albiet on a more efficient node) competitive with
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by lhl 6y ago
Bitcoin is already not such a useful currency (although it’s currently a very useful speculative asset) due to the fact that it has been maxed out at a real world daily average of ~3.5tx/s for years AFAICT (half the often quote 7tps) a
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by lhl 6y ago
If you're looking for a cheaper model, the HP ProBook x360 435 G8 is available with either a 5800U or PRO 5850U starting at ~$1000: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-probook-x360-435-g8-not... (perfor
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by lhl 6y ago
If you have a good pre-existing network of contacts (or have a modicum of networking skills/are willing to do a bit of legwork) I’ve found there’s a constant demand for “low-end” sysadmin/devops work for small businesses - usually
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by lhl 6y ago
It's a Mechrevo Code 01 (TongFang PF5NU1G). It's sold by a number of OEMs including w/ Linux pre-installed as the KDE Slimbook, Tuxedo Pulse and others. Actually, I linked to almost all of the various OEM releases along with
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by lhl 6y ago
I tried a bunch of terminals and ended up switching from urxvt to termite https://github.com/thestinger/termite a few years back (mainly for it's better handling for refreshing certain curses style output). This m
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by lhl 6y ago
To preface, I think all of the author's complaints are pretty valid. I spent 15 years primarily on Mac laptops/desktops and finally switched in 2015 after a few years of being less and less happy with the direction both the hardwa
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by lhl 6y ago
I ran 1Password 4.x on WINE successfully for a long while but the browser extensions started breaking so I eventually bit the bullet and switched to Bitwarden (running my own instance with bitwarden_rs). The import wasn't perfect (it d
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by lhl 6y ago
If you're running Linux, I'd recommend avoiding the Envy (and maybe all HP laptops) as they typically don't have S3 support: https://www.linux.org/threads/acpi-bios-error-and-suspend-do... A Legion 5 wil
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by lhl 6y ago
Last year I bought a 4800H Tongfang PF5NU1G (sold as the Tuxedo Pulse 15, KDE Slimbook, and by Laptop with Linux, among other places) that has a centered keyboard and a 91Wh battery that's a better option than this Pangolin, but availa

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