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by lifty 6y ago
Indeed it was a typo. The README has been updated.
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by lifty 6y ago
Sure, vulnerabilities and bugs can happen. They get fixed and people move on. Something much better coming out is not an existential risk for the cryptocurrency/blockchain space, quite the opposite, it's very positive.
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by lifty 6y ago
Do you think the code will fail, the consensus model, or there are no uses cases? If you have concerns about this I would love to hear them. But if you are only afraid that the price can fall 90%, then who cares? Let it fall, there is too m
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by lifty 6y ago
What’s more likely to happen is to have users fork off to a different PoW algorithm or even PoS, rendering the mining equipment of miners useless. If the economic majority of users run the new fork software, the network effects and value of
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by lifty 6y ago
It’s not the miners that control the chain. It’s the economic majority.
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by lifty 6y ago
I don't think that Bitcoin or any other crypto asset needs to become the main currency of any country. They can live as tertiary assets with valuable properties, that can facilitate trade or act as collateral for certain contracts, wit
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by lifty 6y ago
One that thinks that they will be around and be progressively more integrated in the fabric of society. I think crypto assets and blockchains have the potential to scale societal institutions and trust relationships in a way that was not po
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by lifty 6y ago
I get similar vibes from these events, even though I am a cryptocurrency optimist (including Bitcoin).
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by lifty 6y ago
It's better to think of Bitcoin efficiency in terms of transaction throughput (value moved) instead of transactions per second. This tweet makes a comparison with Fedwire: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status&#x2
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Tesla Invests $1.5B in Bitcoin(sec.gov)
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by lifty 6y ago
Pump it. There is very little difference between DOT and ETH 2.0. They are both sharded classical consensus. ATOM is also classical consensus and once the IBC will be up it will also resemble sharding. If you really want to look at somethin
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by lifty 6y ago
It's a she, Katherine Maher.
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by lifty 6y ago
In what reality isn’t the housing market part of the real economy? The fact that it’s a scarce asset sensitive to easy money policies does not make it fantasy economy. More importantly, the housing market outpacing income increases is one o
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by lifty 6y ago
Normally the other side should retry delivering several times, with varying degrees of time between the retries (up to days).
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by lifty 6y ago
I think a very important reason why people don't run their own USENET node or Gitlab instance is because it's not easy. In fact, it's the opposite of easy. It's extremely difficult in the long run. If using your own serv
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by lifty 6y ago
That is one of the reasons I switched to Migadu. The other being cost, as I have several domains that receive very little mail, so the cost structure on Migadu is very attractive.
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by lifty 6y ago
It's just a db, so your data is where the db is running. You could have a central db storing your data and your local client could sync periodically, or you can have a p2p architecture if you want. I use Noms as an embedded db in my pr
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by lifty 6y ago
People that are interested in a similar feature set should check out https://github.com/attic-labs/noms and the SQL fork of Noms, https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
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by lifty 6y ago
Migadu and Fastmail are good alternatives in case hosting your own is too much effort. I got bitten by the same issue with the lack of IMAP when moving to Tutanota, another secure email provider.
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by lifty 6y ago
Very apt characterisation. It's sad that you got downvoted. I think Bitcoin has managed to stir such a division in people because it hits to the very core of human principles. This is wild speculation (pun intended) but I think that a
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by lifty 6y ago
We do have moderate to low CPI inflation in western countries, but we also have high inequality and a young generation that doesn't have any assets. Now, if whether you call that inflation or not, the reality of the matter is that the
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by lifty 6y ago
Start with https://www.realvision.com and branch out from there. It's focused on investment but you will end up being introduced to a lot of macro-economic concepts.
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by lifty 6y ago
This is an abject failure of OS design. If an app is allowed by the OS to insert itself in the startup list without explicit user consent first an foremost I blame the operating system. You can’t trust every app and every developer out ther
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by lifty 6y ago
Didn't know it supports KVM as well. I though it only supports ptrace, as that's how it was advertised. This is cool!
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by lifty 6y ago
Small correction: gVisor does not use KVM under the hood. It intercepts and filters the applications system calls, acting as a sort of userspace hypervisor.
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by lifty 6y ago
You have to trust the Stacks blockchain to be able to send the money back to Bitcoin.
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by lifty 6y ago
Indeed, I was playing the devil's advocate. I definitely care about privacy and I am quite an ardent supported of projects that try to solve this issue. I just learned that if privacy comes at a large expense (losing their social graph
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by lifty 6y ago
Whatsapp had to compete with SMS, so when I was introduced to WhatsApp I thought it was a godsend and immediately adopted it. Also advertised it to all my friends. Switching now might be harder because there is a lot less to gain, besides s
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by lifty 6y ago
I love that Lyn Alden get's referenced more and more on HN. She manages to break down macro-economic thoughts and analysis in a clear and concise way. +1 for reading and listening to her materials.
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by lifty 6y ago
I follow a lot of macroeconomic and investment personas on Twitter and in the past 2 years Lyn Alden has been a rising star. But she is still young and fairly new so it will take a while before you see her more often on CNBC.

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