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by linschn 8y ago
If you evaluate it in an environment where only the functions you choose are defined, the security risk is nil. Validating a document is a complex, domain-dependant problem. It is far easier to create a secure Domain-Specific Language to ha
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by linschn 8y ago
When I need to parse or validate S-expressions, I just write the functions (here message, to, from, timestamp, etc.) so that eval()ing the S-expressions either validates it or returns whatever data structure I need. So the easiest way would
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by linschn 8y ago
S-Expressions are missing. Language support is poor (except if you're programming in a Lisp dialect in which case it's built-in), but I do believe they are the best serialization format out there: http://wiki.c2.com&#x2
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by linschn 9y ago
Short answer, yes. The current commit includes the hash of its parent(s), so its own hash reflects the whole history, and one can not change the history without also changing the current hash. Just like a block contains the hash of the prev
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by linschn 9y ago
As highlighted on TUHS maling list: > When you type to UNIX,a gnome deep in the system is gathering your characters and saving them in a secret place. The characters will not be given to a program until you type a return (or new-line), a
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by linschn 9y ago
This is so stupid it's not even wrong. Nixon, Ford and Reagan were not leftists, and Reagonomics is not characterized by a love of public spending on infrastructure.
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Show HN: A Python module to use a Git repo as a key-value store(github.com)
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by linschn 9y ago
Maybe because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquitaine#English_Aquitaine ? > Aquitaine passed to France in 1137 when the duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine married Louis VII of France, but their marriage was annulled in
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by linschn 9y ago
But the point is the rate is limited (1 block per 10 minutes) and the amount is also limited (by the value assigned to the transaction by the users). There will be no runaway mining, and the miners do not need to 'self-regulate'.
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by linschn 9y ago
That is where you are mistaken. The people who will accumulate wealth the fastest over time are the people who already have wealth. Even statistical anomalies like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs got more money, once they became slightly rich, fro
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by linschn 9y ago
While I also long for the elimination of some of the things you list (mainly patents), I want to emphasize that even in a perfectly competitive and ideal market, the phenomenon of preferential wealth accretion would still happen. Picketty&#
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by linschn 9y ago
I am not advocating switching to a planned economy. I'm just pointing out that any capitalistic system has a tendency to concentrate wealth. I even acknowledge that the poor are getting richer. The problem is just that they are getting
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by linschn 9y ago
I don't understand your point about liberty. I did not talk about liberty. Could you please clarify ? As for Picketty, the only serious criticism I'm aware of had to do with his explanation about why wealth begets wealth, not on t
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by linschn 9y ago
I meant scheme, as in mechanism, or process, thank you :) I can't edit the original post now.
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by linschn 9y ago
I'll bite. Because capitalism is a system in which the rich get richer. This preferential accumulation of wealth where wealth already is is an inherent feature of capitalism. The same kind of phenomenon can be seen in the population o
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Show HN: Huffman Keybindings(github.com)
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by linschn 10y ago
I dont understand your point. I may be mistaken,but my understanding is that userspace servers accessible through the use of the fopen/fread/fwrite, etc. system calls was an idea that originated in Plan 9. Furthermore, some people
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by linschn 10y ago
> The default Fuchsia filesystem, called minfs, was also built from scratch. The device manager creates a root filesystem in-memory, providing a virtual filesystem (VFS) layer that other filesystems are mounted under. However, since the
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by linschn 10y ago
$ perl6 -e 'say VII * 2' ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e Two terms in a row at -e:1 ------> say VII *⏏ 2 expecting any of: infix infix stopper postfix statement end
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by linschn 10y ago
I'm an expert in the field and I'm not worried. It's an industrial risk like any other.
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by linschn 10y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1099497.The_Voice_of_the... :)
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by linschn 10y ago
> At present, Instrumentl covers non-human biology (including zoology, botany and marine science), ecology, evolution, agriculture, soil science, Earth science, palaeontology and environmental science. No computer science yet :/ Fin
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by linschn 10y ago
I think wealth inequality matters, but not only from a moral standpoint: From wikipedia on Trickle-down economics: > A 2015 report by the International Monetary Fund argues that there is no trickle-down effect as the rich get richer: &gt
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by linschn 10y ago
"Economics in One Lesson" has been touted as a perfect introduction to Economics, yet I was pretty underwhelmed after I read it. It just assumes that trickle down economics works, and repeats this "lesson" ad nauseam cha
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by linschn 10y ago
A proper implementation of this would require a packet with an infinite TTL and no destination. I tried to figure out a way to do that, but did not succeed.
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by linschn 10y ago
Except this research was (most probably, I did not check) funded with french or european taxpayers' money, and therefore people should not have to pay for it twice. The moral standpoint is very different than with movie or music pirati
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by linschn 10y ago
Thanks for the ref !
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by linschn 10y ago
Sorry, I was unclear, I meant in /another/ video game. They are strongly tied with their particular modelling of the problem.
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by linschn 10y ago
I see how it can sound appealing to a bureaucrat, but as a programmer, debugging the concurrent evaluation of thousands of "natural" language IF...THEN... rules until I find the questionable one where a threshold was defined too l
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by linschn 10y ago
> Well, why should it? Because what is trumpeted as a breakthrough may in fact be so narrow in scope that it may not even be possible to use it in a flight combat video game without a lot of work, let alone any real life environment. It

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