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by lojack 9y ago
This risk can be mitigated by bridging the real world and the blockchain using oracles. This risk mitigation can be somewhat decentralized using a voting or reputation mechanism. This is by no means perfect, and I'm not aware of any tr
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by lojack 9y ago
Usually things of form `a && a.b && a.b.c && a.b.c.d` are a sign of a law of demeter violation. This applies to more than javascript. I view code like this as a sign that there might be a better way, as opposed to a
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by lojack 9y ago
Its both. They won't create more for philosophical reasons because the value would plummet. They won't create more for technical reasons because it needs an 80% majority of nodes to approve a change for it to occur. Some people wi
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by lojack 9y ago
I’ve been using a CPAP consistently for a couple years now. Can still fall asleep in under 5 minutes. Only difference is now I can usually control when I fall asleep.
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by lojack 9y ago
I’ve been using a CPAP for a couple years, and remember everyone making it seem like there would be an instant change that supercharges everything. This never noticeably happened, but thinking back, things without a doubt improved over time
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by lojack 9y ago
This helps ensure database consistency, but might not actually avoid errors. In this scenario, the period of time between the app code being deployed and the post-deploy migration running there could potentially be application level errors
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by lojack 9y ago
Its worth noting that there are some edge cases where this could lead to potential problems. Its enough of an edge case for many apps to ignore the possibility. Take your example with the addition of the fact that the field you're remo
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by lojack 9y ago
Now that screenhero is no more, screen sharing is literally the only reason one of my teams use slack. We use hipchat (not by choice) for the rest of our communication.
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by lojack 9y ago
Would probably help to say how many slack organizations you’re using. I’m on around 6, and Slack almost always takes up a big chunk of memory. I suspect those with less resource usage are in fewer orgs, but it’s hard to say.
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by lojack 9y ago
To a computer that’s never encountered this scenario before it might be.
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by lojack 9y ago
Isn't this just an event driven architecture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_architecture
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by lojack 9y ago
I don't have an answer to your question, but I recently spent some time at the hospital taking care of my daughter, and my understanding is that a lot of it comes down to the fact that hospitals are able to provide good enough care to
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by lojack 9y ago
I’m not a lawyer or cpa, so would definitely recommend talking to one if you want more solid answers. My understanding is that the penalties are a percentage of how much you misrepresented your taxes. Different tiers for different types of
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by lojack 9y ago
Yeah, I guess I may have not completely implemented the continuation monad, but my point was precisely what you just said. That is, it's totally possible to implement continuation monads in vanilla javascript. It's not only possib
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by lojack 9y ago
Eliminating the repetitive plumbing is a feature of haskell, not a feature of the monad. What the continuation monad gets you is a pipeline of asynchronous and synchronous operations. Whether or not something is asynchronous is abstracted a
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by lojack 9y ago
> For example, the continuation monad, which is just a library in Haskell, can't be implemented in most imperative languages without extending the language itself (async in JS, C#, etc). I don't know about other languages, but
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by lojack 9y ago
Precisely. The decision to fork was made via a decentralized process.
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by lojack 9y ago
But the brand itself doesn’t make them money. That doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable or even that it isn’t their biggest asset. What makes them money is people buying their product.
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by lojack 9y ago
> Everywhere else, all you need to transfer money is the name of the bank, account holder and account number. I'm curious where you got this bit of information? All I need to transfer money in the US is a routing number and account
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by lojack 9y ago
Not the person that posted this, but they both use merkle trees as their underlying data structure. In both cases you can’t rewrite the past without rewriting every successive change.
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by lojack 9y ago
Saying something isn’t decentralized in the crypto world can mean any of a number of things. The problem is that decentralization isn’t one specific thing that can be measured. There’s absolute centralization like a mainframe controlled by
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by lojack 9y ago
Difficulty adjustment is used to keep block times stable. Without this adjustment block times would continue to go down until you would eventually end up with a chain that has much more frequent forks of greater lengths. You eventually end
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by lojack 9y ago
The same way we do with cash. When you put your cryptos in a bank they will lend out some portion of it and in return you'll be paid out some interest rate. The incentive to storing your crypto in a bank will be that you receive that i
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by lojack 9y ago
It's the tradeoff made for a distributed money supply. Satoshi just as easily could have made a fixed supply of money which is also stable and doesn't rely on proof of work. That said, at the time, I don't think this was re
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by lojack 9y ago
One of the alliances in Eve online used to do this type of counter intelligence to assist in identifying spies releasing internal communications. They’d also introduce invisible watermarks in any images they posted. My understanding was the
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by lojack 9y ago
Not the person that originally posted this, but the goals of Ethereum isn't to be a currency, its to be a decentralized computing platform. It implements a turing complete virtual machine that uses the blockchain as verification of the
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by lojack 9y ago
A year ago, no one knew the price was going to go up 1000%, so some amount of luck is involved. Price could have just as easily stayed the same or even gone down 90%. If you bought in there is some amount of risk involved. The 70% profit ma
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by lojack 9y ago
> It is shocking that what they do is legal. What is legal about it? Buying a stock and releasing positive PR sounds a lot like pump and dump which is illegal. Is it just the fact that they are shorting the stock that makes what they&#x2
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by lojack 9y ago
In that case, thanks for the correction. I suppose I made my original comment with a lot of assumptions that may be less true than I would have thought.
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by lojack 9y ago
I don’t currently mine, but everything I’ve been reading has roughly 2/3rds of your profit going towards electricity. Regardless, I find it hard to believe CPU mining using JavaScript in a browser is even remotely energy efficient.

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