madacol

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   by madacol 4y ago

   I don't follow, why do you say "reported amount of time"? You can ignore any time anybody ever reported, the only thing you need reported from others are the proof of work accumulated from the attestation block to the latest
2. 152.▲
   by madacol 4y ago

   I haven't done the math, so it's conceivable to me that self organizing cables have a longer duration, hence, maybe off-setting the "waste" of neodymium by reducing waste of copper/plastic. I'm biased towards t
3. 153.▲
   by madacol 4y ago

   Yeah agree, time is far from precise, and maybe not much useful for the use-case I mentioned Tough I still think it is a really cool project, to me is the coolest use-case of blockchains beyond money (maybe the only one?) If you don't
4. 154.▲
   by madacol 4y ago

   Regarding the timestamps, I didn't give it much thought, I think there's room to complicate and solve some edge cases, but my main point was that it's ok to allow agents to manually solve conflicts. > opentimestamps.org is
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   by madacol 4y ago

   Yes, I'm definitely talking about databases with close memberships, but keep in mind that some seemingly "open membership" apps can still be implemented, some social networks come to mind, like chat apps, where each chat is a
6. 156.▲
   by madacol 4y ago

   Well, If you try to almost completely solve the consensus problem in the most intuitive way, you arrive to a blockchain level of complexity fast. So I think in this context "simple" seems reasonable
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   Ask HN: Is there a descentralized DB with a simple social conflict resolution?

   8 points by madacol 4y ago|10 comments
8. 158.▲
   by madacol 4y ago

   > the electricity value expended on mining is proportional to the total market cap of Bitcoin That's not true, it's at most, equal to the printing rate of bitcoins (coinbase transactions)
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   Synthesis ─ a spin-off from the custom school built for Elon Musk’s kids(synthesis.com)

   2 points by madacol 4y ago|0 comments
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    by madacol 5y ago

    If it's not arbitrary, then why stop there? Why not imprison every cryptocurrency developer?, they are all enabling a new way to avoid sanctions, some much better than others Where do you draw the line so that it's not arbitrary?
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    by madacol 5y ago

    http://paulgraham.com/heresy.html
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    by madacol 5y ago

    > silly/weird seeking of validation Relax! we are just humans, we want to connect. And what's the problem for seeking validation? Isn't it in our nature?
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    by madacol 5y ago

    type hints [0], mypy [1] provide type annotations to python And type hints is something that JS lacks. How many times I've tried to copy paste typescript code to nodejs/browser console and fail miserably [0] https://d
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    by madacol 5y ago

    I got a better idea Imagine ad companies choose libraries that are roughly used by 50% of users, if they test you with 10 of those, they learn ~10bits of entropy to classify you, i.e. which of the 1024 classifications you belong
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    by madacol 5y ago

    number of libraries * number of versions ~= bits of information to classify you A good intuition is that although there's low certainty which site you have visited, there's high certainty which sites you HAVE NOT visited I think i
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    by madacol 5y ago

    To do high-quality research you need science/statistic knowledge, and domain knowledge. No matter how good a scientist you are, data is really hard to interpret correctly without domain-knowledge
17. 167.▲
    by madacol 5y ago

    I don't think that with "standard databases" you get "stuck". But I do buy that they're harder to scale
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    by madacol 5y ago

    Sure, but Ctrl+F "hyper" = no result Title claims something the blog doesn't, and creates overexpectation
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    by madacol 5y ago

    The closest is to press ".", or change url from github.com to github.dev. That opens up the github repo in a VScode/Monaco editor
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    by madacol 5y ago

    In this comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q67vH0SKahU&lc=UgyQizABsao1A... I only replaced the stackexchange's question link with the answer link and voalá, it got accepted
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    by madacol 5y ago

    At first I thought that maybe the title was the culprit. Thanks for the feedback
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    by madacol 5y ago

    links https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/197397/misconcep... (look first comment) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q67vH0SKahU&lc=UgyQizABsao1A...
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    YouTube Autodeletes Comments with Links

    24 points by madacol 5y ago|8 comments
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    by madacol 5y ago

    I had to enable js for it to work in firefox
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    by madacol 5y ago

    The threat/warning Putin said after invading is very hard to dismiss. That was a turning point in my head. I tried to think over and over where was he drawing the line that he wouldn't cross and I got too uncomfortable with my ima
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    by madacol 5y ago

    I made a little write up on how to setup onion services for ssh https://github.com/madacol/knowledge/blob/master/Ssh%20serve... Just follow the first part, and change the port to whatever you are using Y
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    by madacol 5y ago

    nerdlegame 20 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛ https://nerdlegame.com #nerdle
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    by madacol 5y ago

    Markor
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    How NAT Traversal Works in Tailscale(tailscale.com)

    2 points by madacol 5y ago|0 comments
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    by madacol 5y ago

    Sokyokuban, a non-euclidean sokoban https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25892889