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by matheusd 5y ago
Trust to do what?
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by matheusd 5y ago
There are also cases where multiple VCS tools are used or where you might want to build from an archived full copy of source+vendored dependencies and might not even have an underlying VCS to speak of. Reproducible releases should probably
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by matheusd 5y ago
Any recommendation on where to start on his material?
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by matheusd 5y ago
> Is it practical to do this cryptographically on the web, with something technically similar to today's client certificates? That one is easy to imagine (and is already deployed for some other use-cases in Brazil). People will be r
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by matheusd 5y ago
Are there any publicly-traded companies/etfs/funds/prediction markets/whatever that a retail investor can invest in if they believe that carbon removal technology will play a significant role in the future?
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by matheusd 5y ago
The Offset[1] project seems to be around that position in design space, at least going by their Economic Idea[2] page. [1] https://www.offsetcredit.org/ [2] https://docs.offsetcredit.org/en/latest/
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by matheusd 5y ago
Bacterial life as we know it here on earth is too low fidelity for an honest-to-$deity, affectable-universe-spanning civ (just look at the temporal distance between a possible paspermia event in these terms in our solar system and replicati
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by matheusd 5y ago
You only need a single Elon Musk and a bit of tech infra slightly better than ours for a civilization to Von Neumann its local galaxy (and possibly its affectable universe).
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by matheusd 5y ago
Everyone sorta did, since initially Real was nominally pegged to USD at a 1=1 rate and monetary policy was used to maintain that peg. This blew up in 1999 with the depletion of internal USD reserves.
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by matheusd 6y ago
Spitballing here but it seems you could even (re-)implement an Offset-based LN by using an alternative (non-PoW) blockchain underlying the channels. This alternative blockchain would work for accounting purposes so it can be entirely local
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Show HN: Backup/Restore to paper using QR-Codes(github.com)
2 points by matheusd 9y ago|0 comments
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by matheusd 9y ago
I made one of this some time ago (encoder and decoder). HTTPS://github.com/matheusd/pypaperbak
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by matheusd 10y ago
Seconded on a multirepo tool for that. I have a big "projects" folder with lots of different repos. I'd like to know all commits I've made on the past month, across all projects. Currently I have a post-commit hook which
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by matheusd 10y ago
Brazil is heading in that direction. Every single corporation here and even freelance service workers are required by law to have a key/certificate pair to be able to do file taxes. Pretty much every single commercial transaction is si
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by matheusd 10y ago
One issue we had: pgdump performance was abysmal for dumping a single schema out of thousands. We had to write a custom backup script to handle individual backups, taking advantage of the knowledge of our own database architecture (basicall
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by matheusd 11y ago
In the late 90's there was also Active Worlds[1][2]. It was one of the first online communities I frequented. It seemed to follow exactly the path second life went, except with the diminished number of people that were on the internet
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by matheusd 12y ago
Tried applying. When logging in to github got an error: {"type":"Error","msg":"Hostname/IP doesn't match certificate's altnames"}