mattalex

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by mattalex 5y ago
> It's not 66% of the stake that has to be good, it's 66% of anyone who has ever staked. In PoW, I only need to trust the miners of today to tell me the truth about what happened today. I don't quite get that. As far as I
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by mattalex 5y ago
>> consensus will be set by the few whales, who will maximize their rent extraction at the expense of numerous small players Aren't you just describing capitalism here? The people that created the system and own the biggest share
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by mattalex 5y ago
The crash at the beginning of last year wasn't as dramatic as people think it was. Most of the actual damage was caused by people overreacting to what could happen, which caused a lot of damage itself. (ie. car manufacturers cancelling
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by mattalex 5y ago
With "meaningful input" one usually means some prime number or the eg. first X digits of a constant like pi. (and if you chose a strange prime or constant, people would also ask questions) This generally narrows down the options t
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by mattalex 5y ago
How long until we get an " unmozillad Firefox"? I really think that Firefox is a great project with the unfortunate attribute of having Mozilla attached to it. Mozilla really seems like a cannonical in the making (which itself
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by mattalex 5y ago
Cloud sync of plugins/tabs. Pocket, filesharing between devices, their VPN nobody uses, Firefox monitor integration, earlier updates (i.e. you can still get the latest build by building from source, but prebuilt libraries first get sup
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by mattalex 5y ago
For me a good sign are task questions: suppose we have X with Y as a restriction. How would you accomplish Z?
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by mattalex 5y ago
After some quick following, the fund had an 71.8% annual return from 1994 through mid 2014. I don't know how the numbers look like nowadays, but assuming that this continued throughout the time in question here, we can conclude that th
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by mattalex 5y ago
I think we have to see this in context: Muse group, a russian for-profit company that seems to have a shell-headquarters in Cyprus (see https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/muse-group ), recently acquired Audacity as
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by mattalex 5y ago
I understand that money goes in through the advertisers: But how is that money sufficient to maintain the current websites? You watch fewer ads than before, which means (if the ads pay the same) that each website gets on average (i.e. if th
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by mattalex 5y ago
I still don't really get how brave is supposed to work: You watch significantly fewer ads than before, these ads are then supplied to whoever you yourself engage with. That seems like watching these fewer ads directly on the site, just
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by mattalex 5y ago
You can only do that if you can afford it: I'm pretty sure reddit never made money and was bleeding it quite profusely. At some point you have to start making money, but reddit (and most other internet/digital companies) valued gr
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by mattalex 6y ago
The best answer to give when a coworker asks you what you did over the weekend
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by mattalex 6y ago
It's also different because Stockfish uses Alpha-beta treesearch instead of MCTS: MCTS tries to deal with an explosion in search-space by only sampling very small parts of the searchspace and relying on a very good heuristic to guid
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by mattalex 6y ago
The issue is the overall complexity and untestability of such a system: The (human) organism is very very complex and we don't have a model that accurately describes it in its entirety or even sufficiently enough to do any kind of co
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by mattalex 6y ago
There are many other algorithms that are just as proven but don't feature many of the traps contained in RSA. The main issue with RSA is that depending on implementation and context-sensitive parameter selection (i.e. you actually have
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by mattalex 6y ago
I think that comparing only the technology sector gives a wrong perspective on the amount of research being done: According to the National Science Foundation of the USA https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20206/publicat