meltedcapacitor

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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Can one "glue it back" after "cutting" it, sell it to a mug, and double spend it before they notice?
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
Why not spend the winter somewhere naturally warm?
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
The principals disappeared long ago. The remaining visible faces can claim they did not know what the boss was doing ("I'm just a dev/lawyer").
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
UST had like 10 cents of reserves in other cryptos for every UST. Is that substantial?
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by meltedcapacitor 4y ago
How does account recovery work for those who lose access to their email?
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Point of order on 2: Companies do not account for this as "good will". Accounting "goodwill" is the price an acquiring company pays above the accounting value of the business being bought, which is a notional number usua
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Nice. Also the bloat-free implementation. Why can't all websites be like this?
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Indeed horizontal (pipe network, like underfloor heating in reverse) is the most efficient solution, digging deep is for when the plot is too small or otherwise encumbered (or if one sits on top of a volcano).
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
ssh server.org cat /index.gmi not sure if that's much simpler though.
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
If someone offered you a burger for $500 you probably would not buy it, even if it was very good. Even if they suddenly discounted it to $350. It's just too much money for a burger. This thing makes like $500m of annual revenue , not
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
You probably were not born last time I fired a debugger. Those who can't code, debug. :-) Joke apart it's a style thing, tracing and thinking gets you a long way, though virtuoso debugger users can be productive too no doubt. It&#
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
The Rust println! macros interpret the format string at compile time. You cannot do: let f = "{:.3}"; println!(f, 3.145); because then the macro cannot be sure what the string will be at runtime and thus cannot be expande
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
"Humans" don't do this in Zurich or Tokyo but do it in Haiti and downtown LA. Could it be that context matters?
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Sure. The difference is it's harder to manage in crypto (by design).
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
How is ownership distributed? Out of this 300k are 298k aliases of Alice and 2k aliases of Bob? Is there a third dude maybe?
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Is it fine with money? A ransomware operator could send the loot from an operation, channelled through a well publicized address, to someone they don't like which makes their account undistinguishable from that of a fence as seen by bl
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
They're typing too quick with their CharaChorder. :-)
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Well it is not a ponzi in the sense that there is no organiser and no promise of an underlying profitable enterprise. It has become, functionally, a decentralized pyramid scheme. Let's look at some of the criteria reviewed in the artic
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Lot of talk on how it's a bad idea to use web tech for desktop apps because bloat. Web tech is ultimately an API. APIs don't create bloat, developers do. What is missing (or unknown) is tooling to avoid bloat. One could have somet
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Could Netflix become the next Time Warner? Could Facebook become the next Yahoo? Could Amazon become the next Sears? Could Apple become the next Kodak? Google is fine: it already is the new IBM.
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
From a cursory look Arweave is not looking interesting: it start with lies that it is censorship proof, but with a way to remove child porn and spam because lawyers, and then lies that a one time payment buys storage for eternity, of course
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Open ledgers could indeed be a good thing, but no need for blockchain for that, the legislature could simply require all banks to dump all tx daily in a standard format (a payment system version of what the SEC's EDGAR does for US publ
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Protection from this comes from laws that ban DNA-based policies, not by being secretive about sequencing. If it is allowed, insurers will have no need to obtain DNA sequences in devious ways, they will just ask and refuse cover or charge m
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
An encoder just walking a regular spiral (no uniform bands detection) is not hard. The band thing is an accidental artefact of the idea but plain run length encoding probably already captures most of the effect so no imperative to actually
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Read again the proposal. A top level thread scans the opcodes only to solve this, with no decoding and no writing, thus progressing faster in the stream than the child chunked decoding threads it progressively spawns. Not as quick as a fo
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
It is nice but pity it does not have a "turn right" opcode: start going left, on the turn opcode, continue decoding pixels after turning 90 degrees to the right, until you hit a previously decoded pixel or the wall of the bounding
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
A thread can scan the opcodes only to find cut-off points and distribute actual decoding to other cores. Surely you can do that with some simd magic, as well as the decoding threads, without needing to encode properties of today's simd
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Or it could act as economic stimulus, as the exit dollars get invested in productive endeavours, rekt coiners have to get a job, and electricity and electronics become cheaper due to the capacity being freed from cryptomining.
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
Facebook could also run federated technically, so that it never fails all at once. It failed because they put all the eggs in one basket in some top layer. Technical decentralization is orthogonal to commercial issues.
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by meltedcapacitor 5y ago
If time locks became popular we sure would have stories like "Florida Man locks 420 millions until the year 2202 thinking it was February next year".

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