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Minimum requirements were about pushing TPM (massive boost to chain of trust and security based on internal metrics) and hardware sales. Source: I’m an insider.
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Automated Market Makers (AMM) and Liquidity Staking/Providers are terms for what you have described.
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Seems unnecessary to nitpick innovation between the disciplines. The technology enables many new tools to be developed and many old tools to be augmented. Saule Omarova (Biden’s comptroller pick who resigned) had some interesting ideas in h
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It’s not sarcasm, and it is what some communities want to achieve with decentralized identification. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-a...
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> Google, like Microsoft, just doesn’t care about quality or interoperability, and consumers like me notice. Just to be clear, Google and Microsoft care very much about interop. That's why quality and ecosystem coherence are general
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>> Bitcoin did actually solve a real problem: a completely digital decentralized immutable record. > That doesn't describe a problem though, it describes a technical solution. The problem is that we can't seem to form con
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Not the same person as the parent comment. An LSD tripped helped with my social anxiety as a second order effect of helping me become more empathetic. Through a dozen different thought loops + the psychedelic driven introspection of my firs
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Plug for Grant Sanderson’s (3Blue1Brown) Manim and now Manim Community edition. https://github.com/3b1b/manim https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
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The physical force of law is consensus by violence. State/NFTs on a secure blockchain have a force of law, which is what the proof-of-X consensus mechanisms are. Consensus by game theory/computation. On a normative note, saying &q
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Decentralized Identity for individuals and devices. I've found the images here to be a good quick and dirty summary: https://www.gsma.com/identity/decentralised-identity
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> So I still need a DNS name, Ethereum Name Service (ENS) https://forkast.news/what-is-ens-ethereum-name-service-how-d... > After all, a programmer doing the most basic test of a web3 prototype is going to need to get
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> I suspect you might be experiencing the classic freshman medical student syndrome. That is hubris. I have skimmed the action reports for policy makers from the IPCC. A humanist approach to the nihilism and fatalism around climate chang
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This is a problem of echo chambers. Bring the criticisms to a pro crypto forum (or a development discord channel maybe) and you will get actual answers that may or may not satisfy you. If you haven’t noticed, HN hates crypto. Its why posts
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> wasted a bunch of energy competing A problem of PoW based consensus, and will not be relevant to PoS/X based consensus. > absurdly inefficient distributed database. A decentralized distributed database with read/append com
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The blockchain is a virtualized state - yes it executes on computers but the whole point is distributed consensus - you don't have to trust the computers, you trust the open source code being executed by the network.
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Same obsession as with the Ivy's/top schools. Its a status marker/credential.
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As another phrased it: because that's the meta. You have to excel in all coursework on the default track to competing in race of society. There are opt-outs/alternatives popping up, but they're not mainstream.
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> But it would cost too much of added gas fees and the average user wouldn't understand the difference. Reminder that this a poor line of thinking. The average user of a smartphone has no idea how it works. The average user of softw
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Agreed is can be desirable. An example for readers: This is the fundamental basis of financial credit. Pull from the future to improve the present.
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Quantum proof encryption already exists.
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If you had enough energy and the right equipment/process you could "alchemize" gold or any other element out of Oxygen/Carbon/Nitrogen.
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> I have no idea how to do this without opening yourself up to near-trivial cheating either, as the validation of work isn't intrinsically linked to the actual effort like current crypto coin systems rely on. This is known as the or
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You eat the carbs to spike your insulin and help you fall asleep as the glucose is in your body is depleted. If you time it right and have a stable circadian rhythm your natural melatonin production will kick in and knock you out for deep s
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> Examples of things that traditional finance enables that connect to the real world: An end goal of crypto is to have all financial and ownership services exist on-chain. To conceptualize the real world as somehow forever separate is go
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> Life exists because it increases the entropy in the universe This is an concise idea I sit on quite often. Is this a commonly known idea? Among scientists/engineers/philosopher types? Would appreciate other thoughts.
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Its extremely hard to get protein from just plants and fortified foods - cost wise and the amount of food you would have to consume vs protein rich meat. You don’t “need” any specific foods as long as you meet micro/macro/caloric&
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I’ll tack on here there is also a difference between muscle meat and organ meat. Organ meat has been a staple of traditional diets in every culture, but for some reason(s) its reviled in the modern western diet. Muscle meat is much higher i
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Yes they have minus grades. NEB is still called NEB or the "ECE" building along with Larson/Benton Halls. There is the new Herbert Wertheim Engineering Lab which is the "New"est Engineering Building. The Malachowsky
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In a way, yes. I think about this a lot. My hypothesis is that social status is increasingly, and will be increasingly, dictated by your "follower" count. How many eyeballs you can attract. Even worse, in my opinion, it will be th
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> There is harm in using to much energy, when we are on the brink of climate crisis. You don't fight this on the demand side. You fight it on the supply side. > There is harm when people get swindled out of money. Take responsibi

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