miguelmota

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by miguelmota 3y ago
Social stratification, genetic elitism, genetic profiling, bio-surveillance, etc. are all very real concerns. Brave New World will become non-fiction.
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by miguelmota 4y ago
If someone sends physical cash to a person across the world, is there an undo button?
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by miguelmota 4y ago
The money supply managed by an on-chain protocol where it’s fully open, trustless, and predictable is 100% times better then a small group of people at the treasury deciding to print money and inflate peoples savings always.
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by miguelmota 4y ago
Then what is the future? Certainly not the government going haywire with the printer. It’s impossible to trustlessly verify the exact number of US dollars in circulation, but it’s trivial to do with cryptocurrencies.
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by miguelmota 4y ago
> Is there any crypto out there without humans ? What OP is referring to is that you don't need to trust people if the dex is on-chain and verifiable. FTX was a non-transparent and insolvent centralized exchange which wouldn't
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by miguelmota 4y ago
It's a reality to the people of Latin America who use stablecoins on Ethereum to hedge against their own country's inflation.
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by miguelmota 4y ago
For something that millions of people across the world rely on, with million+ transactions daily, it's definitely worth celebrating. It's using a magnitude less energy now than YouTube or Netflix [1] If YouTube had a similar decre
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by miguelmota 4y ago
> I still cannot find any legitimate use cases for blockchain Blockchains solve the double-spend problem. Allows for scarcity in the digital realm. Ethereum is a platform for decentralized finance, anyone can borderlessly lend and borrow
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by miguelmota 4y ago
Stablecoins are mostly what people use for payments. ETH is what's staked on the beacon chain.
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by miguelmota 4y ago
Yes, it did work. No missed slots and high participation rate. Exceeded expectations. Congrats to all the devs!
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by miguelmota 4y ago
Why do you use a pseudonym on here instead of your real name? Oh right because you care about privacy. Same reason tornado cash exists. Playing the ML card is like saying Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet to facilitate digital crime.
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by miguelmota 5y ago
This is an interesting experiment that I'm excited about. The fact that a financial flash mob is possible is incredible. Anybody from anywhere can participate and have voting power by joining the DAO. Regardless of the outcome, it&#x27
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by miguelmota 5y ago
If something is hard in theory, it's 10x harder in implementation. Complex systems have a lot of 'unknown unknowns' that can't be forecasted. Ethereum is $300B+ live network so every small change takes time to research,
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by miguelmota 5y ago
Stakers in a PoS system are incentivized to do what's best for the network. It wouldn't make sense for them to stake large amounts of funds and do something that could make Ethereum less valuable. The current marketcap of Ethereum
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by miguelmota 5y ago
We wake up and look at the small rectangle. Go to work and stare at the medium rectangle. Come home and watch the big rectangle.
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by miguelmota 5y ago
It might reduce attacks but no operating system is bulletproof and attackers devote more resources to the operating system with more market share. If all infrastructure running on windows changed to linux, then linux would be the new target
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by miguelmota 5y ago
Another way to put it is that as you get older you start prioritizing things better that are of value to you as your time in existence is being depleted. Less time means more focus, which results in less fucks.
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by miguelmota 5y ago
Most people I know that grew up in Southern California want to live long-term in California. Most people I know that grew up in a different state and tried living in Southern California, end up hating it and leaving. If you’re used to South
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by miguelmota 5y ago
I’ve tried xterm, terminator, termite, urxvt, st, kitty, and gnome-terminal but Alacritty is my go to because of it’s speed and simplicity. Alacritty has no menus, no tabs, no scroll bars, and configuration is done via a single config file.
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by miguelmota 5y ago
Anyone remember rotten.com? It was a treasure trove for morbid curiosity. You can probably still visit some of the pages on the wayback machine if you're curious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten.com
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by miguelmota 5y ago
This is interesting but a gofundme or regular fundraising event could achieve the same thing, without paying high miner fees too.
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by miguelmota 5y ago
> Nvm is macos only Half true; NVM also works on Linux and *BSD OS types.
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by miguelmota 5y ago
The movie Life of Pi also comes to mind in regards to being stuck on a boat and retelling the story but Mohammed’s experience would make a great survival movie no doubt. Maybe Netflix will make a deal with him
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by miguelmota 5y ago
Ditto. Firefox takes security and privacy more seriously as well. Google's business model is selling online advertising which by nature requires data collection and tracking. I've been using Firefox as main browser and for web dev
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by miguelmota 6y ago
I'd think the company would be concerned of these pranks defaming the company if enough employees did them.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Similar effects of a Veblen good https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Website appears down. Here's the archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210321232118/https://melindawy...
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by miguelmota 6y ago
I agree with the post for the most part. It's important to feel that your work is acknowledged to feel worthy. I disagree with this statement however: > I prefer being upfront with people rather than doing the "It is easier to
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by miguelmota 6y ago
Humans aren't going to stop consuming meat any time soon. It makes sense to try create more efficient 'farms' to minimize waste and engineer meat without a central nervous system.
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by miguelmota 6y ago
I've been using sprunge.us for years cat file.txt | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us

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