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by mypastself 5y ago
I find it amusing how all the news reports gloss over the fact that the FBI somehow got access to the wallet’s private key. I’m also wondering why the hackers didn’t request payment in a currency that’s more difficult to trace.
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by mypastself 5y ago
As far as I understand it, producing entropy, which is needed for fair distribution of odds in games of chance, is not achievable directly on the blockchain. Instead, the job of producing non-deterministic inputs is offloaded to an off-chai
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by mypastself 5y ago
I’ve yet to find a scenario in which a smart contract truly improves upon a traditional, centralized database solution, NFTs included. As long as the system relies on externally originated information for proper functioning, we’re back to t
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by mypastself 5y ago
Well, if the parent commenter is of the latter persuasion, legal status of the specific issue should be irrelevant, only its utility points. Otherwise he’s arguing that all legal systems and their sets of laws ought to be respected, includi
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by mypastself 5y ago
What about a piece of software designed to circumvent laws against accessing websites critical of some authoritarian regime? Should citizens of that country suck it up, because the solution to a bad law isn’t “no law”? Is using such softwar
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by mypastself 6y ago
Perhaps all these people are reluctant to share their actual personality and insights with people who “cleverly lob” tricky questions, “filter for potential friends” based on binary answers to binary questions, and think they’re being magna
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by mypastself 6y ago
Other than the US export ban, I haven’t managed to find any strong online evidence for your claims. Both Russia and China seem to have exported (or plan to export) large quantities of vaccines. And according to the European Commision, the U
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by mypastself 6y ago
I’ve found https://betterexplained.com an excellent resource for developing an intuition for fundamental concepts in math. For calculus itself, I’d recommend Thompson’s enlightening and witty 1910 textbook “Calculus Made Easy”.