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Nocoiners cannot understand Bitcoin?
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Nakamoto Consensus didn’t solved a secure scalable PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant) Consensus. Bitcoin didn’t solved a forkability and finality problems. Blockchain (or more properly hashchain) is a linked list of hashpointers, and
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You cherry picked one thing from the list, and even there made a mistake. In Bitcoin PoW used as a method for leader election of the node composing the list of validated transactions on the ledger (aka block), or even an empty list of tran
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It’s based on a social consensus only, the rest (Nakamoto Consensus, PoW, longest chain, difficulty adjustment, block halving, artificial limited supply, decentralization, censorship-resistant P2P network, open source, etc.) is a combinatio
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1. Just agree to not raise the prices above some inflation-linked index. 2. Giving commercial project AS-IS without support is a no-no, and might be illegal in some jurisdictions. 3. Sell them a bank of on-prem support hours.
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it's unenforceable anyway. The way crypto lending works is u need to pledge an excess collateral in one token in order to get a loan in another token ;)
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Crypto per se isn’t an asset class, it’s merely a form, not a substance. It can anything: from currency, to debt, to security, to derivatives, and anything hybrid or in between. Similarly like paper can be used for banknotes, cheques, stock
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Backlog != Second Brain +1 for no system, or lightweight system In the past for every subject I researched I created a slide deck, and after some time I started noticing common patterns across different even remote disciplines. Interlinking
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If any entity threatens u: u have 3 options: fight back, surrender, or self-destruct In the first case, u have 2 more options: strike pre-emptively, or wait for them to strike & then retaliate It doesn't matter what the entity is,
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Substance over form or De facto vs de jure Pedantic rule-based systems are easy to circumvent with loopholes and lacunas. That’s why we should look at the substance and not merely a [legal] form Examples: - form: a cryptocurrency, but s
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Watch the last episode of SILO. > Dan is a congressman, and what journalist Helen really wants from him is information. She’s particularly interested in a “dirty bomb”—particularly, whether the rumors of one exploding in New Orleans are
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> a sovereign country was bombed tonight IRGC isn’t a sovereign country, it’s a designated terrorist organization You forgot that IRGC already directly attacked Israel twice in 2024 [1,2], and that’s not including countless proxy attac
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It’s not close - Israel is an island, you can’t drive or fly from Iran to Israel … yet The Iranian Jews had to immigrate via another countries, I guess via Europe. Also boys had first to serve in the army to earn right to travel outside Ira
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> Iran is one of the safest places in the Middle East for Christians and Jews to live, work, and raise families It is only somewhat safe for token minorities, tiny pockets of remaining Jews, native Christians: Armenians and Assyrians
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I think that every person I dislike belongs in prison These people don’t deserve fair trial Source: Because I said so —- "Might makes right" "The stronger always blames the weaker" "My need of food is guilt enough o
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by nivertech 1y ago
1. Haha, just because someone is smart/knows one thing, doesn't mean they are smart/knows everything about all things. Especially when talking about people educated in STEM, not Humanities or Philosophy 2. There are plent
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It’s like arguing that kids should skip learning the alphabet and go straight into learning critical thinking. The programming languages’ syntax is a foundation, but maybe soon English and other natural languages will replace them. But that
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1. I use this in my current & some previous projects. I even remember using random walk to generate mountain landscape in one of the first games I coded as a kid. 2. If u can't model the world around u, u can't design good SW
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I like TBC (Token-Bonding Curves) and friends, but the fault here is not understanding that funding public goods is a complex adaptive system, and no closed form / analytic solution with nice looking smooth curve will help to model it.
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Nothin' New Under the Moon: AWS Lambda ≈ CGI-BIN [1] ≈ FastCGI [2] Cloudflare Worker ≈ EJB Session Bean [3] Durable Object ≈ EJB Entity Bean [4] Durable Objects ≈ Distributed Virtual Actors (MS Orleans)
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File size of -∞ is the smallest
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Reminded me of a dot-com era colleague who left to start a startup that would notify your friends when your email address changed ;) But this thing sounds like a Rube Goldberg machine. A much simpler solution is to have the subscriber log i
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Years ago I was using GitHub Issues as my personal task manager But ~ 2 years ago I switched to Obsidian for that Eventually I event started used Obsidian for my project management, and ditched GitHub Issues / GitHub Projects With cave
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If anything this thread shows how work ethics have changed in the last decade Some people don't realize that being an employee means having a basic incentives alignment with your employer. No one demands complete unconditional loyalty,
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why mc is needed at all? can't one just use aws s3 CLI with environment variable pointing to MinIO S3 backend endpoint?
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U should be loyal to ur company and do it for free, especially that it’s such a low hanging fruit - 30 min using some AI tool If it’s really that valuable to that company, u may get a bonus, salary increase, options grant, or a promotion Ot
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How Moose compares to more traditional ELT data pipeline orchestration frameworks, like Airflow, Dagster, dbt, DuckDB for transformation steps. I think one of the reasons to use an orchestration framework is integations.
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not setting a seed is a feature - not a bug, otherwise lots of people with similar prompts will generate an exactly the same source code
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AshCommanded: A declarative CQRS / ES extension for Ash https://elixirforum.com/t/ashcommanded-a-declarative-cqrs-es... https://github.com/accountex-org/ash_commanded
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1. Does Ash supports CQRS/ES architecture? Or alternatively can it be combined with a framework like Commanded? 2. How customizable is GraphQL layer? Specifically error handling/idempotency for mutations?

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