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by norswap 5y ago
You decide for yourself, but generally shitcoins are regarded as forks without any technical innovation who are not credibly trying to solve any problem or try out a new idea - just make money. They're often meme-themed (though not alw
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by norswap 5y ago
Do you mind telling me how? I looked in the manuel other people linked, but the "mac" key controls (using u,i,o,j,k,l) don't work. The directional keys (up, down, etc) work but then I can't use combat because I don'
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by norswap 5y ago
My point is mostly that it shouldn't be used to argue against increased security for that mode of transportation. The pattern is as follows: - A: I had a really bad accident, we should make these vehicles more secure. - B: No, you had
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by norswap 5y ago
> I figure that by now anybody that decides to farm out a critical portion of their business to a large company is able to figure out for themselves that such a dependency has risks as well as benefits. This is a disingenuous argument in
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by norswap 5y ago
Why is the comment so unfair though? It's true that for many companies, customer support is a joke in poor taste compared to the profits brought in by said customers. And "appeal through HN" often seems like the only solution
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by norswap 5y ago
Is this playable without a num pad?
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by norswap 5y ago
A big question I have is do you pay per GB of storage, or per GB of uploaded data? That makes a big difference when you're frequently updating your files.
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by norswap 5y ago
How are files stored ultimately? Something like Arweave or Filecoin?
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by norswap 5y ago
All loans are overcollateralized, and basically used for leverage: put up your bitcoins as collateral, borrow stablecoins, buy more bitcoins. So the risk is limited as long as the loans can be liquidated in time in case of a price crash. Th
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by norswap 5y ago
> You described conservatism as moving on and breaking things, that seems to be turned on its head. I would think it is more about gradual changes instead. No you've got that backwards. I wrote "conservatism thinks it's e
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by norswap 5y ago
I think you can find beauty / intrinsic meaning in marriage, and that it can be done for other reasons than forced commitment. But I'm not trying to explain why you (or anybody else in particular) committed to a single person roma
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by norswap 5y ago
I endorse this message!
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by norswap 5y ago
I knew this was going to turn into a debate on polyamori lol. I'm not going to answer your comments, but it suffices to say you probably don't suffer from your open-mindedness :) (Agreement or disagreement on open relationships be
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by norswap 5y ago
Bold of you to assume I ever used it!
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by norswap 5y ago
A big part of "the normal way" things are done is related to subtle (and by-design, unspoken) social reasons. If you are open-minded, you're open to considering that the normal ways things are done might not be the best way -
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by norswap 5y ago
Ah yes, Google Kubernetes. That's where money should go.
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by norswap 5y ago
It's a coin mixer: you deposit ETH into a common pool shared with a bunch of other people, and you get back (off-chain) a code that can be used to redeem your deposit at a later date. Since there is no link between the code and the sen
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by norswap 5y ago
I work in crypto and own two NFTs (one of which is a domain name, the other of which is a 20$ fun lottery ticket / community memorabilia). I don't think the speculative bubble around JPG makes much sense. An interesting thought I
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by norswap 5y ago
So I guess they're getting on the anti-bandwagon instead? Really transparent way to try to drive attention to themselves.
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by norswap 5y ago
It might indeed have been such an attestation.
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by norswap 5y ago
I haven't looked into it, but it looks like they lied about being backed by cash (or at least, somehow implied it). Now they claim to be backed by cash and cash equivalents, namely a lot of "commercial paper" (short term debt
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by norswap 5y ago
Another solution would to outlaw or super-regulate the US postal service... Blaming infrastructure only gets you so far.
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by norswap 5y ago
Business manipulate people and dodge taxes without crypto too, and most of it happens in the open and is perfectly legal. God forbid individuals get in on the tax dodging action! Also, businesses dodge taxes with crypto? Not impossible, but
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by norswap 5y ago
I have genuinely no idea what this is saying. He was talking about "sensory keys" but the other person thought it was "requestor's keys"? That can't be it - because it's implied the other person heard the
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by norswap 5y ago
I'm sympathetic with his case against the reaction to Sweden's policies, but his assertions that there is no evidence for the effectiveness of masks are similarly harebrained.
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by norswap 5y ago
Yeah, no. 100g is half a cup. It's about 5 large strawberries. See https://findanyanswer.com/how-many-grams-are-3-strawberries for more numbers. I buy strawberries in 500g boxes, and let me tell 1/5 isn't all
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by norswap 5y ago
Yep, in blockchainland we call this a "proof of authority" blockchain.
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by norswap 5y ago
PoW also codifies "rich gets richer" - mining begets return on invested capital in exactly the same way that PoS does. In fact, arguably PoW is worse, because it has economies of scale that PoS does not have, so the rich truly do
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by norswap 5y ago
As someone that has experience in compilers and smart contracts, I can tell you they are an order of magnitude or more apart in terms of difficulty. Most smart contracts are not that complicated.
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by norswap 5y ago
In case people are interested, here are some of my recent notes on Verkle trees: https://www.notion.so/norswap/Stage-0-Discovery-dcbb7318ba66...

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