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by oleganza 5y ago
:eyeroll: Why is it always "them" vs "us"? NSA/CIA are doing probably a better job at global surveillance of everything and everyone, simply based on resources available to them. Every powerful enough government spi
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by oleganza 5y ago
Since "blockchain" is already a very stretched term, I think Cert Transparency log can be classified as a blockchain.
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by oleganza 5y ago
Not sure about Zig, but Rust is a pretty successful replacement for C++ by and for all the people who want low-level efficiency of C/C++ but with safety guarantees and reasonable semantics that can be understood without long and painfu
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by oleganza 5y ago
Doesn't 2x efficiency translate into 2x performance if one doubles cores? Well, maybe 1.8-1.9x due to various overhead, and the package gets more complicated the more you stuff into it.
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by oleganza 5y ago
25 years ago computers and networks were different. Today text is a <0.1% of traffic compared with video and you have billions of bytes of RAM in every pocket computer. So yes, you can pile on more emojis and no one would be bothered. Un
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by oleganza 5y ago
Han Unification started in the 90s when computers were big, memory small, UTF-8 did not exist and people were trying to fit all characters in a reasonable amount of codepoints. Today with variable-length encoding of UTF-8 and video streams
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by oleganza 5y ago
This issue with Han Unification was a big reason for stalled adoption of Unicode/UTF-8 in Ruby for years. UTF-8 by default came to Ruby after 1.9 where they've added thorough support for variety of encodings, so that UTF-8 is not
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by oleganza 5y ago
People who choose to attempt to understand bitcoin are either loud zealots, or stay quiet because why would they expose themselves? So the superficial criticism of volatility or "how do I reverse a fraudulent payment" is left to t
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by oleganza 5y ago
Speaking of backpacks, I was expecting that M1 energy effeciency would allow for less weight to carry rather than +10 hours of standalone time. A few hours of life, but 0.5 kg less weight would be a better tradeoff for me. (I'm talking
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by oleganza 5y ago
"just don't think about it, Morty"
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by oleganza 5y ago
I mean, relative to other other assets in your own portfolio. You can always switch between 1%, 10% and 100%, however you like at any point in time. As of Bitcoin, there are plenty of people who have 0% and haven't come about to incre
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by oleganza 5y ago
Sorry, that's a purely political take, nothing to do with economics or technology. Everyone is using energy to do the things they want to do. Notice that Bitcoin is somehow specially demonized, but vacation travels or Li-Ion battery pr
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by oleganza 5y ago
unsafe {} does not disable type checks or ownership rules. It (basically) only allows dereferencing a raw pointer. It's a way of telling the compiler "in this specific place, for this specific variable I manually verified correctn
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by oleganza 5y ago
Since HN generally does not like mentions of Bitcoin, here are some stats. Bitcoin was launched 12 years ago, reached $1'000'000'000'000 monetization this year (>1.5x larger than IMF), exploded interest and funding fo
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by oleganza 5y ago
Actually, Bitcoin is likely to hit $100K in about 3 months.
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by oleganza 5y ago
I'm no fan of political power in Russia (my home country) or anywhere else in the world, but come on with this double-standard bullshit. Every country does exactly the same thing. Just look at how much suppression of "alternative
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by oleganza 5y ago
What you call "american ideas" is the only thing that works in the anonymous environment. Communal solidarity works fine in small social groups where "having something at stake" that keeps people cooperate honestly is me
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by oleganza 5y ago
That's just early stages of adoption. Until BTC saturates the market, there will be huge rallies, huge drops and otherwise volatility. Right now everyone knows about USD and gold and holds as much USD or gold as they want. But there ar
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by oleganza 5y ago
Well, fundamental value is well over >$8T which is a rough estimate of the gold's monetization (because BTC is superior to gold in every respect as a store-of-value). BTC still has to climb 10x till there and all the dips on the way
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by oleganza 5y ago
The trusted party there are price oracles. Plus, matters are muddied by the "governance" usually built-in which adds another trusted parties who are supposed to do emergency interventions (like Fed does ;-) I don't mean to be
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by oleganza 5y ago
Stable coins are not "crypto" currencies. They have black lists (similar to your bank's fraud department) and they are backed by deposited money (so there is trusted issuer who promises to redeem them for actual cash). So 2 k
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by oleganza 5y ago
Bitcoin is volatile not in relation to USD, but to "real prices". USD or EUR are just more stable in relation to those, so it's convenient to measure BTC in USD. You can't fix the prices in BTC because you'd soon fi
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by oleganza 5y ago
This is the finest example of propaganda. Just look at the photo of a dude with a fire in the backdrop. 1. For most people in El Salvador Bitcoin does not matter and will not matter for quite some time. 2. "Bitcoin crashes" to a v
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by oleganza 5y ago
Same with Bitcoin.
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by oleganza 5y ago
This reminds of an idea in math that proofs by construction are better than proofs by contradiction. Or making artificial grammars (e.g. PLs) with recursive descent parsers instead of context-sensitive grammars with Turing-complete parsers.
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by oleganza 5y ago
Amazing article on "cryptocurrencies" (plural) without any mention of Bitcoin, but talks a lot about stablecoins which are not "crypto" in any sense because they are centrally issued securities that don't even have
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by oleganza 5y ago
That's fine™. You are just going to redirect blame on the original source, provided you got enough Apple Cash on balance to pay the lawyers and stay out of jail while sorting this out.
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by oleganza 5y ago
Check out also a beautiful periodic table constructor from Moscow that won IF design award: https://periodic.artlebedev.ru (About the project: https://www.artlebedev.com/mendeleev-table/ )
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by oleganza 5y ago
Narwhals have two left+right tusks, not horns. Only one is obnoxiously long, the other one is usually short.
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by oleganza 5y ago
Not quite a fair comparison. Consider how much real estate is used to "park money" in large cities, which in turn leads to artificially higher prices and shortages of housing? What other resources are abused as money substitutes,

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