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by pa7x1 3y ago
Is the Poincaré disk, a compact hyperbolic 2-d manifold. A space with negative curvature and maximal symmetry, the equivalent of a sphere but with negative curvature if you will. You may have seen something similar in holography and AdS&#x2
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by pa7x1 3y ago
> You can't scale AND maintain those properties. zk-proofs allow you to do so. It's seeing very active development, and yes it involves an L2. The issue you seemed to have ignored is that to be able for the L2s to inherit those
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Without a general purpose (i.e. Turing complete) and sufficiently expressive programming language (i.e. providing an idiomatic and expressive manner to build general-purpose logic) associated to the ledger you cannot build scaling technolog
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by pa7x1 3y ago
> If there were no outside demand for Ether then Ether would we worthless in USD. What you are saying is, that there is demand for the network services from beyond existing Ether holders, thereby creating demand for Ether by USD (or othe
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by pa7x1 3y ago
This is a subtle point but the fee revenues that the network observes are best understood as priced in fiat currency, even if denominated in ETH. In much the same way the earnings of Microsoft in Europe are to be understood as priced in EUR
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by pa7x1 3y ago
This critique is basically saying that cryptocurrencies have Ponzi-esque economics or more aptly named greater-fools economics. The argument being that as they have no cash-flows, any appreciation must come from future investors piling into
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by pa7x1 3y ago
From a very quick glance at page 6 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.05328.pdf You can see he is treating the case of k=1,2 with that formula and uses induction to extend it to 1 ≤ 𝑘 ≤ 𝑛 − 2. For k = n - 1 he uses a differ
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Then you have not understood it. High gas prices are not evidence of high cost (as in the cost to the network to settle the transaction). In a bit analogous way high price of a luxury item is not evidence of its high cost of production. But
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Ecosystem fragmentation is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to rapid development through competition. Different L2s are competing against each other to provide the best service and that has lead to a cambrian explosion of solutions. It
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by pa7x1 3y ago
If you want to obtain a loan onchain, then whatever you post as collateral must be a token existing onchain. Otherwise it wouldn't have any visibility on it, or actionable mechanisms against default. You may post a stablecoin backed by
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Saw this comment too late, sorry. Yes, that's overhead for the operator of the service. But this is not what I was referring to, nor the OP to which I answered. He made the false assumption that the gas fee moves up or down because nod
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Absolutely not. The gas fee is not moved up or down based on the cost to settle a transaction. It's an independent market based on supply and demand for blockspace. Supply is constrained because for the network to remain decentralized
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by pa7x1 3y ago
This argument is valid word for word for art, domain names, houses... So I guess you should be willing to follow your logic to the same conclusion in those cases too.
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Whenever this kind of topic arises there is always someone that has worked a bit on 3D geometry, that comes to school mathematicians and physicists on what they are missing out for not using geometric algebra. Usually with a weird tinge of
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Yes, the Higgs boson results in an attractive force between fermions given by the Yukawa potential (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukawa_interaction ). This potential takes basically the same form as the gravi
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by pa7x1 3y ago
There are 8 gluons, in fact. There is not very good reason why the Higgs interaction is not called a force. I wouldn't read too much into it, tradition carries a lot of weight in how people call things. We could even measure the attrac
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by pa7x1 3y ago
The gap is very hard to close because there is a chasm between the two. RTFM here means years (typically 5+ for research math) of very focused study to follow what it says. While the popular science tries to convey something that is meaning
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by pa7x1 3y ago
I think you misunderstand what it means for a property to be emergent. It's not about hand waiving its origin, but about highlighting that the property progressively appears ("emerges") as the scale of the system changes in s
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by pa7x1 3y ago
You are absolutely right. Thanks for bringing it up. English is my second language, first one being a romance language, and the spelling is closer to "conscience".
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by pa7x1 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if consciousness ~conscience~ is just an emergent phenomenon resulting from any sufficiently powerful cognitive system (either biological or artificial) with sufficient inputs of its environment and, crucially,
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by pa7x1 3y ago
If you ascertain some value to the permissionless and self-custodial value of cash. And you see value in the internet's ability to connect the entire world. Then it follows immediately that you see value in cryptocurrency. Because you
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Minor clarification. Coinbase Earn is a lending product, you lend to Coinbase and you receive interest. The same applies to Celsius, it provided interest on money they borrowed. Coinbase also offers staking as a service, the SEC is also goi
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by pa7x1 3y ago
> The Web3 API is the API exposed by the full node themselves, and it exposes the requirement of the ethereum protocol (example: the nonce, the encoding scheme for smart contracts, the primitives operation of the EVM, etc) . It is then w
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by pa7x1 3y ago
This is like complaining about the HTTP protocol because you don't like the requests Python library. There is no "Web3" API as part of the Ethereum protocol. "Web3" APIs (in plural because there are multiple ones, i
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Could you provide examples of previously deployed dirty hacks that need more dirty hacks to circumvent the flaws?
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by pa7x1 3y ago
The reason to provide some sibyl protection/spam protection mechanism is so that every one that wants to contribute can do so. The ceremony is secure if there is 1 out of N that correctly destroyed its secret. You individually, may not
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by pa7x1 3y ago
So you are making the point that one particular decentralized application has poor user documentation? Yes, I agree. I don't think it's a particularly novel observation when discussing small OSS projects. The following projects ha
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by pa7x1 3y ago
I think there is a quite a bit of truth in speedrunning the history of finance. I don't see that per se as a negative, there is a lot of lessons that were learnt for good reasons. Many of these lessons are still valid and some lessons
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by pa7x1 3y ago
You are looking at the developer documentation. It explains the different classes and methods they expose, it's technical and the target audience is supposed to be technical. I didn't provide this example as a particularly good ex
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Here are just a few, presented for your curiosity. I have no affiliation with any of them. One thing to understand is that the decentralized application themselves are running over Ethereum. The only way to see the blockchain is either runn

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