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by pa7x1 4y ago
Names of the Ethereum testnets were chosen after Metro stations. Ropsten, Sepolia, Goerli, Rinkeby, Kovan...
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by pa7x1 4y ago
You can think of Ethereum as a DB+VM existing in the extreme end of the High Availability spectrum and whose operation is uncensorable and unstoppable by any actor. Obviously many use cases do not require this kind of characteristics but it
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by pa7x1 4y ago
What pushes towards centralization are two factors; economies of scale and barriers of entry. For those mathematically inclined you can imagine plotting economic reward (y-axis) vs economic input (x-axis). Economies of scale determine the s
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by pa7x1 4y ago
The country is incapable of taxing fairly and efficiently as there is rampant corruption and tax avoidance. This creates a very negative feedback loop, nobody wants to pay taxes as nobody else does so you would put yourself at a disadvantag
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by pa7x1 4y ago
There is a specification of the protocol, which is open source: https://github.com/ethereum/consensus-specs And there are over 5 interoperable, independent and open source implementations of said specification: - http
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by pa7x1 4y ago
This is very well put. If you believe the trade-offs of permissionless and private communications (as granted by cryptography) are worth-it and you don't think similar trade-offs to value transfer are worth-it (as granted by cryptocurr
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by pa7x1 4y ago
The procedure Ethereum uses to generate randomness is called RANDAO. You can see an explanation here: https://benjaminion.xyz/eth2-annotated-spec/phase0/beacon-ch...
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by pa7x1 4y ago
How can this argument be made in good faith? The spec is open source, all the clients are open source. Furthermore, it's implemented and running. You could argue that someone in particular has made a poor or incomplete explanation of h
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by pa7x1 4y ago
There is still no date but it's getting really close. You can track the progress here: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/blob/master/Merge/mainnet-rea... Notably, there is only 2 testnet merges le
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by pa7x1 4y ago
Crypto is speed-running all the history of financial regulation. This would have been prevented with D+2 settlement and actual humans in the loop verifying transactions. Oh wait, no! Wrong thread...
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by pa7x1 4y ago
I have long-suspected that a significant part of the hate for crypto from tech-literate people is resentment for not figuring out the success of something they were equipped to have seen earlier. And here is a little snippet of it at work.
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by pa7x1 4y ago
We are also experiencing record-levels of inflation due to Central Bank monetary policies, which have led to massive asset bubbles and wealth inequality due to Cantillon effect of said policies. So it's hard to think the status quo is
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by pa7x1 4y ago
Whenever you do a transaction on the Ethereum network part of the fees (the base fee) are destroyed, this amount goes nowhere not even a special locked account. It just disappears, it's "burnt" as it's commonly referred.
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by pa7x1 4y ago
> eg it's been estimated that over half the Ethereum are owned by less than 10 entities You throw this kind of claim without providing proof. Unfortunately, it's a claim I have seen made before (e.g. https://www.fina
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by pa7x1 4y ago
She abuses an information asymmetry and social conventions. Scientific discourse is usually conducted in academic papers, for better or worse this is how the community conducts itself. When she criticizes others work or the usefulness of th
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by pa7x1 5y ago
If you are looking to have a mathematical understanding of the field then I really enjoyed "Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms" by Shalev-Shwartz and Ben-David.
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That's what LIGO is, in essence.
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Supersymmetry must be broken in some way. The way it's broken is just an accident of this universe, in much the same way the radius of the orbits of our Solar System cannot be derived from first principles but they are just an accident
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by pa7x1 5y ago
I think you misunderstand how physical theories work. All physical theories we know have free variables that need to be fixed before being able to make any numerical predictions. In classical electrodynamics it's the permittivity and p
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by pa7x1 5y ago
String theory predicts the existence of supersymmetric particles, predicts the exact number of dimensions of our universe (something that by the way no other previous theory is able to do). Correctly predicts the Black Hole thermodynamics (
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by pa7x1 5y ago
> I just read that string theories are all supersymmetric and attempts at formulating non supersymmetric ones pretty much failed to the point noone is interested in attempting to make them. This is correct. > And LHC experiments ruled
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Quantum Gravity is relevant at an energy scale that is completely out of our current technical capabilities. That's hardly the fault of string theory or any other theory of quantum gravity. It's just a consequence of the fundament
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by pa7x1 5y ago
What's your background to make such a claim? Are you aware that String theory has made contributions to condensed matter physics and mathematics? Not to speak of its applications to quantum gravity, for example, being able to calculate
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Thanks for highlighting the co-evolution aspect. I find it more likely that for viruses with a pre-symptomatic phase is the selective pressure caused by the virus on the host that ends up resulting in lower severity long term. By simply rem
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by pa7x1 5y ago
The CEO of BioNTech said they don't know for sure but speculated that memory B cells may keep hypermutating after a third shot which could result in the improved effectiveness against Omicron. Or that's what I understood with my v
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Energy conservation follows from Noether's theorem and time translational symmetry. This doesn't hold in general for an arbitrary space-time. In fact, it holds for a very specific subset (static spacetimes) of which our universe i
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Gas fees are denominated in GWei but they are not fixed in a set amount of GWei. What you are implying is like saying that because someone paid 3903 ETH for a Banksy painting [0], then when ETH price goes up the price of the Banksy goes up.
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by pa7x1 5y ago
> Gas fees are based on price This is not correct. Gas fees are essentially an auction for blockspace, the basefee is adjusted dynamically via EIP-1559 but the tip is essentially an auction (highest bidders go first). If demand outstrips
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Have you looked at the data before making the claims? Ethereum far surpasses in use Bitcoin by pretty much any metric you look. For example, in the last 24h Ethereum processed 1.24M of transactions and netted a revenue of $ 60M in transact
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by pa7x1 5y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, I wrote a more detailed analysis of the different sources of centralization and how both algorithms measure against them that I think is relevant so I will copy paste it here. I see multiple factors that hamper decen

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