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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
Yes, I would guess that coins sharing an algorithm with a much bigger brother (in hash rate) are particularly susceptible. Of course, the perceived security and valuation of many coins is somewhat tied together, and I can imagine many miner
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
You are totally correct :) I figured it would be easier to forgo the explanation of "difficulty" and difficulty adjustments (which ETC/ETH do much quicker than e.g. Bitcoin does).
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
I'm not sure how easy it would be for exchanges to implement variable confirmations depending on the amount transferred, but I would say that what you suggest is a very reasonable way to limit the risk of suffering such an attack. I wo
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
The most typical way to profit from this, is to have quite a bit of ETC, and then sell it on an exchange or buy something expensive. This transaction would then end up on the block chain, and eventually be considered secure / part of h
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
I agree that sharding/scaling is definitely a problem, but I'm not sure where you got your numbers from. I don't know about Stellar, but for Ethereum a full sync takes 16 hours to a day for me (which I find slow, but it'
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
Agreed. 196 cm/6'5" here, and the only thing I found lacking was the width of the chairs on the Tokaido line (3+2 arrangement). I'm not sure what the pitch of the seats is, but I had plenty of leg room (much more than an
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
Aside from the special case of "1" always being present, I would say that in general you should just use an optimizer to solve knapsack problems. Whether you should do so for an interview question is up for debate I guess; using l
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
I would say that Ethereum is the smart contract platform, but that Ether (ETH) is a currency. That's based both on how it's used, and on how the protocol separates normal transactions from smart contract interactions (including to
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
But they always seem to offer English CC though, just not the regular ones (for many movies). And the regular ones should just be a simple transformation of the CC ones (strip all "\[.*?\]" stuff). That said, the other day I watch
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
You (the user) decide. If you want to fork Nano/XRB to undo the hack - assuming that is at all possible - just edit the code, and release said version to the public. Then you will have done what happened with Ethereum after TheDAO hack
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
NEO is currently quite centralized†, which is an easy trade-off to make for higher throughput (see the traditional infrastructure of the web). It may not become more decentralized in the future, but its consensus mechanism (dBFT) is not rea
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
According to coinmarketcap.com[0], the traded volume of Ripple today was 8 billion USD. That's a bit better than your Yakitori coin. I am a bit confused about the volume of e.g. Amazon on Yahoo Finance[1], which is either 3 million or
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
When syncing, you can choose to either build and save the state for every block ("archive" mode), or save only the latest state ("fast" mode). The former requires quite a bit more data than the latter (currently 500 GB v
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
As seanwilson says above, blockchains work by consensus. Leaving aside the "better", that does mean it is different. The instructions are still executed by computers as it was programmed as you say, but if enough users/miners
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
Well, "traditional" law can be changed as well, so I'm not sure why a blockchain should not be able to. Some changes are more controversial than others, but in the end the majority (more or less) decides. Either by vote in co
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
Although not guaranteed, a soft fork can still result in a (lasting) chain split. Especially in the case of Bitcoin (which has slow difficulty adjustment), if the hash rate of the SegWit miners was lower than that of the old miners, the leg
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
This is quite clear terminology in cryptoworld, although I can understand why people are a bit confused with the events that unfolded in August. A hard fork is any fork where new nodes produce blocks that old nodes do not accept (and vice v
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
To be fair, the turbochargers in contemporary F1 cars are not powered only by exhaust gases. To get rid of the infamous turbo lag, they are electrically assisted. Still not a super charger of course, but the "assisted" part makes
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
There is only one type of difficult bomb for Ethereum (the ice age), and that is already underway. As linked to in that article, block times would reach about 30 s mid-August ( https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comm
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by pietjepuk88 9y ago
I also needed to profile a running process without stopping it, and ended up using pyflame ( https://github.com/uber/pyflame ) together with the famous flamegraph script. It is not perfect, as it only works on Linux and
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by pietjepuk88 10y ago
That is weird, I had local anesthetic for my wisdom teeth removal. Granted they weren't that hard to remove, but I wouldn't want to be put under entirely for something so simple. Aside from being a bit pale, I could go home straig
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by pietjepuk88 10y ago
I think the analogy holds up quite well, even though they don't go into the details that you mention. Losses in water transmission lines for example are also proportional to velocity squared.
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by pietjepuk88 11y ago
Of course no two persons are exactly the same, so your statement about gain/loss is true no matter what. However, I just want to say that a wide margin is only about ~10%, or two tablespoons of peanut butter for a typical "doing n
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by pietjepuk88 11y ago
Just an honest question, but do you like the glossy screens? I personally get quite annoyed by them at times, and find matte screens to be a more relaxing (/dull) experience. The glossiness does however make the iMacs look good in stor
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by pietjepuk88 11y ago
Please note that Japanese words themselves can also be written in katakana, sometimes as a sort of emphasis. Other reasons can be it being a brand/name, or because it is easier on the eyes, or because the kanji are too difficult. So it
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by pietjepuk88 11y ago
I was actually looking into Chebyshev polynomials and minimax optimization to make a fast vectorized implementation of the logarithm function a few days ago. In the process of looking around the internet for information I ran into this: ht
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by pietjepuk88 11y ago
I have also been at it for a while now. What I notice nowadays is that the same English->Japanese cards keep coming up quite often, because they have very similar cards/synonyms. Therefore, when adding new words, I take extra precau