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by proto-n 5y ago
Apologies if I'm mistaken, but isn't chainlink a solution to the input part of I/O? Or is that what you meant by projects trying to solve the problem?
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by proto-n 5y ago
More discussion about this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
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by proto-n 5y ago
I wonder if the particular slowness on windows could be related to how closing file handles is slow on windows because of blocking antivirus checks. Alas I can't recall where I read about this, it was some kind of "a few things I
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by proto-n 5y ago
> the computation requirement itself still delays updating the network Yes, but that's intentional and configurable, e.g. the ten minutes of average time between blocks on the btc chain. You could very easily lower that value by mod
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by proto-n 5y ago
We may have differing concepts of what a certificate of authenticity is. To me, the certificate of authenticity is what guarantees that it can't be copied. That is the NFT with the uri that lives on the blockchain.
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by proto-n 5y ago
But you can't really touch the certificate (the blockchain entry), only the "artwork" behind it (png stored on digitalocean). What is and isn't art and artistic value, and whether an indistinguishable copy of the mona li
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by proto-n 5y ago
Fwiw I broke I think more then 10 micro usb cables / ports throughout the time when they were everywhere, it was kind of prone to breaking. Never managed to break a regular usb, mini usb or usb c though. So I don't think proneness
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by proto-n 5y ago
Honestly, even having the "money" that you send "them" (really it's not them, but a consensus mechanism on chain lol) signals a great amount of trust in the network and its future, including 2.0 transition, adaptati
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by proto-n 5y ago
Not really, the computational cost of PoW is not related to the throughput. PoW is not the work that the nodes put into processing transactions, PoW is by definition a useless computation, and it being useless is neccessary for the game the
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by proto-n 5y ago
What you are saying is that an certificate of authenticity is useless because you can burn the artwork with a torch. Those two things are mostly unrelated.
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by proto-n 5y ago
Proof of stake has little to do with transaction costs. The roadmap to scaling is sharding + layer 2 tech (optimistic and zk rollup, some of it is already live like arbitrum).
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by proto-n 5y ago
Next tweet in the thread shows them. First pic is cropped (not sure why)
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by proto-n 5y ago
Linus and Luke (of ltt) had a brief discussion about this on yesterday's WAN show [1], might be somewhat relevant. They mention intel and sk hynix as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w3biMwl9m4&t=1584s
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by proto-n 5y ago
As someone from a different continent and not really familiar with the topic, are you willing to be a bit more specific? What particular orientation?
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by proto-n 5y ago
Simply "6 people killed and I had something to do woth it" would do it for me and make it the worst day of my life (by far).
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by proto-n 5y ago
Capitalism? Greed is a very human emotion, corporations are like very powerful sociopaths. No-emotion machines that optimize for a single end goal (shareholder money) within the given ruleset: the law. (Or more realistically whatever they c
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by proto-n 5y ago
To be fair, they mostly advise against GNUplot, and mention Gnuplot because of the aversion to start sentences with lowercase (which is also where they use it with uppercase).
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by proto-n 5y ago
> competent observers would likely consider even that on the high side for a mathematical impossibility If the statement made by Vitalik "There's no proof that efficient classical simulation of QC is impossible" is indeed
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by proto-n 5y ago
That's true as long as there are hoarders and spenders as well. As soon as there are too many hoarders, inflation comes back, and there's personal incentive for everyone to spend. There is no equilibrium at either everyone being a
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by proto-n 5y ago
Which is, if I understand correctly, a kind of balancing feedback loop. People are spending -> make it deflationary. People are hoarding -> make it inflationary. It will be really interesting to see if this has any stabilizing effect
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by proto-n 6y ago
Well on an organizational level badly written code is imo tech debt. It's worse quality in exchange for paying less money (paying less capable / inexperienced devs).
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by proto-n 6y ago
Also, it's fun! I don't play often, but when I do, it's for the daydreaming and "what if"-s that comes with the experience.
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by proto-n 6y ago
A relevant post from Slate Star Codex [1] is an interesting add to this discussion: it's not trivial (or impossible) to recognize if you are missing some kind of experience. Like the example in the article of not realizing that you hav
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by proto-n 6y ago
Isn't remarkable a simple linux system with qt applications that you can modify as you like?
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by proto-n 6y ago
Afaik there's no plan to attack, they are planning a "show of force", i.e. get more then 51% in a pool for a while without doing anything with the power. This is separate from either adapting or not adapting the fork itself a
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by proto-n 6y ago
Ok, not being usable for the next block is not enough. It must not be usable for any other block. Competing chains, forks, other miners stealing your rewards, etc. Has to depend on the hash of the previous block, and also the transaction wh
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by proto-n 6y ago
Solution has to depend on the proposed block, so that a solution is not reusable for the next block
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by proto-n 6y ago
Let's be a bit more charitable interpreting what they said: "a pain in the butt to track". Lots of little profit taking events to report on your tax form, yeah it's painful. But also means that you intend to pay the tax,
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by proto-n 6y ago
What do you think of Dart? It's still evolving, but for me it ticks all those boxes.
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by proto-n 6y ago
No it doesn't apply. If you are dining in a restaurant and it starts putting cocaine into your coffee, that's still very illegal, regardless of whether you can choose another restaurant. One sided halting in a moment like this ree

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