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by px43 4y ago
A simulation? This flaw should be obvious to anyone who took 10 minutes to read how the system works. Synthetics backed by a 1:1 mint/burn are always going to crash and burn the same way. It's happened before, and it will probably
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by px43 4y ago
I'm still fine with using the Turing Test (now >70 years old) for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test I guess a key stipulation there is an interrogator who know what they're doing, but an AI t
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by px43 4y ago
Kind of makes me nervous that both black holes we've imaged are pointing right at us. I'm imagining some super advanced civilization somehow using black holes as powerful telescopes that are for some reason intent on mapping out o
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by px43 4y ago
What people here don't seem to understand is that the people who actually hold significant amounts of Tether basically all know each other. It really is more of a social contract than anything else. It was an early stablecoin, and it o
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by px43 4y ago
That's a feature. Human words are supposed to be flexible. Re-defining and re-shaping them is a key way that we evolve as a society. Insisting that everyone in the room uses the same definitions for all words, and trying to force some
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by px43 4y ago
You can put FIDO creds on a 20 dollar hardware token. It's just that not everyone has that, so you can use your phone too if you want.
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by px43 4y ago
Tokens were thing on Bitcoin too. They were called "colored coins". The reason that it works on Ethereum is turing complete scripting allowing you to build all sorts of fun financial gadgets and tools around the token.
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by px43 4y ago
Not surprising at all since OpenAI is basically run by Microsoft now.
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by px43 4y ago
In what way was Arab spring correlated with oil prices? https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...
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by px43 4y ago
I don't think that the people experiencing poverty and hunger in the middle east have any relation to anyone in the oil industry there.
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by px43 4y ago
40% of all food that is purchased in the US is thrown in the garbage. It's so heavily subsidized here that people just consider it disposable. They buy way more than they need so they can just eat whatever they're in the mood for,
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by px43 4y ago
That would be pretty interesting if the opposite was true. Perpetual motion cows.
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by px43 4y ago
> No trade secret or hardware trojan can hide from ptychographic X-ray laminography That is, of course, assuming you fully trust the software running on the x-ray scanners :-) Really exciting to see these tools come into existence though
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by px43 4y ago
I would pay more to go to a hospital where I know people are actually well rested. My last few hospital stays have been saturated with clearly agitated staff (doctors, nurses, reception) who were putting in minimal effort, and clearly didn&
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by px43 5y ago
Github is Microsoft now, the open dev experience is on life support, and likely to soon be extinguished.
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by px43 5y ago
The fact that this dude literally sold millions of dollars of magic beans, which made the beanstalk, which suddenly disappeared, has got to be at least a little suspicious. It was a super basic flash loan oracle manipulation, which could ha
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by px43 5y ago
Who were the participants? Random people off the street, or professional tasters who actually pay attention to what they're eating?
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by px43 5y ago
> OpenSea turning off their reporting mechanism What, this? https://support.opensea.io/hc/en-us/articles/4412092785043-W... Art gets stolen from Deviant Art etc every day, as it has been for decades. The N
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by px43 5y ago
Flashbots gets a minor mention in the article, but it doesn't do justice to how huge the Flashbots ecosystem has gotten: https://docs.flashbots.net To be fair, there isn't a ton of information widely available, because
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by px43 5y ago
Ha, Flash Boys 2.0 was from 2019. This blog post is literally "I read a thing from three years ago and have lost faith in something that I never believed in in the first place". As someone who knows and has worked with all the peo
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by px43 5y ago
It's a low value Bitcoin fork from Craig Wright, a delusional dude who claims to be Satoshi, so he made a fork where he could control all the Satoshi coins. "SV" means "Satoshi's Vision".
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by px43 5y ago
> Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial .. We (the internet) tried that with 8chan. Things kept escalating to the point where a bunch of people got murdered in a synagogue. Condoning violent echo chambers will always ALWA
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by px43 5y ago
Just the fact that it mentions NaCl means it must have been written in the 2013-2014 era.
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by px43 5y ago
> You go to your bank and ask them to start a wire transfer. Haha, or, I can just click a single link from a donation page and send ETH from the wallet in my browser directly to the organization that I want to support, which I did in the
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by px43 5y ago
It's no different than buying things with a credit card and having the payment processor convert your currency to the local currency etc.
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by px43 5y ago
Expedia has accepted Bitcoin for almost a decade: https://www.expedia.com/Checkout/BitcoinTermsAndConditions
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by px43 5y ago
> I imagine these people would be quite successful if they aimed at more legal areas of business. My understanding is that Yakuza are generally "Burakumin", which is basically a sub-ethnicity that has been discriminated against
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by px43 5y ago
I don't think anyone actually forgot that. It's kind of the point.
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by px43 5y ago
> In a system run by people, the transaction could be reversed, traced, and the culprits eventually brought to justice. The answer to your question is encoded in the very first block of the very first blockchain. > The Times 03/J
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by px43 5y ago
It's only an open question to people who haven't actually looked into it. Yeah, criminals get caught trying to move around stolen cryptocurrencies all the time.

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