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by px43 6y ago
Eh, maybe a month ago I found a Coinbase account from 2013 that I had forgotten about, and it still had everything in it. Your story makes no sense. Coinbase support has always been pretty good for every problem I've ever had. Why talk
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by px43 6y ago
It's not the miners, it's the power companies. Power companies have been burning shitty fuel to save money forever, and it's astounding that they've managed to shift the blame to consumers.
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by px43 6y ago
> It's a myth that there are just a ton empty houses sitting idly like that. Maybe where you live. NYC and SF are special in that they have very powerful people working to reduce the construction of new housing. This is obviously wh
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by px43 6y ago
My brilliant* idea to solve the real estate problem is to tax the hell out of properties that are sitting empty. Something like a 2x or 3x multiplier on property taxes or something, especially in densely populated areas, and especially in a
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by px43 6y ago
Gridcoin is great. I originally got into Bitcoin mining in 2009, largely because of my previous involvement with SETI@Home, Folding@Home, etc, so BOINC has a special place in my heart as a project. The thing is though, the long term economi
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by px43 6y ago
Did they? The tweet I saw was specifically talking about Amazon employees, and last I checked, none of the people driving delivery trucks are in any way employed by Amazon. My understanding was that someone had made the accusation that this
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by px43 6y ago
I think it's mostly the power draw that's leaking. Timing the pulses with those thick white and black bars is what lets you do it so easily. Pulling individual pixels off the screen would be a much more difficult task.
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by px43 6y ago
Who is "us"? Surely you don't mean the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
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by px43 6y ago
Eh, the vast majority of these cards are used by people who are rendering fantasy worlds so they can run around pretending to be an elf, or a soldier, or some other stupid thing. Lots of them are full grown adults too, just wasting time tha
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by px43 6y ago
If Skynet emerges as a C++ compiler, it'll be trivially confused and obliterated by the first freshman CS student that it comes in contact with.
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by px43 6y ago
I feel like when I learned about the OODA loop, the big strategic advantage came from getting inside your opponent's OODA loop. It's less about being faster than them, and more about matching their tempo such that you're al
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by px43 6y ago
Sounds like what you're looking for is a scanner with more false negatives than false positives. One that won't alert you about a certain percentage of actual critical issues that it detects. You're not alone here, which is w
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by px43 6y ago
> Paint features as security vulnerabilities. Example: your "arbitrary command execution tool" can "execute arbitrary commands" This is pretty funny to me. I live on the other side of this, and let me tell you, what y
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by px43 6y ago
No, no, no. Just kill DST. Noon should be about when the sun is highest in the sky, not 1pm. Sunrise and sunset math is so much easier if solar noon happens around clock noon too, because sunrise and sunset are equally distant from noon. If
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by px43 6y ago
Is there a nice way to distribute a database across many systems? Would this be useful for a data-set like Wikipedia? It would be really nice if anyone could easily follow Wikipedia in such a way that anyone could fork it, and merge some ch
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by px43 6y ago
I'd rather just hate on Microsoft specifically :-p
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by px43 6y ago
I think you're talking about ASICBOOST, more importantly the "Covert ASICBOOST" drama, which was almost entirely fabricated as a political ploy to turn the /r/bitcoin community against the mining community. It was u
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by px43 6y ago
I know this whole "bitcoin is pointles" meme gets upchuckles on hacker news all day long, but at this point it's pretty embarrassing that this level of ignorance continues to persist. As it turns out "sending money over
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by px43 6y ago
How do you figure? They've got regulatory compliance requirements from almost every financial regulator on the planet. They are probabally, by far the heaviest regulated company on the planet.
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by px43 6y ago
Something like this should get you started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Lomo8CdTM
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by px43 6y ago
First off, miners need to ensure that the coin they're mining retains value, so they need the network effect of the entire economy. No miner is going to make a decision that makes the underlying thing that they are mining worthless. Ev
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by px43 6y ago
> despite my general misgivings about the huge energy cost of crypto. Are you really concerned about people utilizing electricity, or are you actually concerned about carbon footprint? If the carbon thing, look where crypto-mining happ
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by px43 6y ago
> PBKDF2 is a slow algorithm specifically created for password hashing. Yeah, over 20 years ago. It's woefully out of date by modern standards. PBKDF2 doesn't even attempt memory hardness, so there are whole classes of attacks
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by px43 6y ago
> The goal of the project was to make the auction as transparent as possible, doesn't that imply moving as much of the logic on chain as possible? Not really. Unsure of the specifics of the project that you were working on, but a st
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by px43 6y ago
Land that you already own in Denentraland, or an alternate reality Decentraland where you own everything and want to sell it to others? The answer to both of those is yes. All land sales happen on chain, so you can do it all directly from E
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by px43 6y ago
First off, there have been many implementations of various forms of secret ballots on Ethereum using zero knowledge proofs. Mix and match your feature set of who can verify what and when, and there's a zero knowledge scheme that can do
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by px43 6y ago
Three things. 1. The contract in questions is doing a lot more on chain logic than it should be doing. 2. The network is currently incredibly active, pushing up the average gas cost per transaction. 3. The price of Ethereum itself, in which
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by px43 6y ago
If you're working on "large Ethereum smart contracts" you've missed the point. On chain logic should always be as minimal as possible. Uniswap v1 was two vyper files. One was 46 lines, and the other was 496 lines[1]. It
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by px43 6y ago
I get your point with Decentraland, but the dynamic data is all on the Ethereum network, the static data is all on IPFS, and anyone can run a node and have their own instance of the world for them and their friends to play on. Sure, they ha
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by px43 6y ago
Bitcoin doesn't need high transaction volume to provide value to its users, which is obviously apparent by looking at the current transaction volume. PoW is also the most efficient way to do what Bitcoin is doing. Attempts to displace

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