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by qqii 6y ago
Bitcoin is currently accepted by a large number of companies including Microsoft, Newegg and Namecheap. We've seen greater use in counties like Venezuela.
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by qqii 6y ago
> or move to a country with cheaper drugs I think it's ridiculous that someone has to consider moving countries, which is no small task and out of reach for many, just to be able to afford their healthcare.
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It's important to note these adapters go against the USB C spec.
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by qqii 6y ago
Sharding is simply not ready, as far as I know no project currently with smart contracts have non a blockchain structure. That said currently ethereum has many L2 solutions ( https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs&
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by qqii 6y ago
Feeless flash loans exist: https://money-legos.studydefi.com/#/dydx Aave is 0.09%: https://aave.com/flash-loans/ It is also an important part of uniswap: https://uniswap.org/docs&#
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by qqii 6y ago
The incentives are much greater to both create useful smart contracts and exploit them when there is real money on the line.
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by qqii 6y ago
Yeah the paper is surprisingly difficult to follow. I had a muncher easier time with this article ( https://www.palkeo.com/en/projets/ethereum/bzx.html ) and just following the call stack for details.
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by qqii 6y ago
The biggest problem wouldn't be breaking the chain but the final step of cashing out. A regular exchange requires KYC for large amounts. Although P2P Crypto/Cash exchanges exist (local{bitcoins, monero}) most simply don't
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by qqii 6y ago
In most cases yes, at some point the attacker will want to turn his tokens into cash and at that point he is at the mercy of centralised services who gets to decide. Here's an old computerphile video: https://youtu.be/U
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by qqii 6y ago
It's more of an exploit than a hack, each smart contract by themselves worked as intended but the system as a whole could be exploited.
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by qqii 6y ago
Personally I found this article much clearer than the paper: https://www.palkeo.com/en/projets/ethereum/bzx.html You can actually follow the money yourself: https://etherscan.io/address/0
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by qqii 6y ago
Individuals and bots will take advantage of the price discrepancies between exchanges by purchasing BTC on the cheaper exchange, sending the BTC to the more expensive exchange and selling it. As long as its possible to do this different exc
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by qqii 6y ago
The liquidity in BTCUSDT on binance is much higher so you're less likely to encounter slippage. You have to also remeber non US customers that use exchanges, for them it makes a lot of sense to exchange their native currency to USDT.
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by qqii 6y ago
Even better, but unfortunately linked in the last reply in the thread: https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/gotta-be-a-pony-under-the...
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by qqii 6y ago
It's still not an especially pleasant experience on mobile.
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> Google says they launched this app in collaboration with a Kenyan carrier called Safaricom.
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by qqii 6y ago
> Matrix layouts are believed by some to help with RSI symptoms but no research can be found on this subject. Genuinely curious is there any evidence that non staggered keyboards are more "ergonomic"?
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by qqii 6y ago
That won't fix any other apps though will it? Anything that uses chrome webview for example.
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by qqii 6y ago
Wow! That's a really impressive difference. My android phone gets ~2700ms for KaTeX, ~3100ms for MathJax 3, ~17000ms for MathJax 2.7. There were times KaTeX and MathJax traded which I'm guessing is due to page size differences and
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by qqii 6y ago
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe sound should be differentiated from other waves as traveling through a physical medium of atoms as opposed to a fundimental field. Under this definition the following sentence quote makes sense. > t
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Every custom extension and configuration you change makes your browser unique in its own way. See https://amiunique.org/ At the most extreme using Tor Browser and its defaults maximises privacy for any general loginless bro
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by qqii 6y ago
This is quite unfortunate news but not surprising. This effectively turns Privacy Badger for the majority of users into another block list. Fingerprinting vs ad tracking protection has been an ongoing war. The natural escalation to tracking
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There is also this documentary that includes interviews with Penrose himself: https://youtu.be/FVDJJVoTx7s
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by qqii 6y ago
Given the timing this is an indirect response to https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programm
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by qqii 6y ago
> The trouble is that you have no way of knowing in advance which formulations will or won’t give you the right answer. To an optimist, any hint of success means that there must be a pony in here somewhere. Along with the examples given
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by qqii 6y ago
Here is the github issue thread: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1320 Hopefully the community will pick it up and continue development. Projects like invidious, nitter and bibliogram have turned cl
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by qqii 6y ago
> Rather than try to build a search infrastructure from scratch, Neeva instead opted to use Bing's search API for its basic results. So it's another UI over bing like duckduckgo? I'm not too optimistic, at the moment there
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Essentially the same people figureheads leading the project.
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Seed finding takes quite a lot of number theory, and the following video is a good introduction: https://youtu.be/XVrR1WImOh8 Seed finding was originally important to find witch hut structures that are generated close by in
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by qqii 6y ago
I've got no problem with removing master/slave, especially in cases where you could use more descriptive terms. On the other hand I'm just not a fan of the proposals for blacklist/whitelist. I've nothing against cha

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