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by rahen 4y ago
You're asking if Redhat, the creator and main proponent of systemd, uses it in its distribution. Use FreeBSD, Devuan or Alpine if you want production-grade Unixes without systemd.
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> Europe (in general) didn't have the wealth to build car-only infrastructure so it never really suburbanized and mass-manufactured homes like America did. Western Europe had the wealth to, it just refused, sometimes with mass prote
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Drawn on paper, and calculations done with slide rules. They were still widely used in engineering.
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Previous submission (Wired): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33884793 The Stax is designed by Tony Fadell, creator of the iPod.
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Ledger Stax: Tony Fadell is trying to build the iPod of crypto(wired.com)
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However Monero has shortcomings, the main one being its auditability. Some Monero developers have created a new project which tries to solve those issues, and add zero knowledge proof to the mix: https://pirate.black
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by rahen 4y ago
> If FTX isn’t crypto, then I guess Binance, Coinbase and Crypto.com aren’t crypto either? Indeed they're not. "cryptos" are cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin. FTX and alike are centralized exchanges (CEX). This confusion is
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It's easy to forget not all computers are electronic. I was expecting a talk about the ENIAC or the IBM 1401, or maybe the Babbage analytical engine.
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For those interested, OpenBSD also works on the Rasp Pi. The Pi 4 is supported officially. https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html https://dev.to/spacial/installing-openbsd-7-on-raspberry-pi-... This makes
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Absolutely. As states are collapsing under their own weight (particularly for large western countries like the US and France), the transition to a new model will be unavoidable. The next decades will be fascinating to observe in that regard
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Bitcoin is the only currency that's leaderless, decentralized, belongs to no company or some 30 years-old "CEO", and is contributed to much like the Linux kernel. You could compare it to TCP/IP versus proprietary protoco
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Of course. I used to like Monero (XMR) despite its shortcomings, but Lightning is now more promising. It essentially solves all the flows in Bitcoin: scalability, fungability and privacy.
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So does Bitcoin. For the first time in history, we have achieved sound money, something neither gold or fiat money have. https://miro.medium.com/max/720/1*rVgI62Reha0MnvUiWC0SXg.web... https://danhedl.m
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Western Union.
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Core developers of the Bitcoin ecosystem are also Linux hackers. Rusty Russel, C-lightning main developer was also the creator of iptables and a good part of the Linux TCP stack. Technical minded people showing hostility toward Bitcoin beca
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That's a privacy coin. It mostly attracts agorists, not businesses.
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With fiat money, you can legally retrieve anonymous cash from an ATM if you choose so, without suspicion. Or likewise, you can reveal your identity for a transaction when appropriate. This should be the same with crypto. Let's see it t
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It's KYC. Thanks but no thanks, I'll keep using DEXes...
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You use a cold wallet, that is, a secure element storing your private key. Those chips are physically isolated from the computer and cannot be tempered with. If you lose your device (which should NEVER happen, it's a safe, not a purse)
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No CEX can be safe. Get yourself a cold wallet.
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It's already happening. The CEX scams are falling one after another. Long live self custody.
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Bisq v2 is going to be an interesting release: https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq2/blob/main/docs/aims.md They're currently a little short on manpower. If you're a Java dev, you might co
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> Sure, but you can't use DeFi to trade fiat for crypto. Of course you can, both ways. - https://bisq.network - https://learn.robosats.com
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Besides Visual Studio (the Windows IDE, not VS Code), QT Creator also has an excellent debugger. Probably the best open source and cross platform C/C++ IDE around.
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Performance. It takes longer to access performance critical data on a stack machine compared to a register machine. You spend a lot of cycles rolling the stack to retrieve the value you need. On the other hand, the circuitry is simpler and
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But so do Alpine, Devuan, Guix, Slackware or Void.
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The Bitcoin blockchain is a layer 1, it acts as a settlement layer, or put simply, a notarization layer, or a store of value layer. It's not intended to be used as a full scale transaction layer as it couldn't scale and would bloa
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Doesn't seem to go so well, does it?
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The point of PoW is to make money hard to create, unlike state money (fiat). You could say gold, silver or basically any store of value use PoW too: they require a considerable amount of time and energy to obtain. If you could just use dirt
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Mining is more decentralized now than it was when Chinese pools had 60% of the hashrate. We're also rolling the Stratum v2 protocol, which will considerably improve the decentralization. https://braiins.com/blog/st

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