remolacha

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by remolacha 5y ago
Artificial Intelligence
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by remolacha 5y ago
The matching engine on the exchange is also automated. The settlement system is electronic. Etc. etc.
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by remolacha 5y ago
Are you familiar with quadratic voting? It takes into account much of what you’re taking about, with the benefit of being less gameable.
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by remolacha 5y ago
Definitely agree. Also, one minor point: PoW/PoS are technically Sybil control mechanisms, not consensus mechanisms. PoW/PoS rate-limit block producers, but actual consensus is achieved by something like Practical Byzantine Fault
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by remolacha 5y ago
Sybil control mechanisms like PoW, PoS, and PoH are intended to rate-limit block producers, in order to prevent any one entity from controlling the network. In Bitcoin PoW, a block is produced every 10 mins, and your chance of getting to pr
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by remolacha 5y ago
If there were two, or ten, food safety inspection groups, we could figure out which ones had trustworthy ratings. No need for end consumers to inspect every restaurant (every app) individually. That's what Epic is asking for - to have
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by remolacha 5y ago
https://www.researchhub.com/
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by remolacha 5y ago
Not all crypto assets are crypto currencies. Many DeFi tokens (ex. UNI, SUSHI, AAVE) govern projects with real cash flows and are poised to become more like equities on the blockchain
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by remolacha 5y ago
This idea comes from Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Most mainstream economists do not agree with it. But the MMT claim is that at base, people only need USD because it’s how taxes are denominated. The notion is that without the driving force
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by remolacha 5y ago
No inclusion of Bezos, Gates, or Zuckerberg in this list. It’s not clear that there was even a rules-based method for selecting their “50 richest families”… The data seem cherry-picked.
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by remolacha 5y ago
An “old energy production source” can be cheaper now because the environmental damage it causes is an unpriced externality. A carbon tax solves that by giving a price to that environmental damage. Suddenly, fossil fuels only make sense in t
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by remolacha 5y ago
It's a misleading comparison. They are comparing the cost of an on-chain Bitcoin transaction to the immediate energy cost of a Visa transaction. On average, one on-chain Bitcoin transaction corresponds to 1000s of total transactions, s
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by remolacha 5y ago
At its core, criticism of Bitcoin as bad for the environment is premised on the notion that Bitcoin is just a pointless game, rather than a useful piece of infrastructure. If it achieves everything that Bitcoin maximalists claim it will (mo
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Ask HN: Best stack for cross-platform desktop app?
15 points by remolacha 5y ago|26 comments
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by remolacha 6y ago
This is done for a very good reason. Some languages have chosen to base the standard on a particular reference implementation rather than a specification. In practice, this has led to any alternative implementations of those languages havin
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by remolacha 6y ago
It’s big in the crypto/DeFi space. Lots of thinking around “mechanism design” - how to engineer a system of incentives where some desired outcome is the stable equilibrium.
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by remolacha 6y ago
There are L2s that solve this, in exchange for slower inclusion into the main chain. Or you can just trade wrapped BTC on another network. In that case, the Bitcoin main chain functions like a gold depository institution in traditional fina
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Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
544 points by remolacha 6y ago|276 comments
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by remolacha 6y ago
Another use for NFTs not mentioned: digital ownership certificates for physical goods. A Rolex’s certificate of authenticity or the deed to a house can be transformed into a token on the blockchain, which helps with liquidity and provenance
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by remolacha 6y ago
Communist party/politics aside, I agree that the beginning of the book had seriously next-level sci-fi creativity, but the last third of the book really rushed the plot. 3bp also would've benefitted from a smaller cast with more c
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Mac-Style Haptic Touch Coming to PC(windowscentral.com)
3 points by remolacha 6y ago|0 comments
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by remolacha 6y ago
And hopefully, some of those extra analytics, animations, and experiences add value. One great thing about high performance on the fundamentals is that it let’s us move to a higher level of abstraction.
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by remolacha 6y ago
They aren’t essential, but they are actually useful. There have been some experiments with banning shorts, but they lead to larger spreads on longs because market participants have to hedge by going risk-off on longs instead of shorting aff
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by remolacha 6y ago
People can seek capital from whomever they want. But it’s also true that outside capital is useful. If my community has lots of resources and no ideas about how to use them, then the world is better off if I take my resources and find an un
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by remolacha 6y ago
Bad take. We need capital markets to effectively value and fund different business efforts (unless you want to do things Soviet-style). And no matter how much fundamental analysis you do, some things remain unknown; all finance is in some w
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by remolacha 6y ago
Programmers today are like scribes were in the middle ages. When 90% of the world knows basic programming, I think that we will have a profoundly different conception of both computation and society.
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by remolacha 6y ago
I agree. But I'm on board with a similar take like: the net present value of a software engineering effort is much larger than the NPV of the end product, because the learning unlocks so much more production down the road.
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Ask HN: What's the best smart contract blockchain?
3 points by remolacha 6y ago|8 comments
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by remolacha 6y ago
But when speaking, having phonetic distance between related words helps prevent confusion. In a noisy environment, you can mishear just the first consonant in "NoCal" and get "SoCal". With "NorCal", you have to
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by remolacha 6y ago
The reason why less than 1% of the population can work on agriculture is because the 1% that work on agriculture are supported by highly specialized individuals that provide advanced farming equipment, weather modeling, genetically engineer

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