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by rglullis 6mo ago
Payment channels are possible on other networks as well. Once again, there is no inherent advantage to Bitcoin here. I know because I worked on one ( https://raiden.network/ ). I also dealt with many of its failure modes:
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by rglullis 6mo ago
Well, to be fair to OP: small business and retailers are also not getting "real" money when they accept payment via credit cards from Visa/MasterCard. To be honest I think the issue here is not due to speed of settlement, but
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by rglullis 6mo ago
> And you DO transfer bitcoin. No, Layer-2 systems only transfer cryptographically signed IOUs between nodes. Settlement only happens when these IOUs are cashed out, and to cash out you need a transaction in the blockchain layer, so th
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by rglullis 6mo ago
> There is a spectrum to anonymity, however. But you can only make any claims about the properties of a system when looking at the extremes. If Bitcoin's blockchain does not make strong anonymity guarantees as Monero, then Bitcoin
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by rglullis 6mo ago
- Lightning is not fully anonymous. It can still be traced by the participating nodes. - Ethereum's blockchain consumes less energy, is more decentralized, it's a lot more resistent to any form of attack and it can also host fix
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by rglullis 6mo ago
> they have been bribed by the IMF to get rid of bitcoin And the US government is being bribed by Silicon Valley to adopt crypto... > I am not a bitcoin-as-currency evangelist Then why all the talk about Lighning and the dismissal of
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by rglullis 6mo ago
Isn´t the experiment in El Salvador proof that Bitcoin does not work as a currency? If you think it isn't, then do you have any measurable pass/fail test for it?
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by rglullis 6mo ago
Great. Let's remove all ads and end up all and any form of subdized work. Now, tell me how much you will be contributing to KDE?
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by rglullis 6mo ago
> My point is, that twitter is nothing different And my point is that Twitter is different because it has become a direct instrument from one single man to proselytize and shape the conversation. > If you notice it, then twitter i
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by rglullis 6mo ago
> each platform has its own tone, be that X, bluesky, the local darts club, PTA, or church. that tone is enforced by the people who support/take part in that platform. You are abusing the meaning of the word "platform" to
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by rglullis 6mo ago
I go check it out once a month, it's nothing but bots, AI hustlers and Musk jerking. Why would any brand actively invest in their presence there?
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by rglullis 6mo ago
Not all platforms are agressive about the tone-policing and "real life" is not a platform. AFAIK, we still don't live in a world where the moneyed class get to set the rules about who is allowed to exist in "real life&
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by rglullis 7mo ago
Not OP, but to me the answer is: - gitea - woodpecker CI - my own docker registry - portainer running on my docker swarm I then define the docker stack in the git repository, and CI builds the images and pushes to build the ne
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by rglullis 7mo ago
And the fact that you only got to shut up after being asked what you are willing to put on the line tells me how devoid of meaning your argument is, no matter what it is .
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by rglullis 7mo ago
> I cannot find a single action of anyone that cannot be construed as an attempt to get them power/money/influence Try the other way around, via negativa. We definitely can find plenty of examples of people stepping out of po
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by rglullis 7mo ago
All I'm saying is "I do not know what is the real upside on leaving the current practices in academia and education in favor of 'let the LLM guide you'". If it was my ass on the line, I would apply the precautionary
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by rglullis 7mo ago
> what information would significantly change your views Quite simple: show me any single action took by Sam Altman which can not be construed as an attempt to get him more power/money/influence. You can't find it. The dif
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by rglullis 7mo ago
> In which case, how else would you propose doing it? - Registering an url handler? - Asking the user?
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Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed(osnews.com)
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by rglullis 7mo ago
> The answer is “vet your sources, don’t trust unsourced claims.” This was already a problem for Wikipedia (articles being written which upon further investigation were based on nothing but Wikipedia itself). With LLM themselves facili
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by rglullis 7mo ago
The problem I have with your logic is that you are hedging your arguments so much that the whole point become meaningless. If you are trying to argue that young aspiring scientists will be able to use LLMs to learn new concepts instead
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by rglullis 7mo ago
> I’ve now ostensibly understood what a derivative does and what it’s used for, yet I have zero idea how to mathematically do it. Does that make any results I gain from this intuitive understanding any less valuable? From a science sta
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by rglullis 7mo ago
> so they can produce other, more useful, results But to even *know* what is more useful, it is crucial to have walked the walk. Otherwise we will all end up with a bunch of people trying to reinvent the wheel, over and over again, like
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by rglullis 7mo ago
So that explains the handful of random sign-ups I am getting on Communick. The pattern fits exactly what I am seeing as well (3-4 signups in an hour, weird usernames and gmail/hotmail addresses with lots of "." that are usual
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by rglullis 7mo ago
> What's your basis for thinking this will work long term? Even if this approach doesn't work long term, the important thing is to establish product-market fit, and to get enough people committed to the idea that your produ
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by rglullis 7mo ago
"23andme", you mean? They were not free, but they were not building their product on open standards, were they? So the don't my pass my filter as well.
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by rglullis 7mo ago
> every online service This deserves a few qualifiers. I think this should be applied to any service that is - "free" or "freemium" - wrapped as a black box which gives no way out for customers. There are plenty of co
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by rglullis 7mo ago
They got a very sweet deal from the Pentagon, it seems.
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by rglullis 7mo ago
I shouldn't be giving ideas to your boss, but I bet he would be interested in making ChatGPT available only by paying customers or free for those whose who gets their eyes scanned by The Orb. Give 30 days of raised limits and we'r
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by rglullis 7mo ago
But then what are they going to do with the Gorillas? Are winters in Korea that cold?

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