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by ryebit 6y ago
followup - shout out to https://defisafety.com/ , which is attempting to curate lists of projects with publically performed audits, to make it easier to assess quality of their code (and how closely code adheres to human sta
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by ryebit 6y ago
From a technical perspective, yeah, I'd say it's a bit more complicated. But establishing agreement with another human means I have to establish a common language with them, then work out what we're agreeing to, then establis
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by ryebit 6y ago
Not OP... but one big difference between PoW and PoS is that: when a PoW block is mined, there's no way to know how much hidden equipment is out there mining a parallel chain, which could suddenly appear and take over with more accumul
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by ryebit 6y ago
I think the big reason this happens is because smart contracts are immutable at the lowlevel. Once it's declared, it's done. I think this is very good for auditability and security. But yeah, that quote is dead on. It's n
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by ryebit 6y ago
It's true there was a lot of shilling; but there were also (IMO) plenty of warnings. --- The official YAM announcement said things such as: > YAM holds zero inherent value > This was a 10-day project from start to launch. We STR
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by ryebit 6y ago
It wasn't a separate block chain, just a smart contract running on Ethereum. And it was an experiment the creator advertised at the start as crazy and untested... So the odds of walking the Ethereum chain back are about like a penny st
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by ryebit 6y ago
> ... and who didn't anticipate the development of the two-party system ... Actually they did. The Federalist papers contained some strong warnings that we must strive to prevent factions / parties from taking over. They were p
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by ryebit 6y ago
His claim wasn't that there will be some amount of fraud... it was that they won't be "anything less than substantially fraudulent" ( https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12652558351245393.
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by ryebit 7y ago
If that's the case, then I think that qualifies as reasonably decentralized, at least for me. Theoretically, anyone could make a work-alike resolver service that used their own Ethereum node to query for results; in which case any atte
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by ryebit 7y ago
Not OP, but nothing on there seems to explain whether UD is just running a database-backed DNS server which they could change at their whim / govt order, or whether ownership and DNS records are actually stored on-chain ala Ethereum&#x
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by ryebit 7y ago
If your code relies on a minimum python version, you can add `python_requires=">=3.5"` to your setup.py [ https://packaging.python.org/guides/distributing-packages-us... ] to ensure it's not installed o
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by ryebit 7y ago
Shame you can't add CAs for a particular set of subdomains, that it's all or nothing.
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by ryebit 7y ago
Sigh. I really hate seeing hg languish like this. Command line is nicer, and I have yet to find any git gui frontend that matches what TortoiseHG can do (both in terms of invocating dialogs from the cmdline; and in terms of presenting an
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by ryebit 8y ago
Yeah, i definitely think common workflow rarely involves connecting to untrusted servers. But... If server gets hacked, connecting in to see why your site is down could steal files before you know what happened. Even better if hack isn&#x27
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by ryebit 8y ago
That's one big reason my company deploys everything through a devpi proxy. Not only can I blacklist versions, override with our own patched versions... But can also guarantee if I installed it during testing, it'll be there in pro
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by ryebit 9y ago
Neither the community nor the core devs wanted 2x in the first place. That's why the original pre-segwit 2x fork didn't work; then BCH was created as a protest; and then (for some reason) the same group of people tried to push Se
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by ryebit 9y ago
Labelling everyone who does that "1 MB maximalists" is a little extreme, and is probably why people are irritated with BCH's marketing tactics. To view your statement in a different light.. maybe people don't care for
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by ryebit 9y ago
It's more a reaction to Bitcoin Cash officially insisting that it's the "real" bitcoin, and trying to actively misleading users by referring to BTC as "Bitcoin Core", creating a false parity to make it seem lik
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by ryebit 9y ago
What is the value of maintaining continuity of the UTXO set? Pretty much any BTC spinoff can and has forked the chain, auto-airdropping their coin to all BTC holders. You don't even have to go that far though, a coin could easily ha
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by ryebit 9y ago
There is a LOT of money being invested to make BCash appear legit. One bit I noticed was this address -- https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin%20cash/address/19hZx234vNt... which has been quietly accumulating (yet nev
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by ryebit 9y ago
Satoshi Nakamoto even disclaimed that bitcoin.com was "unrelated", and that he/she/they registered bitcoin.org as the site they using to publish information. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88.msg
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by ryebit 9y ago
While the article doesn't mention it, I think the recommended uuid function for postgres is uuid_generate_v1mc() from https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/uuid-ossp.html This generates a v1 uuid,
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by ryebit 9y ago
The hard fork the NY agreement mentions was a protocol upgrade that was scheduled for 11/16/2017. The Segwit upgrade took hold, but the second "2mb hard fork" part proved very contentious, and was later cancelled/
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by ryebit 9y ago
Bitcoins can only be transferred if you approve it with your private key; which the other party never sees. You can go lock the bitcoin private key up again, and not worry someone is going take more coins while you're sleeping. All t
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by ryebit 9y ago
Yeah, the whole pulling the API rug out from under Firebug really disappointed me. The FF dev tools looked good initially, but I quickly realized I couldn't actually use them. It was death by a thousand papercuts: all of the features s
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by ryebit 9y ago
Is there some facility for incorporating (non-conflicting) transfers from the discarded chain into the primary? otherwise it sounds like all txns made during the split on the losing chains will simply be discarded, which doesn't sound
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by ryebit 9y ago
I don't have a ready obvious alternative (though I do see others suggested an "f" suffix). The lack of alternative was sort of my point... language design is tricky, and small features in one place can paint you into a corne
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by ryebit 9y ago
A more direct comparison given perl6's typing would be either [python] >>> from decimal import Decimal >>> Decimal("0.1") + Decimal("0.2") == Decimal("0.3") True or
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by ryebit 9y ago
The "e" notation is just a shorthand for multiplying by a power of ten. I was kinda surprised when the article stated that "5.23e5" wasn't treated the same as as "5.23 * 10 * * 5". Mathematically, rationa
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by ryebit 9y ago
One mistake that (easily) gets made is thinking science is a product, a body of knowledge. Science is a process , that (through repeated application) can take a body of knowledge, and improve it's depth and accuracy. You want to get

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