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by shawnz 5y ago
> You equate running a complicated, deeply competitive business with highly variable yields (can even be negative) with just parking money, and call both "doing nothing"? No, what I am really saying is that PoW mining and PoS s
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by shawnz 5y ago
You can lose money staking too, in exactly the same way. The staking reward needs to be greater than the return of whatever else you could have invested your money in instead. If the staking reward ends up being lower, then you are effectiv
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by shawnz 5y ago
With PoW, you do nothing except maintain your mining hardware and burn electricity. With PoS, you do nothing except maintain your staking hardware and burn the time value of the money you are staking. From that perspective there is no diffe
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by shawnz 5y ago
Seems like a nicely researched collection of links, although I think they are a bit too quick to dismiss PoS as a lost cause. Perhaps PoW really is the superior system for now, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to resear
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by shawnz 5y ago
PoS requires constant investment in terms of lost time value of money.
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by shawnz 5y ago
IMO that ship has sailed given the word has been extensively used in software contexts for some time.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Seems like kind of a wordy name, why not just "nonce"?
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by shawnz 5y ago
I don't think it's accurate that "lay-users" prefer the new UI. Perhaps the metrics have improved, but in my experience I have heard nothing but frustration from my non-technical peers when it comes to the new dark patte
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by shawnz 5y ago
> If you go an appropriate it to describe a whole bunch of phenomena because you can't be bothered to distinguish between them Cosmic ray is the appropriate colloquial term. Just like "bug" is the appropriate term to descr
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by shawnz 5y ago
Disney's intellectual property would be a good choice for this exercise
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by shawnz 5y ago
> Journalctl doesn't resemble any tools I already know What about "tail"?
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by shawnz 5y ago
Some may claim that laypeople like the new UI better, but anecdotally, among my social circle of non-techy people, that's not the case. In fact it is becoming something of a meme that Reddit is now impractical to use on mobile if you&#
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by shawnz 5y ago
Joe Shmoe could also autograph a book he didn't write, it just wouldn't be very valuable.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Consider this thought experiment. Think of the people working at your place of employment in low-level positions who make less money than you. Do you think they are on average doing less productive work than you, or less likely to be "
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by shawnz 5y ago
I agree with their interpretation. "Be more ambitious" isn't a solution to poverty. There are plenty of ambitious people to compete with at every income level.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Where?
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by shawnz 5y ago
> Obviously, the solution to this problem would be to just eat primate meat instead What if we gene-edited our babies to have GGTA1 again from birth?
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by shawnz 5y ago
Why doesn't red meat itself also trigger the allergy? What's different about the delivery from ticks that makes it allergenic as opposed to the delivery from food?
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by shawnz 5y ago
No, any kind of purely speculative investment meets that definition. That is exactly what the other poster is saying. It is a misunderstanding to say that such an asset is a Ponzi scheme.
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by shawnz 5y ago
I don't think this is correct. Most compilers include the path to the source code on the build machine in the debug info, and it's a common problem for reproducible builds. This is not a rust-specific issue. Obviously the binary c
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by shawnz 5y ago
This works quite well for me, I see a list of people who all seem to have agreeable comments. All my similarity scores are in the range 0.988-0.986.
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by shawnz 5y ago
You are right, an integration test would probably be better for demonstrating that this feature works. I only mean to say that you don't need a whole compliance testing suite to catch a major bug like this.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Right, I mean on platforms other than iOS of course. That's why third party browser engines ought to be allowed, so that vendors like Mozilla would be able to provide those features on iOS too.
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by shawnz 5y ago
I don't think the other poster was talking about automated tests for conformance to the specification, just basic unit tests indicating that the feature works at all by any reasonable definition.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Firefox supports adblockers on mobile, and the functionality exceeds what Safari content blockers are able to achieve
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by shawnz 5y ago
I don't understand, why would they care about that? Are you saying people would be less interested in baseball if the MLB were upfront about the past instances of cheating?
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by shawnz 5y ago
Most people probably don't preoccupy themselves with reduction of suffering, but that is not the same as saying most people don't see value in reducing suffering.
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by shawnz 5y ago
If you are willing to use SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED, then you can implement the queue without any UPDATE query or status column at all. Just lock the record to mark it as in progress, that is how you get the benefit that when the wo
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by shawnz 5y ago
But you will have marked it as in progress by setting the "expire" to a non-zero value, preventing any other workers from trying to work on it. How will they know that the worker which marked it actually crashed and will never fin
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by shawnz 5y ago
For those who are not familiar with him, here's a great example of his extensively researched written work, in which he replicates McDonald's fries. https://www.seriouseats.com/the-burger-lab-how-to-make-perfe...

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