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811.
by shawnz 5y ago
> is the act of signing a record proof of work? The idea behind proof-of-work is to add a cost to inserts, so that inserting wrong information is too costly to be profitable. Whereas inserting correct information makes you eligible for r
812.
by shawnz 5y ago
DNS blocking is way more trivial to bypass than client-side blocking.
813.
by shawnz 5y ago
Equities and ETFs already give you access to those other mechanisms. For example, you can get exposure to real estate through REITs
814.
by shawnz 5y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27075245
815.
by shawnz 5y ago
Maybe this is a good opportunity to create a "reverse Amazon" service for small businesses?
816.
by shawnz 5y ago
I think that's exactly their point: Amazon uses fake reviews to make the poorly advertised cheap crap look like well advertised expensive crap. Therefore, you're more likely to trust Amazon instead of buying the exact same product
817.
by shawnz 5y ago
Is it better if those corrupt bureaucracies use coal instead, thus necessitating the consumption and handling of around 1000000x as much fuel?
818.
by shawnz 5y ago
It's just being converted to solar :)
819.
by shawnz 5y ago
Do you mean to say MSG itself is an excitotoxin? It doesn't make sense to say there are excitotoxins in it. It's just a single compound.
820.
by shawnz 5y ago
I don't think the suggestion is that they'd sell counterfeits. The suggestion is that even the real thing has no special differentiating properties. The authenticity certificate is just a tool to achieve better signaling, nobody c
821.
by shawnz 5y ago
> A basic tenet of cryptographic security definitions is that the honest parties should have an advantage over the attackers in the sense that a small increase the work done by the honest parties results in a large increase in the work t
822.
by shawnz 6y ago
I certainly agree with all that. It should be banned.
823.
by shawnz 6y ago
https://thorax.bmj.com/content/58/9/809#xref-ref-7-1 > Necroscopic studies have led to the determination of asbestos fibre load and the demonstration of a dose related effect, thus making improbable the ar
824.
by shawnz 6y ago
I don't think this comparison with "the standard used in cryptography" is really accurate or useful. Cryptography tries to avoid speculating on the attacker's motivation, but establishing trust from nothing is a differen
825.
by shawnz 6y ago
How would that achieve what the other poster is saying, which is to heat the insides more than the surface? Wouldn't that just heat both the insides and the surface more evenly?
826.
by shawnz 6y ago
What is the "spirit" of the law that's being violated when you press an elevator button, that isn't violated by general usage of the elevator at all?
827.
by shawnz 6y ago
If the point is just to show a commitment from the members, why not choose a method of showing commitment that doesn't create so much unnecessary waste? Like Lent or Ramadan, or simply meditating or something, rather than having elevat
828.
by shawnz 6y ago
If you assume all the current mining capacity is in use, and everyone mining right now is actually dishonest and collaborating with each other as a single party (worst case), then at most you just need to match the current capacity to preve
829.
by shawnz 6y ago
I'm not sure the answer to your question specifically, but somewhat related is that GIMP invented GTK. (GTK formerly stood for GIMP toolkit)
830.
by shawnz 6y ago
It would be easy for existing users to see how much energy the cheaters are spending based on the blocks that are getting published. A block gets published every 10 minutes on average so it wouldn't take a long time to become obvious.
831.
by shawnz 6y ago
I agree the monochrome icons have significant disadvantages. Visual Studio a few years ago made the same attempt at having monochrome icons and there was such pushback that they eventually moved to the current scheme of "monochrome wit
832.
by shawnz 6y ago
I would say the GIMP team does understand that and they often put a high focus on UI improvements on their roadmaps. I suppose they just have limited resources to work with.
833.
by shawnz 6y ago
And previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26995610
834.
by shawnz 6y ago
Right, if they think customers need less then they can just advertise less. They shouldn't get the benefit of advertising a big number while providing a small number just because most customers can't tell. That will make it imposs
835.
by shawnz 6y ago
I am sure you know well the counterarguments to measuring by kWh per transaction. - The power consumption of Bitcoin has almost nothing to do with the transaction rate limit. Increasing it would have basically no impact on the power consump
836.
by shawnz 6y ago
I never said anything about which technology was easier to kill. The question is which technology can be made more efficient while retaining its utility. The subtle implication is obviously that Bitcoin isn't useful, but what is the po
837.
by shawnz 6y ago
As is commonly pointed out in these threads, that's likely only around 60% the usage of idle always-on electronics in the US. Isn't that a way more obvious low hanging fruit? Human activity uses energy, that's unavoidable.
838.
by shawnz 6y ago
The efficiency of Visa isn't comparable because it solves a completely different problem than Bitcoin. And yes, in most cases we can pay each other just fine without Bitcoin. That doesn't negate its specific usefulness. It's
839.
by shawnz 6y ago
I wouldn't say those risks are overlooked by most holders, rather that risk profile is exactly the reason why anyone would want to use cryptocurrency to begin with. Perhaps some hype artists would claim otherwise, but they shouldn&#x27
840.
by shawnz 6y ago
> it's a horribly inefficient way to do that It's not "inefficient", relatively speaking, if there's no more efficient way to do it while still achieving the same risk profile.

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