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by somjeed 5y ago
I'm skeptical of a few things in the medium post, for instance if you compare the etherium's ERC20 defi ecosystem to bitcoin, you will get more git repositories because there are simply more coins. Secondly, more is not always be
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by somjeed 5y ago
Miners want to maximize transaction fees. So more is better. But there is a massive tradeoff, being every transaction must be stored to verify later.
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by somjeed 5y ago
There are many other considerations that make a transaction possible. If you remove them, then a transaction wont have much value. For instance, security of chain's history or censorship resistance are required. These features can fal
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by somjeed 6y ago
NFTs imply there is a platform which supports the contract and blocks all non-ownership AND people will use no other platforms
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by somjeed 6y ago
top signals for 600, Alex
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by somjeed 6y ago
Here's a nice source of revenue from google ($9 billion/year): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-reportedly-pays-apple-...
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by somjeed 6y ago
yes it is.
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by somjeed 6y ago
Lindy effect. Sure you can copy it, but the original remains. The scarcity exists inside the network, and in a sense you cannot copy it, because the copy is just that - there is no use in copying it.
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by somjeed 6y ago
your stonks liquidity is dependent on constant injection, so your "making" more than $60k may be temporary
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by somjeed 6y ago
umm, just use the Apple App store then... and let others have a choice
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by somjeed 6y ago
He could argue it's for experimentation/faucet. I doubt this goes anywhere, but still shady. This dude has a massive ego and gives off charlatan vibes edit:seems he is trying to actively to list this on exchanges, so yeah if he do
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by somjeed 6y ago
Are we just going to pretend like this election was not different from every other election? Something very unique occurred in this election and I don't appreciate the media and leaders declaring a winner when the other candidate is st
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by somjeed 6y ago
guilty of not reading article... but who could have guessed slicing an enormous code base and replacing it willy nilly would lead to mistakes
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by somjeed 6y ago
>buying journalism one journalist at a time is too expensive. I think this closed view is partially do to how we consume media as a service vs. a cheap one time payment/view. I'm not sure if substack is a solution or if micropa
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by somjeed 6y ago
it is more than wishful, it is pragmatic, as all attempts before it were shut down by very powerful forces. The purpose of PoW is to create anti-fragile, unstoppable signals using opportunity costs. How society decides to dictate those cost
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by somjeed 6y ago
second reply (a2dp mentioned) worked for me: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/437468/bluetooth-he... sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service Change ExecStart=/usr/lib&
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by somjeed 6y ago
Likely projecting their own existential fear of loneliness. Fear is not a good place
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by somjeed 6y ago
The opportunity cost of electricity, what you call waste, is the most apolitical and ungameable resource available. Every other example to "vote" I've seen quickly devolves into another political game.
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by somjeed 6y ago
And there's also plenty of us that recognize what some are certain is best for the community, may not be. E.g. politicized forced vaccination
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by somjeed 6y ago
Why not then put it on the iPhone too. Considering Apple's stance on aesthetics and non-moving parts, seems unlikely
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by somjeed 6y ago
"We don't have a formal proof for this, and only have empirical evidence, measured on a large number of test instances. More on this in the paper. The learned algorithm is not entirely opaque. I'd argue it is easier to und
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by somjeed 6y ago
If the work proof additionally became useful, it would develop a secondary market, and the difficulty would reset to that new cost. In other words, the useful problem solving would just obfuscate cost. It misses the point of proof of work,