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by sparkie 6y ago
This is just adding unwanted complexity to an otherwise simple problem. The purpose of a distributed cryptographic ledger is that no authority may commit to it without the required cryptographic private keys. If you have some party who can
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by sparkie 6y ago
In the PoS game, the stakers must be trusted to report their dice roll accurately. To overcome this, you would need some kind of random oracle which can't be influenced by any of the participants. The best random oracle we know is of c
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by sparkie 6y ago
Last part unless you have any questions and I will expand I mentioned all types in Kernel are disjoint, but didn't mention that they are encapsulated . All primitive types are encapsulated, but you can also create your own encapsulati
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by sparkie 6y ago
A key part of the design is the way environments are implemented. An environment in Kernel consists of two parts: A local map of bindings from symbols to expressions, and an ordered list of references to parent environments. Importantly, th
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by sparkie 6y ago
For more detail on how this works, I'll try to describe how it is implemented. When the evaluator sees a combination such as (f (x y)), it evaluates f and checks if the result is a combiner (and terminates if not). It then tests if f i
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by sparkie 6y ago
I'll try: In most languages, if you call a function f(x), the value x will be implicitly reduced before the resulting value is passed as an argument to the body of the function f. Most languages don't offer any alternative, alth
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by sparkie 6y ago
Kernel's operatives aren't syntactic forms. They're first-class expressions which are evaluated at runtime. The behavior is quite different from macros and provides greater abstractive power. IMO, Kernel is the ideal playgr
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by sparkie 6y ago
klisp is quite efficient (though still slow compared to other Lisps). Bronze-age-lisp optimizes some of the most critical parts in assembly language. This is probably the fastest Kernel you will find. Some details on the design were publish
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by sparkie 6y ago
Yeah, not everyone needs custody of their own money. But those of us who do, can. Under fiat, we can't.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Bitcoin will benefit anyone who wants to save (create capital). It will not be kind on those who merely want to consume. It's low time preference vs high time preference. Not all rich people have low time preferences. Particularly thos
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by sparkie 6y ago
The best strategy is to use a BIP-39 seed phrase with an additional passphrase. The seed phrase should be written down/etched into a piece of metal and stored safely (with redundancy), and the passphrase should be memorized by yourself
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by sparkie 6y ago
The State printing fiat money is essentially stealing time from people who have laboured to create wealth. That wealth is pilfered through devaluing the money supply, with those close to central bank who receive the new money first benefiti
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by sparkie 6y ago
Mining is the process by which new blocks of transactions get added to the ledger. There are no transactions if nobody is mining. When a miner mines a block, they are rewarded with the sum of all fees paid by transactions in the block, plus
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by sparkie 6y ago
The greed is the chairs of central banks and the policymakers who are debasing other monies (some people benefit more than others from this). If they weren't debasing other people's hard earned value, there would be no need for bi
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by sparkie 6y ago
Private keys can be stolen if you leave them lying around. Nobody can steal your bitcoin if your private keys are well protected. And of course, the best protection is a brain wallet. If a State attempts to implement an EO6102 equivalent fo
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by sparkie 6y ago
Value which cannot be stolen or debased. Also, "blockchain" is just a data structure that has practically no use besides bitcoin.
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by sparkie 6y ago
> If everything in the economy is tied together, such that $10 is still an hour of work at a grocery store, and $10 still buys you a lunch or three gallons of milk, and $10 still buys you 4 gallons of gas, etc etc, then I don't see
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by sparkie 6y ago
But when the government 'simply create more', they are not creating any more wealth. They are creating more units of currency to represent the same wealth as before, which eventually makes every unit of currency worth slightly les
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by sparkie 6y ago
It's taxation without representation. You don't get a vote. You get increased prices and reduced purchasing power whether you like it or not.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Bitcoin is money. The best money that has ever existed because it can't be debased and is more difficult to steal. That it isn't widely accepted as a form of payment yet is nothing to worry about. It will come. It is inevitable. D
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by sparkie 6y ago
Oberon: The overlooked Jewel has been posted here a few times: http://people.cs.ksu.edu/~danielwang/Investigation/System_Se...
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by sparkie 6y ago
> yet the prices of houses continues to rise Or, the value of the money continues to decline. If you measure house prices in bitcoin over the past 10 years, then house prices have been in decline relative to bitcoin. This trend is likely
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by sparkie 6y ago
Recall that the WHO were misinformation spreaders early after the COVID-19 outbreak. "Conspiracy theorist" is basically a label for anybody who does not rely on argument from authority. Half of the time they get it wrong, the othe
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by sparkie 6y ago
Mastadon is not "uncensored" either. They put significant effort into blocking gab when it tried integrating into the fediverse. The only real solution to censorship will be a completely distributed system, where users control the
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by sparkie 6y ago
Except where first-class modules are used, the application of a functor to a module happens at at (or before) compile-time. You can have a fully resolved type before runtime, but which can still be abstract at design time. They can be seen
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by sparkie 6y ago
The problem with the assumption that a quality service is provided, is that when there is a violence enforced monopoly on the service, it is impossible to tell whether or not the service is efficient or where it might be improved because th
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by sparkie 6y ago
I didn't say they don't pay taxes. I said they don't contribute to the public purse. Your taxes are not a contribution to the public purse because your entire wage comes from the public purse. A public sector worker is not
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by sparkie 6y ago
I don't feel like responding to the hostile sibling comment, but as you were polite and courteous I will respond and address some of the points raised. A bit of a rant, up to you if you wanna read it all. On the role of empiricism in e
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by sparkie 6y ago
Actually, that isn't the implied canard, but this is what happens in reality: intellectual economists drive policy which affects us all - more often than not negatively. They don't have all of the information and can't make d
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by sparkie 6y ago
You highlight the word economic as if it is some kind of right-wing conspiracy. Economics affects us all. It is nothing to do with rich or privileged versus poor. It is to do with the accumulation of wealth versus the consumption (dissavi

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