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Ask HN: What to expect from Google when my credit card is illegally used on GCP?
1 points by spir 6y ago|1 comments
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by spir 6y ago
Thanks for your reply! You might be interested to check out https://medalla.launchpad.ethereum.org - this is a public testnet of Ethereum proof of stake https://beaconcha.in/ - this is an explorer for the proof
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by spir 6y ago
Yes, PoS has been proven to work. The research problems are solved. A public testnet of Ethereum's proof of stake is currently live. https://medalla.launchpad.ethereum.org/
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by spir 6y ago
The Ethereum community started talking about this five years ago, which spawned a multi-year effort to move to "Proof of Stake" and stop using large amounts of electricity forever. The first phase of this effort launches later thi
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by spir 6y ago
I spend a lot of time on Ethereum and wanted to respond to your points. 1) Yes, proof of work is terrible long-term, mainly because its cost scales with the market cap of the cryptocurrencies it secures. Ethereum is switching to proof of st
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by spir 6y ago
This article is misinformed. The past two years have seen a Cambrian explosion of apps on ethereum. financial apps on ethereum - https://defipulse.com/ - https://uniswap.info/home - https://compo
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by spir 6y ago
ETH-collateralized loans are permissionlessly accessible on the Ethereum blockchain. Right now it's a 0% APR. https://oasis.app/borrow You can also get a Bitcoin-collateralized loan using the same service. A Bitcoin lo
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by spir 6y ago
If the "mastermind" is a 17 year old, Jack should intervene to save his life from being ruined.
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by spir 6y ago
Pardon me, I wasn't clear. I am not advocating for tax fraud or illegality :) Self-sovereignty is a technical characteristic of blockchains where nobody can prove you own a asset or did a transaction. That makes it hard to prove tax co
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by spir 6y ago
Ethereum-based options trading is going to enable these consumer experiences to be global, private, decentralized, and self-sovereign within a few years. It works already, but has many sharp edges. When that happens, retail investors in Uta
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by spir 6y ago
I couldn't find any screenshots, archive.org link, or browser history for the tweet I saw. So, unfortunately I have no evidence that the scam tweets started before Wednesday. We'll see what Twitter finds.
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by spir 6y ago
I am used to spotting cryptocurrency scams. The tweet I saw was from his official account, days before the "Wednesday hack".
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by spir 6y ago
Is it generally known that this hack was live for at least a few days, not just Wednesday? I personally saw one of the official @elonmusk scam tweets earlier this week.
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by spir 6y ago
Mining revenue is the network cost of running the Bitcoin network. What if you ran a business that spends billions per year on network cost, then somebody told you they could reduce it by 98% and make it a flat cost, forever. That's pr
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by spir 6y ago
> The first ARPAnet was immediately useful to almost everyone who had access to it. As an Ethereum user, I find Ethereum useful. Maybe my experience is not unlike that of the initial ARPAnet users? While between jobs, I have paid my rent
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by spir 6y ago
Today, on Ethereum, in one atomic transaction, you can borrow $5m with zero credit or collateral, execute an arbitrage algorithm across N independent financial services, generate a small profit, and repay the $5m. The transaction fails if t
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by spir 6y ago
> The difference of course is that the Internet was immediately useful to an exponentially exploding number of people. An overnight success twenty years in the making :)
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by spir 6y ago
http://www.alteraeon.com/ may be of interest. Alter Aeon is a text-based online roleplaying game (a MUD). I believe that over half of their players are vision-impaired. Perhaps they could be a source of information as well
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by spir 6y ago
Btw, I find a lot about Scala to be interesting besides that it supports pure functional programming. For me, Scala is much nicer for imperative/OOP than Java, in ways that aren't just skin deep. https://medium.com&#x2F
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by spir 6y ago
I solved this by clearing the Chrome site data for web.archive.org. It seems that others had this issue too https://archive.org/post/1100034/webarchiveorg-unexpectedly-...
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Ask HN: What happened to Archive.org's Wayback machine?
2 points by spir 6y ago|3 comments
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by spir 6y ago
I haven't tried GraalVM native-image on Windows :(
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by spir 6y ago
I'd jump straight to dotty! You may as well learn the latest 'n greatest.
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by spir 6y ago
Scala 3 will alleviate some of the pain you felt, for example around implicits. Scala's IDE tooling is getting better with faster compilation and language servers. Scala is a fusion of object-oriented and functional programming. There
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by spir 6y ago
Here's a great talk given by Martin Odersky, "A Tour of Scala 3" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rnrx2lo9cw That talk is almost a year old now :) a lot of progress has been made towards launching Scala 3. Th
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by spir 6y ago
It's less true now because some of the patterns associated with code that's difficult to understand have been deprecated or flagged by the community to avoid. For example, implicit conversions are now disabled by default. It'
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by spir 6y ago
I've worked with Dotty a bit and read about it a lot. I am very excited about Scala 3 :) Scala 3 isn't a python2/python3 situation. It will take years for large codebases to be upgraded to Scala 3. However, the tools to migra
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by spir 6y ago
In my mind, GraalVM native compilation has superseded scala-native. GraalVM native compilation works really well. Many projects will compile to native out of the box. Many more with a bit of reflection config that's autogenerated. The
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Show HN: A Monte Carlo estimate of US deaths from Covid-19, written in Scala(scastie.scala-lang.org)
3 points by spir 7y ago|0 comments
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by spir 7y ago
PSA: I just received a github phishing request that was not detected by Gmail. I almost fell for it. Phishing email looks like a "review your suspicious activity" alert, but the alert is the suspicious activity. https:/&#x2F

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