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by splix 5y ago
Please note there are different meaning of the "law". And for blockchain it's "law of nature", i.e., just how it works, the principles you have to accept, not legal laws. So at least for the Ethereum Classic thing,
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by splix 5y ago
It's not very hard to google it, I guess it's this case: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur46/3999/2021/en/
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by splix 5y ago
No reason to do double spend when can do MEV
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by splix 5y ago
I think the more interesting part is investment into a bad behavior. And that's what most PoS are trying to solve, ex. with slashing, etc. With PoW regardless outcome you have to spend money on "work", to buy IRL electricity.
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by splix 5y ago
It wasn't a problem with the device. It was Apple decision that one day disallowed to download existing working software. They had the software, and I don't think it was too expensive to keep it downloadable for a few more years.
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by splix 5y ago
I understand that a company cannot keep all old software downloadable forever, but note that in this case it was just a four years old device.
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by splix 5y ago
Yeah, that's what I did. Found an unofficial repair and replaced the battery for less that $100. Anyway, I don't think it should be so hard to replace a battery. And I still remember times when I was able to replace battery manual
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by splix 5y ago
You can redownload supporting apps, but the problem is that the official App Store doesn't have them once a new version of OS comes out. I remember when in 2014 I decided to give away my unused iPad 1st gen, just as a e-reader. So I&#x
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by splix 5y ago
I cannot replace a battery on a perfectly working iPad otherwise, and Apple is charging almost a price of a new device to replace it for me, i.e. they are basially forcing me to buy a new one. Wondering, can that be called a planned obsoles
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by splix 5y ago
I had experience having an exam with the proctorio. And I see many ways how it can be cheated, at least technically. They also say they monitor your head and eyes movements, which is supposed to show something unnatural if you're cheat
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by splix 5y ago
Buybacks may be more effective than dividends. If you consider your bought stocks as a source of income, then you get more control and better taxes with buy-back stocks. With dividends you can't really rely on a future amount, i.e. you
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by splix 5y ago
I think one of the limiting factors is Android, which is still stuck with Java 8. So if you're developing a library, which in theory may be used in Android app by others, you have to stick to Java 8 to make it compatible.
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by splix 5y ago
In practice if an "official" client has a different interpretation of the spec it must be accepted by other clients. Like with mentioned OpenEthereum (ex. Parity) here: https://github.com/openethereum/openethe
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by splix 6y ago
Since the SushiSwap was anonymous fork of Uniswap, I'm wondering how they plan to prevent an another anonymous fork just by using a different license?
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by splix 6y ago
I'm not sure how this can be applied to the discussed issue? Especially considering that this kind of trades are atomic (when run by miners/flashbots), though maybe we use different notion of "atomic".
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by splix 6y ago
It's not about doing trades without moving market afterwards, it's about market moving _before trade_ as a preliminary response of the trade existence.
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by splix 6y ago
Well, as it was discussed in another thread, in another culture/language it may be totally not about slavery. I mean the word "master", which comes from a common Latin root, in different languages it's evolved into a dif
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by splix 6y ago
yeah, similar, there are different words and phrases produced from "master" in Russia, and all of them means something related to professional or good work. Like "master-skaya" is "work room", and so on. So I w
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by splix 6y ago
That's actually an interesting cultural and language difference. Being Russian, I never thought about the offense meaning of the word "master" in English, at least in this context. The reason is that in Russia word "mast
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by splix 6y ago
Besides already mentioned collateralized loans, there is another type of loan, which I think is impossible with traditional finance. It's Flash Loans. In this case, you don't need to provide any collateral, but the smart contract
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by splix 6y ago
Traditional finance has higher friction. I.e., higher cost to take credit, to operate, in many cases slower, and in general, has much higher entry barrier. With defi you can get a loan for millions of dollars just immediately, maybe for a c
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by splix 6y ago
I've got a recent experience with similar software (and still having PTSD from it), and I don't even think it really provides any real protection against cheaters. Ok, maybe all those AI-things to track head and eyes movements eve
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by splix 6y ago
Hm, so, guessing from the description, it's like a new Slack, right? like a chat but for devops people somehow?
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by splix 6y ago
Maybe dev comfort like with Java, and performance like with C++?
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by splix 6y ago
XML files are little bit easier to debug
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by splix 6y ago
It's pretty easy to make it like you said. But it also pretty easy to make it in a way when some companies would have a preference. Second would be more profitable for the owners of that db, so there is a motivation to do it in that wa
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by splix 6y ago
Maybe it's not about transaction scale. And I don't really see how blockchain helps with scale, imho it's opposite. With this particular case, it maybe be solution to fight corruption (just a guess). Centralized trusted contr
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by splix 6y ago
It isn't owned by a single private company, most usually. But multiple companies with equal rights to update. That's what you cannot do with traditional db. Also I don't think there is any significant energy consumed. There i
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by splix 6y ago
What if other operators don't want to introduce an additional governing entity with a super power of taking their customers? Like if they don't want additional corruption, easy to misuse power, etc? I mean, I can imagine governmen
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by splix 6y ago
Take a look at OpenDime [1] + ColdPower [2]. First is a one-time hardware private key, with physical protection of it (i.e. you need to break the device psychically to extract bitcoins), and ability to verify address by plugin-in into USB.

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