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by spopejoy 9y ago
We haven't seen the use-case yet where the (signature,payload) tuple is not isomorphic to a transaction. Yes, in the case of multiple, distinct payloads, you'd have to break those into separate transactions, but that seems like a
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by spopejoy 9y ago
Bitcoin was the inspiration, in identifying a fundamental aspect of blockchain being "authorization by verifying signatures on a transaction." Keysets are a primitive to avoid making multisig a "special case": anywhere y
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by spopejoy 9y ago
Ivy is different, for one that it intends to be a trans-compiled lang to Bitcoin and other substrates. It shares Pact's focus on public-key authorization, due to their shared debt to Bitcoin scripts as design inspiration. Perhaps the m
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by spopejoy 9y ago
Pact is live and in-use in enterprise settings on our permissioned blockchain platform; you can download the interpreter which when launched with "-serve" presents the RPC REST API, allowing you to write whole applications with ju
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by spopejoy 9y ago
Do you think this really belongs on a blockchain, as a transactional environment? There's a notion that things like greeks and other non-linear inputs are best fed as inputs/oracles, for a number of reasons: 1) avoiding stochast
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by spopejoy 9y ago
It's possible, but impractical: - Pact executes in a runtime environment that at a minimum ensures any ED25519 signatures on the transaction are valid, such that code can then test the validated public keys to enforce authorization rul
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by spopejoy 9y ago
> It sure makes me wonder if Ethereum would do better with a less forgiving programming language. This will be hard. While Solidity certainly has problems unto itself, some of its insecurity comes from the EVM's design, which is alm
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by spopejoy 10y ago
In truth, your real issue is you don't value an integrated workplace. Once you decide that it is a top priority to have a diverse workforce, you will find ways to attract, grow, and retain diverse talent. You clearly have not decided t
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by spopejoy 10y ago
I use markdown for blog posts and presentations, pandoc and/or hakyll (jekyll for haskell) suits me fine. What am I missing that org mode would provide?
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by spopejoy 10y ago
I suppose the collusion is more guilt-by-association -- the DNC's tight relationship with major media means unfair activity on their part will be amplified in the press, and given the extremity of the bad-faith activities in this case,
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by spopejoy 10y ago
But you don't challenge the central point. Just because major media collusion with [DR]NC is normal doesn't make it any less galling. In fact the only reason there is any complaint this time around is precisely because Bernie&#x27
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by spopejoy 10y ago
> Is its responsibility to earn profit in conflict with the interests of its users? Yes. I'm amazed honestly that people even read/watch this loser's output. Zuck is the classic example of somebody who got lucky once and n
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by spopejoy 10y ago
I think you're railing too much on the "obvious victor" point, which the OP didn't even say. In fact, given your statement "Longtime establishment Democrat operatives acting on behalf of a longtime establishment Dem
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by spopejoy 10y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you, albeit from the "Bernie's not left enough" side -- I was amongst those who were critical of his decision to go Democrat in the first place, announcing right from the start that he'd e
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Types (and Type Inference) in the Pact Smart Contract Language(kadena.io)
2 points by spopejoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by spopejoy 10y ago
Yes but why? Why not put this effort towards simply reintroducing biodiversity to our crops?? How do you counter the very obvious profit motive here? "Gee Beta Carotene I Understand That's Good For Your Health, I'll Pay A Pre
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by spopejoy 10y ago
News Flash: Genetic Scientist Thinks GMO foods Are OK. What a shocker, a booster for GMOs who works in ... gene sequencing.
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by spopejoy 10y ago
There's a number of applications for permissioned blockchains, perhaps even running in a "public" context. But the main application so far is inter-organizational transactional systems. Smart contracts in this context are as
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Kadena open sources new smart contract language, Pact(kadena.io)
4 points by spopejoy 10y ago|0 comments
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by spopejoy 10y ago
Pact is fundamentally different from Hopper, reflecting our goal to create the right database metaphor for blockchain systems. You can see Bitcoin as a single-purpose versioned key-value database with support for authorization with public k
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by spopejoy 10y ago
Is this commit from Oct 4 what you're referring to? https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/46a527d014851... Ethereum is decidedly non-transactional in certain cases, like nested contract creation
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by spopejoy 10y ago
It's still a blockchain though. Bitcoin is also a database-backed BFT consensus, with a fixed transaction batch size, a fixed data schema, and a probabilistic consensus/BFT algorithm. Deterministic BFT consensus systems that main
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by spopejoy 10y ago
Isn't that the "yellow plate/red plate" thing? I've heard that many get the governor installed, get the plate, remove the governor. I saw lots of scooters going too fast, passing folks in bike lanes in Amsterdam.
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by spopejoy 10y ago
> sometimes the only way to bike safely is to attempt to match the speed of the traffic Can someone cite a study on this claim? I ride my bike every day and never ever see the need to match traffic, unless it happens to be going slower t
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Juno follows Raft/Tangaroa in that it treats the state machine like a black box which it runs strictly post-commit. Significantly, this means it doesn't do a full BFT (which is ultimately application-specific), meaning it is possi
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Should also point out that Juno can run EVM, via Masala, which is our stand-alone EVM interpreter. ( https://github.com/slpopejoy/masala ) One thing EVM gets right is being a deterministic state machine -- giving rise
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by spopejoy 11y ago
Adapt or die. Integrated workforces are more successful. And with that I take my leave of this whiny white bastion called HN. Enjoy your caves, suckas
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by spopejoy 11y ago
HAHAHAHAHA you think quoting a mayor is a reasonable defense of a anti-public-union screed. It's their freaking day job to face off against unions, they are management.
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by spopejoy 11y ago
"pension giveaways" "crushing city finances" Oh my goodness, look up from your Economist occasionally and read some history. New York didn't go broke in the 70s because of lazy union members, but because Wall Street
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by spopejoy 11y ago
OMG can we get a moratorium on "tbh"? Just say "Indeed" or some other filler. "To be honest" is bad writing even when it's spelled out.

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