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by sprash 7y ago
Bad idea, better idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_number_system main advantages: - no multiple representations of the same number - multiplication/division with complexity of addition and subtractio
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by sprash 7y ago
It will take a long time until NMC will be as popular as BTC if ever. Until then let other people figure out how to implement a proper proof of stake and switch to it when the time comes. In the mean time merged mining is the best compromis
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by sprash 7y ago
As long as Bitcoin exists you can do merged mining with Namecoin. This means there is literally zero additional cost and impact on the environment for mining. If the very unlikely case occurs and bitcoin stops being a thing there is always
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by sprash 7y ago
People have not been hurt enough by centralized DNS and CA certification yet. As soon as that happens the masses will adopt the decentralized version in droves. It might just never happen. Until then the "worse is better" rule app
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by sprash 7y ago
I never tried ENS but namecoin works flawlessly as intended. It is actually more reliable than classic DNS. It may have failed at adoption, but the problem of decentralizing DNS has been solved.
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by sprash 7y ago
A good alternative to IPFS that works today is magnet links and torrents. There are "youtube competitors" that offload the high bandwith requirements via webtorrents running in javascript. You can not host your full webpage with i
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by sprash 7y ago
I used emacs for years and had accumulated about 10000 loc init.el over that time. With my new employer I'm forced to use notepad++ on Windows. The difference in actual productivity: zero! Emacs is a nice hobby but when you want do get
608.
by sprash 7y ago
Once NIM is stable it will be superior to Python in every measurable way. Is there any reason to stay with Python for new projects that don't depend on a particular Python library?
609.
by sprash 7y ago
I use the program "xcape" [1] to map CapsLock to Esc when no other button is pressed and Ctrl when it is pressed together with another button. Similarly you could remap the Spacebar to e.g. R_Shift with Xmodmap and let xcape emit
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by sprash 7y ago
> Could you please give me some pointers as to how it would work? What do you mean by work? It already works quiet well. Except for the entry barrier. > On the other hand, have you tried IPFS? I have tried it a while ago and it is ver
611.
by sprash 7y ago
Decentralized and based on blockchain. Something like steem but with lower barrier of entry.
612.
by sprash 7y ago
If you can stomach the volatility and really like risk just go ahead and max out all your credit cards. Just don't be the guy who buys the top.
613.
by sprash 7y ago
Oh really. Just wait until the police and military demands to be paid with bitcoin.
614.
by sprash 7y ago
Just because you can short futures doesn't mean you can effectively short bitcoin. You see this immediately if you look at the forward prices which are vastly different from the actual price. There is no instrument to borrow and short
615.
by sprash 7y ago
Because there is an artificial eternal demand for fiat. Fiat is created as debt with interest. This means the total debt can never be payed except with more debt. As soon as the state ceases to use force to collect debt, fiat will be worthl
616.
by sprash 7y ago
You can't. What is more likely is that central banks that can print infinite amounts of their own money are buying up bitcoin in order to make it useless. Bitcoin is seen as competitor by central banks. The same happened to gold. As so
617.
by sprash 7y ago
The instability and the high fees make it useless for generic payment. The lighting network was supposed to fix latter problem. As soon as the bitcoin price becomes stable it will be useful. As soon as it is useful it will swiftly rise in v
618.
by sprash 7y ago
Yes because Earth is not a closed system. If you reduce the speed of rotation and radiate the acquired Energy into space the total angular momentum (in the universe) stays the same but the angular momentum of only Earth + atmosphere changes
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by sprash 7y ago
> suicide is a valid way to remove a weak seed from the gene pool The smartest people are always full of doubt. The fact that you can express yourself in coherent sentences without any grammar mistakes makes you already part of the bette
620.
by sprash 7y ago
It is more complicated than that. The effect is minuscule and won't matter for the next million years.
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by sprash 7y ago
Yes, if you like communism then it is feasable to give away nuclear energy "for free". In the free market nuclear does not have a chance. The military has specilized needs and is mainly interested in nuclear wheapons. Using the in
622.
by sprash 7y ago
Conservation of angular momentum doesn't care about the origin of those winds. If you harvesting net average west wind you are slowing down earths rotation.
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by sprash 7y ago
> Nuclear looks bad if you restrict it to 1940's technology. The research in nuclear is still been done very actively. My country is putting hundreds of millions per year into nuclear research. But even the new technologies are not
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by sprash 7y ago
> Solar Panels Lifespan - ~25 years - Good I don't know where these numbers come from but the solar panels on my house were installed about 20 years ago and have so far not shown any degradation assuming a 5% margin of error in meas
625.
by sprash 7y ago
Looking at mid term solutions: Nuclear fission is just not cost effective if you factor in all total cost of a building a secure nuclear power plant and safely dismantling it after its lifetime. Also uranium ore is a limited non renewable r
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by sprash 7y ago
Of course they were tibal. They caused lots of problems and the result is a popular culture defined by McDonalds and MickeyMouse.
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by sprash 7y ago
It turns out the perfect OS already exists: Inferno OS [1]. It doesn't need a MMU and runs with less than 1 MB of RAM. I did not dive into Limbo yet but at first glance it looks rather sane. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by sprash 7y ago
> that's a choice someone makes If you have a vastly non-tribalistic society (.e.g. western society) and introduce masses of highly tribalistic immigrants then the host society has no choice but to either become tribalistic itself o
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by sprash 7y ago
The crime free nature of Japan will be a thing of a past. The quality of life for natives will decrease vastly. Wages will be pushed further down. Having worked together on many projects with Japanese I know immigrants have nothing of value
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by sprash 7y ago
> I don't see any innovation. To me to Windows95 UI (not the OS) is peak productivity usability. All UI innovations that came later were just distractions except maybe tiling window managers and the "Exposé" function in Ma

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