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by tcgv 5y ago
Exactly. Vitalik Buterin even shared his concerns on the fundamental security limits of cross-chain bridges earlier this year: > For example, suppose that you have 100 ETH on Ethereum, and Ethereum gets 51% attacked, so some transactions
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by tcgv 5y ago
What do you mean by third party broker? Tornado Cash is a decentralized protocol based on zero knowledge proofs. Its smart contracts are immutable, have no admins. Besides that, let us not forget that the Mastercard/Visa middlemen char
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by tcgv 5y ago
Good question. There are tools and procedures that can be used to maintain anonymity within the blockchain. For instance, tornado cash is a popular dapp used to break the on-chain link between source and destination addresses of a transacti
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Here are some reasons I can think of that impact software quality: - Profitability prioritized over user experience - Design prioritized over functionality - Never-ending push towards new (mostly useless) features - Poor product specificati
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Why stop at education? Basic health coverage and housing when not accessible add up to the overall stress level of a low income family and affect their life quality and capacity to dedicate to a profession.
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by tcgv 5y ago
I always bring up this paper when I read a post criticizing OOP. It's a bit old but still very relevant and practical. In it the concept of information hiding, closely related to encapsulation, was first described. This concept plays a
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by tcgv 5y ago
The Buffet Indicator seems to be at an all time high of 211% (ratio of Market value to GDP), 64% higher than the exponential historical trend line [1] It really looks like it's too stretched, and more volitile in recent years. [1] htt
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by tcgv 5y ago
Entropy. By adding new features to a system it's complexity can only stay the same or increase. Complexity can only go down if we take time to refactor the codebase. Adding new features is cheap and quick, refactoring is usually expens
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by tcgv 5y ago
Thanks for your clarification. It's good to read that the pig was well cared and experiments passed ethics reviews. To be fair your original comment was lacking this information, hence when I first read it felt (unintentionally as we c
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by tcgv 5y ago
I watched all of it. The video quality is subpar indeed, and they claim it took one year to complete. Their "vision" is biased towards people that value "to party" and "to ostentate". It seems like a crypto fun
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And marketers
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by tcgv 5y ago
There's at least one useful use case for me. I can convert my country's currency to USD pegged stablecoins (USDC, DAI) at nearly market rates through a centralized exchange (ex: Binance) before sending them to my crypto wallet. Th
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by tcgv 5y ago
These are indeed though questions. In one hand we care for and have a responsibility for our partner, we wish them well, we try hard to help lift them up, to get them the adequate care they need. On the other hand how could we have known be
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by tcgv 5y ago
> the best people to make that kind of judgement would be the person's personal relatives To expand on that the best person to make this kind of judgement would be Feynman himself. But then I'm not sure if had he ever made a cl
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As of recently I started examining myself as well, but only ocasionally. I will try to perform it in more depth, Thanks! To give my two cents, for a more effective experience I recommend getting to know the most common cognitive biases and
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Kudos for knowing how to take a feedback man, this is extremely important for entrepreneurs! I'm in the hustle as well and one thing I noticed is that it's not uncommon for entrepreneurs to incorrectly evaluate the potential of an
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by tcgv 5y ago
> Why hasn't the industry come up with an alternative? The cloud is the solution to self managed data centers. Their value proposition is appealing: Focus on your core business and let us handle infrastructure for you. This fits the
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by tcgv 5y ago
In fairness, BitMart is not "decentralized finance", it's a privately owned business that allows it's customers to trade crypto.
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Is infinite token approval safe?(thomasvilhena.com)
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by tcgv 5y ago
I agree that regulation can and should be a good thing, to protect the participants of the financial system. But in the past decades we've seen a (lobbied) shift towards deregulation, with catastrophic results: > Say what you like a
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by tcgv 5y ago
To be fair, this argument is only valid when targeting people from outside of the areas of expertise / niches involved: > All of the current histrionics that we hear from [[INSERT_ANTI_ESTABLISHMENT_TREND_HERE]]-- you know what they
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by tcgv 5y ago
Maybe the business isn't profitable / exciting enough to make the founders want to continue dedicating their time to that particular company / business model, but could be appealing enough for another organization to add to t
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by tcgv 5y ago
Thanks for detailing. I was explaining in laymen terms, using less technical details, with some reservations ("roughly" and "given some restrictions"). > Orchestrate the right kind of interference, and for some proble
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by tcgv 5y ago
Roughly, computational power = number of operations per cycle. Classical computers can only perform a number of operations per cycle linearly proportional to the amount of hardware architecture available (ex: one core, two cores, quad-core)
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by tcgv 5y ago
Computational power for quantum computers goes as 2^n, where n is the number of qubits, so unlike classical computing this machine should be orders of magnitude superior to Google's 53-quibit Sycamore. If you wanna learn more about the
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by tcgv 5y ago
I used to ask "can you give me a discount if I pay in cash?" and most of the times the merchant would say no. Then I stopped asking and started using only credit cards for at least earning some "rewards" back. ("rew
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by tcgv 5y ago
> Nearly every single financial company (including JPM, Morgan Stanley, etc) offer premium stock tips through there analysts... Well, they're expected to do that to maintain their stature as the "lighthouses" of the financ
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From my experience I hardly need the "real data" to investigate a bug. Most of the times I can understand the problem and reproduce the bug in the test environment based on production logs (like exceptions and stack traces). If yo
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I used to get a lot of "Jordan Peterson" recommendations too. A bit off topic, but I really don't like his take on many subjects. I can see that he's truly articulated and it seems he mostly wins arguments by carefully c
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by tcgv 5y ago
I'm more of an analytical person myself, and my non-technical co-founder at our startup is much like you described yourself. I built the tech in the early days (today I mostly manage the tech team). He was the sales person and used his

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