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by tromp 2y ago
A bloomberg article identified the manufacturer of the battery in question: > Farasis was ranked 15th among the global battery makers, according to a BloombergNEF estimate of manufacturing capacity between 2023-2025. It began supplying b
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by tromp 2y ago
It's not just the deflationary ones. With one exception, all cryptocurrencies give outsized rewards in early years. E.g. block rewards 20x higher in the first year for Dogecoin. Or 40% of all (soft) supply in the first year for Monero
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by tromp 2y ago
This article explains how Bitcoin will experience severe problems in 20-40 years, not in a "couple of years".
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by tromp 2y ago
Capped supply is overrated anyway [1]. [1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
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by tromp 2y ago
https://archive.is/JrJIa
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by tromp 2y ago
https://archive.is/DCBUi
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by tromp 2y ago
https://archive.is/UHq5L
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by tromp 2y ago
It's not about the chips, but about the facilities: > Converting a bitcoin mine into an AI training cluster isn’t a straight swap. AI training is typically done on GPUs while bitcoin mining uses specialized mining chips from Bitmain
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by tromp 2y ago
> One of them responds, “I’m not sure”. In practice this answer is hardly different from saying Yes, since it's understood that the person saying Yes is just speaking for themselves and the waiter will wait for the other person to c
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by tromp 2y ago
> The ideal currency has a constant, predictable 2-4% inflation to promote the velocity of money and prevent stagnation. While a constant 1-2% inflation may be ideal for fiat currency, I think a cryptocurrency should have the simplest an
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by tromp 2y ago
> Approximating a real number to an arbitrarily precise rational number can then be done by applying some natural number. But the given representation doesn't allow you to determine what natural number n is needed to yield a desired
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by tromp 2y ago
> Using the web interface, the voter enters her credential and selects her vote. Her computer then computes the ballot, which corresponds to the vote encrypted with the election public key. Like most (or all?) online protocols, this does
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by tromp 2y ago
A $250K bounty was paid for uncovering a bug in Grin: https://forum.grin.mw/t/ann-bug-bounty-awarded-to-david-burk...
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by tromp 2y ago
And historically, the minimum miner acceptable fee has been <= 1 cent per tx. A single miner (or any group short of a supermajority) that starts raising their minimal fee will just see their margins erode as other miners take over their
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by tromp 2y ago
> However, the key point is that with more transactions per block, the total sum of all those fees will be higher than what we have now with the 1 MB limit due to the competitive fee market, but still cheaper for the end user than it wo
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by tromp 2y ago
https://archive.is/yuBmN
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by tromp 2y ago
That's an interesting approach. But it still allows opening preparation by White. They could setup positions with deeply hidden threats, that Black would at least need to spend a lot of time on to try uncover. So I propose that after W
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Years of miscalculations by US/NATO led to dire shell shortage in Ukraine(reuters.com)
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by tromp 2y ago
Closely related recent discussion on The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2011) (franklambert.net): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40972589
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by tromp 2y ago
Closely related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40972589
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by tromp 2y ago
I managed to build X as S (K (S (K (S S (K (S (K (S S (K K))) K)))) K)) S. Instead of all the dragging and aligning, wouldn't it be simpler if you could just click on one combinator to use as function, and then on another to use as arg
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by tromp 2y ago
The most recent change is > The simplest possible term forming a basis is X = λx λy λz. x z (y (λ_.z)), which satisfies X (X X) (X (X X) X X X X X) = K, and X (X (X X (X X (X X))(X (X (X X (X X)))))) X X = S.
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by tromp 2y ago
It's not the shortest lambda term with that property though. That's λx λy λz. x z (y (λ_.z)) [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
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by tromp 2y ago
> a half-page of code is sufficient to define a basic Lisp interpreter in Lisp given a few primitives (car, cdr, cons, eq, atom). One line of code is sufficient to define the 206-bit BLC interpreter in BLC given no primitives whatsoever
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by tromp 2y ago
> due to an impartial judiciary Did you mean a partial judiciary?
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by tromp 2y ago
Neither provides a fair distribution of coins. Admittedly, neither does Bitcoin, what with every next generation getting to mine 32x less than the previous one. But PoW with a fixed block reward would come as close as possible.
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A true example of making better use of available space would be the Mimblewimble protocol, which allows all spent outputs to be permanently erased from history. The integrity of the entire transaction history can be verified from the UTXO s
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by tromp 2y ago
If you follow Wikipedia's reference [1] for the quantum factorization of 21 for instance, you read > We implement a scalable iterative quantum algorithm with a compiled version of the quantum order finding routine where the circuit
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Maybe now they'll be able to factorize 3*5 with the general Shor's algorithm. AFAIK all previous quantum factorization records used precomputed knowledge of the factors.
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by tromp 2y ago
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