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by ursuscamp 3y ago
That’s a matter of opinion. Many happen to believe it is not wasted.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
This improves the efficiency of Bitcoin.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
This is a good thing. Instead of requiring every node to execute every instruction, parties can trustless prove computation happened off chain.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
Every time I've tried to use Pascal (with Lazarus/FPC) I find myself incredibly confused as to the proper way to download and version packages. Separate project? Using Lazarus package manager? Git submodule?
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
The author hand-waved away the whole "exception" thing with "good luck getting C-level approval in time!" But if he was really as valuable as he claimed, all he had to do was just say "No" and he would have got
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
Are they finally letting the legacy ZZT staff go?
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
How many kiloyards in width is this new galaxy?
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
If JSON just originally had comments there wouldn't be such a proliferation of redundant configuration language, since JSON serves perfectly well 99% of cases.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
This page is supposed to be a conversation starter, I think. You present the page to someone, then get them interested in the mystery so you can tell them what happened. I don't think there's any doubt the conclusion you're s
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
SHA256 is a one-way hashing function. Which means that feeding that sentence into SHA-256 and it starting with the characters in that sentence is very unlikely chance. They probably wrote a script that tacked on a bunch of random letters an
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
I love all of the creative ways they use to exclude inflation from the inflation statistics.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
I learned it originally because of Xircon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XiRCON
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
Everyone must know two passwords: their password manager's password, and their email password.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
And now I need to listen to DragonForce.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
On the floor, with a majority present.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
I used paid relays. The reasons are higher quality content. It works alright for spam prevention. Also, I use the nostr.wine filter relay, which is pretty neat. You can connect to it and it will pull notes from your web of contacts (your fo
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
It uses the Lightning network, which is a separate network using off-chain transactions. The Lightning network crams upwards of infinite transactions into a single on-chain transaction, called a payment channel.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
You’re implicitly admitting that “taxing the rich” will slow the economy and destroy demand.
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
Your articles don't say anything about raising electricity prices for consumers, except to speculate about it. At least the NYT piece recently on Bitcoin mining cited a study saying there was a 5% increase in electricity bills because
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
How is Bitcoin mining in any way a broken window?
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
Bitcoin miners don't compete for the same energy as residential and most industrial uses. Mining isn't profitable unless energy is a fraction of the price that typical consumers pay. The effect is that Bitcoin miners act as energy
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
Someone saying something that affects the price has nothing to do with creating new Bitcoin. That's just a function of it being a small market still, relative to larger and more deeper capital markets. If any developers tried to convin
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
Bitcoin, specifically, is improving society in many ways, especially in Nigeria, Argentina, the Congo, etc. Even in the West, where our money is more stable and the benefits of it are less obvious, Bitcoin mining offers great benefits to en
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
Might I suggest for the future: https://vpn.sovereign.engineering You can pay a Bitcoin lightning invoice on this site and get a redeemable Mullvad voucher instantly. Extremely convenient. Since you've only done 1 BTC trans
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
I use https://vpn.sovereign.engineering to pay with Bitcoin. You can pay a Lightning invoice to get a voucher which is redeemable on the website. You get an extra layer of privacy, and also don't need to wait for an on chai
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by ursuscamp 3y ago
Do you remember when mainstream media outlets like WaPo and The Guardian went out of their way to refuse to publish any details about the Trump resistance leaker, even after his identity became publicly known? Now they go out of their way t
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by ursuscamp 4y ago
The author is correct, in a sense, that Bitcoin's core security is social consensus, but he falsely equivocates it with fiat currency. They are most definitely not governed by the same sets of incentives. The incentives of Bitcoin ensu
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by ursuscamp 4y ago
The author really undersells how difficult/nearly impossible this is and will be for a long time, at the very least. If the market transfers successfully from miner subsidy to transaction fees, then it will always be nearly impossible.
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by ursuscamp 4y ago
One of the things I always thought was funny was that Amazon always tells you to put everything in one DynamoDB table, but the Amplify splits everything across multiple tables.
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by ursuscamp 4y ago
Same with Signature. Both banks are being sold off. I was shorthand referring to whoever bought them.

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