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by v64 5y ago
Note that this bound has since been improved to 748 [1] and you can actually view and run this 748 state turing machine here [2]. This comment on reddit [3] is a good attempt at condensing all the information down and explaining why this me
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by v64 5y ago
If you want to know how many servers I'd need for a task or to discuss memory/space tradeoffs, then ask those questions outright instead of doing this indirect dance. I don't see how the question gives you an advantage when y
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by v64 5y ago
The epilogue: "A few days after Erdos left, he telephoned to say that Ron Graham of AT&T explained to him the reasoning behind the answer and that now he understood. He proceeded to tell me the reasoning but I couldn’t fathom his e
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by v64 5y ago
An amazing resource that I referenced frequently as an undergrad math major. There were many times where I'd be working on a proof and I'd find a pattern that could be expressed as an integer sequence, but I'd have no idea wh
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by v64 5y ago
My takeaway from it is if the problem requires money to solve, at least you are aware of the solution: money. It may be difficult or impossible to achieve that end, but at least you know it's the direction to go and can possibly make p
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by v64 6y ago
Another commenter stated it's Corner Café in New Providence [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26739049
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by v64 6y ago
American tax code. I have become the de facto tax explainer in my circle, being able to provide explanations for taxes that apparently many of my friends' accountants are unable to elucidate for them. I'm not sure exactly why it c
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by v64 6y ago
You can earn Robux in game [1] [2]. [1] https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/203313200-Ways-... [2] https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/learn-roblox/monetization
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by v64 6y ago
> Some of the electric providers are paying customers to move to someone else on Monday. I'm on a fixed rate plan and my provider just offered me $150 to change, but I had to do it by tomorrow and the rates available now aren't
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by v64 6y ago
We just had two brief blackouts (~15m and ~5m) over here in SW Fort Worth
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by v64 6y ago
WSB drives the sentiment, but there's not enough volume in retail trading to drive these kinds of moves. Institutional participants also see the writing on the wall re: the short squeeze and are positioning themselves to profit from it
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by v64 6y ago
Because the short sellers are not operating in good faith. See this article [1] for more details. [1] https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1pgz6k9kjs50v...
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by v64 6y ago
He started off with $50k, but the cost basis is $750k now because he's cashed out some of the position.
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by v64 6y ago
> I thought the Novikov conjecture postulated that time-travel would change nothing at all Not exactly, from the wiki article: > The simplest way to impose the principle of self-consistency in quantum mechanics (in a classical space-t
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by v64 6y ago
Sounds like they're describing the Novikov self-consistency principle [1] in a roundabout way. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
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by v64 6y ago
My reading of the phrase is that it's a colloquial way to refer to groups of large multigenerational extended families.
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by v64 6y ago
> But the only legitimate use of a flash loan is to do some arbitrage - and there’s plenty of that in existing financial systems. There are two main differences: 1) The atomic nature of a flash loan makes flash loan arbitrage much less r
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by v64 6y ago
KeeperDAO [1] is one project that's aiming to tackle this. Their whitepaper is here [2]. [1] https://keeperdao.com/ [2] https://github.com/keeperdao/whitepaper/blob/main/whitepaper..
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by v64 6y ago
Maker had to do a similar two-phase mitigation after a flash loan was used to borrow enough MKR token to change the result of a governance vote. [1] [1] https://forum.makerdao.com/t/urgent-flash-loans-and-securing...
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by v64 6y ago
This article [1] does a deep dive into how flash loan mechanics are structured using an actual Ethereum transaction as an example. This particular flash loan used dYdX, Uniswap, Aave, and Curve.fi. Because of the atomicity of the transactio
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by v64 6y ago
The Flash Boys 2.0 paper I linked to in my original comment provides some detail as to how these opportunities are identified and exploited by competing arbitrageurs.
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by v64 6y ago
Flash loans are a great example of how blockchains enable new types of financial transactions that either aren't possible or are very difficult to do in a traditional financial setting. If you identify an arbitrage opportunity in the m
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by v64 6y ago
I run an IPv6 enabled exit node and sniff the traffic for research purposes. The vast majority of the traffic is end-to-end encrypted and what's not has not been particularly revealing or illegal.
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by v64 6y ago
Fortunately this is a discussion about the known present as opposed to the unknown future
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by v64 6y ago
Fortunately this is a discussion about a business curating their own platform as opposed to censorship by the government
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by v64 6y ago
I've seen others have success complaining on the Coinbase subreddit [1]. It's run by Coinbase staff and they seem to respond better there than the ticketing system. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/
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by v64 6y ago
> Nothing, as long as you adhere to financial regulations and related laws where the systems and its users operate. Novel technologies don’t absolve you of adhering to the law. [...] Consider regulations and laws as requirements when bui
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by v64 6y ago
> Very few jurisdictions where the rule of law and trust in the financial system doesn’t exist. I think there’s benefit in open sourcing the components that drive financial services and infrastructure, but believe it’s disingenuous to co
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by v64 6y ago
I buy that. The story is apocryphal and my sourcing of Jester was from this Texas Monthly [1] article. [1] https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/good-bye-to-all-that/
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by v64 6y ago
> pretty sure he was a Texas student. Indeed, the story is that he got his start selling PCs out of his Jester dorm room.

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