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by v64 7y ago
Not to mention many filesystems are implemented as B-trees.
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by v64 7y ago
Hipp talks about that in the interview a little bit: > SQLite really started life as a Tcl extension, Tcl being the programming language, the Tcl/Tk. The project I was working was working on was written in Tcl/Tk and so SQLite
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by v64 7y ago
In this case, if it were regulated and there was evidence they were doing that, a lawsuit could be brought against them.
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by v64 7y ago
Great read! When you first hear the taxicab number story, your initial impression is to be struck by Ramanujan's innate calculating capability. It's interesting to find out that the real coincidence here is that Hardy rode in a ta
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by v64 7y ago
For what it's worth (not much), it looks like a Wall Street Bettor made this bet. [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ewcebh/amzn...
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by v64 7y ago
> And part of a life is, hopefully, deeply loving someone. Hopefully is the key word here. One may or may not find a partner in life that shares their aspirations. The only person you're guaranteed is yourself.
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by v64 7y ago
His brain ramblings may be useful to someone else out there having similar experiences or thoughts.
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by v64 7y ago
Ernst & Young have published some interesting data about the costs of private vs public blockchains, and how they've developed tools built on Ethereum to reduce those costs. https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjess
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by v64 7y ago
I said this in another comment below: > If you sell the Ether, you no longer have the Ether. If while you're holding the loan the price of Ether goes up, you benefit from that. Of course, if the price of Ether goes down, you're
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by v64 7y ago
> No vendor for your products is accepting these magical tokens. No one in the economy except vanishingly small fractions accept digital tokens for trade. MakerDAO has a list of vendors who accept Dai today [1]. The list also contains a
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by v64 7y ago
If a borrower defaults, their account is flagged and their Ether collateral is eligible to be auctioned off to pay off their debt. The mechanism is designed so that a loan is closed at a point where auctioning the collateral will cover the
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by v64 7y ago
> If you mean pay it off, nobody would take a loan they can just pay off at anytime, or where the interest rate can be just arbitrarily voted up. It's true that the interest rate can be arbitrarily voted up. Despite this, 1.46% of a
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by v64 7y ago
> The idea that any sane financial instrument could increase its return by two points by the holders of it voting to do so is... I haven't the words. Raising the savings rate will also raise the interest rate that those holding loan
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by v64 7y ago
If you sell the Ether, you no longer have the Ether. If while you're holding the loan the price of Ether goes up, you benefit from that. Of course, if the price of Ether goes down, you're at risk of having your loan liquidated, bu
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by v64 7y ago
> I do assume that any bank in this industry is already required by law to keep a record of all transactions, and that it's all digitally processed and stored. This is true, but it's not necessarily organized in a straightforwa
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by v64 7y ago
Because SoFi doesn't allow you to use Ether as collateral for a loan. Many holders of Ether may not necessarily have the credit required to get a loan on more favorable terms.
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by v64 7y ago
Those with loans in the system will have to pay a 6% interest rate. Since not all holders of Dai have savings accounts, this allows for the system to use the interest charged to loan holders to pay out the savings rate while accumulating a
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by v64 7y ago
Because then you'd have to change the interest rate charged to loan holders to a million percent, and those people would close their loans rather than pay that interest rate.
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by v64 7y ago
This is a legitimate point to bring up, but seeing as how the community rejected a second fork in order to fix a bug in a smart contract that destroyed millions of dollars worth of Ether [1], I feel confident at this point saying that anoth
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by v64 7y ago
There are certainly black swan scenarios, such as the value of Ether dropping largely overnight, that would test the system and possibly lead to a decoupling of the peg. The bubble bursting in early 2018 tested this aspect of the system and
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by v64 7y ago
There are definitely cases where transactions need to be reversed, and this functionality can be built into a clearinghouse system. Immutability is a plus here because you have an unalterable audit log showing the original transaction and t
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by v64 7y ago
The difference between MakerDAO and Madoff is that MakerDAO, being on the blockchain, is completely auditable. You can see exactly where money is coming in and where money is going out. Websites such as DaiStats [1] provide basic stats base
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by v64 7y ago
The complete functioning of the MakerDAO system is publicly documented here [1] and here [2]. Feel free to peruse the documentation and point out which parts seem unbelievable. The system is currently live and I hold a Dai Savings Account a
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by v64 7y ago
I honestly don't understand where the perception comes from that this technology is only useful for laundering and speculation. Certainly it is currently being used for those purposes. But to say there is no imaginable use outside of t
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by v64 7y ago
I can't give an exact year, but my memory from the mid 90s was that webrings were generally formed around themed content, like beanie baby webrings or coin collecting webrings, mostly run by individual fans/enthusiasts, and were u
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by v64 7y ago
Sounds like the episode of Black Mirror "Be Right Back": > The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she
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by v64 7y ago
Thomas Kurian [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kurian
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by v64 7y ago
Does there exist evidence of these alleged transgressions?
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by v64 7y ago
If you're using end-to-end encryption, it doesn't matter that your traffic is being monitored (I mean, that's an oversimplification, as the presence of large amounts of encrypted traffic is notable in itself, but that's
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by v64 7y ago
First, I'd like to thank you for your participation in this thread. As a long time PIA customer (until recently), I trusted (and still continue to trust) the current staff. All of my hesitation is with Kape and I truly hope at the end

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