willmadden

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by willmadden 5y ago
That will never happen, unless some overreaching government makes it mandatory (e.g. CO). There are at least three reasons: 1) A candidate's expectation for salary might be lower than the advertised range, but if they see the range, th
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by willmadden 5y ago
Your statement is unverifiable. We need to focus on better testing. The case and death data itself is garbage because of the use of PCR tests with a too high cycle count. Also, the risk of antibody dependent enhancement is a potential disas
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by willmadden 5y ago
Legality is irrelevant. Degrading the sanctity of human life enables those in power to normalize atrocities.
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by willmadden 6y ago
The 4 transactions per second is an artificial cap that is not associated with the power consumption of Bitcoin. The answer was, and is, to increase the maximum block size parameter, preferably making it dynamic.
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by willmadden 6y ago
I literally transact almost every day. To give you an example, the withdraw fee for BTC on Kraken is 0.0005 BTC, which is currently about 17.50 USD. Here is the current mempool: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h
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by willmadden 6y ago
That's a non-sequitur. The "fee issue" was caused by a group of shady developers and hacks that hijacked the Bitcoin repository and rate limited it. When the community protested, they were censored and banned from the online
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by willmadden 6y ago
My take is that Lightning was a stalling tactic so that the original community would give up and fragment into other cryptos, destroying the growing network effect. It seems to have worked.
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by willmadden 6y ago
>You can simplify this by using a different payment rail (in my case, Lightning over Bitcoin), but now you have a different problem: nobody has Bitcoin. The problem is that Lightning essentially is a subscription service. The user has to
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by willmadden 7y ago
In the real world bullet collisions are definitely not trivial. Video games do a laughable job at modeling the ballistics of projectiles. They don't even account for bullet drop. When was the last time you saw a bullet do this in a vid
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by willmadden 7y ago
Hahahahaha. Seriously though, crumple zones in cars and trucks aren't the sheet metal on the body. I'm sure Tesla thought about safety ratings. My guess is the "cyber truck"'s sheet metal will crumple in an accident
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by willmadden 7y ago
Will Australia also be banning semi trucks? Collision detection is far more important than body construction in terms of risk to pedestrians and other vehicles. This reads like regulatory overreach to me, and cherry picking.
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by willmadden 7y ago
>We will never be able to believe voice again...how will we adapt? "Say, Grandma, before I wire the money, what's the name of your cat?"
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by willmadden 7y ago
There is no constitutional right for people outside of the US to seek asylum in the US. Asylum seekers are granted refugee status by the United Nations if they meet two broad requirements. The US accepts a limited number each year (notably
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by willmadden 7y ago
Calling the development team "incredibly conservative" isn't accurate. The idea of Bitcoin is peer to peer electronic cash directly between two counterparties. The current roadmap doesn't focus on that as a priority and
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by willmadden 7y ago
This is inaccurate. Bitcoin could handle many, many more transactions per second than it currently does with less risk and technical complexity than has been introduced since we hit the blocksize limit in 2017. There's a lot of money m
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by willmadden 7y ago
Younger people suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect. I had strong opinions about a wide range of things in my 20s. As I aged, I became very good at a few things and in doing so, I became less sure of my convictions on most matters. In some
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by willmadden 7y ago
I'm not sure that your assertion that regulated financial institutions are somehow safer checks out with recent history. Remember the Bernie Madoff ponzi? Bernie Madoff was literally the chairman of the NASD. The 2008 financial crisis
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by willmadden 8y ago
Alphabet has too much cash. They have a well established track record of enthusiastically backing exciting new projects way outside of their core competency just to dump them like hot garbage several years later. They also compete in random
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History of digital cash before Bitcoin – bridge21 (cliff notes – light reading)(blog.bridge21.io)
2 points by willmadden 9y ago|0 comments
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by willmadden 9y ago
Two quick updates / clarifications: ○ bridge21 is a distributed team, but we require US residency for this role ○ This is a direct hire position ONLY. Please no 3rd parties, recruiters or development shops. Thanks in advance.
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by willmadden 10y ago
The concepts of 'master' and 'control' may simply not apply here. I think the danger is that typical human ignorance and fear will slow what would otherwise be glorious, self driving cars that get me to where I need to b