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by wizeman 4y ago
> And once the user has confirmed the transfer, the software could send the coins to a different address, right? No, the destination address and amount to send need to be confirmed on the hardware wallet. The hardware wallet cryptographi
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> Except the fact that bitcoin needs continuous internet access and electricity. > The first can be blocked by oppressive government. First of all, bitcoin users don't need continuous internet access. At best, they need intermitt
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That's an interesting observation and I agree with you (I'm a first-wave crypto advocate myself). I've said this before here on HN, but I think crypto exchanges should require new customers to pass a relatively strict test ab
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> For all practical purposes at this point in time, if you don't assume your exchange is lying about their reserves and at high risk of a run you're in for a massive loss. I'm a cryptocurrency advocate and I agree. This is
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> People use it literally all the time. I don't buy that people mean it figuratively. Maybe you do. But this statement is banded out so often and with no regard to the situation except where the coins are gone, it reflects little in
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> I pointed out that "not your keys, not your wallet" is a trite statement that doesn't account for the reality we live in, in which property law is a thing. So again, you are still interpreting the expression literally? I
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> Thanks for explaining something to me that I did not require explanation of It didn't seem like you understood the value of the expression "not your keys, not your coins", because you argued for the legal position, which
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I wouldn't say that's a flaw. There are people, even today, who have no better choice but to use BTC for transactions or for storing value. The point is that if you want to (or need to), you can do it. So people now have that opti
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Hardware wallets, which are recommended for holding significant amounts of cryptocurrency, are designed so that even if your normal computing devices get hacked or trojaned, the software running on them cannot steal the coins. This is becau
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The point is that the holder(s) of the cryptographic keys is the only one(s) that can effectively manage (and transfer) the coins on the blockchain. When you transfer the coins to a crypto exchange, the exchange becomes the holder of the ke
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Yeah, I know... what these companies are doing is absolute crap and I suspect that in the future this is going to lead to an even bigger crisis than what's happening right now in the crypto industry. I suspect that this is a side effec
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> That's why I keep bringing up this comparison. MMFs are allowed to loan out their money and partake in various investment schemes to generate a yield. HOWEVER, there's reporting requirements, there's investment requireme
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> I've given you a "real bank" (Vanguard, an investment bank specifically but yes, a bank), that's conducting these "loans" / bonds that you're talking about. Investment banks are not problematic b
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> > real loans and bonds business > You mean, like a Money Market fund like VMFXX? No, I mean like when a bank buys government bonds, company bonds, or loans money to customers and businesses. That's the kind of business that
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> Frankly, I see no contradiction, with what I said in any of my posts. Could you lay out more clearly where you think a contradiction has occurred? Sure. You said (in the context of talking about Binance and Coinbase): > Everyone in
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> You're guaranteed to get your money back from an Overnight loan to the Fed. (literally a 1-day loan to the USA's central bank). Well, then those loans are also risk-free, right? Because they are also financed by increasing t
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> > Staking is not a loan. > Yes it is. You give your money over to another organization, and that organization promises a % yield / APY in return. You aren't allowed the money back until later. > Its totally a bond. B
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I think you may be right and I was wrong. I think I was operating under more conservative assumptions about what is actually legal to do in C. I actually had to go and read the standard because the strict aliasing rules can be very tricky a
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by wizeman 4y ago
> this advice demonstrates the confident inaccuracy which is the hallmark of ML models ... and humans. Just browse Twitter, Facebook, ... or better yet, ask a random person on the street. Further question to GPT-3 (on the first and only
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> The human vision system is just one peculiar way to gather information about light, yet it allows them to make very sophisticated judgments about reality, e.g. "there is a tiger down there by tye river and it is running at me fast
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> Once we know we have this struct, are there any remaining barriers to the cast and -1 access? I think the only problem is that malloc() wouldn't know the type of the non-size_t field, so it couldn't construct such a struct to
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> Therefore the existence of the q pointer does not tell the compiler what type actually exists at memory address p/q. Is it invalid to construct q from p? I wouldn't think so as long as they are in the same allocation, but may
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> The Temporal Nature of problems (e.g., how quickly is this lion coming at me before he eats me) is essential for a true AGI to understand. I agree that figuring out that A happens before B seems important. But I don't see why an A
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> If you give a human a visual interface and a book eventually it (or some descendant of it) will intuit what the book is for (abstraction of audible information transfer in a visual media) and figure out how to get the information out o
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> I think it's a case of "we'll know it when we see it". I agree it looks like moving the goalposts, but I think most people would agree that current LMs just don't feel like AGIs. Heh, that sounds like a dangero
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> Uh, plenty of currencies not tied to governments have collapsed. Widely used currencies? Which ones? > And the military is part of keeping the country going and enforcing the currency as legal tender. No, actually it isn't. The
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> And for the second response, saying that GPT-3 could potentially also deal with images or sound, if presented in the right format is just proof that it is not general. So if I present a sound sample to you as a series of raw numbers, w
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> The power of a major government behind a currency is like the framing of a building. Only if the frame were able to make decisions that devalue or collapse the building without anyone being able to stop it (and quite a few "frames
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So, I just checked and it seems that the parent pointed to a musl repository that contains old code. The current code doesn't contain that undefined behavior-triggering expression: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/mu
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> You say no but then you list exceptions. You said "there's no way for the compiler to prove that wrong if it doesn't know the internals of the allocator" and I tried to reason how the compiler can prove that `*p` mu

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