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by wyager 4y ago
The slashing enforcement mechanism introduces centralization; it has to, to work around nothing-at-stake. I'm not throwing around buzzwords. Please don't accuse people of that without sufficient understanding to be reasonably con
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by wyager 4y ago
Opex specifically because we don't have a predicative algorithm for proving capex. The only predicative value-proof algorithm we have is PoW, which works on opex. PoS is completely impredicative.
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by wyager 4y ago
Eth's work-arounds all involve centralization. If you want decentralized security, you need real physical opex.
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by wyager 4y ago
Key phrase to search - "nothing at stake problem"
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by wyager 4y ago
I think in general smaller companies have to prioritize on-campus recruiting, but if you sent in your resume and you had some random no-name school (or a school that specialized in some completely unrelated industries), I doubt that would d
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by wyager 4y ago
Definitely not the case. I used to work there - lots of colleagues from outside the ivies etc. Lots of people who didn't go to college for CS, and in some cases did not go to a traditional college at all. Are there a lot of people from
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by wyager 4y ago
> but it hasn't amounted to anything useful Could've fooled me. I'm a "power user" of the international financial system and bitcoin has saved my ass multiple times, from debit cards not working internationally t
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by wyager 4y ago
The opex is the part that tethers on-chain security to reality.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Yeah hunting is not in the same moral landscape as some of the Texas wild hog "hunts". You're right, but in the wrong direction. TX hog hunts are strictly necessary for the protection of agriculture. > A lot of people
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by wyager 4y ago
I hear where you're coming from, but there's definitely some sort of weird carve-out in human psychology that allows people to simultaneously be compassionate towards animals while also being OK with killing them. Most hunters I k
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by wyager 4y ago
I used to help friends manage destructive hog populations on TX farmland. It was really crazy. I remember a few years back people on twitter were ragging on some guy for saying he needed an AR to kill "30-50 feral hogs", acting as
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by wyager 4y ago
> the risk created by the content What risk? Can you please share details? From my perspective, it seems like this is a thin excuse, and there was not actually a credible risk that you were mitigating.
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by wyager 4y ago
> don't know quite how extreme KiwiFarms is I have looked at the site and it's doesn't seem that extreme, unless there's a bunch of content not visible to guests. It looks like any anonymous IB from the early 2000s. T
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by wyager 4y ago
> I don’t believe you have the same information as cloudflare Yes he does - the activity of KF posters is public. The amount of bullshitting going on here is insane. People are just making things up wholesale.
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by wyager 4y ago
> Feeling attacked, users of the site became even more aggressive. Over the last two weeks, we have proactively reached out to law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions highlighting what we believe are potential criminal acts and imminen
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by wyager 4y ago
> repeatedly denied proper funding to Jackson "Proper" as defined by the people who are asking for the money. The fact that they're regularly asking for more money is causally independent of essentially anything else. An a
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by wyager 4y ago
Internal busses can operate in parallel, at some fraction of the serial bandwidth. You only need really fast stuff at the PHY. An interleaver/deinterleaver circuit is not much more complicated than the kind of signal shaping hardware y
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by wyager 4y ago
Transistors that can pass 120gbps are probably expensive as hell, possibly into InP territory. The cheapest way to do this is over OS2 fiber. Look up how much money you have to spend to get 2x 100gbps OS2 PHYs and 2x 100gbps QSFP28 cards.
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by wyager 4y ago
> one big problem in societies nowadays is that you can simply get richer and richer just from owning property If this was true, everyone would buy REITs until it wasn't
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by wyager 4y ago
> The free market would grind every last human into powder if it could. That's interesting, because it's not free market capitalists advocating for importing billions of people and cramming everyone into urban centers in the na
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by wyager 4y ago
Why do so many of these video editing products try to be web-only? A browser/"the cloud" is the last place I want to be if I'm wrangling 400GB prores blobs... I'm surprised the upside of locking their customers into
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by wyager 4y ago
I don't think this is accurate. I've only looked at KF briefly, but it seems like the causal ancestor is actually that KF tracks people who are loudly and publicly doing crazy stuff, which correlates with people who are at risk of
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by wyager 4y ago
"Free speech" for normal people means "the practical freedom to speak freely", not whatever nitpicking legalistic definition I infer you're using.
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by wyager 4y ago
KF doesn't doxx people for being gay. As far as I can tell, KF has a huge LGBT presence in their userbase. They have doxxed people who are gay, but not because they are gay.
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by wyager 4y ago
PAC has been a total pain in the ass for iOS exploit devs. Seems to be working pretty well there.
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by wyager 4y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted - this is the legal standard which many state entities have successfully applied for years, often to the glee of HN users (e.g. US companies getting GDPR fines because they have users in the EU).
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by wyager 4y ago
That is one of the goals. Many white-collar classes (lawyers, politicians, etc.) are unhappy with their share of the profits and level of influence over this high-value and high-status sector.
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by wyager 4y ago
I read your comment as a snarky version of "read a dictionary" - apologies if that was not the intended meaning.
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by wyager 4y ago
> You want (b) because small-integer ratios are pleasant sounding -- partly culturally-acquired taste, partly because physics gives musical instruments acoustic spectra in integral multiples of a fundamental frequency I'd say it&#x2
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by wyager 4y ago
This predates the AI thing by years.

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