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by wz1000 7y ago
There is a 36.7%(or ~1/e) chance that you don't get any of them.
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by wz1000 7y ago
GPL is pretty much a "it's the right thing to do" kind of license. GPL violations are widespread and the terms are rarely enforced. Even when they are, in 99.9% of cases there are no penalties(unlike most commercial licenses)
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by wz1000 7y ago
Seems to me that "trust" is the last thing the average joe would associate cryptocurrency with. A database with a public audit trail might be a better idea if you want that, but that certainly doesn't sound as trendy and exci
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by wz1000 7y ago
> blockchains should be replaced with centralized SQL databases Blockchains whose tokens are subject to the authority of a central issuer anyway should be replaced with centralized SQL databases. Bitcoin/namecoin/etc. can&#x2
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by wz1000 7y ago
Git is "append-only". Just like a normal blockchain, you can't modify an older commit without rewriting all the commits since then. Git also supports signed commits.
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by wz1000 7y ago
Every git repository counts as a blockchain by that definition.
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by wz1000 7y ago
> Also, compared to a centralised database, you have an interoperability aspect - if it's just an organisation keeping everyone's balances, it's hard to make those balances interact with the rest of the blockchain ecosyste
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by wz1000 7y ago
My question was "what does blockchain bring to the table compared to a regular database?". How does using a blockchain/cryptocurrency make it easier to sidestep regulations compared to a regular old database?
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by wz1000 7y ago
Can anyone explain what the point of a pegged cryptocurrency is? Since you are dependent on the issuing entity to honour the stated peg, why not just have your balance be an entry in a regular database maintained by that entity? What exactl
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by wz1000 7y ago
> Having a failed business's creditors take away everything because a customer fails to pay a bill in a timely manner and causes a cascade of failed bill payments from the business is crazy... which is the main reason you incorporat
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by wz1000 7y ago
Society does provide limited liability, without having a stop loss mechanism. You are defending a system where the cost of catastrophe falls on everybody but the ones who encouraged the dangerous behaviour in the first place.
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by wz1000 7y ago
Yes. You can get your investments insured, so that the risk is priced in. With limited liability, it is a viable strategy to invest in things that have a likelihood of a mild reward, but a risk of catastrophic failure that hurts and damages
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by wz1000 7y ago
People can still get insurance that allow the risk to be priced in. Without such a mechanism, the risk is completely ignored, and society has to bear the cost when things go wrong. If taking this risk into account slows down investment, may
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by wz1000 7y ago
This is why limited liability is a terrible idea, just another way to privatize the gains and socialize the losses. When you buy a stake in a corporation(especially one that comes with voting rights), and the corporation goes on to cause da
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by wz1000 8y ago
Which is why most countries have some sort of public funded compulsory education.
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by wz1000 8y ago
> I would not claim that Islam is monolithically malign, of course, but someone less constrained by their unconscious sense of ideological appropriateness would ask why interpretations of the faith lead people towards evangelistic violen
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by wz1000 8y ago
Skyrim has worked via wine pretty much since it was released, as you can confirm on Wine AppDb here: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bShowAll=true&bIs...
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by wz1000 8y ago
If a trusted group of developers is in charge of dispersing funds, why involve a blockchain/smart contracts at all? You can just donate to the developers, and they can disperse funds according to some predefined terms. The DAO or whate
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by wz1000 8y ago
How exactly is a "smart" "contract" going to decide if some code fixes some bug? And how is it going to measure someones MRR? The fundamental problem with "smart contracts" is that they are neither "smart&
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by wz1000 8y ago
> Is there a more moral alternative to Netflix and Spotify? Yes. If I had to rank the options in order of morality, they would go like this: Buy DRM free content > Abstain from consuming content > Pirate the content >>> Pa
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by wz1000 8y ago
Lambda calculus isn't a "solution" to fizz buzz, it's just another language you can implement fizz buzz in, which is what the parent poster was likely intending to demonstrate.
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by wz1000 8y ago
It works for any decidable/recursive predicate on bit sequences, i.e. one that is guaranteed to halt for any input. `and` on an infinite bit sequence is not guaranteed to halt because it is co-recursively enumerable, i.e. it will rejec
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by wz1000 8y ago
We aren't supposed to hate them, we are supposed to laugh at them.
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by wz1000 8y ago
If you're going to be using any language seriously, you better understand how functions and objects and classes in that language work.
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by wz1000 8y ago
I have written maybe 200 lines of JavaScript in my life, and this article has strongly reinforced my desire to never have to write a single one more. The next time someone asks me what the problem with JavaScript is, I will send them this a
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by wz1000 8y ago
Accusations of Russian interference in American elections always reminds me of this Time magazine cover story from 1996: RESCUING BORIS THE SECRET STORY OF HOW FOUR U.S. ADVISERS USED POLLS, FOCUS GROUPS, NEGATIVE ADS AND ALL THE OTHER TECH
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by wz1000 8y ago
No, I believe the formula for multisets would be M(x) = ∑n (A*(A+1)*(A+2)..(A+n-1))/n! since there are (n+k+1)c(k+1) possible unordered n-tuples over a set with cardinality k.
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by wz1000 8y ago
> Set(A) = ∑n A^n/n! = e^A since there are n! permutations to quotient by. But this is wrong. The number of sets over A={0,1,2} is 2^3 = 8 /= e^3 The actual series should be Set(A) = ∑n (A*(A-1)*(A-2)..(A-n+1))/n! =
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by wz1000 8y ago
I am not convinced that there is any meaningful distinction between "negative" and "positive" rights. Take property rights, the classic example of a "negative" right. But what are property rights but an entitle
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by wz1000 8y ago
https://iww.org/unions/dept500/iu560

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