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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
The cost / quality trade off isn’t worth it for most applications. In fields where it is (aerospace, smart contracts, etc.) then formal methods are used.
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
As I understand the research, it's specifically public voting records that give lobbyists a lot more power over members of congress (donations can be made conditional on certain votes, and lobbyists can verify that they are getting wha
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
Transparency in politics has actually been shown to help rather than hinder lobbyists: http://www.congressionalresearch.org/TransparencyProblem.htm...
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
Health insurance costs are split 50/50 between employers and employees in Germany.
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
It’s also gonna make it way harder for the gov to attract talent for a while.
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
Earlier this year, Tesla suffered a complex cryptocurrency mining malware infection caused by a misconfiguration in the Kubernetes console. The attackers exploited the fact that the particular Kubernetes console wasn’t password protected,
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The Abolition of Work(primitivism.com)
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Building the Venture Capital State(americanaffairsjournal.org)
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
Exactly this. HN bitched about platform risk for years. All of a sudden something comes along and solves the issue (and happens to be open source) and they get all mad.
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
This should be on their frontpage: https://copay.io/
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An Analysis of the ProtonMail Cryptographic Architecture(eprint.iacr.org)
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
cryptocurrencies
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
mining activity follows the price.
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
While it's true that the barriers to entry are quite similar in both (Eth 2.0 PoS depost is approx the same as 1 good bitcoin ASIC). However, the dynamics wrt capital are different in PoW, and it's probably more accurate to say th
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
> The issue is that you need to lock up money for PoS in order to mine it. That has a cost as you are forgoing interest on lending that money to an actually productive enterprise that is creating value. You do realize that stakers in PoS
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The kinder, more gentle Linus Torvalds(phoronix.com)
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
what is their business model?
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a16z invests $15M into MakerDAO(a16zcrypto.com)
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
mailplane. I just want inbox but I don't want to waste a pinned tab on it.
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
In case some people are unaware, after GDPR google released an addon that allows you to opt-out from google analytics tracking across the web: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
Two confirmations is fine for this use case. Normal chain reorganizations of length two are rare (4 observed in a 2 year period [1]), and since miners mostly select transactions for inclusion in a block based only on price, blocks on both s
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
Bitcoin has always been the largest coin, and in fact has increased it's dominance by ~20% this year. Scroll to the botttom for the chart: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
Passwordless authentication is one of the most refreshing UX wins for blockchain backed applications.
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
smart pointers are a good start, but completely safe is a pretty big exaggeration. Just off the top of my head smart pointers do not protect against: - null pointer dereferences - out of bounds array access - iterator invalidation - danglin
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
ipfs add <file> works remarkably well in my experience.
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
It's clear to Google.
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Azul: A Reactive DOM Based UI Framework for Rust(github.com)
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Shared Infrastructure: A Cooperative Preservation Network for Data(blog.datproject.org)
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Tor Style Onion Routing for the Lightning Network(github.com)
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by xwvvvvwx 8y ago
Don’t really get this tbh. Why should I care if I’m talking to an AI or not?

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