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by yifanl 5y ago
As far as I'm concerned, the algorithm is and can only ever be an implementation detail. If the leadership of Twitter changes overnight, it'd be highly likely the types of content that gets recommended will subtly/not-so-subt
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by yifanl 5y ago
Mining difficulty roughly maps to a financial incentive for a miner to operate. As that line rises, the number of miners who can afford to mine in any significant amount would naturally decrease, right? Unless there's some other angle
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by yifanl 5y ago
The alternative is that corporations can (or rather, can continue to) factor in selectively breaking laws as a line item in their operating costs, which is unappealing for certain people for a variety of reasons.
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by yifanl 5y ago
If it looks like milk, tastes like milk and quacks like milk...
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by yifanl 5y ago
"Forced error"?
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by yifanl 5y ago
I'm not a round earther, but I'm also not-a-flat-earther, because there's a lot of baggage that comes with being identified as a flat earther, and I would make an effort to avoid that label. Sometimes, that effort's enou
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by yifanl 5y ago
Aren't you implicitly betting on yourself not to succeed though? There's some cutoff of eyeballs where moderation becomes painful, and it's a pretty steep pain.
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by yifanl 5y ago
Define anonymous, but you could in theory sell your wallet to someone else wholesale and they pay in cash for whatever value of bitcoin is in the wallet. It's still potentially leaky because you're relianing on the buyer to not ge
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by yifanl 5y ago
> Final thought on this, if I didn't really nail the point already, in the story of a founding company, the main reason why energy matters is you need at the end of the day, whatever the person's hypothesis early on in the busi
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by yifanl 5y ago
Isn't usually verifying that a PoW solution is correct much less resource intensive than calculating the solution? And if the request format includes the challenge along w/ the solution, the server doesn't need to do any calc
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by yifanl 5y ago
Not sure what the reasoning is, but off the top of my head: storing a timer per request is a non-trivial (and flat!) burden on the CF server, while proof-of-work puts a burden on the client proportional to how hard they're hitting it.
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by yifanl 5y ago
I imagine this would be used in the case where the content doesn't care about human eyeballs, and just needs a semi-hard rate-limit.
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by yifanl 5y ago
Right here, it seems :)
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by yifanl 5y ago
Because codifying any behaviour is explicitly justifying any behaviour, and few engineers want to be responsible for signing off on the feature to run over Grandma. A workaround thus far has been to abstract the problem into small enough pi
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by yifanl 5y ago
Ensure uniqueness, i guess? Though you'd lose that when you make the list of sets. I could maybe see something like this as an intermediary result of parsing some horrible, nested obscure message format (except the dict, that baffles m
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by yifanl 5y ago
My new uni roommate came in with Greens and we managed to compromise it down to "just" Blues after a week. Still have no idea how he didn't get kicked out of his first year lectures with that typewriter.
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by yifanl 5y ago
Its both the opposite and the same, depending on the reviewer. I have two colleagues, one prefers reviewing the full changeset and one prefers reviewing commit by commit. The first might be pretty happy to see a bundle of smaller patches, a
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by yifanl 5y ago
> So where does that leave us? Everything is biased? Search results are created by humans and intended to be consumed by humans, so yes. (And just to head it off, a web crawler is ultimately just an abstraction for the humans who will la
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by yifanl 5y ago
I mean, let's not pretend that in Facebook's ideal world where they own the market, there _wouldn't_ be somewhere else to go to. Obviously that's not the case today, but I'm concerned that it'll get there event
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by yifanl 5y ago
I mean, anecdotes for andcdotes, but my office is on top of a subway station and isnt fully insulated around the windows (And today it was -15 C here in Toronto). My home office has neither of these two factors.
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by yifanl 5y ago
It's a bit stretching to take precedence from a foreign nation with different politics and different government structure.
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by yifanl 5y ago
Elixir announced something to that effect in 2019. > As mentioned earlier, releases was the last planned feature for Elixir. We don’t have any major user-facing feature in the works nor planned. I know for certain some will consider this
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by yifanl 5y ago
Isn't there? If there are incentives in place that grant some group of people disproportionate power over others (early miners having essentially irrational amounts of coin to work with, or large pool operators owning a substantial amo
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by yifanl 5y ago
Why is there version numbers for web browsers at all when version bumps are forced? To the average user, it's not a meaningful number at all. Breaking sites as a side effect for bumping a version number that can't not be bumped is
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by yifanl 5y ago
This is an aside, but is 600k a meaningful bounty compared to the potential payout of all that data? I suppose I wouldn't know how much that data is worth unless I do have a crack for it, so I guess the point is moot :P
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by yifanl 5y ago
Sure, but the demand for these things didn't exist _until_ you saw the ad, and the value add becomes that much more abstract: i.e. what if there's a movie you would've liked more instead?
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by yifanl 5y ago
So should it be pull or push-based? Because all the cases you've stated imply one, whereas the active tracking pervasive in modern advertising implies the other. Disclaimer: I work in adtech.
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by yifanl 5y ago
It's more like, the positivity that LinkedIn promotes is weirdly toxic if you take it at face value. (Everything in my life is an exciting journey, so why is your life so boring, reader?)
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by yifanl 5y ago
So I guess, when it comes down to the wire, what wins out, the needs of real users, or the documented description of a protocol? The fact that said protocol is incapable of addressing real needs is a failure state, and historically this has
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by yifanl 5y ago
Generate two random 32 length strings. For the sake of this example, let them be 2quvs7jriTXQK8sFv4LzBZRtSN9hqp9q and qFTNX4f5sduaLYShWx96EyZw9ZRNLmqY. Designate the first to "heads" and the second to "tails". Every time

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