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by zelly 7y ago
A blockchain alone is a horrible data structure for random access lookup. There were so many hacks that had to be done to make Bitcoin work efficiently on BerkeleyDB and LevelDB. Ethereum lets you do general purpose computing, so there are
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by zelly 7y ago
> "how do people know who has how many coins, for a coin which has reportedly never shipped a working binary"? They have a MySQL type database that stores IOUs for the people who bought the ICO tokens. They promise to deliver t
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by zelly 7y ago
A cryptocurrency is basically a timestamping service. This was mentioned in the original whitepaper. > The solution we propose begins with a timestamp server. A timestamp server works by taking a hash of a block of items to be timestampe
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by zelly 7y ago
There isn't. If there are, none of them would be viable for-profit business entities like they're claiming. I can see a nameserver (like DNS) using a blockchain. Or maybe a distributed identity service can use a blockchain. These
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by zelly 7y ago
Bitcoin is not one of the scams with no working software I was talking about. The information comes from a leveldb database you can download from peers after installing this client: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
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by zelly 7y ago
Almost every coin is implemented with straightforward, non-blinded accounting ("UTXO" model) such that everyone knows how many coins are associated with each public key. For example, this one belongs to Hal Finney (the creator of
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by zelly 7y ago
Crytpocurrencies are not valued on its software (even though paradoxically, what makes it different from other currencies is that it's only software). Otherwise the best software would have the highest market cap, which obviously isn&#
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by zelly 7y ago
Credit Karma also apparently calls its employees "Karmanauts". Heavy duty cringe.
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by zelly 7y ago
This is a great book. I also recommend Halmos "Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces". The typical way linear algebra is introduced does not present a matrix as a linear transformation first and foremost.
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by zelly 7y ago
To be fair the cancerous part of it is the Electron JS frontend, which is not to my knowledge at all implemented in Rust.
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by zelly 7y ago
> 1) all women get gold features (see who likes you, unlimited swipes, etc for free) > 2) only men are subject to double opt in (eg women can message without having been liked by the recipient) > 3) double-opt-in is based on someth
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by zelly 7y ago
> half-finished Literally all of the things you mentioned (except linkerd which is mostly Go) are half-finished incubator projects. Rust has been around for over 10 years. Come on.
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> you can't just override billions of years of evolution with some anti-conception and an app Why not? The influence of evolution here is only relevant insofar as it affects decision making i.e. brain chemistry. It's reasonable
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by zelly 7y ago
There isn't a lot of good software written in Rust, open source or not. It's a lot of small and half-finished stuff here and there. The actual software out there is the ultimate, unforgiving, unfraudable review of a language, not
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by zelly 7y ago
FFI in C++ is never gonna happen with the preprocessor and templates being there. By design of the language it basically won't ever work. You would need to recompile the world unless you're artificially restricting yourself to the
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by zelly 7y ago
Young people. For people in their 30s, it's a different ball game. Lots of well-off career people panicking to pair up. I have no doubt there is a lot of money in that. Actually I'm bullish on 30+ arranged marriage apps. It seem
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by zelly 7y ago
If we were in the 1970s and I described Instagram & Tinder to you, you would be saying the same thing.
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by zelly 7y ago
The gay community has flawlessly foreshadowed the culture of the general populace for hundreds of years. People ignore this for stupid ideological/emotional reasons. If you want to see what the future Tinder looks like, look at Grindr
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by zelly 7y ago
> So the solution is to introduce a gatekeeper. What does a gatekeeper look like? A clinically trained psychologist-cum-matchmaker (pun not intended) who can certify that the matches you are set up with are people with a track record of
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by zelly 7y ago
The author misunderstands the business model here. It is precisely this market asymmetry that makes the platform any $$$. Otherwise what incentive do guys have to spend money on advertising their profiles. If anything, the evidence presente
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by zelly 7y ago
> what was your last job? > Yes, I am available. Please email me more details or a link to the job requisition at ... Tbh a classical ELIZA style chatbot would have gotten this right. And it could have run in the browser without a ser
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by zelly 7y ago
> There are companies doing millions of dollars per day in sales on Shopify or similar platforms To be fair, Shopify takes a huge cut, and retail margins can't afford that. If I were them, I would have also made a homegrown e-commer
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by zelly 7y ago
I wonder if we can store enough food to feed 10 billion people for a whole year with current tech. Probably not. (Or better yet, some (fungus?) foodstuff that doesn't need light.) If this happens less than once per lifetime, it would n
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by zelly 7y ago
Free fonts aren't sufficiently better than the default system fonts to justify the slowdown. More people will leave your site because of the added microsecond latency than because "the font doesn't look good." You should
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That would be considered voter suppression by lots of people. Also very expensive.
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by zelly 7y ago
I saw someone recording a video of themselves selecting the choices on the voting kiosk. No one is going to stop you from doing that, nor would it be practical to try.
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by zelly 7y ago
It's entirely possible. Make a publicly facing form on darknet to send in your vote receipt along with your full name, SSN, voter registration number, etc. (cross referenced against leaked databases) to prevent double dipping and spoof
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by zelly 7y ago
It depends on the cache control headers sent by the original asset. If you want to make sure you don't hit the CDN, install the Decentraleyes browser extension.
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Desktop Linux is a rounding error
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> If they had any spine and sense of humanity, they would help these countries to develop properly so refugees wouldn't exist in the first place. I think a lot of people seem to be confused about the intent behind the high-skilled-o

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