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by zik 9y ago
Ok, I'm curious. What rocket engine power cycle was invented between the Full Flow Staged Combustion Cycle (1962) and the Electric Pump-Fed Cycle (2010)?
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by zik 9y ago
RocketLab's doing incredibly innovative things. They're using an entirely new kind of rocket engine power cycle. This is the first new power cycle invented since the Full Flow Staged Combustion Cycle in the 1960s. https:/&#x
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by zik 9y ago
The "Gigablock Initiative" presented at the recent "Scaling Bitcoin" conference tests exactly that. They found that Bitcoin Cash can easily scale on chain to VISA levels using standard desktop machines. https:/&#x2
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by zik 9y ago
There are a lot of accusations that Tether is being used to do this kind of fraudulent price pumping right now. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/mystery-s...
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by zik 9y ago
The original purpose of Bitcoin was disintermediating transactions. So "unbanking the banked" would probably best describe it. It doesn't work for that use case any more unfortunately due to its high fees.
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by zik 9y ago
It can be controlled by a boot option in linux.
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by zik 9y ago
> if you just mine seven sequential blocks without publishing the first six until you've mined all seven Then you end up with an orphaned chain which will have effect at all.
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by zik 9y ago
There are a few quantum resistant cryptocurrencies out there already. Bitcoin isn't one of them but it's well understood how to change it to be quantum resistant. When it becomes a genuine concern they'll no doubt upgrade the
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by zik 9y ago
The article does make some good points but it also comes over as a fluff piece for IOTA while tiptoeing around all IOTA's serious issues and implicitly labelling any criticism as "FUD".
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by zik 9y ago
The cryptocurrency bubble is still attracting a lot of attention and people want to buy into something. Bitcoin's pretty broken right now so people are being told to buy litecoin instead.
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by zik 9y ago
Bitcoin's pretty broken at the moment due to some bad decisions by the development team. All other cryptocurrencies have very low fees.
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by zik 9y ago
It's a standard mag stripe card that draws from a Bitcoin account and can be used anywhere. They're quite common.
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by zik 9y ago
Gold and gems can't be instantaneously and safely transacted over the internet. Name-calling cryptocurrencies "primitive" when they're clearly not doesn't lend a lot of weight to your argument.
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by zik 9y ago
Where are the criminal charges against the officers? When the worst that can happen as the result of a theft is there's an outside chance that you might have to give the money back and there'll be no negative repercussions why wou
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by zik 9y ago
The usual reason for using an RTOS on small embedded controllers is that a full OS is way too big to fit on such small CPUs (eg. 64K of RAM and 256K of FLASH is common). FreeRTOS is tiny - it only uses a few KB of FLASH. Non real time OSes
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by zik 9y ago
The people who told you "Inflation is a feature, not a bug" are the same people who benefit from you believing that. People have used assets like gold as money for thousands of years without long term inflation and it worked very
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by zik 9y ago
The support for the earlier Segwit change was only 30%. The advertised support for this 2x change was over 80%.
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by zik 9y ago
Bitcoin's central innovation is the "Nakamoto concensus" algorithm which is essentially exactly this (at least as it applies to the protocol itself).
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by zik 9y ago
blockstream has incredible influence on Core no matter which way you split your hairs. Greg Maxwell, Luke Dashjr, Adam Back and Andrew Poelstra act as spokespeople for Core in various forums on a daily basis.
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by zik 9y ago
Rusty has a significantly higher cognitive load for programmers than C. I find it quicker to write reliable code in C than in Rust because I can write the C code and a comprehensive set of tests quicker than I could write just the Rust code
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by zik 9y ago
That's just because microcontrollers are cheaper and easier to produce. It's going to take someone with deep pockets to make a desktop competitive RISC-V processor.
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by zik 9y ago
41 is definitely warm but I think San Francisco has a pretty gentle climate in general. For comparison Melbourne Australia has a climate which is mostly similar to San Francisco but we also get temperatures over 41 Celsius every summer. Usu
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by zik 9y ago
Yes, and if it's fraud then it's also malpractice by the directors and the company structure doesn't protect the them from being sued personally for the missing funds. Someone should really start an action against the directo
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by zik 9y ago
It's a temporary situation. Proof of Work which requires mining is likely to be replaced by Proof of Stake and other methods which don't require any mining. Ethereum is planning to try Proof of Stake in the next year or so.
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by zik 9y ago
It's only a temporary situation. There's a lot of research going on into replacing "Proof of Work" blockchains with "Proof of Stake" which doesn't require any mining. Ethereum is likely to get Proof of Sta
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by zik 9y ago
CFS stands for "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Syndromes are "a group of symptoms which consistently occur together, or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms". It is literally a description of symptoms (w
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by zik 9y ago
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a syndrome - ie. "a group of symptoms which consistently occur together". The fact that it's called a syndrome rather than a disease is a recognition that it's not understood and may be in fac
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by zik 9y ago
Oh woops. I guess I misread that.
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by zik 9y ago
Pretty interesting article but I had to laugh at this: > A subtle refinement (a “graphic tightening” in LEGO’s words) of the 1973 logo for better digital (i.e. internet) reproduction. Digital/internet reproduction in 1973? The web w
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by zik 9y ago
Note that this proposal is from two authors who are under huge controversy right now and depending on who you listen to are likely to be removed from their current positions as Bitcoin contributors along with several others in the next few

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