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by zodiac 9y ago
What's wrong with off-chain scaling?
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by zodiac 9y ago
Opentimestamps
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by zodiac 9y ago
Ethereum announces an official stablecoin https://blog.ethereum.org/2018/04/01/announcing-world-trade-... IMO, not quite as good as the 2017 one
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by zodiac 9y ago
I don't understand - would appreciate if you elaborate.
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by zodiac 9y ago
I personally really hated the use of uC++ and would have loved to do the whole course in some MIPS dialect. I really liked how through most of second year the only language reference I really needed to look at fit on one piece of paper ( ht
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by zodiac 9y ago
> Tools which become ubiquitous or prerequisites for other services are not discretionary...As such, its terms and services as those of numerous other services, should be defined in a standard set of obligations, rights, and responsibili
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by zodiac 9y ago
I totally agree! But first of all, the prompt shown in the article's screenshot was not hidden in a long ToS. Second of all, I agree that we should work towards solving the problem that overly-long ToSs represent. What I do not agree w
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by zodiac 9y ago
So how do we solve this? What is the general framework we use to agree to transactions of this kind where users allow access for some data in return for something?
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by zodiac 9y ago
> It seems like it should be an obvious given that just installing an FB app on your phone shouldn't hand FB a record of all your phone calls and text messages. Has it been established anywhere that this was not the case (i.e. that
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by zodiac 9y ago
> People don't read the pages. People don't read the user agreements. Then maybe "people" shouldn't act completely outraged when they find out that their call history was uploaded?
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by zodiac 9y ago
What does that concretely mean?
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by zodiac 9y ago
What's your proposal for a more egalitarian reward model for block producers (in any consensus model)?
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by zodiac 9y ago
Yes, you're absolutely right, I was comparing npm specifically to pip (without any additional tools like pipenv).
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by zodiac 9y ago
npm installs to a local node_modules file by default, whereas you have to set up a virtualenv or something similar to get that from pip
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by zodiac 9y ago
Do you mean full node or archive node? (ie is the 149gb a requirement for storing the txo set or the utxo set)
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by zodiac 9y ago
> Raiden is a poor and incomplete implementation How so? > Sharding has the cost of weakening security. Why?
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by zodiac 9y ago
> A full archive node currently requires a 400GB SSD! You're only option is to run a light node, Uh, what about running a full archive node? The bitcoin txo set is also much larger the the utxo set
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by zodiac 9y ago
> It's quite quick Really? I use it often and it always takes a few days end-to-end
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by zodiac 9y ago
It's a different kind of centralization, if you can call it that at all, since you don't have to trust your counterparty in a lightning network style payment channel
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by zodiac 9y ago
> Huge expected value can also make people fools, without a scrap of real hope of future returns The probability of failure should already be factored into the term "expected return"
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by zodiac 9y ago
I normally am in favour of using precise language, but there's no way to argue that "crypto" should mean "cryptography" rather than "cryptocurrencies" other than "it's what was popular" - th
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by zodiac 9y ago
Thanks so much for maintaining homebrew!
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by zodiac 9y ago
Would you say that all short selling is parasitic?
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by zodiac 9y ago
Inflation measures USD purchasing power- how do you think that's measured?
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by zodiac 9y ago
Then what does the feds 2% interest rate target? Nothing?
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by zodiac 9y ago
I like ethresear.ch for technical discussions about scaling etc on ethereum
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by zodiac 9y ago
You're right - what would you say it is pegged to?
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by zodiac 9y ago
> Also, pegging a cryptocurrency to the dollar seems almost comedically perverse. What is it for? The general thing you want is for your currency to have stable purchasing power (for goods and services) in the short term, maybe inflate i
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by zodiac 9y ago
Conceivably, but I'm not sure what regulations such a company would have to comply with or even if they can incorporate in the US at all. Eg would they need to be responsible for not letting North Koreans redeem? (probably.) What else?
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by zodiac 9y ago
You have to trust the group that they won't for eg suddenly take the money in the savings account and run off (not honor redemption) some point in the future

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