Adlai

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by Adlai 6y ago
I was slightly younger than fourteen when my fifth-grade teacher staged a bridge-building competition in the class. She priced the raw materials (mainly toothpicks, glue, and string; I can't recall what the various exotic items were),
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by Adlai 6y ago
As is often the case, this review can be recommended instead of the book; anyone who still wants to read the book after the review, is quite likely to enjoy it.
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by Adlai 11y ago
You can restrict the supply within a single system, and value follows the network effect due to fear and greed. https://coinmarketcap.com/ lists 650 alternate value storages which take up 650 million dollars. Bitcoin alone
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by Adlai 11y ago
No mention of Bitcoin? Oh right, the experiment failed. Too bad, too bad.
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by Adlai 11y ago
You just made me laugh out loud :)
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by Adlai 11y ago
Stellar has a consensus protocol? Last I checked, there's a single blessed node dishing out verifiable data. It's nicer than having a remote API that just hands you a trusted number, but it's a far cry from Nakamoto Consensus
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by Adlai 11y ago
Bitcoin transactions are much harder to censor than conventional fiat transfers, but the transaction graph is completely transparent. Check out https://www.walletexplorer.com/
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by Adlai 11y ago
First, the one mentioned in the parent: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=26033 And a couple skimmed off the all-time best[1]: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=3172
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by Adlai 11y ago
Seems like a good opportunity for a company that genuinely cares about employee health to make it easier for them to eat well by stocking the kitchen with healthy snacks.
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by Adlai 11y ago
People asking questions, lost in confusion Well, I tell them there's no problem, only solutions - John Lennon The other solutions proposed here work at the wrong level. The approach taken by I2P[1] does away with the conc
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by Adlai 11y ago
Such scams only raise the price if the fools hold Bitcoin instead of what they most likely do: sell it for local currency. The scam's popularity does boost transaction volume, critical to the emergence of a fee market.
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by Adlai 11y ago
Yet another article about the somethingization of money that doesn't mention decentralized currency, or even plain old digital. I get that people love hating Bitcoin, but isn't it fashionable at the very least to nod at the underl
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by Adlai 11y ago
Today, Hock is on the advisory board of Xapo, claiming that "Bitcoin is one of the best examples of how a decentralized, peer-to-peer organization can solve problems that these dated organizations cannot." How about that pivot!
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by Adlai 11y ago
Your government shouldn't care what form of money you're using, as long as it gets its fair taxes.
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by Adlai 11y ago
Vonnegut disagrees in Player Piano. It's an interesting read for programmers, since he got the details of automation wildly wrong, but "the story is true".
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by Adlai 11y ago
Satoshi published a PGP key, but never signed any of his public communication. Reading the recent email[1] sent under his name suggests why: Bitcoin was designed to be protected from the influence of charismatic leaders, even if their name
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by Adlai 11y ago
My favorite perspective on this Tragedy analogizes the Commons in question to a cavern whose acoustics preserve any sound shouted within. We could allow more people to shout at once, but that would increase the number of echos, increasing t
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by Adlai 11y ago
Forth is as high-level as you'd like it to be. http://www.colorforth.com/POL.htm
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by Adlai 11y ago
Please avoid referring to the language as "CLisp". It's Common Lisp or just CL, of which GNU CLISP[1] is but a single implementation. [1] http://www.clisp.org/
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by Adlai 11y ago
You missed the recursion: Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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by Adlai 11y ago
I'm also reminded of an interview with an actor who said that cocaine didn't add much to his life, since he'd get the same rush from walking onstage each night, without having to spend $100 before or suffer a crash after.
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by Adlai 11y ago
I actually look forwards to the ads before movies on the rare occasions that I do attend cinema screenings. Since I watch no TV (and grew up without one) and make a point of minimizing my exposure to online advertising, this serves as an am
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by Adlai 11y ago
Wouldn't the individuals behind organizations such as the EFF and ACLU gladly stand behind their message?
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What can I do for JoinMarket?(github.com)
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by Adlai 11y ago
Edi Weitz's "Common Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach", listed on Amazon for December 2015.
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by Adlai 11y ago
There are coinbase flags for neither SPV status, nor honesty.
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by Adlai 11y ago
It's sensationalist to suggest this vulnerability is anything new. The warning is late, indeed... I'd suggest putting it in the Terms of Service of every SPV wallet, but then even fewer people would read it. Maybe a better approac
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by Adlai 11y ago
For the sake of quoting Greg Maxwell, I'd like to pick a nit. Bitcoin has no rules other than those you enforce yourself, and all these pools did was enforce fewer rules of their fellow players, than we assume they do.[4] Optimize w
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by Adlai 11y ago
The title is a little sensationalist. While the majority of wallets do only have SPV security, and such wallets were vulnerable to double spending during the recent fork event. The fork is over, so the wallets are no more vulnerable now tha
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by Adlai 11y ago
Two mining pools (Discus Fish and Antpool) were engaged in what's called "SPV Mining", where they assume a block broadcast by another miner is valid based solely upon the block header (essentially, just checking that the bloc

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