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by SnowProblem 6y ago
I disagree with Vitalik and don't think these ideas were explored far enough. You can do proof-of-work on L2 state just like L1 which would enable light clients. The benefits of the colored coin approach is that the base consensus laye
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Ethereum has the developer mindshare and tooling today, no doubt. But ETH also has fundamental scalability problems which are pushing out smaller value transactions. The team behind CryptoKitties for example left to develop their own chain
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Hey good questions! Because you can create new experiences for users. Bitcoin can be thought of as a shared database for apps to interact. Assets and code can be reused and built on top of each other, leading to stronger network effects. Ga
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
PBS released a great 3-part documentary last month on exactly this called Rise of the Nazis. It focuses on the years 1930-1933. https://www.pbs.org/show/rise-nazis
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
It came from an investigation by New York's AG last year: > In fact, Tether’s reserves of cash and cash equivalents alone (without the line of credit) would cover approximately 74 percent of the outstanding amount of tether. This so
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Agree. Regardless whether or not Tether is fraudulently backed, it is fractionally backed. 74% last year, with the remaining lent out. But I suppose that's expected. Even if Tether hadn't lent out their cash, the bank they depos
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Early 2000s. Every myspace looks different. AIM profiles with colors, poems, quotes, and links. WinAmp skins, but also skins in desktops (WindowBlinds), wallpapers (DeviantArt), icons, ringtones, etc. To be cool, you'd make it yours. I
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Regarding the last point, I'd never thought of a virus like a poison before. Very interesting, thank you. If I get a higher dose of virus does that mean I will be sicker? Yes – work on two other coronaviruses: severe acute respiratory
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Can someone help me understand something? Back in March, we had ~40k new cases per day, and were seeing ~3k deaths per day. Today, we have ~140k new cases per day, but our deaths seem to be ~1k per day, and haven't risen much with rise
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Here's a dark thought. If Trump really did win the election legimately, and there really was widespread voter fraud, play out how both sides would react. Consider that Biden has already been declared president-elect by the media. We ma
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Kodak is a good example because it is a case of the innovator's dilemma [1], and I think that applies here too. They knew digital was the future, but growing existing markets was always more profitable and politically sustainable. To b
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Seconded, sounds interesting. I don't accept the either-or statement at the end, but I would love to learn more about Britain's history of funding infrastructure.
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
No, I don't accept IMF's re-definition of subsidy, nor yours. Subsidies are not negative externalities. We can talk about a carbon tax to address externalities. I agree there should be one. We can talk about eliminating energy sub
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
I think if you want a high-quality train service, you should pay for it through higher fares. Saying you would pay higher taxes is sly language for saying you want to others to subsidize you.
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
That PAM issue last month cost me ~8 hours (5 to drive home, long story). Nevertheless, it was the first time in about 2 years that I'd run into this kind of pain with Arch. Mostly the OS has been rock solid and out of the way, and I e
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Yes. It's really worth dwelling on the long-term implications of terabyte+ sized blocks and fees of a thousand of a cent. This is where BSV is heading and everything changes at that scale. New use cases are unlocked. Old architectures
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
In my experience, the only reliable way to design an API is to cycle through "hats" like gradient descent until the API stops changing. There are no shortcuts! And there are more hats to consider than just frontend and backend. Th
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
I like the birthday paradox analogy. Nassim Taleb, Black Swan author, has a paper on the same idea. https://www.academia.edu/42223846/Ethics_of_Precaution_Indiv... .
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Thanks for correcting me, and to magicalist. I apologize. This was difficult to find, but here's the breakdown for causes of death each week: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-a... In New
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
The chart I posted is bunk, and I apologize. Took me a while, but here's real data: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-a... In New York, total deaths from heart-related diseases is up, not
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Maybe, or maybe it's increased suicide, domestic violence, other coronaviruses, and even covid. Suicide for example is about as deadly as the flu during a normal year and peaks right about now. The excess mortality does require an expl
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
The link you posted shows 11k/16k deaths from COVID. Nothing about 27k. And the chart I posted doesn't show total deaths in NYC, but some selection of morbidities. Is it wrong? Probably. But official data also says heart attacks a
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Probably ~20% more for covid than non-covid, based on what I've followed from CARES, but I wouldn't focus the incentive problem on ventilators. And you're right. Excess deaths are way up, so I assume there is a problem with m
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Check again. Your link backs up the chart I posted. Medicare paying hospitals 8k per covid patient and 39k per ventilator use simply with symptoms, no test required, also does not help. But keep the downvotes coming.
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Your definition of voluntary is entirely different from mine.
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Is this just a meme? The skies look the same to me in southern California.
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by SnowProblem 6y ago
Do they? Take the 5 major countries in western Europe - UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Together they have ~325M people, which is about the size of the US. Both total cases and total deaths are higher than US. Total deaths is 4x wors
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by SnowProblem 7y ago
Booking.com - sold in 2005. TomTom - dying since smartphones. Philips - an old appliance company. Ayden - hadn't heard of it, but granted. I hear of new companies from China all the time.
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by SnowProblem 7y ago
> The Netherlands and France are still alive and kicking. They have plenty of successful businesses. Are they? I can't think of a single technology company coming out of either.
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by SnowProblem 8y ago
Everyone, read The Satoshi Affair [1] and make up your own mind. Don't believe he's a fraud just because it seems everyone else is saying so. Ask yourself - If you were created the system that would dethrone banks and governments,

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