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by casi 4mo ago
I enjoyed this article, i still never finished infinite jest as much as id like to. but this idea of burn-in is really interesting as a way to present ideas. I guess ill try again ha
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Can Claude Fly a Plane?(so.long.thanks.fish)
107 points by casi 5mo ago|96 comments
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by casi 5y ago
CirclesUBI and proof of humanity UBI Both basic income projects. Proof of humanity ubi tokens are more easily tradeable and meant to provide Sybil resistance to eth projects, but circles has a nice self contained design which is probably mo
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by casi 5y ago
You can join a staking pool with as little as you have. Just like joining a mining pool with your laptop. And you can get eth with gasless minting of nfts. Draw a picture and sell it. Don’t have to spend any money. I much prefer this to bur
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by casi 5y ago
I equally find it strange that people continue to come to hackernews- the Silicon Valley VC startup land - and can’t grasp that the infrastructure for programmable money might have some value. And write off p2p communication and coordinatio
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by casi 5y ago
Can’t really talk beyond Europe viewpoint, so might be different elsewhere, but here in the UK the left often talks of removing Westminster central control and empowering smaller local politics. I’m left wing/labour/union/coo
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by casi 5y ago
I guess there creator of dogecoin always saw it as a joke, so this isn’t surprising. Cryptocurrency is about choice and voice. Coordination and communication tools. There are American right wingers with their tokens and systems they’ve desi
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by casi 5y ago
People are always surprised when I describe how bad the internet connection I have is here in the UK. 3meg down 0.2 up. If it rains or is too windy the connection dies. I’ve spoke to bt and openreach hundreds of times but it never gets a
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by casi 5y ago
That isn’t how it works. There isn’t a cap on validators so you can’t buy up a fixed percentage of the network. More people can always join. You will be diluted over time unless you choose to reinvest(same as mining). As we reduce the hardw
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by casi 5y ago
I agree, it seems like results are getting worse, a few years back I could ask a question and get an answer. Now I don't even bother and go straight to sites to search, be it wikipedia/ github/ stackoverflow/ ebay. Googl
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by casi 5y ago
Youll be happy to hear there is a hackthon going on right now testing out the move onto PoS. https://rayonism.io/
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by casi 5y ago
The policy has always been “minimal viable issuance”
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by casi 5y ago
Worth pointing out “initial investors” is anyone who sent 1 btc to the crowdfund back in 2014. It wasnt some closed off thing for vcs, anyone could participate. People just bought their tokens before the network started.
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by casi 5y ago
FTX (crypto exchange) was one of Bidens biggest donors last year...
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by casi 5y ago
Really excited for the gnosis + radicle combination, being able to give ownership of a repo to a dao will be cool. Also https://daohaus.club/ has made it really easy to deploy a moloch dao for $1. Totally agree with the art
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by casi 5y ago
Similar I read a line a year or so ago (can’t remember where) that really stuck with me: All anyone ever really says is “I love you” or “help me”. I try remember this whenever I am frustrated with what someone is saying to me. You can’t alw
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by casi 6y ago
Plenty of people doing it, defi exploded in use last summer mainly driven by collateralized debt positions in combination with lending tokens. Lock up ethereum -> borrow dai against it -> lend dai out and earn interest on it, withdraw
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by casi 6y ago
This is a tired take, Vitaliks position is not any greater than anyone else and there is nothing stopping anyone who has contributions from having the same level of participation. It is much easier to participate than any other open source
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by casi 6y ago
There is a difference (with the introduction of slashing and user activated soft forks) in 51% attacks that revert finalized blocks. In PoW this type of attack would become cheaper as it persists, in PoS we have some defense that keeps maki
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by casi 6y ago
Matic is not an L2 though, it is a side chain. The reason L2s like optimism are exciting is because they inherit the security of ethereum mainnet. (matic has its own consensus mechanisms).
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by casi 6y ago
The general idea is Layer 2s solve high gas. Most users will be using apps that run on a layer 2 and will make rare trips to the mainnet. The next thing being worked on is onboarding users direct to layer 2, and layer2 interoperability so y
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by casi 6y ago
Most of the ethereum devs I know were bitcoin people first. Bitcoin is cool but you simply can’t do what you can do on ethereum. Remember Vitalik himself worked for bitcoin magazine and pushed hard for updates that would make his ideas poss
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by casi 6y ago
For sure, I completely understand the resistance a lot of people have to cryptocurrencies and blockchains, I imagine they can seem invasive or unnecessary to people who imagine them being imposed in their communities. The side people genera
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by casi 6y ago
Just to expand on a few points: Transactions getting stuck because of gas prices spiking: This was one of the main drivers of the 1559 improvement proposal which was recently accepted for the summer upgrade. Hopefully it fixes the UX around
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by casi 6y ago
The monetary policy is becoming much clearer with proposals like EIP-1559 which has been approved for the summer upgrade. But beside that, I can buy things with it, and I regularly do buy things with it. I pay people with it, and get paid w
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by casi 6y ago
There are services like Lido which is live, and RocketPool which is launching soon. You can essentially just buy lido staked ether (steth) on uniswap, steth is a token which represents staked ethereum and accrues interest via rebasing. Rock
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by casi 6y ago
Full nodes are around 500GB, so they do fill up faster than bitcoin does. Archive nodes are bigger, but you can get everything in an archive node from a full node as it contains all the proofs. There are other data pruning techniques, and l
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by casi 6y ago
Vitalik actually has an excellent blog post on rollups. [1] As well as the Rollup Centric Roadmap posted last year which is a little more technically specific[2]. All the evidence/math is there to read, or in the developer forums. Curr
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by casi 6y ago
yeah backups are a case of "don't trust, verify"
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by casi 6y ago
Highly recommend https://www.rekt.news/ for reports on crypto hacks and rugs.

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