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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
The whole article took about a minute to load because apparently it’s being loaded from some decentralized network called lbry. I would rather be the product and get a great user experience than a shitty user experience that sells itself ba
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
I see the “ipfs less” terminology as similar to the term “serverless”. Just like how serverless still has servers but the point is that you don’t have to maintain your own server, ipfs less does make sense in that you don’t have to run ipfs
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
How would you know which stock photo was used for training? Someone may take a whole bunch of images they buy on a dark market, create a huge train model, and dump it on the public internet over torrent or something. And there would be no w
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
They will have to sell if the Bitcoin price goes down enough that their measly revenue from their obscure enterprise software can't cover the loss from their Bitcoin investment. He can keep holding, but it will lower the morale of the
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
If BTC price doesn't recover soon and falls further, Microstrategy is what will kill BTC. I don't know why BTC investors are so crazy about Microstrategy buying BTC (This would have never happened back in the early days of Bitcoin
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
What an idiotic essay. What Osaka did has nothing to do with ambition, she did it because of the changing landscape of the media. Unlike the old days where athletes had to rely on press conferences to get their story out, nowadays they can
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
It's kinda funny how this whole drama is for copying some "intellectual property" that anyone can easily build. If you don't want your virtual cloud sandbox app to be copied easily, build something that actually is novel
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
> However, decentralized immutability means that nothing can be done should an unintended action occur with your account. All that's needed is an elegant identity system that privately ties identity with transactions so that only th
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
> This isn’t inherent to PoW consensus. In 2010, Bitcoin was CPU mineable on any ordinary Windows PC. It wasn’t until Bitcoin commanded a significant market value — which wasn’t guaranteed in the slightest — that industrial scale mining
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
"If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to generate new coins. He ought to find it more p
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
Just curious, has Anonymous ever threatened someone before attacking? Maybe I'm wrong, I just haven't seen a top hacker who makes public threats before attacking.
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by cocktailpeanuts 5y ago
Unlike Proof of Work based blockchains which require seizable factory infrastructure to break even, Proof of Stake doesn't need one. Most Proof of Stake supporters see this as a good thing because it means there's no electricity w
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but there is already the term "append only logs" which we use everywhere. How is this different from append only logs? Append only logs rely on cryptography to make the history transparent too. I
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
I recently tried to sign up for Twitter API and the process is nothing like what it used to be. You have to give them a lot of information to even qualify, such as what you're going to use it for. It used to be that those were just som
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
Interesting that they don't do "GitHub by Microsoft", or "NPM by Microsoft". Maybe there's some insight in there somewhere...
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
Netlify CMS stores content on their cloud. This looks like it lets you store on your own git repository directly from the browser, avoiding potential lock-in.
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
Very cool. Every existing criticism about static site generators seems to be gone with this approach. Many interesting ideas in there, like the service worker instead of cloud, and an actual git flow in the browser. Looks almost like more t
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
I was looking to find an insightful article about the problems with Fediverse. But I only found an article that rants about the toxic humanity. This article has nothing to do with so called "Fediverse". It's so unrelated that
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
Is this a satire? Why would anyone use this? The reason I think this sounds like satire is because the post presents the "there are NPM modules for doing iseven or isodd, but there's too much dependency" as the problem this i
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
> Bitcoin needs a huge factory. ETH2 needs a billion dollars. I feel like a billion dollars could probably buy the factory you're talking about. What you don't get is what comes after that. In PoS, once you invest a billion dol
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
A Bitcoin miner that can 51% attack the network will need a huge factory full of mining rigs. A proof of stake miner who wants to 51% attack doesn't need that.
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
People are asking you why this counts as "on Bitcoin", and you've been saying throughout this thread it's because it has access to the Bitcoin ledger data. My point is that it pretty much sounds like you're using BT
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
see my comment in sibling thread. with proof of work, it's not just about money. proof of work mining forces miners to invest through future commitment, which means you can't just bring some one time money and gain influence. For
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
> so it results in rich get richer In PoW, the same 'rich get richer' applies - miners can buy more mining rigs and thus it compounds the same? In theory, if and when proof of mining actually becomes the mainstream vehicle for
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
having a lot of money staked doesn't mean it's secure. The security model of Bitcoin comes from proof of work, which most people complain as being waste. But it's not actually waste. It's secure because miners have to ke
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
This is basically a bespoke blockchain that uses BTC as oracle. It's not a smart contracts "on Bitcoin". By this logic, I could write an ERC20 token on ETH and use some BTC state, and call it "smart contracts on Bitcoin&
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
What we need in 2021 is not this site, it's a youmightnotneedreact.com
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
You said these things were easy. My point is that it will be increasingly difficult to do so. Your comment about "If there's a will there may be a way" is not the answer because having a "way" doesn't mean it&#
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
> unexpectedly to me suddenly puts the Hyper protocol's ecosystem possibly ahead of IPFS in user-friendliness and fun-factor at this moment Actually it's been ahead of the IPFS community for a long time even when IPFS was all t
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by cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
These things don't work anymore. They recently passed a law that says all exchanges must report everything that flows through them, and that's just the beginning. If you think those cute stories like selling virtual cats to an ano

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