esotericn

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by esotericn 6y ago
It depends how rationally the market responds, I guess. A reorg attack and a DoS are equivalent in my mind - anyone who's capable of pulling off a lengthy DoS is also capable of performing a reorg attack, whether they actually do or no
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by esotericn 6y ago
In the general case I don't think that majority miner attacks can be defended against without changing the hash algorithm. Specific cases like "empty blocks" could be addressed via a hard fork. But there's nothing stoppi
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by esotericn 6y ago
Everything you can do now could have been done in Feb 2020. I'm happy for you and hope that when the world returns to normality, you are able to apply the lessons you have learned.
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by esotericn 6y ago
We don't need a new protocol, we just need people to reject centralized services. The weak link is the legal entity of the corporation.
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by esotericn 6y ago
If you're happy existing with one other person and video calls indefinitely, then I consider you to be an obvious troll. Nah.
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by esotericn 6y ago
That's lovely for you. I hope you enjoy your video chats.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Yes, indefinite restrictions will mean that eventually everyone develops severe mental issues. Change the 5% to whatever you like, it doesn't matter.
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by esotericn 6y ago
I suppose there was that time when the US had >15% unemployment (now around 7%).
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by esotericn 6y ago
The X60s is magnificent. I love mine and may also buy more in the future. Just a fantastic piece of kit. If only the mainboard were upgradable... The lack of webcam is a bonus as far as I'm concerned; "Zoom culture" can burn.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Potentially - but I think that part of the author's point is that this shouldn't be necessary. Binning an entire keyboard for the sake of a few keys breaking?
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by esotericn 6y ago
We're almost at 100 days since it was last legal for me to interact with another person in my own home - https://esotericnonsense.com for references. The UK will have vaccinated at least 20 million of the most vulnerable on
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by esotericn 6y ago
Here in the UK borrowing to buy a car is a minority thing. The majority of people throw a few grand at an old banger and drive it until it stops working.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Whenever I read about this sort of thing, I just think - hey, guess I became old (I'm not even middle aged). I've been playing emulated retro games for the last ten years, there's enough of them to last a lifetime.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Literally no-one I know wants to hotdesk. It's the proletarian option for junior staff; it's a very clear form of cost-cutting. A fair few people I know do want to visit the office 3 of 5 days, sure. Reading this sort of thing is
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by esotericn 6y ago
Is there something more important than not being under house arrest whilst people die?
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by esotericn 6y ago
Couldn't give a single fuck. Have my money. :waves about:
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by esotericn 6y ago
If we had paid 1000 GBP per vaccine in the UK, I struggle to see how it would have not been the greatest value for money purchase that will have been made within my entire lifetime. We're in the middle of a three month period of it bei
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by esotericn 6y ago
"Getting rich" literally does mean owning capital. You are not rich if you have ten billion Zimbabwean dollars.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Taking a top-level view though, we've pulled about a billion different levers. In the UK we've restricted the activity of healthy individuals for about 11 months now - the latest episode being an approximately 3 month period withi
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by esotericn 6y ago
As far as I'm concerned, this is equivalent to the statement that "refrigerating beer causes the ozone layer to fail". There was a time that it did, and then we banned CFCs, and now it doesn't. Shouting at people about C
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by esotericn 6y ago
My employer has killed off office perks during lockdown; it doesn't seem intentional, more of a bureaucratic thing. People are still in the office, but the management aren't, so things don't get done. I've told them that
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by esotericn 6y ago
So your point here is that... we should ignore his views on free speech (e.g. he should be 'cancelled') because you don't like his other views? You do realise that ~40% of Brits are Tories? What does his brother have to do wi
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by esotericn 6y ago
"Pretty good" isn't good enough for this sort of thing though. If you care about contracting coronavirus, if for you infection is a death sentence, then you need something daft like a 99.9999% certainty that people and things
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by esotericn 6y ago
Well, I don't know about where you are, but over in the UK the Government isn't doing us any favours on this front. We've just been through a year of businesses being forced to close whilst their landlords continue to collect
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by esotericn 6y ago
The issue is lockdown and how the UK government chooses to proceed, not coronavirus spread or science. I'm opening up from March 23, they can do whatever they want.
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by esotericn 6y ago
I don't know why you're waffling on about this. The topic in question is an attempt to stage an event with zero coronavirus. I am simply saying that you cannot test your way into a 100% safe event in a country that has high preval
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by esotericn 6y ago
Stop signs are fairly common out in rural areas without much traffic in the UK. The US just has a lot more of that. We also just have roundabouts all over the place and Americans seem to be allergic to them for whatever reason.
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by esotericn 6y ago
Meeting indoors has been illegal in London since December 2 and based on current communication will be illegal until at least March 2, so that'll be four months of it being illegal to meet any person from outside your household indoors
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by esotericn 6y ago
Your second paragraph is of course true. But right now, we're eleven months in and it's illegal for me to have a single friend over for a cup of tea. Not advised against; not something we should limit; illegal, punishable by law.
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by esotericn 6y ago
We are eleven months in. I voluntarily restricted myself for a long while. Far, far longer than I should have, to the point that I may have given myself brain damage. Now I am visiting my family because I'm not willing to do it indefin

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