jacoblambda

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by jacoblambda 5y ago
The alternative is providing a base network that is fully decentralised (and doesn't use a resource based proof system that is terrible for the environment). Nation states and institutions can build on top of or integrate into this bas
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
At least from my view this is a shift towards actual engineering culture. You'd never see a civil engineer or most any other engineer operate under the "move fast and break things" philosophy. Making prototypes and experiment
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
This is true but so are the existing captchas. Existing captchas are just harvesting training data for Google's self driving vehicles at this point. With a PoW captcha, it doesn't matter how smart you make your algorithm, it'
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
The real answer: Democratisation of software or systems is making Free and Open Source all the software and knowledge required to operate the software or system. Democratisation is also implementing structures that make the development proc
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Now those numbers are actually pretty reasonable. If Nobody ever dies, there's 10 million in damages each time an event like this occurs (around once every 10 years now), and with climate change we can expect the intensity + regularity
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Vaccine refusal has gotten pretty close in Japan. The LDP has been capitalising on this to justify their incredibly poor COVID response and their "nothing could be done and nothing can be done" mentality.
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
That's the catch though isn't it? It's only wilful infringement if there was intent. Just because you don't know the law, that doesn't make it allowed but it does make it unintentional. A license notice provides a c
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Generally you should but depending on the type of test it might be prohibitive. I've definitely written up tests for validation purposes that I wouldn't use in a test suite normally before. Said tests usually require some complex
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Alternatively put it in a test scripts directory and put a comment linking to it in the header of the file (or readme if it's multiple files).
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
While I generally agree (as someone who in the past few years graduated from such a university), the reality is that the tours are about the residential aspect of campus and not the academic part of campus. The entire point of them is to ad
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
The primary usage of the network will be to provided a funding and governance mechanism for open source research and drug discovery. It's mostly just a convenient and transparent way to fund R&D as well as to allow supporters/
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Fair request. I'll pull the ones off the top of my head. Catalyst just recently funded a proposal for a decentralised pharmaceuticals project that is initially basing out of Southern(?) African nations (primarily SA atm I believe). Ini
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
I agree that Charles is self-centred and that there is a cult of personality around him to a certain degree but it really depends on which part of the community you are in as to whether it's "this is an influential person in the s
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
If you work for a living without owning the means of production and receiving the fruits of your labour, you are part of the proletariat. If you own the means of production and receive the full fruits of your labour, you are part of the bou
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
I'm painfully aware. Programmers aren't special snowflakes but they have traditionally been well off in this regard. My worry is that if they are being targetted by these kinds of decisions that it legitimises efforts to increase
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
I'll preface that I somewhat dislike how Ethereum has established their PoS consensus. The lack of first class support for delegated staking poses a problem IMHO as it requires handing control of your coins over to a third party consid
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
I'd recommend looking at Project Catalyst out of the Cardano ecosystem. Of course the proposals are still heavily focused on internal/ecosystem development but there's an increasing focus on building platforms for people in d
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Honestly you might want to look into Google Fi (Even though google is evil and just being under their umbrella makes me consider leaving) since their plans automatically work in most countries [1]. I want to find a better cell plan with a c
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
It's not just adjusting salaries based on location. It's slashing people's salaries by quarters and halves even if they have been working at the company for years just because they moved somewhere cheaper. Your value hasn&#x2
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Government oversight isn't required at all or even desired in most cases. Proof of Stake relies almost entirely on the internal game theory of the system and while external influence (such as some level of proof of authority via gov ov
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Actually part of the issue is that the bill is worded such that effectively everyone involved in a cryptocurrency (including developers) would be treated as financial brokers and would be subject to all the regulations and tax compliance la
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
I don't get what the hate boner for crypto adds to this conversation? The original wording in the bill and the Warner amendment are horrific overreaches that should be severely concerning. They would render anyone who hosts a validator
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
FYI Illiberal values aka non-liberal values (clarifying because the I is hard to read) use the word liberal in the traditional sense. Liberal values are liberty/freedom, consent of the governed, and equality before the law. All other l
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
I'm going to have to disagree. I grew up in Florida and only left in the past few years so I would go to the parks on a regular basis (once or twice a year). Disney World really doesn't have mosquitoes or at least any noticeable q
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Im curious how it would compare to Halide Lang. They both seem to be targetting the same problem.
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
It's not though. Sure what you say may be correct in some amount but it has little to do with the comment you responded to and isn't much more than excuse for why ISPs take advantage of their (largely) monopoly powers in the resid
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
But if you still have to go inland, it's the same problem but worse. Sure places on the coast can get cheaper/less wasteful goods by water but once you have to take those goods inland you have the same dilemma. At least with local
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
I mean hell, local could even just mean "same continent" or "within a X hundred km radius". The real key is that there's no reason for such excessive energy waste from transportation due to facilities being on the o
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
Something like Monero or ZCash is decentralised by the same (or similar) means that Bitcoin and Ethereum are however they use various mechanisms to maintain privacy. Monero uses ring signatures and several other mechanisms to separate a tra
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by jacoblambda 5y ago
It can impact compile time performance but Boost Safe Numerics provides some nice wrappers to prevent narrowing (or restrict it to specific classes of narrowing) and throw warnings or errors at compile time similar to what you see in Rust.

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