magna7

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by magna7 6y ago
Ethereum has been designed from the very start to switch from PoW (mining) to PoS (validating) and Phase 0 of that transition has already started.
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by magna7 6y ago
I still use dapps almost every day
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by magna7 6y ago
Comparing GWB to Trump is a bit disingenuous, don't you think? Trump is an actual wannabe autocrat, as opposed to GWB and Obama.
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by magna7 6y ago
Serious question. Why don't homeless people in SF and NYC go look for work in cheaper cities across America? It seems like these people with degrees and work experience can find work elsewhere and affordable housing, so I don't un
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by magna7 6y ago
Why unfortunately? Ethereum is great
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by magna7 7y ago
I disagree with you. There were plenty of ideas during the 1990s that were technically infeasible until further infrastructure upgrades allowed them to exist. Video streaming immediately comes to mind. It was unfathomable to have a video st
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by magna7 7y ago
How about borrowing and lending using MakerDAO and Compound? Or, a decentralized prediction market through Augur? Or, decentralized derivatives through dYdX? Once the Oracle Problem is solved, you'll be able to trustlessly buy syntheti
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by magna7 7y ago
What you're talking about is infrastructure. How does infrastructure get built if people aren't actively building it? Yeah, these things take time, but people have to actually build out these ideas first before others in the futur
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by magna7 7y ago
Surveillance capitalism is going to get a lot more scary
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by magna7 7y ago
I haven't looked into this yet, but one question I always ask for new blockchains is: Why use your own blockchain? Security is expensive, and it's trivial to 51% attack new chains with minimal hash power. This would make sense if
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by magna7 7y ago
Banks gotta make money somehow in a low interest world.
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by magna7 7y ago
I don't think anyone disputes the laws of thermodynamics, just how the body processes different macronutrients in the presence of certain levels of hormones. By changing those hormones, you change the balance of the total energy equati
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by magna7 7y ago
Why aren't you a proponent of Fung? I'm just curious.
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by magna7 7y ago
While I agree with you that this is not a major effect, it is an effect nonetheless and it's due to changes in hormones. Dr Fung has a blog where he discusses it using an analogy https://idmprogram.com/how-to-control-th
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by magna7 7y ago
Yes, but they are deficient in many aspects without realizing it. For example, Alzheimers is almost certainly a condition caused by chronic sleep deprivation. The results don't speak for themselves at all. Read Matthew Walkers book and
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by magna7 7y ago
Why We Sleep is a fantastic book. Everyone should read it.
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by magna7 7y ago
A perfect example of this is Facebook. There were several social media platforms before Facebook, but they succeeded where others didn't because of a few distinctive features. They also benefited from improved internet infrastructure,
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by magna7 7y ago
"But what about the children?" never ends well. I'm a damn adult and I vape because the alternative is worse. I'm certainly not going to vape unflavored e-liquids, so people like me will be forced to buy the flavors sepa
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by magna7 7y ago
> Recently there are newer cryptocurrencies like Monero and ZCash that focus specifically on anonymity/privacy. There's also zero knowledge proof contracts on Ethereum that provide privacy, like the mixer tornado.cash
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by magna7 7y ago
It's all relative. I don't see the CDC telling people to stop stuffing donuts in their mouths, which is far more harmful for public health.
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by magna7 7y ago
Studies with Rapamycin suggest otherwise. Mice live on the order of 20-30% longer, so for mice, simply inhibiting mTOR is enough to extend the biological age.
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by magna7 7y ago
Centenarians have been shown to have increased healthspans. They still get the same diseases as everyone else, however they get them much later in life (90s, 100s). That's all I'd want. If we can get medical science to a point whe
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by magna7 7y ago
I'd wager that it's the metformin. Metformin inhibits pathways associated with mTOR (the growth signaling protein). When you inhibit this pathway, it tells the body to start the process of autophagy. It's the same process tha