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by pa7x1 2y ago
Very weird submission, the linked post is 2 years old. Received no attention whatsoever, then the Copyright is updated to CC0 4 hours ago and suddenly gets posted to Hackernews. Furthermore, the proposal is a bit non-sensical. It's sti
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by pa7x1 2y ago
There are no miners on Ethereum for years already.
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by pa7x1 2y ago
The money is owed to our future selfs or generations to come, who pay the interests. If the money obtained through debt is well invested such that it creates growth that outpaces the interest rate then all is good, as future tax payers will
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by pa7x1 2y ago
Stagnate in what sense?
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by pa7x1 2y ago
What you are missing... Physics is practiced by hand, pen and paper or chalk and blackboard. There is no IDE or auto-completion. The short hands, abbreviations, and obscure syntax raise the difficulty to enter into the field but simplify it
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by pa7x1 2y ago
> That's just a more polite way to say tax. Being permissionless is cool, but it's still tax in my dict. It most certainly is not. They are doing a work for the network and getting remunerated for it. That's not a tax. Tha
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by pa7x1 2y ago
> Sure, friends also won't let friends skip the fact that circulating supply of ETH is now decreasing instead of increasing. This changes absolutely nothing of the calculation. Furthermore, the change in circulating supply last year
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by pa7x1 2y ago
How do the rich become gradually richer under PoS? I'm flabbergasted by the level of math education. Assume we have 2 validators in the network; the first one owns 90% of the network, the second one owns 10%. Lets call them Whale and S
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by pa7x1 2y ago
In case you are curious BlackRock launched last week a money market fund on Ethereum. You can see it onchain here: https://etherscan.io/token/0x7712c34205737192402172409a8f7cc... And here the press release: https:&#x2
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by pa7x1 2y ago
Very likely, but if they get it sorted out one day he will be using it without knowing. If you have no interest whatsoever and they start explaining to you all the cryptography behind establishing a secure connection to your bank most peopl
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by pa7x1 2y ago
Providing global instant settlement for sub-cent fees? Doubt it.
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by pa7x1 2y ago
If you ascertain some value to the permissionless and self-custodial value of cash. And you see value in the internet's ability to connect the entire world. Then it follows immediately that you see value in cryptocurrency. Because you
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by pa7x1 2y ago
You can backup your account with passkeys.
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by pa7x1 2y ago
I'm going to leave here a few dashboards that might be interesting: See Ethereum scale day by day (today Ethereum is doing 160 tps, more than 10x its initial throughput): https://l2beat.com/scaling/activity You ca
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by pa7x1 2y ago
https://github.com/daimo-eth/daimo
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by pa7x1 3y ago
This upgrade will bring among other things significant scalability improvements. You can see Ethereum's increase in scalability in action with the following dashboards: - https://l2beat.com/scaling/activity - htt
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Ethereum's next upgrade to go live March 13th, 2024(blog.ethereum.org)
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by pa7x1 3y ago
That feels a bit like throwing the baby with the bathwater. Ethereum provides a global, permissionless public key infrastructure. Then on top of that it has the token for payments, and the smart contract functionality to build whatever. Far
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Your identity is on Ethereum (a rollup on top of it being a bit more precise). So stuff like this https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/26/twitter-now-x-took-over-th... cannot happen.
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by pa7x1 3y ago
The Schrodinger equation is just restating something you may already know if you studied physics. The Hamiltonian is the generator of time translations. Look at it again with that understanding in your head: https://en.wikipedia.
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by pa7x1 3y ago
I'm gonna give it a shot and give an analogy with a comp. science audience in mind. All Quantum Field Theories are effective theories. Effective means that they work up to certain energy-range, they do not intend to be fundamental. For
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by pa7x1 3y ago
And the same was done for LIGO and the discovery of gravitational waves. 2 observatories, one in Hanford and one in Livingstone.
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Yes, and even 1+1 gravity theories, like JT-gravity ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackiw%E2%80%93Teitelboim_grav... ). But 2+1 Einstein's gravity is locally trivial (i.e. there are no local degrees of freedom) and
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by pa7x1 3y ago
And here a prediction from M-theory/string theory on that same mass-range that also predates the Higgs discovery. Prediction: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1059 Review and discussion: https://arxiv.org&#x2
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by pa7x1 3y ago
The basic difference is pointing that there is something more fundamental and it doesn't have to do with physics. It has to do with math, with calculus, and with approximating complex functions via perturbative expansions. This is very
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Yes, near a stable equilibrium you can always linearize a system to model its behavior quite accurately for small perturbations. That's the crux of what it was pointed above. Outside of equilibrium things get more complicated. In princ
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by pa7x1 3y ago
This is not true, but I can see how one can lead to think this is the case given the poor journalistic reporting on the subject. At the time being we have no experimental access to the regime where quantum gravitational effects are relevant
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by pa7x1 3y ago
This is overly complicated. The reason harmonic oscillators pop up everywhere is even simpler and more general than that. It models first order perturbations over a stable equilibrium. For sufficiently small perturbations around a stable eq
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by pa7x1 3y ago
Without entering into an endless debate about semantics and metaphysics I would simply say that if you want to use the word discovered for the axioms then you must acknowledge that the theorems are not the same kind of discovered.
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by pa7x1 3y ago
It's both. The axioms are invented, the corpus of theorems is discovered. As once the axioms are chosen the provable theorems are already fixed. But the axioms are a choice, and we can pick different ones. The common choice of axioms i

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