rmtech

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by rmtech 5y ago
I'd also be mad if I sold all my dogecoin for a used car in 2013.
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by rmtech 5y ago
Yeah, good point. If the attacker knows how long each person will wait, then they can exploit that.
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by rmtech 5y ago
The problem with waiting AFAIK is that it's vulnerable to attacks on the underlying peer-to-peer network. Let's say you wait 1 hour to see whether there was a double spend. If an attacker wanted to, they could spend twice and some
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by rmtech 5y ago
Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are in the process of banning themselves. All that wasted energy is paid for by the holders, and proof-of-stake is just more financially attractive. No government intervention is required IMO.
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by rmtech 5y ago
Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake
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by rmtech 5y ago
Since this was written, Filecoin is up about 10,000% or something stupid. If you pay attention to the naysayers, you're gonna have fun staying poor.
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by rmtech 5y ago
Social factors. Today's governments wouldn't have the state capacity and ambition to achieve what those of the 1940s-1980s were capable of. We've regressed; we're incompetent and moat of our effort is directed at virtue
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by rmtech 5y ago
If you are using Bitcoin for privacy you are an idiot. Dedicated privacy coins like ZCash have existed for years, and even more modern systems like Aztec are on the rise. https://zk.money/ Eventually Aztec will allow not ju
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by rmtech 5y ago
You can get a nice hoodie with the new HFSP logo here: https://www.koined.store/collections/out-and-about/products/...
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by rmtech 5y ago
In related news, the bank will soon be renamed to HFSP Bank, in recognition of the crucial role it plays in reducing the risk of its clients making too much money.
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by rmtech 5y ago
In an optimal attack on the problem I think you would be doing all of these; water, fuel and cargo would all be unloaded simultaneously. Losing a few percent of weight in cargo is worth it. But in real life these things aren't optimal
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by rmtech 6y ago
Sounds like the author knows a lot about AI and data but almost nothing about economics. Prices exist for a reason; if power became more expensive that's because it was scarce. People need to stop using it or pay more so that power com
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by rmtech 6y ago
Another issue is that proof-of-work may simply be inferior to other consensus mechanisms because of hardware centralization. I think the cryptocurrency world needs to solve this problem at its own pace though. Ethereum is already rapidly he
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by rmtech 6y ago
I think the mistake here is that the author doesn't understand the potential of cryptocurrency so sees electricity use for crypto as a pure cost. You can see this because of comparisons to centralized services. On coal power: It's
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by rmtech 6y ago
They should have just paid for an eMMC that was 4× larger than needed. Even I wouldn't put an SSD under this kind of stress and I'm just a random developer.
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by rmtech 6y ago
How do you short Tether?
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by rmtech 6y ago
We are due a cryptocurrency correction. The question is, how low will Bitcoin go on Tether collapse? $20k? $10k? Or will things get even crazier with $100k bitcoin crashing to $60k?
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by rmtech 6y ago
It's still a highly user-hostile Apple. Though you can tell this review was written by a true iSheep from the part where s/he talks about the dictation key. "Apple thinks I should use that functionality more, so I will!"
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by rmtech 6y ago
Telegram has the huge advantage of not needing to reveal your phone number. If your threat model doesn't really include the government but does include people stalking you then telegram is actually better than Signal. With Signal you h
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by rmtech 6y ago
BTW this post reminds me that I am probably overexposed to Google and should consider partially de-googling my life to some extent.
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by rmtech 6y ago
What's the problem? Which Google products are holding you back? Email should be easy. Android? Docs?
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Ask HN: Bluetooth tracker (Tile equivalent) with privacy
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by rmtech 6y ago
Situations like this are what money-printing was made for.
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by rmtech 6y ago
> can do this too. Yes, it CAN but whether it actually does depends on the details. If you are a cleaner or an uber driver, you might generate some surplus but you might see the other parties take all or almost all of that surplus.
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by rmtech 6y ago
> They do so, because they are competing with other employers for talent. Yes, but the RESULT of the two-way competition where both employees and employers are competing is undefined in a simple model of the market. If you work as a clea
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by rmtech 6y ago
> That's thanks to competition between companies. That's market forces at play. You want it there? Accept it on salary negotiation too. This is itself a bit naive. In a basic market with voluntary transactions the distribution
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by rmtech 6y ago
A theme that comes out again and again in the comments here is that in a technical community, complaining that a tool could be better is a reliable signal of a dumb/lazy worker. At the same time, many tools could actually be a lot bett
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by rmtech 6y ago
I'm sorry, but if you don't know everything about everything then you're lazy and useless and you need to get good. When I was a lad, we used to walk 10 miles every day to school in the snow - AND ENJOY IT! etc.
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by rmtech 6y ago
Yeah I think this is actually pretty important. I wonder whether associativity of unrelated changes generalizes to other git problems?
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by rmtech 6y ago
> With git, it's something you _directly_ interact with so I would expect you to understand it in great detail. Yes, you are describing what is broken about git: its abstractions are leaking too much so people who touch it have to k

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