sunsu

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by sunsu 5y ago
Wrong. NODEs (individual network participants) enforce the rules, not miners.
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by sunsu 6y ago
All In: "Haha OS-driven regex engine go brrrrr"
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by sunsu 6y ago
By the time it's severe, it's often too late: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1244717172871409666?s=20
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by sunsu 7y ago
Relevant: WTFHappenedIn1971.com
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by sunsu 7y ago
Answer: Our governments printed a shit-ton of money.
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by sunsu 7y ago
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/01/02/colorado-drones-myster...
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by sunsu 7y ago
No. There is no way for Bitcoin mining to "break SHA-256 and render it insecure". There isn't enough energy in the whole SUN to do that.
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by sunsu 7y ago
"Slow Database"-Flavored WASI Any time you see the word "blockchain" replace it with "Slow Database" in your head and see if it still makes sense.
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by sunsu 8y ago
Incerto series by Taleb
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by sunsu 8y ago
Asset inflation.
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PoReps: Proofs of Space on Useful Data [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
2 points by sunsu 8y ago|0 comments
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by sunsu 8y ago
It makes perfect sense. If many people are trying to BUY USDT (increasing demand for USDT) the price of USDT will increase. Tether tries to prevent this by printing more USDT (increasing supply). They are not "magicking" Dollars,
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by sunsu 8y ago
This is inaccurate. Tether demand INCREASES when the cryptomarkets crash because traders want to escape to non-volatile assets. If everyone converts their crypto to USDT at the same time (which is what happens during big crashes) they MUST
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by sunsu 9y ago
What does "capacity" mean in this context?
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by sunsu 9y ago
Lightning Network is not "developed by Blockstream". There are 3 primary teams that have contributed to the specification: ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs. All of the projects are open source and have outside contributors.
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by sunsu 9y ago
This is how compound interest works. Why does this surprise anyone?
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by sunsu 9y ago
Public companies can issue more stock to public markets at any time. That stock would be priced at the market rate. If a company’s stock price tanks due to lack of demand, that is bad for the company. Similarly, companies with failing stock
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by sunsu 9y ago
The GDP of Ecuador in 2014 (all time high) was $102.29B.
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by sunsu 9y ago
> Most people don't spend time on > thousands of websites. The author of this has absolutely no idea how modern advertising works.
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by sunsu 9y ago
Does this mean VirtualBox is dead soon as well?
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by sunsu 9y ago
None. You can be a productive ML engineer without understanding the math. Many elitist engineers here will downvote me, but its true. ML libraries that allow you to quickly get productive have come a long way. BUT, you have to have a solid
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BITCOEN to become the first crypto-currency specifically for Jews(jpost.com)
3 points by sunsu 9y ago|0 comments
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Study: US is slipping toward measles being endemic once again(arstechnica.com)
3 points by sunsu 9y ago|0 comments
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German automakers formed a secret cartel to collude on diesel emissions(theverge.com)
2 points by sunsu 9y ago|0 comments
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Blue Apron shares sink after Amazon files meal kit trademark(marketwatch.com)
2 points by sunsu 9y ago|1 comments
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Walmart threatens to cut ties with truckers that also haul for Amazon(livetrucking.com)
86 points by sunsu 9y ago|89 comments
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by sunsu 9y ago
I purchased a couple of the machines from these guys for my team and had a great experience. Highly recommended if you have better ways to spend your time than building them yourself.
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25 Terms for Deep Learning Beginners(analyticsvidhya.com)
2 points by sunsu 9y ago|0 comments
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Curiosity-Driven Exploration by Self-Supervised Prediction(pathak22.github.io)
1 points by sunsu 9y ago|0 comments
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by sunsu 9y ago
I agree and that's why I used the words "some measure of confidence". However, it IS better than many other unicorn examples, such as Uber losing $800M in Q3 2016 for example.

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