sword_smith

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by sword_smith 3mo ago
"anarcho-tyranny"
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by sword_smith 3mo ago
Your obfuscation carries no argumentative weight, as the uncertainty your obfuscation attempts to introduce might as well be used in the reverse: maybe the guy who made the original threat (that was not prosecuted) had a criminal record inv
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by sword_smith 3mo ago
Sure. If you accept that we give up on equality before the law, one might be prosecutable and the other not. Some of us prefer not to give up on that though.
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by sword_smith 3mo ago
Corruption is defined as "the abuse of entrusted power for private (usually financial) gain". Lars' case falls under the category of conscientious objection, as he's ideologically motivated. Pretty disgusting to frame th
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by sword_smith 3mo ago
That same prime minister supports the warrant-less use of medical records in police work and the ban of encryption through chat control. She wants to prevent the Danish population from having privacy, but demands it herself. Sorry, but that
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by sword_smith 3mo ago
Lars is good at exposing the hypocrisy of the Danish government. In a former case he, sent the exact same threatening text to a prosecutor as that prosecutor had received a police report from a third party about, and that the prosecutor ref
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by sword_smith 3mo ago
Lars was a corrupt cop? Are you just using "corrupt" to mean "someone I don't like"?
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by sword_smith 2y ago
the user "erk__" from this forum managed to get a copy: https://user.fm/files/v2-5bf26ed8f02e4cac68357e4ed895b3fc/Sl...
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by sword_smith 3y ago
See-through blockchain's biggest problem might be that their coins are not fungible, as their history affect their current value. A protocol solution to this problem is to make their history opaque.
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by sword_smith 3y ago
Bitcoin's conception was immaculate and new blockchain projects can't hope to match that, yet alone beat it. But Bitcoin can be challenged on technical aspect. We identify four properties that Bitcoin is lacking: - throughput scal
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Rust fails to create branch-free code(github.com)
2 points by sword_smith 4y ago|0 comments
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Afraid of superintelligent AIs gone rogue? Let's start wargaming!
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by sword_smith 4y ago
You might want to generate this code with the latest trick for evaluating multivariate polynomials: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33740808
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Making a STARK prover fast enough to be feasible requires multiple algorithmical tricks. This article showcases the latest algorithm that was implemented as a part of speeding up Triton VM.
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Speeding up STARK provers with multicircuits(neptune.cash)
7 points by sword_smith 4y ago|1 comments
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Nice. I helped write the original Python implementation, so thanks for building this. STARK proof generation is definitely a good candidate for GPU acceleration.
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Or maybe somewhat similar to biological evolution: competition and cooperation.
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by sword_smith 4y ago
With a STARK prover the correct execution of a program can be validated in sub-linear time, faster than it would take to re-run the program.
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A STARK prover for Brainfuck(aszepieniec.github.io)
2 points by sword_smith 4y ago|1 comments
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Worth noting is that this solution does not constrain the memory value of the last execution trace if the execution trace ends with a `>` or a `<`. Since this value cannot be output, you could argue that that's OK. Building sound
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Unfortunately this can add some overhead to the memory table though. I wonder if there's a better solution than the one proposed here. Not that it matters for Brainfuck too much, as it's a toy language, but it would be very releva
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by sword_smith 4y ago
> Ignore it -> Adjust existing systems -> Store it -> Use it for mining That's just, like, your opinion, man.
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by sword_smith 4y ago
The current US inflation rate is 8.5 %. In Argentina its 55.1 %. Since the founding of the Federal Reserve in 1913, the dollar has lost 97-98 % of its value. How's that trust working out for you?
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by sword_smith 4y ago
I get the idea, I was just wondering if someone had written something about the projected wider societal impact of such a scheme. But maybe that misses the point: I have a firm belief that crypto currencies in one form or another is the fut
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Energy storage is the deus ex machina solution that's always thrown around when real engineering concerns about the problem of electricity sources whose output you cannot control are presented. I might as well flip your argument on its
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Good point with the subjectivity of PoS. But regarding the linear emissions proposal, do you have any source that addresses the economic consequences of this model?
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by sword_smith 4y ago
The ever more prevalent phenomenon of negative electricity prices is a market signal that the energy could not be used more productively. If it could, prices would never be negative.
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Negative electricity prices is an increasingly common phenomenon due to an increasing supply from electricity sources whose output can't be controlled, i.e., wind and solar. Proof of work mining sets a floor under electricity prices, a
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In Defense of Proof of Work(neptune.cash)
15 points by sword_smith 4y ago|24 comments
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by sword_smith 4y ago
Many share the conviction that proof of work mining is a relic of the past, that the future of blockchain lies with its competitor, proof of stake. I attempt to rebuke some of the criticism that proof of work faces and argue why it is here

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