syzygyhack

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by syzygyhack 3mo ago
I echo your observations. I expect you will enjoy deepseek-v4-pro for writing code. Much closer to that Opus experience, and very cost-effective too. With 5.5 as a reviewer and specialist, all bases are covered.
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by syzygyhack 1y ago
"seek an eternal perspective" is such a beautifully open way to posit that concept. There's a lot of nihilism in the world, and this is the way beyond it, whatever flavour your salvation happens to come in.
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by syzygyhack 2y ago
I laughed a little at calling Firedancer contributors "a team at a HFT firm". Not that you are technically wrong, not at all, that's where Jump came from. It's just that this is all completely blockchain-driven optimizat
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by syzygyhack 3y ago
Some great resources here. One thing I want to point out: Rustlings follows the path of The Book and provides references for each section where appropriate. So I would not advise treating them as separate learning paths. They work best when
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
You want to use Bitcoin to make international payments without headaches... so you open an account on a custodial service? I don't understand what you expected to happen. All you had to do is download a wallet and transfer your Bitcoin
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
That's news to me. Looks like the US is speaking for the world again. You have bigger problems with your food than whether or not it is plant-based, I promise you that. In the UK and the rest of Europe, plant-based meat alternatives ha
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Lot of nonsense in the comments, absolutely nothing wrong with the taste of Beyond. Problem is that it is outrageously expensive and the market has become saturated with plenty of more cost-effective alternatives, many of which taste even b
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
It's not a magic wand. It facilitates new decentralized systems, it doesn't somehow fix the old ones. You're assuming a world where digital content is administrated and supported by a centralized organization. If they stop re
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
That's not the only difference, it's not even the most significant difference. The difference is you don't own anything on Steam. Just like you don't own anything digital you buy on Amazon. If they want to revoke your ab
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
You sound like you'd enjoy TypeScript with NodeJS. Low learning curve. Highly productive. Massively versatile ecosystem. You can be functional or OO. And of course, the type system, which will feel similar to C#. It's very fast an
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Nim is a great language with some killer features, but if the community is growing, it's doing it very slowly. TypeScript would have my vote. I have my eye on Deno and Bun but they aren't there yet, Node gets the job done every ti
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Just the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon at work! Or perhaps a synchronicity, if you are inclined to believe in such things. A similar thing happened to me the last time the Strid popped up on Reddit and HN. It was only a day after I had just ret
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Bitcoin absolutely has had hard forks. > There isn’t a “Bitcoin classic” chain floating around with an old set of consensus rules. Yes, there literally is a Bitcoin Classic, and prior to that was a Bitcoin XT. There's also Bitcoin
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Ty for your service foo.
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Sounds like you haven't wrapped your head around the basics of smart contracts. Yes, a blockchain gives you an (ideally) immutable foundation. No, that doesn't mean that every transaction that invokes a smart contract has to be im
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
> I'm not going to be argumentative here It does help when you check the numbers before making your assertions. > Clearly coinbase would have a bias to promote userbase You discount the post because it is from Coinbase, yet eve
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
> You simply can't argue that money laundering isn't rampant on cypto currencies. Actually, I can quite easily argue that. Neither of your sources give evidence or numbers that justify your assertion. In fact, less than 1% of t
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
> I do however have an issue with the incredibly high rate of money laundering etc that flows through crypto. Incredibly high relative to what exactly? The total exchange volume of the cryptocurrency industry? Can you show some figures t
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Your vitriol against Tornado is misplaced, though not surprising given the general ignorance regarding the blockchain industry on HN.
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
It's an interesting problem and one that many decentralized applications will be forced to contend with, beyond simple airdrops. Many on-chain protocols and primitives simply don't need to differentiate between human user and prog
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
For Bitcoin, yes. For other networks, ZK and optimistic rollups are the main contenders.
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
The decentralization of PoS depends entirely on initial token distribution.
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
It may undermine why you want to use USDT. I don't see why it would affect your desire to use DAI, for example. The point is that you can have it any way you like it. There are no hard and fast rules like "irrevocability" as
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
> But what if that system is now affecting many other people, or the entire planet in a significant way? Should they have some voice over that? This is an important point you are making. What you must recognize is that they absolutely c
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Weight by wealth? You are failing to understand the basic concept of a hard fork. Social consensus doesn't care what your number on the blockchain says. Case in point, the Hive hard fork. One very prominent and widely unliked individua
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
You're missing the point. You don't need to rollback past transactions that make unwanted changes to the contract state. If you have the ability to update a contract, you can add whatever functionality you need to undo a given sta
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Wrong. Smart contracts can be updated. If they are deployed with the ability to update, any outcome can be revoked. It is as simple as adding a new function.
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
Not at all. If a self-interested minority emerges, the majority can fork away anew (see: Steem & Hive).
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
> But the same irrevocability is now what makes me deeply concerned. Strange hang-up to have. Irrevocability is not a trait that is fundamental to blockchain applications. If the application is smart-contract based, irrevocability is a c
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by syzygyhack 4y ago
The way it has supported the development of practical zero-knowledge proof-based applications alone is worth the weight of the blockchain industry in full, and then some. Not sure it has made it worth wading through the 2017 hot takes that

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