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by vbuterin 4y ago
Shameless plug of my own explanation on how binary fields work: https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/05/12/fft.html Ctrl+F for "binary fields".
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by vbuterin 4y ago
The "14 hours" is a huge exaggeration, but that's to be expected; every advertised battery life I've ever seen is a huge exaggeration. But I have to strongly vouch for this one; it's the first laptop I've seen
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by vbuterin 5y ago
Amazing work! I preordered one and am very much looking forward to trying it out.
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by vbuterin 5y ago
Isn't the reason why this is typically not done that VR giving a good experience is very low-latency-dependent, and it's very hard to make wireless connections have an ultra-low latency?
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by vbuterin 5y ago
When I visited this thread 2h ago, the top subthread was negative. Definitely some kind of weird dynamic going on...
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by vbuterin 5y ago
What fascinates me most is that the errors are very "human-like". If you gave me multi-digit multiplication and addition problems like that, I would frequently have similar results of getting most digits right but making a mistake
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by vbuterin 5y ago
When I do mental arithmetic my brain frequently tokenizes into digit pairs or triples if I can recognize pairs and triples that have specific properties. "224" is actually a really nice object to recognize because it's 7 * 32
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by vbuterin 5y ago
In this case it's the bridge that's fairly centralized. There wasn't any hard forks or other manipulation of the underlying blockchains (except for sending transactions on them).
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by vbuterin 5y ago
I think I was referring there more to all the laws _other_ than GDPR (eg. the more data-nationalist stuff) that nevertheless end up having a similar effect.
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by vbuterin 5y ago
Glen Weyl (the economist who has done a lot of work on quadratic voting, mentioned in the article) has also written and talked extensively about Harberger taxes and quadratic funding; the former is a fairly deep change to how property right
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by vbuterin 5y ago
1. Has an actual path to adoption (because people have keys and have a motivation to try hard to retain their keys because they have crypto assets) 2. Once smart contract wallets properly gain adoption, you'll be able to do recovery (s
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by vbuterin 5y ago
Lots of things "don't need" to be written in python, but they're written in python anyway. I expect a lot of blockchain institutional use cases will take a similar route: sure, theoretically they could use some standardi
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by vbuterin 5y ago
> Thinkpads are way cheaper(and AFAIK they also provide very good Linux support) My own experience with thinkpads has been one of non-stop frustration with battery life. The T495 advertises something like 14h of battery life; the actual
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by vbuterin 5y ago
There have been attempts at doing this, eg. https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-analysis-of-top-10k-ether... I imagine you would have to talk to the analytics firms to get the best-in-class attempts to figure out what t
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by vbuterin 5y ago
I would argue in 2021 the only thing that qualifies as "an entire society" is the whole world. So unless you're measuring the world as a whole, you're measuring communities that have porous relationships with the outside
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by vbuterin 5y ago
The whole point of my post was that instead of the Gini we should use a more targeted index that specifically measures the presence of super rich that can unilaterally flood the market with their coins, and does not concern itself with wh
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by vbuterin 5y ago
Co-author here. I definitely use the phrase "public goods" in the economic sense: goods that are non-rival and non-excludable. This post has nothing to do with assurance contracts (which that paper seems at first glance to be equi
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by vbuterin 5y ago
Here's one example of a retroactive grant (though not by Optimism): https://twitter.com/StatefulWorks/status/1417157834702209031
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by vbuterin 5y ago
The oracle is not monolithic for information-optimization reasons. Rather, it's monolithic because there's a single project that has funds that it's willing to give out in retroactive grants, and so _some_ mechanism must deci
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by vbuterin 5y ago
The closest thing to those concepts in crypto would be multisig wallets, including more advanced ones that enforce a "daylimit" where a single key can withdraw a small amount but larger amounts require confirmations from multiple
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by vbuterin 5y ago
Thanks! I actually wasn't aware of the intellectual history. I added a link to your paper at the start of my post.
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by vbuterin 5y ago
Blockchain base layers have a stronger need to be close to absolutely decentralized than most other things. This is because base layers aren't applications, they're _the places where all the applications talk to each other_. So if
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by vbuterin 5y ago
When I talk to people in the world about what about blockchains they find exciting, the aspect of permanence really is one of the things that people find attractive. I agree it's use-case dependent, but the problem is that once you go
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by vbuterin 5y ago
> In PoS, once you lose BFT quorum (1/3 of all votes), it's game over. This is not how the Ethereum PoS chain's LMD GHOST fork choice works. If >1/3 drop offline, you stop finalizing, but the chain keeps growing.
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by vbuterin 5y ago
What kind of "influence in the network" do you gain by staking? (Keep in mind that in present-day Ethereum, the influence that PoW miners have in protocol governance is pretty minimal)
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by vbuterin 5y ago
If hacking billions of dollars of cryptocurrency was actually easy, plenty of people who are not rich right now would be very very rich. Alternatively, if PoS chains are vulnerable because you can hack exchanges and use their coins to attac
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by vbuterin 5y ago
How does this view of PoS governance explain how Ethereum protocol governance has operated in reality for the past five years? As far as I can tell, the power held by miners has been minimal; if miners had any significant power at all then
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by vbuterin 5y ago
There's definitely ETH holders who have more ETH than I do, including those who did _not_ benefit from the premine. (And there's BTC holders with more than 0.3% of all BTC)
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by vbuterin 5y ago
Isn't this just saying "the Ethereum proof of stake transition benefits ETH holders"?
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by vbuterin 5y ago
That was about users' nodes being able to validate blocks; that's an orthogonal issue from PoW vs PoS.

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