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I imagine unpopular opinion, but I don't like the React design or syntax, its adoption was one of the reasons it made me move away from front-end. I'd rather Valdi and other efforts have a different opinionated design and syntax, less over-engineering and more fun.
There have been solid efforts with niche adoption that have quite nice UX like Umbrel [1] that allows installing all the mentioned and a ton more open-source apps [2] just by using a UI. It was spawned as bitcoin node hardware+software combo but expanded and is now primarily about self-hosting.
The rise of better home internet connections worldwide will make this even more attainable for more people. At least on my low-level EU country that has been always lagging to progress tech-wise, we've seen great progress on fiber internet adoption, so I have hope of acceleration.
Clickbait title aside. I find that ethical issues around AI raised by Musk etc. shouldn't be around AI taking over the planet, but rather have ethics around overfitted models or otherwise unrealistic models being pushed for PR or whatever and responsibly playing with people's health and hopes.
Quite arguable numbers that seem to be used to drive traffic to this site rather than do a proper scientific report like done by the University of Cambridge https://cbeci.org/
The CO2 emissions heavily depend on the actual use of renewable which nobody can be sure about. In some cases like bitcoin mining using fuel that would otherwise cause CO2 emissions, you actual have a net gain. (See companies like https://www.upstreamdata.ca/)
So even by those arguable arguable CO2 emissions it's actually less than 0.1% of the world's total.
I wish people that have knee-jerk reactions about this, actual think about the big picture and what actually causes high CO2 emissions and offer way fewer benefits than censorship-resistant money.
The luxury fashion industry for example for a long time has had a big negative effect, from drying up whole lakes, to child labor to effectively destroying villages for what... anyhow.
Some do, although I too prefer non-root but used it for the simplicity of the example.
Even simpler for some use cases:
`ssh -D 1080 -C -q -N root@your-vps`
Same here, hopefully it's not a pre-acquirement move and instead be more aligned in the future like you said.
Various banking (sub)systems break all the time. We just never get any postmortems or public apologies.
This reminds me the saying "Never admit a wrongdoing and you'll never be wrong".
It's great that we get several of those new startup banks (Monzo, N26 etc.) that provide superior experience and slowly show what horrible things traditional banks were getting away with.
That's just "decentralization" by obscurity. (emphasis on the quotes)
That aside, the main problem isn't centralization but rather the trust level. The point is to not have to trust someone isn't serving you the false data. Contracts must be created and ran only when the data can be cryptographically verified to be true.
There are no trustless oracles if any of the required data are outside of the settlement system (e.x. blockchain). Even when the data are inside, you still have cases of collusion that make things problematic.
People are trying to sell something that's close to impossible. Especially when they try to add infinite flexibility on it. Even with the currently low stakes there have been incidents of "oracles" getting compromised. There are several strategies to try and camouflage a centralized oracle to a faux decentralized entity but eventually if stakes get high enough, your entity will become a target and it'll become once again obvious what's happening.
Thank you, although I'm looking for a high-quality printed reproduction/book, not digital.
Anyone found a high-quality printed edition of these? I only found a couple fragmented versions with questionable quality.
I'm quite surprised by the number of comments on Sass/CSS pre-processors being of little to no value while we have created a huge complicated Frankenstein mess with webpack/React and the rest.
Alex Jones too... The majority of this blog is just conspiracy-p0rn.
Anyway, if you are really interested in actual related news and facts just follow https://www.theblockcrypto.com or similar.
Correction: low liquidity of the majority of cryptocurrencies/tokens. BTC has by far the best liquidity among the cryptocurrencies.
Sony had their cloud gaming phase back on 2012 when they acquired Gaikai for $380m. Not sure what happened with them, maybe it was before its time.
However, that's not quite front-running in the established sense.
That paper is about a side-effect based on the design of "Decentralized Exchanges" on Ethereum and similar systems. That's why people should always dive in the details of those blockchain solutions; not only you have implementation issues, but even design issues where the "solution" falls apart when game theory is accounted for all actors and interactions with the network.
Unfortunately, the complexity of such "decentralized solutions" makes it easy to miss a lot of issues. Even with audits that cost thousands of dollars per case, you still have several cases where serious vulnerabilities go unnoticed.
Sure if they are available in your country, in my case they are not, so I don't have any experience with those.
This is one of the worst crypto-debit cards I've seen. Coinbase's card has a "Crypto Liquidation Fee": 2.49% of transaction. (Even Gemini, the most expensive cryptoexchange has 1% exchange fees, while the median is probably around 0.2%)
You are better off selling manually on an exchange (0.1-0.25% fees) and transferring to a sane bank with debit cards and minimal fees like N26(EU) or Charles Schwab(US).
Have a fiat buffer, but control your holdings and don't get milk by fee-vampires like Coinbase.
Security-wise they haven't been really tested yet, but Ethereum moving to a PoS model will be a good case.
The only reason they are accepted at the moment is that it's free money, especially for the initial coin holders(founders/friend investors etc.).
For some reason people now accept fully pre-distributed coins. At least Ethereum went through a PoW phase to allow for some non-ICO distribution.
Yet, the way Web 3.0 works in practice is with a browser extension (which Reborn basically integrated) that does http API calls to a centralized 3rd-party server.
So while they market decentralization and trustlessness, they are one server-compromise away from getting fed a completely false view of Ethereum's blockchain state and losing all their funds.
If that's an attempt on web 3.0, we might as well just skip straight to web 4.0.
If we started posting about each separate case of misused newsletter subscriptions, that'd would be all we would see :P
[ Probably bad calcs below: ]
From the article 2018 saw an increase of 300 million tonnes of oil equivalent of primary global energy demand.
Which is[1] equal to 3489 TWh.
Taking the worst case from one of the most inaccurate reports about bitcoin's estimated power consumption (which is also the highest estimate I've found) is 61.4 TWh annually.
So the total power consumption of bitcoin seems to be the ~1.7% of 2018's total increase on the global power demand.
Take it with a grain of salt, I most probably I have something wrong.
[1] https://www.unitjuggler.com/convert-energy-from-toe-to-MWh.h...
I doubt that's a viable business model for Discord. It feels like something to go after in order to reassure reactions like the one you were replying to. (Plus any money never hurt anyone, but it doesn't seem viable at all).
Personally I consider major exchanges those that have had solid public presence for several years, with public executives and in general their actions.
So, it's not 85% of the major exchanges, it's 85% of the exchanges top ranked by CMC's volume as reported by the exchanges themselves. Anyone could create an illusion of an exchange and do a fake-generated behemoth of an exchange within a couple months.
The majority of the top-ranked CMC exchanges are just fake-volume generators making money from all those ICO tokens/altcoins that hope that getting listed will help their price, or most commonly just sell more of their tokens to more uninformed victims.
For most of those exchanges you can't even find a single human name throughout their site. There was a big rise of using white-label crypto-exchange products, so you don't need much to get one of those online, they even provide "liquidity" network.
It's a shitshow, but it's irrelevant or a useless detail to bitcoin's value and trading, most big firms like DRW/Cumberland etc. breath this things and I'm sure they have talked to their SEC buddies about it.
Have you tried React in a similar setting? Personally I couldn't bear it and it's massive adoption on frontend pushed me away from following that route much. Vue on the other hand certainly looks more "logical" to my eyes.
A lot of these proposed solutions in first sight look like solutions, but I've yet to find a "blockchain" (or any other buzzword) system that offers clear advantages. In practice most of the times it's plain old ploutocracy or founderocracy disguised under the veil of a new tech (with the help of an "innocent non-profit foundation")
It misrepresents the point of the actual author, the author focuses on everything other than the lack of transactions with crypto. The focus on the number was given by the submitter.
If the case is valid for the rule, motives or biases like mine, yours or anyone's are irrelevant.
Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actual title is "Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In"
Unsolvable like internet/BGP routing? I guess internet doesn't work either.
Tech evolves, most teams working on LN are working on getting the basic cases to a rock-solid state before doing more R&D on different routing strategies although there are already proposed alternatives on the mailing list.
Layered-strategies are the way to go.
Per sgeisler's comment[1] there's the ability of any individual inside Russia that uses Blockstream's Satellite (free) to essential link Runet with the rest-of-the-world Bitcoin network and maintain global consencus even if there isn't direct internet link between the "two internets". I hope someone takes advantage of that and keep logs.