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Still think pangolin on the avalanche network is a much better dapp than uniswap can ever be in PoW ethereum.

Well, for the gas fees and scalability issues there's always avalanche [1] ...

I feel like there's a project that already solves most of ethereum problems now, but it's been slept on for a while.

[1] https://www.avalabs.org/

Yeah, apparently the 4700G[1] has already been spotted in benchmarks. Basically their 8-core ZEN2 APU.

[1] https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7-4700g-8-core-apu-pic...

Are we sure about this though? I'm seeing 5G being deployed in London now and I'm still [irrationally probably] anxious about it's potencial long-term health effects. :/

He does rock!

Damn it Cody Ko!

Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okMGtwfiXMo

I'm in love with this project. It touches a bunch of things that I love in computer science: cryptography (quantum safe cryptography in particular), distributed systems (blockchain, PoS), [Pure] Functional Programming (Haskell, Rust to some extent), OSI and TCP/IP new-age alternative (RINA), a peer-reviewed research oriented development cycle etc etc.

It certainly has its flaws though. The roadmap moves really, really slowly (blame the peer-reviews I guess). I'm not saying it doesn't move at all, but we're 1 year into the project and it still didn't bootstrap out of the 3-party centralized consensus that it runs currently, i.e., we still haven't seen the Ouroboros consensus protocol in action at scale. Also, the most recent Cardano Foundation fiasco does not help, and it shows some mismanagement or miscalculation happened in the conception of the whole development/support ecosystem.

Nonetheless, it is a very exciting project and it is one of the few crypto-craze related projects that I think will prevail after all the dust settles.

I'm pretty certain they do. AMD's PSP and Intel's ME are really shady and are still enabled in every CPU sold today (and full of disclosed and undisclosed flaws for that matter).

You are still on iOS 10?

It's funny, I also prefer much more the lightning connector to the Type-C one, but Type-C is not under Apple's tight grip...

Works on iPhone SE w/ iOS 12 latest public beta.

You are very pretentious with your web dev courses, kind sir.

You mean, the iPhone 6S camera is horrible as well? Because the SE and the 6S share the same sensor... Sure, it doesn't have the AI-powered features of newer camera software and it also isn't a dual camera system, but I reckon it's still good. I prefer the Pixel 2 for photos to any iPhone anyway (still waiting for the new iPhone Xr/Xs features, fake bokeh effect et all, it may lives up to the Pixel's standards).

I love the clojure community efforts, but clojure.spec is so confusing and bloat-y to me. :( It reminds me of Frama-C and specification of C programs, which isn't exactly what I would want to do all the time to have some safety guarantees on my program. I feel that a strong type system would provide way more benefits.

Yeah, saying Amazon does not have a .se (or .pt in my case) website is disingenuous. I can buy stuff from amazon.es easily, and have free shipping on orders over €20. It will automatically apply the Portuguese VAT as well, so I usually pay a bit more for stuff sold by Amazon than the initially marked price obv.

You are right regarding the dynamic language, well, dynamic. I haven't put any thought into it and I can't come up with a viable solution of eliminating nil without some type system strategy (Maybe/Either Monads in Haskell, Option in Rust, etc). It's kind of a bummer, because I love the Lisp dialect of Clojure, but really appreciate software projects that I've written in the past that don't crash due to a forgotten potential nil value handling.

You do have a point!

nil is not. nil punning is a band-aid. Otherwise, I love the lang.

US only, it seems.

I think you are kinda missing the point. The blockchain would define a secure protocol for voting, which you could independently verify. In such a distributed trustless system, you could even vote with your own device, provided you have the "keys"/"id" to submit your vote. See my other post in this thread for my opinion in this subject, if you want to further understand what I'm trying to say.

Disclaimer: In no way do I claim to be an infosec engineer, security expert, elections expert or any kind of expert that is relevant for this discussion. My knowledge limits itself to distributed systems, cryptography and development in general as a software engineer and elections as a voter.

From the point of view of a voter, I can summarize what I care about in an election as follows:

- My vote is counted in the final tally ("verifiability")

- Every vote counted was cast by an eligible citizen, with no duplicates (validity & uniqueness)

- Every vote cast was properly counted into its correspondent candidate tally (integrity)

- The final count results from the sum of all the votes that meet the above requirements

Now, paper ballets do all of this pretty well. But I should stress the "pretty" part, as plenty of shenanigans can happen at a local level that put these properties at risk. The thinking goes that since voting, especially in the US, is pretty decentralized, the final tally ends up trending towards a true result. Also, records are kept so that if the results are put into question, they can be verified. However, that has not stopped elections from being rigged in many parts of the world. In fact, even in the US this has happened previously [1], albeit not public elections per-se (but still politically-relevant ones).

Now, I'm not saying that the magical blockchain can fix all of this. Clearly, when it comes to validity, things can quickly get increasingly difficult to tackle. For instance, proving your citizenship provides a single point of failure vulnerable to government malfeasance if such is desired. If a government entity is responsible for issuing voting rights, they can simply make up a law or straight up strip you of your voting rights, therefore censoring you. I would tackle this by making voting an inalienable right, but clearly that is not the case in some countries (e.g. felony disenfranchisement in the US and other places). Another problem is the recovery of lost/stolen/phished voting "keys"/id (in a hypothetical blockchain environment). I would tackle this with a revoke/reissue mechanism, but again, the central entity that can revoke and reissue a key/id for you can be a point of failure. So clearly blockchain does not fix everything.

Now there are some things that I believe "the blockchain", or some system that is "cryptographically" secured and verifiable, can help. Mainly, in the insurance of the integrity and uniqueness of the vote and the final tally. I would love to be able to check, if I had the private key, that my vote counted towards a particular candidate/party, whilst retaining my voting privacy. In this particular use-case, there are concerns of stolen keys being used to lookup voting histories, but I much rather tackle this problem than simply disregard such a system altogether. Clearly, there is a level of trust that I have to have on the current top brass at my local institutions if I want to cast a vote to throw them out. I'm simply not confortable with paper ballets in such instances, although I obviously prefer them to "voting machines" that have no devised threat model whatsoever.

I know cryptocurrencies have created a space that relishes on get-rich-quick stories, scams, buzzword parties and other sad sights, but I like to always chose the cautious path of not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. To extend the saying, we might need both the baby and the bathwater badly in the future...

[1] http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-sb-broward-elec...

Was about to post the same! Brave has some pretty cool upgrades incoming as well!

Can't the government do the same with cryptocurrencies though? They can also "arrest the criminal and return the stolen cryptocurrencies". Not very practical 99% of the time though...

I now see 522 errors! That is an improvement though, I guess...

Maybe these operations will incorporate solar + battery storage into their systems if they want to stay alive... Be less efficient and less productive, but be legal, environmentally and socially responsible (sucking this much power from the public system is not responsible), and still profit.

I have no ties to the FreeBSD project or its foundation, but it seems very cheap for companies that profit billions of dollars yearly to only donate $25k to projects and foundations that support part of the software backbone of their infrastructure... Regardless of regulatory barriers, if this got a bit more exposure it could actually be a PR liability, IMO...

What about decentralised exchanges?

That still doesn't encompass the advantages of a statically-typed language...

Astute.

#PortugalCaralho