Comment Re:What's he been smoking? (Score 1) 150
this is a very valid objection, but have you considered it also applies to the guy being interviewed?
this is a very valid objection, but have you considered it also applies to the guy being interviewed?
how long until I have to purge brew due to this?
Go is not really a functional programming language; you _can_ use functional techniques in it, but Go is largely a weird fusion of C and Java with a lot of the cruft removed (maybe too much stuff removed), so it is largely an imperative programming/object oriented language
I guess he wants to put the entry fee as low as possible
but the problem I fear is that cheap headsets will produce undesirable side effects to the wearers which seems to me are a big reason VR hasn't taken off
Apparently he took out a "Flash Loan" and borrowed the tokens. Once he executed his trades to grab the money he bought up enough tokens to repay the loan and all was fine.
It seems it is totally normal for 18-year-olds to take out multi-million dollar loans with no collateral to back them in the crypto world? I feel like this points to a whole lot of other potential problems in the crypto/DeFi world.
netflix super doubled down on dave chappelle as he was getting cancelled online, so I doubt netflix being 'too woke' is the problem here
You only need a something over 50% of the mining power -- as long as they can add new blocks with no Assange transactions at a faster pace than than the rest of the mining pool they can keep the longest chain Assange donation free. A 51% attack isn't just for double spending, and simply blocking particular transactions is the kind of thing you might be able to get tacit agreement for; and it does only have to be tacit if you are fine with a few transactions getting through every now and then (which also helps hide any collusion).
Hell, he is polling at less than half of Rick Lynn Perry, who is not the former Governor Rick Perry but a "senior desktop technician" currently contracted out by a staffing agency to work for Lockheed-Martin.
It solves the problem of "where do I go if Powers That Be decide to boot me off traditional wire transfer systems". Like has already happened in case of Julian Assange and his legal defense fund.
It swaps in some different powers that be. If Wikileaks published something that embarrassed people behind a bunch of the major miner consortiums and they decided to just not include any bitcoin transfers to Assange or Wikileaks in blocks they mined that could severely limit or completely stop such transfers, depending on how big a proportion of the mining pool they pissed off. And let's be clear, there are a very small number of mining consortiums that control a very large fraction of the total hashing power; this is a lot more possible than it may appear at first blush.
Hell, even the old school powers that be could put a severe crimp in things if they were sufficiently motivated. If such a power decided to lean on the mining consortiums they could likely get the result they want with either enough bribes or a big enough stick (and they would have both).
why fight the knee defender guy?
just tell the air attendant that the guy behind you stuck something that looks like a bomb on your seat and see him put into a no fly list
There is real innovation happening in the space, and as it all transforms from pure speculation into tangible, useful applications and assets, prices rise.
The biggest current (last couple of years) price rises have been in Bitcoin, which is over a decade old now. Since it has been around so long, but the price is still going up a lot, presumably that is happening because of "tangible useful applications". So what are those applications? As a currency it has stalled, not least due to price volatility. Despite occasional bursts of announcements of retailers accepting Bitcoin, the number of retailers actually accepting Bitcoin remains very small, and often quite niche. Bit coin is not taking over as a currency. How about Bitcoin as a means of fast, easy, cross border money transfer (remittances). In the early days of Bitcoin is was widely touted that Western Union was going to get crushed by Bitcoin. It turns out Western Union is doing just fine. And over the major money transfer corridors WU fees are often lower than Bitcoin. Other major remittance agencies are also doing just fine using traditional methods. If any service is getting squeezed out of the remittance industry it is crypto
Bitcoin is cheap: It's worthless as a currency!
Bitcoin is expensive: It's a bubble!
Bitcoin prices are volatile: It's useless as a currency, it's too volatile!
Bitcoin prices are stable: It's dead! Nobody is buying!
The first mistake is evaluating bitcoin by its "price". Assuming the key is that it is a currency the real question is the volume of actual transactions going on in bitcoin.
What is the amount of good purchased with bitcoin? It certainly isn't huge. How about remittances? Money transfer was one of the big use cases. It turns out that, despite a lot of hype and years to make a difference, bitcoin in particular and crypto-currencies in general, have made practically no dent in the remittances market. How about total volume of transactions? That's certainly higher, but how much of that is speculation trading based on the price of bitcoin? Hard to say, but surely we would see higher amounts of goods purchases and remittances if it really mattered.
So, instead of looking at prices, if we look at utility how is bitcoin doing? It's been a decade and it still hasn't had any significant uptake as currency -- not on any scale that justifies the hype anyway. Might it still be useful and gain traction in the future? Sure, it's possible. But the outlook isn't that great.
I choose to believe IRLRosie is the real Alexa. Not that she is, I just like that reality better.
googling medeco lock vulnerability says that they can be opened in 30 seconds
they are probably very secure, but you have to keep updating your -physical- lock if you are very lucky, and your padlock provider decides to keep up with the security community
and god help you if you put the padlock on a fence and someone jumps over the fence. all that engineering for nothing
problem with engineering is that you have to list the requirements BEFOREHAND; if someone comes up with a new way of raking your padlock, all that engineering is for nothing.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
