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Yep, Bitcoin uses Proof of Work (computing power) for consensus, while some others like Ethereum use Proof of Stake (coin ownership).

Bitcoin could have achieved that goal if it had been allowed to scale. Monero uses a dynamic block size so will be able to achieve the transaction throughput if usage reaches that …

> Connect to a node that processes a million dollars worth of transactions per day Your solution is to centralized transactions on a few large payment processor nodes? The core pro…

You are never _guaranteed_ to win a race against honest block producers for any finite time horizon, even if you owned 99% of all hashing power. A double spend via 51% isn't really…

They do not use data as a decision making tool. They use data as post-hoc justification for decisions already made.

You are confusing the principle and western liberal value of freedom of speech with the first amendment, which is an implementation of the value.

I had the same feeling. Excellent work!

Camera authentication will never work because you can always just take an authenticated photo of your AI image.

If they are already collaborating with these companies then why not just have them agree to allow access to their APIs and avoid all the wasteful AI agent middleware shit?

No problem, itskarad. I’ve ordered a pallet of Cadbury Creme Eggs to your house due for delivery tomorrow morning.

It's a literary analogy, not a physical analogy. And I disagree about the work when it comes to information. Our natural inclination as humans is to share things we find interestin…

Information wants to be free (as in libre) in the same way water wants to flow downhill.

You seem to be referring to the United States' First Amendment, whereas freedom of speech is a western liberal value. The parent comment was pointing out that Zuckerberg does not u…

> Had to prove I wasn't. How did you prove it? What is their standard of evidence? My intuition says it would be difficult to prove a negative.

You can use this same technique to view glasses-less 3D (stereoscopic) images. It's also fairly easy to create your own. Take two photos but offset the camera lens by approximately…

I bet it’s a bug but their metrics suffered when they fixed it so they rolled it back.

Quoting myself from a previous post, I think we can solve several problem at once; including funding the sites you visit. Now I just have to get off my lazy ass and build it. https…

It certainly is a finding of innocence when the presumption is innocent until proven guilty.

Author is most likely farming credibility with blog spam.

> try to get people fired for things they said 10 years ago I assume the implication here is that the thing they said 10 years ago was less inappropriate back then. So how do you p…