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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".

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…

Amazing work! I preordered one and am very much looking forward to trying it out.

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 la…

When I visited this thread 2h ago, the top subthread was negative. Definitely some kind of weird dynamic going on...

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…

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…

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).

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.

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 fundi…

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 p…

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, the…

> 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 a…

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-…

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 ha…

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 ma…

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 …

Here's one example of a retroactive grant (though not by Optimism): https://twitter.com/StatefulWorks/status/1417157834702209031

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 retroact…

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 l…

Thanks! I actually wasn't aware of the intellectual history. I added a link to your paper at the start of my post.

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 whe…

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 u…

> 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 finalizi…

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 mini…