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Interesting. Now how do we turn this into virtual currency?
We'll start selling space in the coinbase field to real estate advertisers and escort services!
'The Times 03/Jan/2009: room to rent in 3br share house in The Mission, $2600/month+utilities'
This describes something from Surety, LLC. Too bad their web page doesn't have https. Hard to take them as seriously. http://surety.com/
However, the ex-CEO has mentioned that it only operates for existing customers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17865294), which conflicts with that view somewhat, so maybe this isn't an ad.
In any case; where can I view 1995 copies of NYT for free? :)
This describes something from Surety, LLC. Too bad their web page doesn't have https. Hard to take them as seriously. http://surety.com/
The login page has ssl. https://enterprise.surety.com/MyAbsoluteProof/ChangeMyAccoun...
Initially I thought this was commissioned advertising, and it did read as such. However, the ex-CEO has mentioned that it only operates for existing customers ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17865294 ), which conflicts with that view somewhat, so maybe this isn't an ad. In any case; where can I view 1995 copies of NYT for free? :)
Every public library in the United States, if I'm not mistaken, and a large number of major libraries worldwide.
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The “block” in blockchain is due to it being a byzantine fault tolerant replicated state machine. If it were centralised there would be no need for a block. That may be the main distinguishing characteristic. Git is another example of an application running on a hash chain, but it doesn’t have blocks because it doesn’t require a slow / costly consensus process.
Feels a bit like that's a post-facto argument to me. It sounds like the Surity thing had "blocks" consisting of a week's worth of documents which got chained together and had their hash published irrevocably every week. Without the subsequent invention and popularity of the specific implementation of the bitcoin blockchain - I don't think the slow/costly consensus "feature" could be considered a requirement to distin…
Apparently we should call them quadpters because it's based on helicopter for which the ethymology is not heli + copter, but helico + pter, like in helicoidal and pterodactyl.
Just a hash chain, pretty sure one can find much older ones. some old checksums might do that too. When someone says blockchain, in my book (and this might differ from others) - its about the consensus algorithm used to prevent tampering, like POW as introduced by Bitcoin.
I think the most general thing you could say is monadic mutations of some global state. Blocks act as operators on this state. I don't necessarily think it has to be a consensus algorithm. It can be used as that though.
Initially I thought this was commissioned advertising, and it did read as such. However, the ex-CEO has mentioned that it only operates for existing customers ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17865294 ), which conflicts with that view somewhat, so maybe this isn't an ad. In any case; where can I view 1995 copies of NYT for free? :)
> In any case; where can I view 1995 copies of NYT for free? :) Every public library in the United States, if I'm not mistaken, and a large number of major libraries worldwide.
Mumbles something about equal opportunity open access and the bourgeois
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Feels a bit like that's a post-facto argument to me. It sounds like the Surity thing had "blocks" consisting of a week's worth of documents which got chained together and had their hash published irrevocably every week. Without the subsequent invention and popularity of the specific implementation of the bitcoin blockchain - I don't think the slow/costly consensus "feature" could be considered a requirement to distin…
> I'm still pissed at all the people who've decided they should call my non-autonomous quadcopters "drones" Apparently we should call them quadpters because it's based on helicopter for which the ethymology is not heli + copter, but helico + pter, like in helicoidal and pterodactyl.
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> In any case; where can I view 1995 copies of NYT for free? :) Every public library in the United States, if I'm not mistaken, and a large number of major libraries worldwide.
Hmm. I was hoping there was a way I could do so online. Mumbles something about equal opportunity open access and the bourgeois
Los Angeles Public Library, with a library card: https://www.lapl.org/new-york-times-digital (and you can apply for an e-card online for free: http://www.lapl.org/about-lapl/contact-us/e-card/e-card-regi...)
Kansas City Public Library, with a library card: https://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/how-read-back-issu...
Etc.
Summary: get a public library card, support the oh-so-terribly bourgeois public library system ;)