Specter is a fantastic solution to a problem you should aim to avoid.
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He takes out loans with his shares as collateral to get spending money.
Why not just sell? Because he expects the shares to appreciate more than what he'd pay in interest and/or to retain the shareholder vote.
A hard fork later this fall is expected to bring Bulletproofs to main net. Right now the code is being vetted by 3 external auditors, hired by the community through fund-raising.
The benefit to Monero, once this is implemented, is transactions that are almost an order of magnitude smaller. This is a huge win, for many reasons, and it doesn't even come at the cost of CPU time.
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The only way you can influence which chain is the longest, without mining, is to pick a preferred chains and sell your coins on the other chain. That is your 'economic vote'.
If enough people do that, one chain will be way more profitable than the other and miners will switch over.
Distributed consensus is a non-trivial problem, and for sure certain tradeoffs were made by Satoshi to make it both distributed and permission-less.
Unless you want a benevolent dictator of some sort all you can do is set up a system that's robust from a game theory perspective.
They have to make a choice on what chain to follow just all other actors on the network. Doing nothing is a valid choice of course, but it might not bring you a desirable outcome.
They vote with their CPU power, expressing their acceptance of valid blocks by working on extending them and rejecting invalid blocks by refusing to work on them. Any needed rules and incentives can be enforced with this consensus mechanism.
This is Bitcoin's consensus mechanism and it's called Nakamoto consensus.
In turn, this means that 'Bitcoin' is whatever chain has the most cumulative work done to secure it.
Nothing is 'contentious' about this. It either has the most cumulative PoW, or it doesn't.
If the minority chain has some value it might survive. If it does, that's fine. You'll have coins on both chains and you can choose to care or not.
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To the contrary, there might be an evolutionary benefit in having your parents die off shortly after they've done all they can to increase your, and your siblings, chance of reproducing. The reason a timely death might increase the chance of the gene-line's survival is because the parent might otherwise consume scarce resources that are better invested in the offspring.
Could someone who's gone down this path provide a reading list for someone interested in learning more?
I think that economical forces will continue to drive progress, and probably exponential progress like we've enjoyed in the past, for at least another decade. Probably several.
The way this is going to happen is through a paradigm shift. To the layman this seems weird, but to anyone in the business this should be expected. We've already been through quite a few. The first computing devices were mechanical, then they were based on electrical relays, then came the vacuum tubes and finally we entered the era of the transistor. We can argue about what the next paradigm will be, but I have no doubt there will be one. And soon.
The intellij plugin for clojure called Cursive also has support for project wide renaming.
clojure and clojurescript
https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el (refactoring)
https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider (IDE)
https://github.com/bhauman/lein-figwheel (code reloading)
emacs
https://github.com/magit/magit (the interface to Git)
https://github.com/abo-abo/avy (jumping around)
https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el (marking stuff)
https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el (placing cursors at similar stuff and editing all at once)
This means that for many it's still more profitable to sell a small amount of CDs than to be on spotify.
I suspect this will change over the years because there's now a very large overlap between those that still listen to CDs, don't use spotify, and listen to classical music.
Universal basic income amounts to (providing or) paying for food, clothing and shelter. What is the cost of food when we have labgrown meat, the robots till the farm and self-driving cars deliver it everywhere?
What's the cost of shelter with industrial scale 3d-printing and robotic assembly?
What is the cost of providing everyone with basic clothing when all the factory workers are replaced with robots?
Stop worrying about the price of everything and start thinking in terms of scarcity. Will the stuff required for basic human survival still be prohibitively scarce in 5 years, 10 years, 50 years?
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9719773
So I'd like to see ; be restored as the comment character, to match every other lisp ever written, and you should probably use / for namespacing like in Clojure. The use of / for namespacing is already a well established convention, because we do that all the time on the web.
The turnout was great and the park was cleared of dog crap, but unfortunately no great fortunes were made :)
But what's plan b when something goes wrong? On the electric skateboards you can at least break in the good old fashion way.
Well, indirectly it might be, as some of the profits from invested oil money are made available to the government to spend each year.
This way, I can skip the awkward @q step, and keep hitting Q instead of @@ to re-run the macro.