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Where would science be today if we cast aside every uncomfortable hypothesis?

This article seems very wishful, and typed up in an awkward format.

If that were the reason we'd see even 10% of the same fervor for cutting out AWS or Cloudflare but we don't

Paywalled slop.

C'est dégoûtant.

This is true in theory, but to make anything novel with any viability is a long and unclear process.

It's not open source, we use a system that is similar to delegated proof of stake with a deterministic leader selection algorithm. dht via libp2p.

Bittorrent would be a cool way to do it. The trials I've seen with other networks over tor work in practice, however, its more fit for slower proof of work block driven networks with slower block times and less expectation for fast finality.

The shift away from PoW is largely driven by the need/expectation for semi-instant finality, which isn't feasible in 1st generation networks, systems where your transaction goes to a tx pool, waits for fee market acceptance, and then is mined into a block in an interval based in minutes with multiple confirms needed. There are pros and cons and use cases for both strategies, however the trend in defi, which is our niche, is finality in under a second, so that's the motivator behind that design decision. It's not without its faults, you're trading mining and difficulty adjustment algorithms for deterministic leader selection and absence/latency plans.

I'd say the majority of the modern non-fork networks don't use proof of work and sha256. I'm on a team building one at the moment and we're using sha3.sum512 and no proof of work for production. Some "blockchains" aren't even blockchains of sequential blocks, they are forest DAGs of just transactions.

I think the author's heart is in the right place and I'm thankful that it's being discussed on HN, as blockchain discussions can be a bit hit or miss here.

I think the LLM rat race has only just begun, and soon the advertisers will position themselves inside the agent, whatever form that takes whether it is through integrations, or another form of SEO, or partnerships like Microsoft and OpenAI

Rumble works great. What issues are you having?

Speaking for myself, the community is more humble and kind on the zig side, and their chats are more on-topic.

Urethra?

It's best not to respond to unruly green names.

>most certainly write incomprehensible code in it

I've tried my best to make indecipherable go code and failed. Do you have any examples?

>golang.org/x/ is stuff that should be in the standard library but isn't, for some reason

think of it as testing/staging before being merged into stable stdlib

Lower your voice

This website is so awesome. The theme switcher has a drunk mode and a nude mode :D

>it doesn't matter if the VPN keeps all the logs they won't bother

For now. The surveillance apparatus must feed from time to time.

Re: financial contributions - When I hear "investments in our shared values" I automatically assume they're referencing things outside of building an email client.

Ian died in 2015.

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>Companies that cannot run their businesses responsibly at scale should not be allowed to run their business at that scale.

The reality of the situation is: If it were enough of a problem that the bad outweighed the good, people wouldn't use it, but yet they still do, so it's not enough of a problem.

Migadu.

The degree in this field is optional.

Lots of complaining in here about something that's really well made.

For fuck sake is nothing sacred anymore

I said stop

Nobody likes that name, stop

Looking forward to my copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" a la Diamond Age

no middlemane i like it