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Re:Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:41AM (#19388007)
While temiri is right, I'd like to continue the discussion that you've started by mentioning that their last airdrop, done in collaboration with blockchain.com, was also a fiasco. A lot of people didn't even bother claiming anymore, and many of those who tried (including me and a buddy that lives in the same building), weren't able to claim because the process was littered with bugs. Hopefully, a serious non-profit foundation will take over (fork) the open source Stellar tech, create a good and fair initial distribution mechanism, and then restart the cryptocurrency. It would probably need the help of governments or big corporations like Facebook/Google in order to insure a fair initial distribution.
Re:Practical Facts about the Human Brain on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:55PM (#19248813)
I agree. Memory biases may either enhance or impair the recall of memory, or they may alter the content of what we report remembering.

There are many memory biases including the humor effect, positivity effect and the generation effect.

The humor effect states that humorous items are more easily remembered than non-humorous ones.

Positivity effects states that older adults favor positive over negative information in their memories.

Generation effect states that self-generated information is remembered best.

Re:New Ethereum Dev Tools from 0x on Friday January 18, 2019 @06:02AM (#18938473)
Huh, the first two most upvoted comments are curiously alike.