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> After some trial and error, Kate realizes that Bumble doesn’t round its distances like most people were taught at school. When most people think of “rounding”, they think of a process where the cutoff is .5. 3.4999 rounds down to 3; 3.5000 rounds up to 4. However, Bumble floors distances, which means that everything is always rounded down. 3.0001, 3.4999, and 3.9999 all round down to 3; 4.0001 rounds down to 4.

How exactly would you figure that out? Of course once you have a full working solution it's easy, but how do you distinguish this when you're just tinkering with it?

Re:$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:37PM (#28132519)
Miners have always been free to implement whatever logic they like, though. If you send out a mass communication saying "Address 0x12345 belongs to a very mean guy" and every miner out there denies service to that address, the decentralization properties of your system haven't been violated anywhere.
Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:26AM (#25847489)
If I understand correctly, the lifetime appointment is meant to avoid political pressure. Don't you think the judges might be swayed to vote one way or another if they knew there was a vote coming up in a couple years and they'd be on the chopping block?
right, good point
security keys maybe? Seems hard to phish a physical key touch.