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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:17PM (#27198805)
Wrong. NODEs (individual network participants) enforce the rules, not miners.
Re:Regex2fat: Turn your favorite regex into FAT32
on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:14PM (#22880326)
All In: "Haha OS-driven regex engine go brrrrr"
Re:Study: Severe Covid-19 Cases Don't Respond to Hydroxychloroquine+Az...
on Monday April 06, 2020 @04:22PM (#22797420)
By the time it's severe, it's often too late:
https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1244717172871409666?s=20
Re:Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth?
on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:23PM (#22239034)
Relevant: WTFHappenedIn1971.com
Re:How housing became the world’s biggest asset class
on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:55AM (#22119273)
Answer: Our governments printed a shit-ton of money.
Re:Have Aliens Found Us? (2019)
on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:15PM (#21949283)
Re:Ohmm Mining: Turn Flared Natural Gas into Bitcoin
on Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:30PM (#20056098)
No. There is no way for Bitcoin mining to "break SHA-256 and render it insecure". There isn't enough energy in the whole SUN to do that.
Re:Blockchain-Flavored WASI
on Friday May 24, 2019 @10:10AM (#20001666)
"Slow Database"-Flavored WASI
Any time you see the word "blockchain" replace it with "Slow Database" in your head and see if it still makes sense.
Re:Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?
on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:15AM (#19095174)
Incerto series by Taleb
Re:There is more to high house prices than constrained supply
on Saturday November 24, 2018 @10:21AM (#18522367)
Asset inflation.
Re:U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation
on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:14PM (#17145441)
It makes perfect sense. If many people are trying to BUY USDT (increasing demand for USDT) the price of USDT will increase. Tether tries to prevent this by printing more USDT (increasing supply). They are not "magicking" Dollars, they are magicking a commodity (USDT) pegged to Dollar.
I'm not saying that I'm a big Tether fan or anything. However to say that it "doesn't make sense" when they print more Tether during market crashes is false.
Re:U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation
on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:47AM (#17145147)
This is inaccurate. Tether demand INCREASES when the cryptomarkets crash because traders want to escape to non-volatile assets. If everyone converts their crypto to USDT at the same time (which is what happens during big crashes) they MUST print more Tether or the price will increase.
Re:Show HN: Lightning Network Search and Analysis Engine
on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:38PM (#16487863)
What does "capacity" mean in this context?
Re:Bitcoin turning into a multi-layered system is most interesting thi...
on Friday February 09, 2018 @02:57PM (#16343350)
Lightning Network is not "developed by Blockstream". There are 3 primary teams that have contributed to the specification: ACINQ, Blockstream, and Lightning Labs. All of the projects are open source and have outside contributors.
Re:Richest 1% took 82% of new global wealth last year, report says
on Sunday January 21, 2018 @08:40PM (#16201269)
This is how compound interest works. Why does this surprise anyone?
Re:Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the World’
on Sunday November 19, 2017 @09:31AM (#15734017)
Public companies can issue more stock to public markets at any time. That stock would be priced at the market rate. If a company’s stock price tanks due to lack of demand, that is bad for the company. Similarly, companies with failing stock prices have problems attracting (and bleeding) talent.
Re:Bitcoin mining uses more energy than Ecuador – but there’s a fix
on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:52AM (#15643780)
The GDP of Ecuador in 2014 (all time high) was $102.29B.
Re:The advertising industry has been living a lie
on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:46AM (#15530987)
> Most people don't spend time on
> thousands of websites.
The author of this has absolutely no idea how modern advertising works.
Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of ...
on Sunday September 03, 2017 @04:24PM (#15163676)
Does this mean VirtualBox is dead soon as well?
Re:Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?
on Monday August 28, 2017 @11:47PM (#15121952)
None. You can be a productive ML engineer without understanding the math. Many elitist engineers here will downvote me, but its true. ML libraries that allow you to quickly get productive have come a long way. BUT, you have to have a solid understanding of WHICH algorithms/tools to use WHEN. There is also a lot of "voodoo" knowledge to gain that isn't well documented or explained (unrelated to maths).
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Re:DeepLearning10: The 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPU Monster
on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @11:52PM (#14511802)
I purchased a couple of the machines from these guys for my team and had a great experience. Highly recommended if you have better ways to spend your time than building them yourself.
25 Terms for Deep Learning Beginners
Curiosity-Driven Exploration by Self-Supervised Prediction
Re:Dropbox Reaches Key Profit Milestone
on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:58PM (#14213007)
I agree and that's why I used the words "some measure of confidence". However, it IS better than many other unicorn examples, such as Uber losing $800M in Q3 2016 for example.