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That quoted paragraph also caught me up upon first read. After I thought about it I do agree that there is some level of trust in the protocol itself and actions of other actors using that protocol can influence that trust. But I suppose that the trust needs to be applied at some level. Trusting end-to-end encryption is a real trust. If someone comes along and finds a way to factor large prime integers the system would break and trust would dissipate.

It seems to me that its about realigning trust in this case. And its easier to trust a process that uses mechanics that force behavior to conform to the properties you desire than to trust a process that uses mechanics to enable behavior to conform to the desired properties. You still have to place trust in both implementations nevertheless.

In the case of Ethereum what is the trust? The protocol, the implementation? What is the trust in a bank? The same but with a bunch of human factors around the enabling the bank to function as you desire.

Settle appears to be a step back and try to solve the problem currency has in general by reverting to a barter system. The purpose of a currency however is to use a common valuation system.

The whole thing was not created by an anonymous developer 10 years ago. The building blocks used in bitcoin have been around for many years before this in things like hashcash. Furthermore distributed consensus is a topic researched for decades. The term cryptocurrency uses crypto as a base which has been researched for centuries. Bitcoin is a novel constuction around crypto primatives relying on economic incentive to solve distributed consensus. There are clearly domain experts here.

Imunes looks more similar to Mininet[1]. The networking stack in Shadow looks simulated so you could do more large scale research. It seems that Imunes claims one use case is product testing so more likely they are targeting fidelity.

[1] http://mininet.org/

Both Emulation and Simulation are valid tools to perform network research.

Mininet is a network emulator designed to run real network software. It emerged as a leading tool to evaluate software defined networking solutions. Mininet leverages openvswitch which is the same software that would run on the networking boxes. So the TCP/IP stacks are emulated. This means that the system has very high fidelity making it behave close to the real system. Mininet runs in 'wall-clock' time. (or real-time)

On the other hand, simulation has a more difficult time achieving the same fidelity due to the difference in the execution modes. Discrete event simulation works by maintaining a queue of events. Each event has a timestamp that advances the simulation clock forward. Each event can create 0 or more events. The behavior of the network (adding delays / dropped packets / etc.) are simulated with models. This simulation allows a process to run real application code by invoking it from an event handler. A discrete event simulation uses virtual clocks which can be faster or slower than wall-clock time.

As a general rule we can say that simulation is more scalable than emulation (10s vs 1000000s of nodes) while emulation has higher fidelity (more accurately captures behavior of real system).

I dislike websites that make all the text in a narrow column. might be perfect for some but not perfect for fuckers like me

You shouldn’t.

Just reading the title I think: Duh! As soon as I get Healthcare I'm going to the doctor! Maybe that is next month or next year

I second easytether! I use this from my at&t Samsung s9 and it works incredibly well in USA. I have it usb to a pi which runs dnsmasq to operate as a router with both an Ethernet switch and WiFi access point. Toss on a UPS and plug it into my truck. When I’m driving it charges and they make 12000mAh batteries so it lasts a full workday. I’ve used over 100Gb from this setup per month for over a year. I also tried out a cellular hat for the pi and found that it was a pain to setup but in the end can replace the cell phone.

> Some of the risks are positively futuristic: they compete against decentralized exchange-like platforms, where market-makers trade directly with users. In a way, this is like any other software company that nominally competes against open-source clones; Adobe users could switch to Gimp, and Microsoft could hypothetically lose revenue due to OpenOffice. But the decentralized entities Coinbase competes against can have a life of their own even if they're not updated or maintained; Coinbase, a company with over a thousand employees, competes against incorporeal techno-economic zombies.

I dont think that this is what open source is about. I dont think that comparing Microsoft and OpenOffice is a relevant statement. I mean at least one means LibreOffice, and furthermore there is no competition to Microsoft, they satisfy different objectives.

Secondly, decentralization is not about moving business value from one entity to 'the masses,' it is about agreeing to a protocol and establishing that protocol in a trustless implementation.

> Most vegans are clueless when it comes to making up deficiencies in typical vegan diets

The same goes for non-vegans.

This article is interesting but it would be far more helpful to link to a solution for each point.

What is the slowest water animal in the world?

Firefox is great as a product and even greater for this reason. All other browsers are either packaged with the OS (by the company selling the OS) or as you said.

I love Firefox, I use it on every OS. I do use Chrome for accessing my RStudio server because the performance is significantly better. Chrome on Android also feels better than Firefox on Android but I use both interchangeably. I use Edge for reading PDFs on my windows PC because it is usually convenient and somewhat infrequent.

Im not entirely convinced why, but think very strongly that it is important to diversify your software and hardware solutions. Additionally it seems prudent that one company doesn't own the full stack, this pushes me away from Edge and Safari.

Emacs Org Mode is nice for note taking planning and todos, the calendar timestamping features is nice to recognize time spent in various tasks and keep accountable

Was expecting to see something related to unix pipes, was pleasantly surprised

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Why do some websites eternally not let you back to the previous page when clicking the back button?

Is this purely for software development/engineering or does applied research still qualify?

I spend all day on the computer but mostly I am reading, writing, or scripting that I'm not actually surfing the web. Then again spotify uses the internet.. I wonder how much 'internet usage' is a direct replacement for something that is analog but has the same effect, like reading newspaper.

so you agree that google is the devil and you thought that the devil needs an advocate..? -[0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/1432/

Go for lasik. 4500 bucks in abq 0% over 2 years. Best thing ive ever done in my life

But with a large enough hashrate you can potentially go back many blocks..

if I had a halfpenny every time a reference went over my head...

no its nist

University libraries... out of tradition, but not for much longer??

This is just wrong, except for the politics part.

It is argued that there is a higher probability that we are living in a simulation.

Be careful to not use anecdotal evidence as support for an argument