LispShmisp
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Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Your post comes off strongly as cultish/MLMish. Sorry I don't know how to phrase it so it doesn't come as a personal attack. Most of the crypto posts sound like it.
> This is because they just see the blockchain as an inefficient database
I think it's crazy that you feel this way, I can only speak for myself and a few others, but we do in fact fully understand it and why it works this way.
Satoshi is not some god that has come to save us. He saw something that fraction of people in society consider to be a problem and attempted to solve it. He did not consider complex ways that his solution would interact with the society. A lot of us think that crypto causes more problems than it solves.
Comment · 5 years ago
Did they ask you to explain it? Did you talk about shortcomings of it?
Most of the crypto related posts feels like advertising/preaching. Issues with their proposed solutions are rarely focused on and when they're brought up, hand waving begins.
I think this is a consequence of crypto proponents using mostly same talking points, usually decentralization/some libertarian dream. Technical discussions are rarely initiated. I've been following this since early days of BTC and I'm so tired of it. I don't see anything in it that would help our society. Maybe due to your political leanings you do.
Comment · 5 years ago
While there are many issues surrounding our banking industry, the way it manages currencies is far superior to how any of the crypto currencies work.
Fraud prevention, fraud reversibility, low fees, transaction rate, simplicity. Reliability is fine as well, I don't get the issue?
Keeping transactions publicly in the blockchain is probably one of the worst things that could happen to privacy.
I've read Bitcoin's paper back in ~2011, played with it's implementation a bit, so I'm well aware of what the blockchain is. It does NOT solve anything meaningful, it's not nearly as special as layman make it out to be.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's an amazing spin, attempting to move away from the point of contention which you can't defend. This type of rhetoric hooks poor unhappy/angry people right in. All just so you can make some quick cash.
Don't pretend that crypto will even attempt to solve any of those issues. It's yet another method to transfer wealth out of poor people's pockets.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not proving anything. It's VERY hard to make the right picks. Easy in hindsight.
But you're invested crypto so it's profitable for you to push this narrative in order to keep building the pyramid and cash out. Love MLM/pyramid vibes coming out of the crypto investors, because that's what it is.
Comment · 5 years ago
Strong argument.
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
It's interesting to look at wealth distribution of Bitcoin:
http://imgur.com/Vt7PvbW (source: http://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.h...).
4% of users own 95.09% of currently available Bitcoins. I think that as the number of users increases so will value of Bitcoin in USD, wealth distribution will only get worse while making top even richer.
Even if wealth distribution doesn’t bother you, consider that part of these users(4%) mined/gathered it in questionable ways(mining via compromised systems). Early adopters gaining large part of Bitcoin for little effort seems silly too. I personally consider this unacceptable.
Comment · 13 years ago
One of them is "|-cat vomit $|--", password hints maybe?
Comment · 13 years ago
Are files available via torrent/web somewhere? I'd appreciate if someone has a link to share.
Comment · 13 years ago
Indeed there are some serious issues with Twitch in Europe. For about a year streams were crystal clear with no issues. Then they started to mess with stream qualities, I guess they had to do some interesting optimizations in order to deal with increasing userbase.
So since this summer I've only been able to watch streams on highest quality a couple of times. Problem with second highest quality is that whenever there's movement in-game, stream looks pixelated, some games look especially bad:
[ARMA: DayZ on Twitch High quality] http://imgur.com/a/x2Ahr
Another interesting thing is that even if stream lags on highest quality, I'm still able launch multiple concurrent streams of second highest quality and none of them lag (I launched 5 streams, after which CPU usage maxes out, so I didn't try more). But watching a SINGLE stream on highest quality? Nop, not going to happen, while audio is fine, video stutters every 5-10sec, freezes for 2sec, rinse&repeat.
Comment · 13 years ago
At first I thought it would be on a second page, or third but it's not. Story has a lot of comments/upvotes, isn't it what makes story stay on the first page, high up top? How does it work? Was story moved manually?
Comment · 14 years ago
Well, if you go as far as to say that without Lisp nobody would have been there...
Is it fair to say that Lisp started the war?
As per the article linked above (https://archive.ph/kCxNw)
"The intelligence agency, called the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) discovered that some calls on Air Force One were unencrypted and it was able to tap into radio frequencies that were used for those calls, according to the book, "
No hacking or deployment of listening devices, just passive listening. Unless you have other sources?