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Comment · 5 years ago
It's marketing mostly. A lot blockchainers rehash well known concepts to front innovation.
Comment · 5 years ago
You're going to hate the cryptocurrency space :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Wow! That's what I was looking for. Thanks!
Comment · 5 years ago
The aim wasn't for it to be favourable to bitcoin. I'd honestly just like a comparison.
Comment · 5 years ago
I feel like it's really easy to pin bitcoin on its energy usage just because it's so easily measurable. Is there any research that compares a traditional banking platform in terms of W/tx in comparison to bitcoin?
Comment · 5 years ago
The fact that this is wormable is huge.
Comment · 5 years ago
For some reason the 'How It Works' section of this website cracks me up. Specifically 'Arrange the installation with a specialist' bit. The wording just feels so weird.
Comment · 5 years ago
Weird that people almost celebrating in this thread? Facebook is a tool like any other and is only 'bad' if you allow that to happen.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks!
Comment · 5 years ago
Is there anything like this for emacs? Looks super useful!
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm surprised to find no discussion about the fact that emacs is single threaded. You can achieve a lot but at some point (eg: running it as a window manager) it becomes a little less snappy.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah I get that, but then again the Semigroup, Monoid, Functor, Applicative and Monad classes should aim to be correct because they form the base of a lot of other typeclasss. Maybe this project is something that I can contribute to in my free time :). I was missing a lot of the functional language features in python. It's a shame that it's still so clunky to work with lambdas etc.
Comment · 6 years ago
Applicative : minimally complete definition: pure

Huh? Where's (<*>) or liftA2? It's nice having all those types and everything to work over but if the applicative instance is wrong then the monad instance is wrong and then there isn't really a point in using the library? The nice thing about haskell is that all of the laws can be covered by quickcheck. Would be cool if there was something similar here!

Comment · 6 years ago
Isn't this the exact same concept as a dam which pumps water back up when you have excess power? Also how heavy does that weight have to be to be able to store enough energy worth digging a hole that large? Can you even get a weight heavy enough to store a significant amount of energy?

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