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alittlesalami commented on The great renaming: what happened to Eth2? blog.ethereum.org/2022/01... · Posted by u/capableweb

msoad · 4 years ago

Isn't PoS inherently against decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies? You have to have money to use money

alittlesalami · 4 years ago

PoW is one level of abstraction away from "you have to have money to use money"; "you have to have money, to buy compute, to use money". Additionally, compute resources are subject to centralization.

alittlesalami commented on Software Freedom Conservancy files GPL lawsuit against Vizio sfconservancy.org/copylef... · Posted by u/jra_samba

rich_sasha · 4 years ago

Good point that Linux kernel is GPL - how can companies sell products with an embedded Linux then? They don't seem to be publishing sources.

Basically anything IoT more advanced than a thermometer seems to be running Linux.

alittlesalami · 4 years ago

The Software Freedom Conservancy has a page on exactly this:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liber...

alittlesalami commented on Lots to See in Firefox 93 hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10... · Posted by u/feross

alittlesalami · 4 years ago

Switched to Firefox 8 months ago and I'll never go back. I dare you to try it.

alittlesalami commented on How to fit any dataset with a single parameter arxiv.org/abs/1904.12320... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

air7 · 4 years ago

This reminds me of a joke idea I read somewhere: You can encode the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica using a single mark on a simple stick!

Just encode the text as a ascii codes after the decimal dot of a zero. (0.656168.. etc). Then just mark that ratio of the sticks length and you're done...

alittlesalami · 4 years ago

This is Arithmetic Coding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding

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