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To say that "Etherium has not proven proof of stake can work at scale" is true but means not a whole lot. Since it implies other's haven't. Cardano, as an example, will be 100% decentralized Proof of Stake within the next few hours. I see no reason at this point for bitcoins existence but the technology that's being built on top of blockchains is fascinating and shouldn't be condemned for something that bitcoin can't do.


It's disingenuous, or confusing to me at least, to present Cardano, a cryptocurrency started in 2017 I haven't even heard of, as proving the same thing as real used and tested cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Etherium.


Your assumption is off base. Cardano has PoS, hovers between the top 5-3 cryptos. It works,and works quite well.


No, Cardano works towards a PoS, but at the moment is federated. They began from the "Byron era" (federated by the Cardano organization) and are now in the "Shelley era" (federated by the Cardano community).

https://roadmap.cardano.org/en/shelley/


Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but Cardano's Proof of Stake seems to be working rather well while rewarding everyone who gets involved. Whale status or not. So I'm not understanding why you seem to disregard PoS as a solution when there are working solutions


I really don’t understand what you mean by this. I’ve never thought http was difficult. What is it that you find problematic?


Legacy HTTP/1.1 suffers a few issues, see the current RFC errata:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7230&rec_st...

There are issues particularly around how whitespace and obsolete line folding should be handled

Various whitespace issues in node.js: https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser/issues?q=is%3Aissue+wh...

Spec clarification: https://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/53

Node.js's parser was at one point replacing all white space in headers with a single space character, even though until recently this was non-conformant (you were only supposed to do so with obs-fold). It did this so it didn't have to buffer characters (since http-parser is a streaming parser).

It's not as trivial as a few string splits. Node.js's parser is ~2,500 lines of C code.


No. She came up with the idea, she built the prototype, she had the vision. To name some lackey who only did what they were told an inventor is a disservice.


Lackey? That's like saying steve jobs founded apple and steve wozniak was a lackey. Ideas aren't worth anything unless you have someone who can actually turn the idea into a reality. Strange to see this kind of dismissive response of an actual engineer here.


They both built the prototype. Without a proof of concept that has the actual details figured out to make it work, it's just an idea.

Downplaying the essential role of an experienced and knowledgeable engineer as merely being a "lackey" is the real disservice.


Your making assumptions here. There's no details on what exactly was needed from an engineering perspective. Was it design? Was it merely the knowledge to work the tools? She hired this person, but would any engineer have worked? If all he did was follow instructions and a plan and build what she designed then he was a lackey. Now he may have been more then that. But all the information I've seen so far has pointed to her being the designer, her being the driving force for this.


unless you are referring to multiple sets of distinct dice.


This may seem petty but it annoys me that after all this time I still can't make a hands free call to anyone that has more then one phone number in my address book.


Really? My wife has her mobile and work number on my phone contacts (iOS) and I can use the voice command to say:

"Call wife on mobile" or "Call wife on work" and it works.

I tested this on a 2016 Model X, 2015 Model S and 2019 Model 3.


My apologies if I get this wrong. Is this stating that the many possibilities are all coexisting and that our brain is acting as a filter to provide a view of possibilities that we define as ourselves?


That depends on what you mean by "this". If by "this" you mean MWI (the Multiple Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics) then:

> Is this stating that the many possibilities are all coexisting

Yes.

> and that our brain is acting as a filter to provide a view of possibilities that we define as ourselves?

No, your brain is not "acting as a filter". There are multiple "your brains" all "coexisting" in multiple universes (which MWI-ers call "the multiverse"), none of which can ever communicate with each other.


You've obviously never googled for "transparent sodium" there's multiple articles about it


That is a beautiful interface. I'm really impressed with this.


Thanks.

The app is still buggy in dusted corners though. Cleaning them time to time.


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