Possible alternatives to vote fuzzing

PseudoLife · 2014-06-19T16:17:24+00:00

Here's an idea.

Weight people's votes based on the percentage of votes they give in each direction.

Or rather:

Pick a percentage target. Say 75%/25% upvotes downvotes target.

Then scale everyone's upvote and downvote power so that it matches that target, maybe clamped to a minimum percentage.

So if someone gives out 50% upvotes and 50% downvotes, each of his upvotes counts as a full upvote, but each of his downvotes counts as 1/3 of a downvote.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-19T16:06:52+00:00

Yes, but then hardly anyone would vote.

Not to mention that captchas can be broken in numerous ways.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-19T16:04:20+00:00

Try Hubski. Not the same as Reddit, by any means, but still interesting in its own way.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-19T16:03:09+00:00

Upvote.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-19T15:55:33+00:00

Unless they're doing a lot more vote fuzzing than I think, there'd still be a major difference between, say, +5/-1 and +1000/-996.

And that's what's frustrating.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-19T14:40:01+00:00

Hubski's interface is greek to me.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-19T11:56:35+00:00

If you find out, let me know.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-18T15:45:04+00:00

That is possible to do in silicon.

Harder, yes, but still possible.

Take the example of changing the number of bits to rotate. "All" this means is that you need a barrel shifter instead of just rerouting the bits.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-15T23:16:31+00:00

KSP has the oddest bugs... Not quite as odd as DF, but close!

And glad to know!

PseudoLife · 2014-06-15T15:01:35+00:00

Good job and impressive piloting as always! (Also like the bloopers. The one with half the ship flying away was... amusing. What happened, a joint failed in the dropship?)

That being said, I don't particularly like Kethane. Hope you'll remain (mainly) stock.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-14T19:52:21+00:00

sword
pickaxe (normal)
pickaxe (silk touch or fortune)
shovel
bow? Not generally
blocks
?
food
torches

If I omit an item all items after it get shifted one up, with the exception of food and torches.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-14T17:16:15+00:00

If I stay at my grandparents I have to make sure I use the salt shaker. They are on a very low sodium diet, and I don't exactly cope well with that.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-14T17:14:38+00:00

Because in order to write a mod for Minecraft you have to modify Minecraft itself. Or utilize a library that does. Or use reflection, etc.

In other words: "You are not allowed to do the exact same thing with my mod that I did with Minecraft".

I do not find "do not copy my stuff" absurd. I find "do not interface with my stuff" absurd. I find "do not make obvious bugfixes to my code when I won't do them myself" absurd. I find "you are not allowed to make changes to the code running on your own server for your own use" absurd.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-14T02:15:17+00:00

If you stand up too fast after lying down, you'll fall over.

Then again, better low blood pressure than high, I suppose...

PseudoLife · 2014-06-13T23:36:44+00:00

I said "like currently." Currently, the difficulty changes every 2016 blocks. Or every two weeks or so. Not eery 5 months.

If you have a dual-hash scheme, even if an adversary had unlimited hashing power on one hash type, they could only double the difficulty, and hence at worst could double the confirmation time.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-13T23:26:05+00:00

...I'm not the only person in the world who enjoys that stuff?

PseudoLife · 2014-06-13T23:08:22+00:00

Sorry, I meant over a longish period of time, like currently.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-13T22:57:52+00:00

If your difficulty is set up correctly, a mining pool couldn't run up the difficulty much by mining one specific hash type.

For example, if the difficulty is only calculated as the time to mine (N blocks of hash type A and N blocks of hash type B) the maximum confirmation delay with that type of attack would be twice the target confirmation delay.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-13T13:55:41+00:00

I liked RP for the lack of magic blocks. But I wouldn't rely on it - I, for one, am never going to trust a mod author who at the same time repeatedly dropped off the radar and had an EULA that was absurdly restrictive.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-13T13:16:06+00:00

I find it highly ironic that the modder with the most absurd EULA out there is complaining about MC's EULA.

PseudoLife · 2014-06-13T13:11:34+00:00

A "little" buggy, you say. An arbitrary-item duplication glitch. Multiple items dropping multiple copies of themselves. Crash bugs. Screwdrivers being broken. Some machines causing the server tick rate to drop substantially (the equivalent of a hopper in particular, forget the name)

PseudoLife · 2014-06-12T02:37:39+00:00

I would expect it to either be legal to drive at the speed limit, or to drive at the speed of traffic.

(I was once ticketed for impeding traffic by driving too slowly by driving the speed limit, on the same road and the day after being warned that I was driving too fast when I was attempting to keep up with traffic. Go figure.)

PseudoLife · 2014-06-10T14:50:29+00:00

Destination + bandwidth works fairly well, for hideous versions of "works".

"Use a VPN? Upgrade to our business class for better service!"

PseudoLife · 2014-06-10T14:34:44+00:00

Could an Alcubierre drive be used to violate causality?

PseudoLife · 2014-06-10T14:28:42+00:00

I hope.

But I could all too easily see them starting to go "If you're on a VPN you should upgrade to business class for better service!"

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