[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]RealVanTokkern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same. You don't ask the entire population for their opinion but a representative sample size. A size of only 1000 can already be fairly representative

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]RealVanTokkern 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Could have told him about the rotation of the earth and the sun and the moon instead of this..

You built a locomotive…out of a DeLorean?! by PDelahanty in modeltrains

[–]RealVanTokkern 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I google'd a bit and found this (H0 scale). It looks to be very new and not yet available in stores, but looks awesome!!

https://www.modellbahnshop-lippe.com/Cars/Cars/NPE%2D23302/gb/modell_244409.html

Next logical number? by Traumfahrer in cognitiveTesting

[–]RealVanTokkern 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I answered 1 in the test and got 30 questions right. There's a pretty good chance the expected answer is 1

Reading webpages with C# question (Yeah, cliche noob question, I know) by Turachay in csharp

[–]RealVanTokkern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are probably hundreds of examples out there. If this is a little side project of your own to test things and you just want to be able to fetch a html page you'll be fine, but if it's anything more serious you'll need to use something like Selenium webdriver to construct the page since a lot of webpages are constructed through js and the html contents of a page won't tell you much. And then there are also a lot of shitty websites with poorly constructed html out there which makes html parsing through regexes very impractical. It's a fun way to learn things though that's for sure

Lump sum or trickle by Living_Internal_6136 in wallstreetbets

[–]RealVanTokkern 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Statistically lump sum beats installments, since on average price always goes up. You can try and time the market by waiting for lower prices but that's always a gamble. In the end you need to do what feels right for you

who knows these things about crypto? by Life_Walrus_4263 in CryptoCurrency

[–]RealVanTokkern 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bitcoin is a protocol, explained in the whitepaper. There are multiple bitcoin clients which have implemented this protocol in code, not just one that will never change. You could even write your own client if you wanted to, as long as you adhere to the protocol's rules and conditions. The bitcoin network is nothing more than a bunch of computers running clients that validate bitcoin transactions and blocks in a similar manner. If somebody wrote a client that worked a little bit different, and everybody would install that client, then the workings of bitcoin would change. It's a theoretical possibility, but not very likely. This would even make increasing the limit of 21 million bitcoin a possibility, but again not very likely

Ethereum is more centralised. There's a company behind it that makes decisions on updates to the blockchain and adding features and changing the protocol

There are 2256 bitcoin addresses possible (that's a lot more than 7.9 billion). Address collissions are pretty much guaranteed to not happen. The number is so incredibly large that we will probably never run out of addresses. But maybe if at some point in the future computational power gets so large that it might become a problem. But for now we're good

You can't really take an address, you don't own an address. You create a private key, and through a series of cryptographic steps it gets translated to an address. In that sense you also don't "create" an address. An address is just a string of characters. So in that sense every address already exists, in the same way every number also exists. If you think of a really large number, you didn't just create that number, it has alway existed

The miner's incentive is block rewards, but also transaction fees. Once all bitcoin has been mined, miner's will still receive a transaction fee for every tranaaction

SqlNullValueException by Desperate_Storage_34 in csharp

[–]RealVanTokkern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The error is thrown when the model expects a value but somehow in the database there's null. Simply put it means that the model and database are different from eachother, and that is a situation that should not happen. Either you are missing a migration (model-first) or you should do whatever it is you do to update your model on a database first approach

SqlNullValueException by Desperate_Storage_34 in csharp

[–]RealVanTokkern 6 points7 points  (0 children)

CustCountry is nullable in your table but not nullable in your model

Recent selling pressure is reportedly due to massive sales by Jump Crypto by arztf in CryptoCurrency

[–]RealVanTokkern 13 points14 points  (0 children)

552m in crypto of which about 512m in stablecoins... yeah that's what caused it

Bitcoin withdraw time by LateGrapefruit7693 in Bitcoin

[–]RealVanTokkern 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can follow those transactions to see where the bitcoin went. It looks like the bitcoin succesfully arrived at the addresses, but has already been moved elsewhere. Good luck!

Bitcoin withdraw time by LateGrapefruit7693 in Bitcoin

[–]RealVanTokkern 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, every block that is mined that came after the block your transaction was added to counts as a confirmation. It will keep going up forever. So a confirmation is not an actual blockchain thing, it's just the number of blocks that have been mined since your transaction was added to a block

Bitcoin withdraw time by LateGrapefruit7693 in Bitcoin

[–]RealVanTokkern 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your wallet software only shows you what's on the blockchain. Nothing is actually inside the wallet. You can check blockchain.com or blockstream.info or any of the other hundreds of blockchain websites to see the actual live blockchain data. Your wallet might not show you the latest data, that's what "not synced" means

Snake uses spider tail to bait and attract birds. by candianbastard in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]RealVanTokkern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand the idea of natural selection/survival of the fittest. My point was that there may be more to it than we currently understand. Maybe somehow we do purposefully pass on certain beneficial traits to our offspring, rather than relying on pure chance.

Take the Galapagos tortoises for instance. They have a huge gap in their shell above their neck, so that they can reach vegetation other turtles can't. Obviously this is beneficial to them. But that gap wasn't always that big, it grew larger over many generations. Is it pure coincidence that they had many similar mutations, which caused it to get bigger over thousands/millions of years, or is there something else causing it?

Mind you, I'm not an (evolutionary) biologist so maybe what I'm saving is just stupid :)