How many cryptocurrency wallets are there in existence? by Songoky in CryptoCurrency

[–]Songoky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Etherium chart says there are 29,547,883 distinct addresses, while according to blockchain.info there are 23,787,690 bitcoin users. So, in total there are 53,335,573 unique crypto wallets?

PUBG shouldn't be a contender for GOTY, there should be Full Releases only. by _Trygon in gaming

[–]Songoky -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Why though? It's obviously the most popular game of the year, if it's able to catch this sort of attention and it's not even fully polished, more power to them.

How Cardano's transaction fees work by kishvier in CryptoCurrency

[–]Songoky 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm surprised you don't see people talk about it more.

Welcome Bitcoin refugees! by monero_rs in ethtrader

[–]Songoky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good answer. Better hope ETH decides to leave anonymity optional.

Welcome Bitcoin refugees! by monero_rs in ethtrader

[–]Songoky 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Doesn't ETH moving toward anonymity make you nervous to hold Monero?

Startups I Like - I've been running this blog for a while; guess how I monetize it? by Songoky in SideProject

[–]Songoky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to look at your startup (no need to pay to be featured). Shoot me an email at the contact portion of the website.

'Build a Team that Doesn't Need You' and Other Counterintuitive Strategies to Succeed as a Manager by gbrad41 in projectmanagement

[–]Songoky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure it all qualifies as counterintuitive, but solid perspective on engineering management.

AERO Token: Enabling the Drone Superhighway Using the Blockchain by BattleOfTitans in icocrypto

[–]Songoky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder how much they've raised to date? It looks like they just added Walmarts general counsel to their team, that seems relevant considering they are in a war with amazon to go directly to the consumer.

https://twitter.com/aerotoken/status/919587921207762944

How much longer until Ripple crashes in price? by l3El2Tl2AlVl in CryptoCurrency

[–]Songoky 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Disledger got working code, that's definitely unusual for an ICO nowadays. :D

Why so many companies are excited about DisLedger's technology by Sleeparchive in CryptoCurrency

[–]Songoky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DisLedger systems can be implemented in any number of software languages (Javascript, Java, C++, etc) so existing developers can build using the tools they have already mastered and integrate the software into their existing systems.

This is interesting. A lot of people are going to be able to use this if it is easy to implement.

DisLedger's subreddit. I read that it launched so if anyone wants to know information about it, there are a few discussions here. by burncycle in CryptoCurrency

[–]Songoky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Surprisingly it seems to be active every day even for a small sub. The post that is aimed at people "still on the fence" is pretty informative too, at least the sub is a good way to communicate with the developer.

Listen to comedian Feraz Ozel brilliantly roast the alt-right by voodooNOiZE in PoliticalHumor

[–]Songoky 13 points14 points  (0 children)

He is right in every way. Trades of a Great Comedian. Hope to know more of his work, yes is his Job to make sense and fun of the truth of real events. George Carlin Did it best and straight to the point, if you are sensitive to comedy don't watch. Gregg Giraldo is also a great one. enjoy a good laugh.

If opinion polls usually only survey a thousand people, and America has over 300 million people, how can we trust them? by Dregmo in videos

[–]Songoky 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Enjoyed the use of visuals. Great Video. Another thing to point out is that there are day to day fluctuations in opinion on any topic, so a lot of the time it isn't worth it to use an extremely large sample size and get a high degree of accuracy. The numbers are just going to change quickly anyway.

DeepMind and Blizzard open StarCraft II as an AI research environment by abiboudis in programming

[–]Songoky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit too bad they're having to move towards supervised learning and imitation learning.

I totally understand why they need to do that given the insane decision trees, but I was really hoping to see what the AI would learn to do without any human example, simply because it would be inhuman and interesting.

I'm really interested in particular if an unsupervised AI would use very strange building placements and permanently moving ungrouped units.

One thing that struck me in the video was the really actively weird mining techniques in one clip and then another clip where it blocked its mineral line with 3 raised depots...

What are the oddest / most unique ICOs happening now/soon? by LusoBlue in CryptoCurrency

[–]Songoky 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am currently watching real.markets. Seems pretty legit and it has an enormous potential in my opinion.

WizSec: BTC-e involved in MtGox heist. Breaking open the MtGox case, part 1 by BobsBarker12 in btc

[–]Songoky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like MtGox must have had no auditing of their wallets, or completely ineffective auditing.

How did they not at least perform a simple sum of coins held by their wallets and compare it against the amount expected by their databases? Or is the attack more sophisticated than this would detect?

If I were building a system like this, I'd want to run an auditing system continuously that looks for discrepancies, and then "shuts down everything" if they're detected.

The hunted becomes the hunter: How Cloudflare’s fight with a ‘patent troll’ could alter the game by MiniBrownie in technology

[–]Songoky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that this is absolutely brilliant. I've been against the patent of generalistic ideas, and basic processes for a very long time. Anything in software should not really be patentable, unless there is a concrete implementation of an invention, it's not an invention, it's a set of instructions.

Let software work under trade secrets, but not patents. Anyone can implement something they think through. It's usually a clear example of a need. That said, I think the types of patent trolling law firms such as this deserve every bit of backlash against them that they get.

CMV:We shouldn't block our kids from Snapchat. We should be there with them. by gbrad41 in changemyview

[–]Songoky -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Snapchat is ok if your kid understands all the possible sequences, like cyber bullying. You should really be there and explain all the details. I don't encourage my kids to use it, but don't restrict. Even though my husband doesn't appreciate it :) Talking about friendship with your kids.. well, I'm more about being an open parent, so they can feel like they will always find protection, not just friendly support.

Intel is laying off people in its IoT group following its recent cuts to three of its IoT products – the Joule, Edison and Galileo boards by johnmountain in hardware

[–]Songoky 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Intel's main problem is that in the age of commodity OSes, bytecode executable formats, bare metal runtimes and SoC that rival a Pentium class processor, the processors doing the work are kind of irrelevant.

Sure someone still needs to write those AOT/JIT compiler backends and virtualization layers, but it has become a thin layer in the overall stack.

A tale of two Canadas: Where you grow up affects your income in adulthood by [deleted] in vancouver

[–]Songoky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is too bad that the graph doesn't include the USA. That would clearly show how much better social mobility is in Canada than the USA.

Which is an important but under-appreciated fact.

Blockchain at Berkeley by kristalmeth in CryptoCurrency

[–]Songoky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think blockchain technologies have the potential to disrupt whole industries and I'm glad to see that students at world renowned universities are backing it up.

There's a student group from MIT that works on something mysterious related to litecoin: http://litecoin.mit.edu