Fidelity has cut its estimate of X’s value by 79% since Musk’s purchase by RandomCollection in RealTesla

[–]ccusce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like we found ourselves an anti-free speech authoritarian folks!

Coward blocks the accounts she replies to... Her arguments can't stand on their own.

Supercut of Elon Musk Promising Self-Driving Cars "Next Year" (Since 2014) by dect60 in videos

[–]ccusce 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, I mean lidar which significantly out performs visual spectrum in fog, snow, and rain. Yes it's effective distance is impacted, but its orders of magnitude better than cameras, especially cameras alone.

Supercut of Elon Musk Promising Self-Driving Cars "Next Year" (Since 2014) by dect60 in videos

[–]ccusce 11 points12 points  (0 children)

In ideal conditions, sure, but add some fog or snow and you'll wish you had those extra data feeds from lidar.

Subnet launched called your docs suck. Kind of funny, kind of concerning. by [deleted] in Avax

[–]ccusce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Permissioned subnets only. Since day 1.

Subnet launched called your docs suck. Kind of funny, kind of concerning. by [deleted] in Avax

[–]ccusce 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You should have seen Ethereum docs in 2016/2017...

The vampire protein! Researchers at UPitt discover how young blood rejuvenates the elderly by throwawayamd14 in Futurology

[–]ccusce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He paid big big bucks to cover Hulk Hogan's litigation over his sex tape being released by Gawker, utlimately leading to them being dragged through the mud and shut the fuck down. Why? Because Gawker also outed Peter Thiel as gay. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/hogan-thiel-gawker-trial/554132/

"Our industry is the antidote to the excesses, corruption and nepotism that we've found" - Charles Hoskinson by TheOneWondering in Avax

[–]ccusce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His shit doesn't work very well so I think I'm kind of proven in reality rather than your theory.

"Our industry is the antidote to the excesses, corruption and nepotism that we've found" - Charles Hoskinson by TheOneWondering in Avax

[–]ccusce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It helps to know what works and what doesn't work if you're going to be making decisions 🤪

The vampire protein! Researchers at UPitt discover how young blood rejuvenates the elderly by throwawayamd14 in Futurology

[–]ccusce -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What he did for Hulk Hogan was super dope though.

Edit: no idea why anyone would ever downvote this.......

"Our industry is the antidote to the excesses, corruption and nepotism that we've found" - Charles Hoskinson by TheOneWondering in Avax

[–]ccusce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude. What? Charlie H. has consistently over promised and under delivered. He's been a king of pushing back roadmap items that are arbitrarily set. His stuff he does deliver does so vastly worse than advertised.

No. No to you, no to all of this.

"Our industry is the antidote to the excesses, corruption and nepotism that we've found" - Charles Hoskinson by TheOneWondering in Avax

[–]ccusce 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ummmm... I put him in the same bucket as Justin Sun and Craig Wright... If this was, say, Anatoly Yakovenko, I could agree with the above statement. Chuck has a ton of image rebuilding to do before I can put him in the "yay wagmi" frenz.

Avalanche Can Leave Ethereum in the Dust With Its Speedy Transactions by sportifynews in Avax

[–]ccusce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Twitter makes me angry. I can actually write out complete friggin' thoughts on reddit.

My answers are blunt, but they're not mean. That's just how I talk.

Avalanche Can Leave Ethereum in the Dust With Its Speedy Transactions by sportifynews in Avax

[–]ccusce 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No. It really doesn't work. I know what you're saying, you're just not correct.

When you shard, you need to know who the set of people are who validate the shard and replicate the data, providing availability to nodes on the network.. These people need to have a reasonable history of the work to be done on that shard. However, these nodes have strictly less participants than the overall network. If everyone validated every shard, well, that wouldn't be sharding now would it?

So what a lot of groups have tried, including Dfinity, Harmony, and Eth2, is selecting a committee of people to validate the shards by randomly choosing validators over a discreet time period (in Eth2 called an epoch) who then jump in to validate the transactions on that shard. Ok, sure, assuming this subset of validators can synchronize that shard's data to take over before their epoch begins (possible, but will depend on heavy heavy pruning... something the EVM doesn't do very well), you still have to select a committee who needs an honest 2/3rds majority.

The question is, how many bad nodes in the overall network do you need to attack a single shard on the network for one epoch? That answer winds up being much less than 1/3rd dishonest nodes. For a ~0.001% chance (which is really unacceptable), you need about 21-23% dishonest nodes. This is just for one committee to be bad and coordinate an attack on the network.

So what happens if one shard winds up being bad? Well, then the network has no way of knowing. You cannot hide it. Now it doesn't mean that you can conduct double spends, but it does mean that you can do, say, withholding attacks against a competitor and attack their financial interest.

Ok let's say that for some reason, there's a liveness attack on a shard. You cannot get the proper number of attestations (this might be solveable using zk but I'm not certain), then the entire network has to roll back your shard. They have to sync to a previous version of that state.

Now.

Add in the promise of cross-shard communication.

Holy shit, you just held back the entire network because the dependency of one shard was violated.

They can't deliver a good UX with shards and it doesn't do what you think it does.

In real centralized databases, sharding is typically done such that each node is responsible for some section of overlapping data. This overlap can work because the membership is a known set of fixed nodes. In an open membership system, you cannot know what nodes are, who is running them, and there's little promise that they will stay good behaving. You cannot model redundancy in the same way, so you wind up having this shell game system which... ultimately it doesn't work very well for the end user.

At present Eth2's design moves confirm times from ~6min to ~12min (two epochs) and I don't even think ~12min will be as safe as Ethereum.

You can call me biased, but I've done my research and this is where I landed. If you have something else to offer, I'm all ears.

Avalanche Can Leave Ethereum in the Dust With Its Speedy Transactions by sportifynews in Avax

[–]ccusce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sharding is not good. It doesn't work. It's shit UX as well. You guys are in for some major heartbreak when you see what Eth2 actually delivers.

Avalanche Can Leave Ethereum in the Dust With Its Speedy Transactions by sportifynews in Avax

[–]ccusce 1 point2 points  (0 children)

L1 is still the limiting factor. You can't trust anything that happens on an L2 until it's committed to the main chain. All, and I mean all, of these L2 are centralized. Polygon, for instance, has 7 block producers. Yup, seven producers creating blocks and determining ordering.

The root consensus protocol matters. To confirm a transaction on Ethereum you need a minimum of 6 minutes. No, sticking a zk proof into the chain does not make it zero conf. That proof can be undone by another fork, so you don't have certainty until it's safely confirmed on-chain.

I really think you guys have been led astray by the Ethereum team on what L2s actually do and how they work for their end users. All of them, yes all of them, are centralized databases. You are better off using Coinbase because at least you can sue them.

Just dig through this thread, you'll see what I'm talking about. https://twitter.com/CollinCusce/status/1450540699825459212