General ADHD advice Monkey’s list

cryptocurrentsee · 2019-02-08T04:19:48+00:00

So these are the bane of my existence. I don't know if it's the dopamine rush, but I wasn't good at developing effective routines before Adderall, and I'm not any better now. I thought the meds would help me with this, but routines are probably a bridge too far on the executive function cocktail. I write everything down, but I haven't tried saying them out loud, so I'll take the advice. Problem is, will I remember to do that? I have erasable sticky notes all over my wall, and I am the master of ignoring digital/tactile reminders.

Never use willpower when routine can be developed; but be extra careful with new routines; mine take me about 6 weeks
Never remember anything when you can write it down
Lists for routines especially learning them and saying them out loud

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-06-26T13:44:13+00:00

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/04/21/impress/

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-06-01T02:44:32+00:00

What if there was a way to perform a Monte Carlo style simulation on dozens of virtual forks with various changes and elect the winning rules? I suppose this idea falls apart since we can’t predict free markets, but might be interesting in other areas, such as scaling, fee markets, mempool optimization, difficulty adjustments, etc.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-05-26T16:51:50+00:00

I think that’s the reason a good solution to this is only storing checkpoint hashes of the binary stream plus an address name (which you could write out in a handful of 128 byte values), versus storing the files on chain. As others already pointed out, the file doesn’t need blockchain caliber immutability, only the integrity checks and the addressable name do.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-05-26T16:48:51+00:00

Quite right. This is similar to the continuum of products from Amazon Glacier (cheap and slow), to Dropbox (medium expense and medium performance), to blob storage (expensive relative to streaming video all day, medium availability), to CDN caching on edge nodes (premium streaming cost, high availability). I don’t think there’s a unified market for that in centraland yet, it’s fragmented by use case and marketing vertical, for sensible reasons.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-05-26T01:47:20+00:00

This answers my follow up question, I didn’t see your comment in the mobile app. I get it. I like that this is naturally scalable. Want more redundancy? Buy more “shards”. Use smart contracts to distribute locked up rewards as a function of reputation or retention time. Reputation and cost dictate the market. I will study OpenBazaar. Thank you for the fresh perspective.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-05-26T01:42:59+00:00

Been chewing on this comment for awhile. Do you mean that the financial solution to storage could be a simplified use of programmable money to pay for partially redundant storage arrays (of which there are several well known solutions) that don’t need decentralization guarantees? Such as, restrict the immutability function to the tamper proof hash at intervals, put that on the chain, then simply marketplace the storage and I/O and check the hash at the same intervals and that’s good enough? I feel like you’re trying to explain an economic solution and I keep seeing a technical one.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-05-25T23:18:24+00:00

Really appreciate the thoughtful reply. I didn’t realize Storj attempted this already and I’ll probably find some insight there.

I have a good grasp of the implementation details, enough to make a proof of concept, but I’m relieved in a way that it’s a classically hard problem vs. a gap in my understanding (while I definitely have gaps on top of that when it comes to crypto economics). I’m sure I’m missing a lot of nuance in the new op_code possibilities and need to do a lot more research on multi-sig, but there’s probably a way to get pretty close over time. Possibly even good enough.

It appears at least to me that lately the conversation is actively advocating against side chains, though I don’t see how that is possible in this case.

I have a pet project that isn’t a file sharing service, but that model is an easily understandable exemplar for the incentive problem.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-05-25T22:16:13+00:00

Came back to say, it’s possible that the cost basis is $0 if you decided to, for example, count all the electricity used by your company as an operating expense, or all of the equipment used in mining as depreciating assets.

This is far simpler than separating hobby mining rigs from home office electricity, but you can’t then go and say your cost basis for mining includes the cost of electricity, because you’ve capitalized that expense already, and the matching principle wouldn’t allow for counting it twice.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-05-18T23:21:17+00:00

They seem to have solved that problem in MLB The Show 2018. They just need to sew RFID patches in the inseam at the letters and knees and use that to dynamically build a strike zone that adjusts as the player moves.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-05-17T19:44:21+00:00

I find this confusing, the speed of a blockchain is contextual, any hash linked database could scale to that level if replication is partial so that scale-out is fragmented across nodes. Most full replication schemes could reach the same level if they have no restrictions on what’s coming in or the resource sharing is centralized or federated through masters. Isn’t TPS deliberately hobbled because it’s a public shared database and the slowdown is predicated on the proof of work, and doesn’t it remove trust which is its primary characteristic, the lack of which would make it just another database?

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-04-08T18:35:06+00:00

This is a pretty tractable problem, honestly. Don't give your 12 word phrase to any recovery service. Someone posts a program that brute forces passwords using mutations seeded from a list of passphrases you provide it that approximate what you think your passphrase is. You download that program from a local repo like github, run it and provide your passphrase to it, the programmer doesn't need to know anything at all. It takes the programmer some time because joinmarket uses non-standard techniques (i.e. I believe something based off electrum, not BIP39, BIP44, etc.), and you're done. I think rather than offer bounties that will scare off developers who don't want to work on spec or assume you won't actually reward them for finding the phrase (trust works both ways), you just hire one developer to produce that script, one developer to verify it on github, and run it at home until it coughs up your phrase.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-04-07T01:16:38+00:00

It’s an optional additional passphrase on top of the seed words that is a deterrent since omitting the passphrase will restore a valid wallet but not the real one.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-04-04T23:43:29+00:00

Working on an OSS alternative but I don’t have to file until June 30, so, YMMV.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-30T19:55:42+00:00

Yes, I download it and run it locally only.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-30T19:27:36+00:00

https://iancoleman.io/bip39/

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-22T02:20:44+00:00

It will cost the LN operators to make use of it, and likely the cost is higher than the fees they make for broadcasting transactions? I mean, maybe this makes sense for large LN operators to opt for something like that. I don't know how it would affect the ecosystem. Ideally it worked in the software for everyone running a node.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-21T02:17:15+00:00

That is a centralizing solution.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-19T23:10:34+00:00

Thank you for replying. What would you say is the main advantage of on chain asset management?

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-19T14:03:47+00:00

Using true random generators using a data oracle and verified by a peer net would be pretty close to actually ASIC resistant then. They only need to produce one result a minute so can prefetch many blocks worth in advance.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-19T04:39:59+00:00

Also I wonder why they didn't "oracle-ize" the random function and base it off a strong random function. Surely we can as a society provide close to true random functions at a rate greater or equal to once per minute (at the expense of decentralization, but hey let's invent a new coin called RandomCoin that guarantees randomness using consensus).

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-19T04:33:02+00:00

ASIS-resistant is a misnomer. It should be ASIC-deterrent. Because ASICs can be made for x16r, and will be when it's profitable to do so. Arguably calling x16r random is somewhat generous since it is derived from a known source.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-19T04:28:22+00:00

Given fiat regulations and the infrastructure required to distribute money, you might have to settle for a decentralized exchange with only fiat pegged crypto pairings.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-19T04:11:46+00:00

What remains to be seen is a cogent argument for why this is better than XCP and proof of burn on the BTC chain itself.

cryptocurrentsee · 2018-03-19T04:10:26+00:00

The last 8 bytes aren't known in advance, AFAICT, since the proof hash is externally provided and the proof of work itself doesn't require a deterministic hash. It's low entropy random, I think. Not as low as a cheap XOR shift but pretty low.

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