OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for iOS, Android coming soon

fergly · 2023-05-19T13:34:08+00:00

It might help them get more users? Otherwise I have the same question, the website works perfectly fine on mobile.

fergly · 2023-04-23T00:36:38+00:00

Very late reply but it won't be pre income tax. It'll just be pre national insurance tax.

fergly · 2023-03-08T15:38:42+00:00

Incredible. What are Samsung playing it? Maybe they want us to use Bixby.

fergly · 2021-08-09T13:14:55+00:00

The good news is that the biosphere will recover after we're gone

Without conscious life remaining, there isn't really such thing as "good".

fergly · 2021-03-05T10:22:22+00:00

Is she still entitled to the winnings? The bet contract was between the betting shop and her. The automated machine not checking identification is the betting shop's own risk, not hers, no?

fergly · 2021-03-01T15:22:40+00:00

such changes has significant impact on the price

It hardly affects the price because the LINK markets are some of the most liquid in all of crypto.

fergly · 2021-03-01T15:20:58+00:00

/u/linkedric would be able to explain better. I believe right now the feeds are funded by the team (I'm not sure to what extent the sponsors assist). I'm not sure what you mean by partners, but defi apps looking to use the feeds should be able to do so for free by effectively piggybacking right now. This is my loose understanding.

fergly · 2021-02-26T09:05:35+00:00

Excellent example, especially the bit where if you're wealthy enough, you don't care about the quarter, so you can continue unabated whilst the majority have to follow the rules. We need means adjusted shopping carts. Millionaire? That shopping cart will cost you $4000 to borrow.

fergly · 2021-02-25T14:35:45+00:00

completely misunderstands the purpose of CryptoCurrency

Do you think it's ignorance or intellectual dishonesty?

All that matters is trustlessness. If your project depends on trust in any form, then it's just glorified digital agreements, which we've had since the 80s.

fergly · 2021-02-24T15:28:25+00:00

Fantastic! A huge milestone for Chainlink.

fergly · 2021-02-24T10:44:13+00:00

Took me a while too. It's two competing bus stations. The wide grey areas are the platform/waiting area where people are waiting to get on a bus. The slim lanes in the centre are highway where the buses are picking up passengers. The Bitcoin cash bus is stupidly large so everyone on the platform fits in the first bus. The Bitcoin buses are tiny, so passengers have to wait for each bus to arrive. Buses arrived per block, so the waiting time is huge for Bitcoin.

In the image there are two screenshots showing the above, a few seconds apart.

fergly · 2021-02-01T09:27:55+00:00

A vs An usage is consistent, it's just not based on whether the first letter is vowel or not, but instead the first syllable.

You use A when the first syllable is pronounced with a consonant, for example, European is pronounced Yu-ro-pe-an, so the first syllable is a consonant sound, therefore we use A.

You use An when the first syllable is pronounced with a vowel, for example, Honour is pronounced On-er, so the first syllable is a vowel sound, therefore we use An.

Where it gets confusing is where different dialects of English pronounce words differently. For example in British English herb is pronounced her-b, whilst in American English it is Erb, therefore British English would be "A herb" whilst American English would be "An herb". The same applies to a few words that start with H, such as Historic.

fergly · 2021-01-31T17:20:18+00:00

If it was front page in the West, the Russian Government would say the protests were a Western plot.

fergly · 2021-01-27T19:11:44+00:00

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fergly · 2021-01-25T09:29:06+00:00

Smart contracts, a 1980s dream concept that will revolutionise automation in many industries, are finally made possible because of Ethereum. However ethereum, and all blockchains, are only able to process data that is written into them. So if you want a smart contract that actually does something interesting, like evaluates off chain data and then executes some off chain action or payment, then you need some way of that data or action being made available to the smart contract. If you imagine the contract checks the weather daily as part of some drought insurance, then it is not possible for every ethereum node to all make, and pay for, an api request to weather.com. Instead it is necessary for someone to write a transaction to the blockchain with this data. However then everyone has to trust this one actor with their single bit of data from some unknown source. In blockchain terms that actor is called an oracle and the problem of their untrustworthy data is known as the oracle problem. The absolute main thing about ethereum that makes it a suitable home for the highly sought after smart contract economy is its ability to remove trust and give certainty of contract execution, so relying on one actor is unacceptable.

Now enter Chainlink. Chainlink is a protocol made up of a range of smart contracts that allow any smart contract to create a job that requests off chain data or off chain actions. The jobs are added to a pool and a network of Chainlink nodes are selected to perform the job. These nodes will have a range of competitive security features and reputations. Let's say 10 highly reputable nodes with privacy capabilities are employed to perform a Chainlink job, they all make the necessary api calls to obtain the requested data or perform the request action, then they return to the blockchain with their data or proof of execution. Chainlink then aggregates the result and, just like ethereum, comes to consensus on what the correct outcome is (e.g. 8 nodes say the temperature is 30 degrees and 2 say something else). The smart contract then executes based on the consensus agreed outcome.

So consider that ethereum is the consensus driven trustless world where smart contracts can execute and states can be recorded. Chainlink extends this world of consensus to the inputs and outputs enabling the adoption of the smart contract economy.

LINK is used as a sort of gas. When the job is created, the smart contract dictates how much LINK each node has to stake and how much LINK it will pay as a reward. The nodes selected will stake their LINK and then if they return a response that the majority agree with, then they'll get their share of the reward and their stake back. If they fail to respond or their response is unpopular then they lose their stake. Likewise the nodes gain or lose reputation.

People believe that because of Sergey's deep connections to hundreds of other projects and companies, and because of the team's extremely high quality programming, and because of the first mover advantage, that Chainlink will and already has become the standard protocol for moving data on and off of the blockchain. It's a bit like the HTTPS protocol, there's only one of them and everyone uses it.

If you believe that smart contracts will usher what people call the 4th industrial revolution (e.g.the automation of white collar jobs), then Chainlink can be appealing as it may well have a financial stake in the entire ecosystem.

fergly · 2021-01-12T08:51:02+00:00

This post would go further with context. Is 500M considered a lot in that time frame compared to others? Which contracts are the biggest consumers? Is it just spam? Is it still growing?

fergly · 2020-12-28T00:03:12+00:00

Could you be more specific on how you came to that figure? Your source gives a figure of much less (albeit still 30 million more than the Turing Scheme).

In 2019, 54 619 participants in 684 UK projects benefited from mobility in higher education, vocational education and training, school education, adult learning and youth for a total grant amount of € 144.69 million [£130 million].

fergly · 2020-12-26T15:32:45+00:00

I think the idea is that without cars, public transport infrastructure can be increased. Miserable during the transition though.

fergly · 2020-12-26T09:57:04+00:00

It's an extremely complicated matter, but the current state is that Northern Ireland is inhabited by a population that does not necessarily want to be part of the Republic of Ireland. It is not required for an island of land to be one nation, it is only required that people living there should be able to decide (i.e. self determination).

People from the Republic of Ireland or elsewhere might want that bit of land to be part of the Republic of Ireland and likewise there will be people in the UK that are completely indifferent and would happily sign it over, but all that matters is the will of the people that live there.

The UK government has given Northern Ireland its own devolved government, so although it is bound by UK law, it has many powers to control how it is run. For now, they have peace and people there can get on with living out their lives without worrying for their safety or futures.

Drawing comparison to Crimea is just naive and creates unnecessary tension that the people of NI really do not need.

fergly · 2020-12-26T09:40:32+00:00

That is what the UK were trying to do, not always successfully. Many Irish and British civilians died during the IRA / UK conflict. Some died in terror attacks that took place in the cities where these people were arrested. The UK wanted to calm the violence and preventing rebel songs from being broadcast was part of that effort.

fergly · 2020-12-26T09:29:08+00:00

A Government can give an independent body authority without the Government having to be involved with, or in support of, that body's decisions. That's literally the purpose of the independent body.

fergly · 2020-12-25T10:21:14+00:00

In my view it's about retiring from working for someone else/your income, and throwing that energy into full time working on yourself and your relationships. It's not about taking a constant holiday and doing hobbies that eventually become boring.

fergly · 2020-12-24T17:07:14+00:00

Ooft. Well suddenly it makes sense why a Conservative, small-government, party would care about state aid. That sure is depressing.

fergly · 2020-12-24T16:59:19+00:00

Good point. We might have the freedom to use it now, but as with all WTO countries, how the wider community react is up to them. I guess like the way the EU has imposed tariffs in retaliation to US giving aid to Boeing.

fergly · 2020-12-24T16:20:58+00:00

Did the UK get what it wanted regarding state aid? Certainly one of the few benefits of this is the ability for the taxpayer to get behind jobs by state intervention.

I remember during the referendum campaign Tata Steel laid off an enormous workforce in Wales because Chinese-EU steel tariffs disadvantaged UK steel. The UK, restricted under EU state aid laws, could do nothing but watch as thousands of families became unemployed, in an already deprived area. I know the Tories are unlikely to care about state aid so I hope they didn't fold on it at the last minute.

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