https://hms.harvard.edu/news/exploring-science-acupuncture
Acupuncture actual does have clinical significant effects though.
I added an arxiv link and a stack overflow link that show that I’m not alone in this assertion of equivalence.
I blame autocorrect for the Merkle typos.
We define “blockchain” and “blockchain network”, and then discuss two very different, well known classes of blockchain networks: cryptocurrencies and Git repositories.
183 votes for your “similar but not the same” and 103 votes for “they are the same”. At the very least, I’d say this is far from settled fact
yeah, but this SO post has many up voted comments supporting my points as well.
does git require authentication with a central server? I know that’s common practice and true of github, but my recollection was that it was meant to fix the problem of distributed kernel development via an email listserv in the early 2000s. This stack exchange post discusses how it’s not really centralized
Right, but isn’t the “main chain” of Ethereum based on a similar principle wherein it’s the main chain because it’s the one the devs use?
What about BTC vs BTC lightning.
I’m genuinely failing to see a distinction here, and, again, the wiki article says that blockchains are special cases of Merkle trees.
How is it any different than verifying that a transaction occurred?
How is a trusted repository different from a hard fork?
Isn’t “proving someone is a maintainer” just an IRL proof of stake?
what? Git is very much distributed and while you can have a main branch, you can set as many up streams as you want and merge things sideways.
It’s trust less in the sense that commits can’t be easily forged and are signed with cryptographic keys and identities-- as in, I don’t have to trust that the source code is genuine since I can verify the commit history myself.
Consensus is just a pull request.
That wiki article literally lists Bitcoin and Ethereum as implementations of Merkel trees.
Nah. the other commenters are wrong.
They’re super useful.
Its just that anyone who isn’t selling bullshit uses their real name- Merkel trees - which are fundamental to modern software development (git, zfs, nix, nosql).
Nah. the commenter above is just wrong. It’s just that anyone who isn’t selling bullshit uses their real name- Merkel trees - which are fundamental to modern software development (git, zfs, nix, nosql).
Anyone else remember the Senate hearings with Facebook et Al a few years ago that went nowhere? TikTok is clearly not the only company doing this, but is the only one being prosecuted.
I’ve always found the best people at foodnotbombs, which has local chapters in most cities. Start there.
definitely sounds like tankie shit. glad we’re on the same page.
What? Anarchism is generally anti-statist and socialists sure love to shoot anarchists. By the logic of AES, Anarchists should support Assad and not the YPG since one is “anti-imperialist” and the other exists due to US military support.
Homey, she’s vice president today. If she gave a fuck, we wouldn’t be where we are.
I mean, I get the point, but it’s not like rewriting the 1917-1945 history is uncommon in Europe.
The anti Soviet museum in Lithuania doesn’t talk about the Holocaust of Jewish people at all, for example.
There was a well organized campaign to promote revisionist history on the Croatian Wikipedia.
And Poland codified denialism into law.
The Jewish population of the region that used to be the Western Russian Empire remembers the violence as starting in 1917, not in 1939 when the Germans showed up. This had been a recurring thing, but nobody seems to remember that.
a variety of independent news sources.
Wikipedia is notoriously susceptible to bias when it comes to history and politics and has a noted left center bias (according to researchers at Harvard, not my words).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia
I’m not saying it’s a terrible sources but it definitely should not be the last stop and anything controversial (or the lack thereof) isn’t a meaningful indicator of whether or not something is actually true. Note the numerous examples of historical revisionism in the linked article.
You can install Plex on your mobile device and toggle the “share media from this device” setting. Otherwise, a steam deck would have everything an RPI has plus a GPU and a touch screen. Since there are two radios (2 and 5Ghz) on the device, you should be able to set it up as a bridge device, but I’ve not tried this personally.
no, no. I’m conceding that-- not ignoring that.