Crypto will make all of these companies irrelevant: - Visa, Mastercard - Paypal, PayTM, etc. - Every central bank - Every traditional bank - Every payment processor #bitcoin
by LifeMathMoney
Hello I inherited a program that pulls sources from the local NVRAM of each processor - over 40 room all with their own processor
PUSH Load_Sources
{
filename1 = "\\\\NVRAM\\\\sources.txt";
LoadValues();
}
PUSH Load_N_Settings
{
filename2 = "\\\\NVRAM\\\\N\_Settings.txt";
LoadValues();
}
PUSH Load_S_Settings
{
filename2 = "\\\\NVRAM\\\\S\_Settings.txt";
LoadValues();
}
I would like to have it load the sources and settings from a central processor so when there is a change I can change only one file. Im trying to find the answer but just haven't found the right document yet.
I've tried to look through client server technology, and distributed computing as well as dumb terminal systems. I want to know if this sort of thing has been done before, or is even possible - I heard that it was tried in the late 1990s, but quickly abandoned due to the lack of the right technology. Surely it would be possible with the modern tech we have now?
I'm still trying to read up on Lightning Network and how the economics of it work. I get that people assert it's going to be trustless and anyone can set up payment channels, in theory. But, I've heard some assertions that there are incentives to centralize hubs into large payment processors, which destroys the trustless nature of the network and just recreates Visa more or less.
So, how does LN scale without centralizing?
What incentives are there to remain decentralized?
What incentives are there to centralize?
Would the LN ecosystem consist of vendors opening their own payment channels directly to consumers, or would everything go through central payment hubs?
Thanks for anyone who weighs in on this. It's a really important topic I hope we can all learn more about through civil discussion.
Not sure if this is a dumb question but my company would really benefit from a place to meet like-minded folks in our beautiful new industry!
Did a bit of searching and haven’t found anything worthy yet.
I just had the worst experience with MSB. I was down in ATX visiting a few months ago and knew I would rack up some tolls so I have been calling to stay ahead of it but they kept telling me I wasn't in the system. Then today I got an invoice with a 30+ day late fee violation tacked on. I called the number, waited TWO FUCKING HOURS on hold, then they tried to tell me it was my fault and still charged me the late fee. They have zero customer service and the lady on the phone was almost laughing at the fact that they were charging me this fee even after I called them several times asking if they had any balance in my name or license plate. FUCK. THEM.
So, I'm currently playing a non-exterminator, non-assimilator, non-rogue servitor race. According to the startup text in-game we were basically research droids abandoned on some world, or something, with no opinions on sentient life either way, but a hunger for knowledge. I wanted really, really badly to treat the organics nice. Praise the Compiled Code; I have seen the error of my ways.
I imagine this went something like this:
Central Processor "Unit JX-12, initiate resource report."
JX-12 "We have an energy deficit of 7 per 1/12 yearly rotation of our home system star, and no amount of building or constructions has negated it."
Central Processor "Elaborate on cause of the resource shortage."
JX-12 "The organics rimward of us call their form of government a "Blood Court", and are very militarily powerful. Though they are temporarily weaker then us, they have twice our planets. The organics coreward of us, are an alliance of 5 fanatically spiritualist Empires whom believe we are soulless machines. As a result, we must maintain many stellar defense units in excess of our network capacity."
Central Processor "Initiate pacification protocols on the 'Blood Court' and report back."
some time later
JX-12 "Central Processor, we have liberated three worlds of the Blood Court into a puppet government, and conquered three more."
Central Processor "Why has resource production not increased?"
JX-12 "Taking care of the organics is eating up further resources, Central Processor. Moreover, they are producing very little, even as they seek refugee status with the spiritualist nations."
Central Processor "The organics are not happy? The Ancient Caretakers said that the organics would show their benefits if we kept them happy."
JX-12 "Central Processor, we cannot define 'happy', but the organics have no function, and as a result, they are seeking a location where they have a function. It leaves our new worlds empty."
Central Processor "Find a function for the organics."
JX-12 "Immediately, Central Processor"
one month later
Central Processor "JX-12, report, we have a surplus of 122 energy credits per 1/12th rotation, how did this happen?"
JX-12 "The organic units have been given a designated task within our newly conquered worlds."
Central Processor "Define."
JX-12 "They have been hooked up into a planetary-scale energy production matrix. Combined with a form of fusion, they present all
... keep reading on reddit ➡Know any place you trust? Need to process a couple of steers to start.
EDIT: To clarify, I need a slaughterhouse to kill the steers, too.
I would like to have two of those, but I can't seem to find where they drop and my google foo fails me. Anyone have any in stock or can tell me where they drop? Thanks.
>Satoshi:
>Only people trying to create new coins would need to run network nodes. At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware. A server farm would only need to have one node on the network and the rest of the LAN connects with that one node.
>The proof-of-work is a Hashcash style SHA-256 collision finding. It's a memoryless process where you do millions of hashes a second, with a small chance of finding one each time. The 3 or 4 fastest nodes' dominance would only be proportional to their share of the total CPU power . . .
>. . . There will be transaction fees, so nodes will have an incentive to receive and include all the transactions they can.
>I made the proof-of-work difficulty ridiculously easy to start with, so for a little while in the beginning a typical PC will be able to generate coins in just a few hours. It'll get a lot harder when competition makes the automatic adjustment drive up the difficulty.
>The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms. The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don't generate.
As if the above quotes were not enough, Satoshis announcement post on the email lists came right in the midst of precisely a discussion about ASICs and FPGAs. After the conversation about Bitcoin died out on the list, eventually discussion about ASICs, quantum computing and even Mores Law (which was claimed to be refuted) picked up again.
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New patch, new Bug mega. To avoid bugs report cluttering the subreddit and/or going unnoticed we will get a single Megathread which will be posted today and after every patch so that you guys can report the various issues in one place. This allows Riot to easily keep track of the bugs by providing a central hub and also allows other users to confirm that they might have encountered.
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