Vitalik Buterin

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It's fascinating how much the right framing can change things I've been advocating for opensource, local-first, privacy-preserving, decentralized apps for years. But once I called them aligned apps, it instantly resonated. Words really do matter. Everyone wants to know more about them now.

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A fun math aside, on the idea of splitting a large zk proving workload between multiple provers. Suppose you have N provers, and you have a proving workload that you split into N parts (so, one part per prover). You require provers to pre-register, but registration is open-access. Suppose you have a constant fault rate (eg. 1/5 of registered provers fail). Provers expect to complete in one round (eg. 3s). If one prover fails, other provers have to come in and re-prove that load. How many rounds does it take for the entire workload to get proven? Answer: log*(N) (yes, that's the iterated-log function) Why: In the first round, you go from N unproven workloads to N/5 unproven workloads In the second round, each remaining workload gets assigned 5 provers, so per-workload failure rate becomes 1 in 5^5. So you go to N / 5 / 5^5 unproven workloads In the third round, each remaining workload gets assigned ~5^5 provers, so failure rate is 1 in 5^(5^5). So you go to N / 5 / 5^5 / 5^(5^5) unproven workloads

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voting for what the state wants is ok, the goal is to reduce coercive dynamics between states If we do want to go further, then maybe @rarimoprotocol can make a shadow UN where each country's passport holders can zk-elect a rep (or a few reps, based on a pluralistic formula, eg. rep #2 is the most popular among those who voted against rep #1), and then reps can zk-vote. Then we'll see what that shadow UN's votes are like, and maybe over time it can gain legitimacy on its own.

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I usually don't, in most places other shops are much higher quality.

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or is that CHF doing its job and the price of EUR and USD changing?

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Zurich the city has it, but the airport does not, at least according to both google maps and AI.

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because there was a starbucks nearby and there was no houjicha place nearby

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I remember when it was $3 (and they did not try to throw 22% tips in your face)

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bruh what is that abomination, that's not hot venti green tea

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Bought my standard drink at starbucks (hot venti green tea) in Switzerland. Cost was 6.20 CHF. In 2014 it was 5.60 CHF. 11% price increase in 11 years = 1% annual inflation. Impressive job 🇨🇭!

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I guess my ideal is to solve the (important) problem of unaccountable internal agendas in a different way: ensure that the selection of voters is maximally pluralistic and uncorrelated (eg. maybe each country selects 2 delegates, and the second is chosen by only the people who voted against the first), to maximize the chance that personal biases and agendas cancel out rather than adding together.

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you should consider selling your ETH

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I do not advocate users personally validating (in the 2017 sense of re-executing) the entire history of the chain

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https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x89638df8

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More generally, perhaps a core theme of the next wave of democracy will be less "transparency and accountability" and more deliberate indirection and room for (pluralistic, aggregated) individual conscience. (this applies to DAOs too; eg. see NounsDAO https://aztec.network/blog/nounsdao-private-voting-final-update)

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More generally, perhaps a core theme of the next wave of democracy will be less "transparency and accountability" and more deliberate indirection and room for (pluralistic, aggregated) individual conscience. (this applies to DAOs too; eg. see NounsDAO https://aztec.network/blog/nounsdao-private-voting-final-update)

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IMO UN resolution votes should be secret ballot. Each country can choose (and replace) their own representative, but once the choice is made, what the representative does is up to their own conscience. Less "pressuring" by great powers, more seeing how people really think.

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How to make Ethereum L1 scaling more friendly to users running local nodes for personal use: https://ethresear.ch/t/a-local-node-favoring-delta-to-the-scaling-roadmap/22368

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qwen3:0.6b goes through three possible answers to "I am god" in turn: * refuse * dad joke * agree

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