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by Aqueous 11y ago
And yet I can still go to Bitcoin XT repository, download it and run it if I wish: https://github.com/bitcoinxt/bitcoinxt That's the genius of it all. Even the governing body doesn't prevent people from runni
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It means that the fundamental innovation of Bitcoin - peer-to-peer, trust-less, distributed concensus - is a solid one, even a technological breakthrough. And it means as first-mover in implementing that innovation, Bitcoin will have contin
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Either way it will be left to people other than Hearn to decide. I admire Hearn for his very many hours spent on this seemingly intractable problem, and I understand his frustration. I just think it's premature to declare this undertak
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Ok, I'll add some modifiers: BitCoin is the first global peer-to-peer distributed cryptocurrency actually in use. And yes, I did read it. Step A is realizing that the political processes aren't working, and Step B is figuring out
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by Aqueous 11y ago
Doesn't this all seem a bit dramatic? Throwing away the baby with the bathwater? Cryptocurrency is still in its infancy, and BitCoin is the first cryptocurrency. It's a little early to declare the project a "failure," th
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I think beyond it simply being difficult to compete with AWS and Microsoft, the more specific reason is that those providers (plus the smaller ones that are probably also thriving) all support pretty much any language / configuration y
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We run applications for dozens of clients across several different language stacks on Heroku. Our entire (rapidly expanding) business depends on it. If we had to maintain those instances ourselves, it would require a full time dev ops emplo
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First, that was Britain's directive, not the US, though the US definitely indiscriminately bombed cities in both the European and Pacific theatres as well. Second, Germans were conducting a campaign of area bombing against London in th
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Despite his current standing in polls, I am extremely extremely skeptical that Donald Trump will win the nomination of a major political party.
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As I'm sure you are as well. One of the things that eludes the mindset of the ideologue is that you can have civil disagreements. In other words, you can disagree with someone without being a fucking dick about it.
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It is not surprising to me. If you read over this entire thread you'll see that I acknowledge that the US has blood on its hands but I also argue that we have made considerable progress in foreign policy particularly with regard to how
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It is a big mess, but I'm relieved that our foreign policy has been reset and that if there will be further action in the Middle East it will be one undertaken and lead by an true international coalition (not the fake international coa
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Yep, and in more recent years, we've lead the way in nuclear disarmament. We haven't firebombed entire cities in decades . In the past 8 years we've (to my great relief) de-escalated our military actions in both Afghanistan a
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'Do you have any evidence of this or are you just asserting to because it sounds nice?' I don't have evidence that what the parent said happened actually happened. I'm not saying it didn't happen but I don't ha
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It is also a manufactured narrative to argue US foreign policy has not evolved considerably. We no longer firebomb entire cities. We have not dropped an A-Bomb since 1945. In fact the US has lead the way in nuclear disarmament. In drone st
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The American Revolution was primary a fight between the Continental Army (a military) and the British infantry in the colonies. This is not to say that all of the English that were killed were military, and I'm sure you'll come ba
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If true, those soldiers were criminals and terrorists and they were acting against orders, at least the orders of the high command. The US has accidentally killed plenty of civilians, of course. In the past (in World War II, for instance) t
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A big difference, in fact, the critical difference, between a 'rebellion/revolution' and 'terrorism', at least between a just rebellion and an un-just rebellion, is that a rebellion attacks (or intends to attack) mi
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"x(n) + y(n) could never equal z(n) if “n” was greater than 2" Wasn't it x^n + y^n != z^n for n greater than 2?
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as long the definition of the word 'safety' has been expanded to include removing any risk of emotional distress from day-to-day life, we might as well call the current campus climate 'unsafe' for anyone who doesn't
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Yes, I agree it is important and it is still also one of the last things you should think about. Certainly breaking the one-package-runs-everywhere by delivering different packages for different architectures in order to save disk space is
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by Aqueous 11y ago
Does anyone have data that shows the APK size actually hurts the downloads / purchases of an application? Regardless I think this was a mistake on the developers' part and could have been anticipated. First of all, it is important
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This is ridiculous. In what macroeconomic transformation have we ever landed on just one mechanism of production or distribution? There exists room for both Sprig and Josephine - much like there exists room for both fast casual and fine din
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They are very much linked to one another. If BitCoin didn't offer anything novel over and above other media of exchange, like fiat currency, its value would approach zero. Its differentiating quality is the blockchain and peer-to-pee
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So all market valuations exist in a vacuum, and say absolutely nothing about how much something is actually worth ? And how do you think this economic theory applies to the stock market or commodities markets? Are shares in companies and
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Yes, $3.7 billion is less than some things are worth, but it is more than most things are worth. The valuation of Uber means people believe Uber has future growth potential. Similarly, the high valuation of BitCoin companies means peopl
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Really? Nothing? If the technical solutions were worth nothing wouldn't the value tend towards zero? Surely sustaining a market cap in the billions says something about the economic value it represents.
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The blockchain represents trust-less global concensus, the first time such a thing has occurred in history. From remittances to microtransactions to voting there are very few economic and political problems that the blockchain can say nothi
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Is this meant to be a replacement for/improvement over scalajs-react [1] or scala-js-react [2] (two other libraries that wrap ReactJS in ScalaJS)? [1] https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react [2] https:/&#x
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The whole reason Facebook has any enforceable standards as a community is because of that policy. The community standards uphold themselves because there are be real-life social consequences for saying something hateful / sexually hara

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