Aqueous

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by Aqueous 13y ago
No need to be snarky. BitCoin is clearly already being used as a currency - it is being used in exchange for goods and services as a form of liquidity. This means it is a store of value, it is a medium of exchange, and while it isn't y
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by Aqueous 13y ago
at times like this i wish the supporters of bitcoin hadn't wedded themselves so thoroughly to libertarian ideology. they've turned this into a ideological debate when in fact it should just be treated like a cool new technology th
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by Aqueous 13y ago
BitCoin is a threat to a bunch of different industries, not just CA. I'd be more concerned about a frightened financial industry waging a foolish war on BitCoin.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I think people in reality TV aren't necessarily self-aware enough to know that they are debasing themselves.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
"Brilliant" seems like the wrong word for that.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Not specifically - perhaps because saying they were stolen is slightly (but only slightly) less embarrassing than saying they misplaced the key. Karpeles did say something to the effect that the funds were "temporarily unavailable&quot
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by Aqueous 13y ago
They might very well be in possession of the 950k but have lost the private key to spend those funds. It looks like in recent days they regained control of 200k BTC, so perhaps they've recovered a key or two? I sure wish they would mak
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by Aqueous 13y ago
What about a high entropy set of 4 words for the passphrase? This should give you fairly decent security.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It's not a totally false stereotype in that it happens frequently , and has happened a lot historically, that non-technical people somehow convince technical people to implement their vision and then take credit for all of it if it tak
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by Aqueous 13y ago
1. Satoshi Nakamoto 2. Satoshi Nakamoto 3. Satoshi Nakamoto
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by Aqueous 13y ago
That's exactly what Dorian Nakamoto would say.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Absolutely - I think he should be given privacy. Those are his wishes.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Ok, I'm sorry but there are some serious inconsistencies here. Leah McGrath Goodman said that after she asked him about BitCoin he promptly stopped emailing her. The timeline is unclear, but it seems like this was before Goodman contac
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Right - he didn't say "I've never been involved in BitCoin"
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Hmm. It seems possible that this address was a Gox location, since following the tumbling trail led me to this address: https://blockexplorer.com/address/1eHhgW6vquBYhwMPhQ668HPjxT... This is the famous "424242&qu
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Following the first 'received' transaction all the way back I found this address that has had 432000 coins sent to it from dozens of addresses on 2011-06-12. A lot of the funds sent from this address were tumbled, so if it associa
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Amazing - that you had the foresight to ask for a picture and he had the foresight to politely decline. Do you think Satoshi travelled all the way from his home in California to your creperie in Brooklyn just to try out BitCoin in real life
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Right. And that's what I, and most other people who unit test, do. The unit test says nothing about how the object is implemented though - that's your job. As far as the unit test is concerned, the function is a black box. The uni
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Not sure at all what you mean. Can you describe what "guiding design and describing the behavior of the subject" looks like from the unit test's perspective? How else are we to specify the behavior of a function than to speci
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by Aqueous 13y ago
Yes poorly written or tautological tests are useless . But I think we already knew that. I primarily use unit tests as a way to clarify my own thinking about a function. It helps to step through the process of what the function should retur
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by Aqueous 13y ago
So far you have no flight out of BitCoin, however. The high-profile hacks do not seem to be depressing the price. Why? If even a loss of $500 million - gone into the night with (so far, for anyone outside of the information sink of Mt. Gox)
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I'm hoping for an actually independent security audit, because antonopolous, despite competing with CoinBase, has a stake in the entire nascent system being considered trustworthy, and therefore a conflict of interest. I'm not say
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by Aqueous 13y ago
So I guess that settles it. Twitter won the Oscars.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that if you do it correctly. But this was not done correctly.
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I thought it was so cheesy that it had to be fictional, because of all the misrepresentations of computer interfaces in other movies like "Hackers." This is apparently a common assumption. It's admirable that SGI was experime
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by Aqueous 13y ago
The Jurassic Park Computer System...created and maintained by Newman. Credit where credit is due: it takes a lot of skills to keep a bunch of velociraptors pent up using a Macintosh LC II. What always amused me is that in order to trigger t
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I really do not understand how the transaction malleability bug could have lost 40% of their fiat deposits. Certainly they are not telling the truth about the transaction malleability. They have now dug their feet in on that explanation b
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by Aqueous 13y ago
It's very gobsmacking that the SEC finds the time and energy to make an example out of a 15 year old but can't muster the backbone to prosecute actual players in the investment banking industry, who regularly engage in pump and du
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by Aqueous 13y ago
I had to go through this painful process with another fairly well known SF company. After 4 rounds of phone interviews and a 3 hour long coding test, I was flown there. It was extremely nerve-wracking, and in the end expensive for both par
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by Aqueous 13y ago
We already know that the encryption behind BitCoin is sound. But every time encryption has been challenged in recent days it's been because of a bug in the implementation of that encryption. It is never due to some ingenious brute forc

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