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Cakez0r
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> Also, this hardfork seems to have been decided behind closed doors. Where is the mailing list discussion? Where did community members have a chance to raise concerns? https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs https:/
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Ok, I see the playlists now. Strong vouch for this tip!
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I gave this trick a try, but only "The Sound of ..." playlists appear in my searches.
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> For example it has its own stack-based language You can create "smart contracts" with bitcoin.
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9y ago
The metamask testnet faucet worked for me - https://faucet.metamask.io/
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Why not? They can be used legitimately, even if the majority of the use cases at the moment are cash grabs.
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Speak for yourself!
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But if a newspaper reported that Alice was a murderer because her stolen car was involved in a hit and run, that would be libelous.
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Wait, you're saying US customs looked through the contents of your laptop and electronics before letting you through? They checked your social media profiles?
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> People are not investing hoping for the project to be developed - they're investing because they know others will as well, which will drive the prices up. I found out recently that this is called the Greater Fool Theory - https:&
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Let me know if you ever get any $500 hotel vouchers that you have no use for. I'll happily give you $0 for them.
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England uses the comma this way. I.E. would format it 10,000%.
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> People used to pay each other in gold and silver. Difficult to transport. Difficult to divide. It would be interesting to hear some of the history behind why gold and silver were decided to have value. What are the steps leading up to
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I hate that the diversity issue has been tightly coupled with left-wing politics. Now you can't take a stance on the diversity issue without aligning yourself with left/right wingers by proxy.
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How does it work? What's advanced about it?
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Yup, I get it. I was just pointing out that there are some edge cases to the "context is whatever is left of the function" rule-of-thumb.
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9y ago
What about setTimeout(obj.method, 1)? (Spoilers: this == window, not what is left of the function call)
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9y ago
I think this is not the kind of answer you're expecting and will probably find this underwhelming and unimaginative, but etheroll ( https://etheroll.com/ ) is an ethereum gambling website which I believe is profitable.
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I have to expect that some bug like this has surely happened with a traditional bank too, causing them to lose a bunch of money. Humans inevitably write buggy software regardless of the platform. The difference with blockchain-based currenc
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(d) Participants in a contract understand and accept the risks of losing their investment to bugs.
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> One of the things that cyberpunks fail to grasp is that people don't want a perfectly immutable, fixed system. Some people do. Source: I am a person who wants this.
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> I don't think trying to process transactions on both chains would be the right move. Why is that? Wouldn't this be the most profitable approach for an exchange?
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You mean proof of stake? Is there a working implementation of proof of stake yet? I thought it was mostly theoretical and academic at the moment.
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> We men must make the changes that make women feel more welcome at the workplace. One easy to way to start (courtesy of a friend of mine) is to go up to a female colleague and ask for 1 thing that can make the company more inclusive, th
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> "If you're a tech person (indie developer?), put yourself in the shoes of the person being ripped off, and tell me how you'd justify letting the scam continue" Because doing something is not necessarily better than
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But when you own equity, you own a tangible piece of a company. I could say I believe in Amazon's core products and create an Amazon coin, but why should the value of my Amazon coin be correlated to the market cap of Amazon when it has
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Participating in ICOs are not the same as investing in the company and receiving equity in return. The vast majority of tokens are not backed by equity in the company that created them.
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What will your token be used for?
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It's worse than that. In some cases, the coins literally serve no purpose. To use your metaphor, it's like buying StoreBucks for a store that hasn't been built yet, with no promise that you'll be able to redeem your Stor
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The UK software contracting market seems to be flooded with people like this in general. It's infuriating if you can actually do the work because it makes it very difficult to make it past CV sift stage when everybody is blagging.
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