Cyther606

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by Cyther606 12y ago
With Nimrod, you can manage your own memory, or use the Boehm GC. It compiles to C/C++ with native code generation not dependent on a VM, and the Pythonic syntax makes writing such code as easy as common scripting languages [1]. 1: ht
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by Cyther606 12y ago
> it makes sense to give consumers some say over what happens to it The only way to give individuals this choice is by enabling non-techies to encrypt and anonymize their data, freely, easily and in a way that respects the UX. It isn&#x
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by Cyther606 12y ago
I'm currently using Nimrod as a replacement for Python on a Bitcoin project. The code so far looks very similar to Python, but it has the performance of C with native code generation not dependent on a VM. The community has been amazin
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by Cyther606 12y ago
> The buyer, an Italian, was in town for a week, with a million or so dollars to spend. We met one Sunday morning at 20 Pine, a Financial District condo building. She wore a red scarf, jangly jewelry, and a pair of lime-green sunglasses
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Nimrod has strong metaprogramming capabilities. template htmlTag(tag: expr) {.immediate.} = proc tag(): string = "<" & astToStr(tag) & ">" htmlTag(br) htmlTag(html) echo br
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by Cyther606 12y ago
With Nimrod, you can manage your own memory, or use the GC (Boehm iirc) http://nimrod-lang.org/manual.html#reference-and-pointer-typ...
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by Cyther606 12y ago
So what if Ethereum is lackluster from a technology standpoint? That isn't the point of Ethereum. The point is to raise a large amount of BTC. Not every potential Bitcoin contributor, Vitalik included, is OK with pouring their heart ou
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by Cyther606 12y ago
> you need to convince them that it's bad in a liberal democracy with independent press and functioning courts Do you not follow the Snowden case? You honestly think big media conglomerates constitute a perfectly independent press?
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by Cyther606 12y ago
It's only when you _badly_ want to forego the need for centralized trust that decentralized solutions begin to make sense. There's a large cost to decentralization, which is why Bitcoin isn't nearly as interesting as a mere p
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by Cyther606 12y ago
ONS is using Namecoin. Namecoin isn't free to use, is it? I'm curious to know what is the business model behind this and onename.io, since they must pay to add entries to the Namecoin blockchain.
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Ethereum launch in review: - Investment Prospectus: https://www.ethereum.org/pdfs/TermsAndConditionsOfTheEthereu... - Premine Part I: Anyone can buy ETH in exchange for BTC for the next 42 days - Premine Part II: On to
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Except NY already figured that part out. In fact, they recently presented their regulatory framework for public review. It involves shutting down Bitcoin as we know it, and replacing it with something in which - every single wallet provider
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by Cyther606 12y ago
To the NSA, a normal Internet citizen is a terrorist. Just searching the Web for anything Tor-related gets you put on a list. You are preaching to the choir.
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by Cyther606 12y ago
> the vast majority of people in the world (at least those who've heard of it) know it as this weird, unsavory, and probably criminal thing Yes, and it's the truth. What can bitcoin do that no other currency can? It can operate
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Everyone who holds Bitcoin has a vested interest in seeing the network gain value. Those who hold Bitcoin are incentivized to talk other people into holding it, which is very much in the spirit of network marketing. While there aren't
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by Cyther606 12y ago
It doesn't matter what some politician thinks, or even what a rich VC thinks: there will never be more than 21,000,000 bitcoins. Once you invest in Bitcoin, you have a vested interest in the system maintaining and appreciating in value
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by Cyther606 12y ago
True, but if everyone were to use Tor all the time, everyone would be suspicious all the time, and therefore no one would be suspicious ever. I'd like to see a pay-per-install Tor browser program materialize, one that would incentivize
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Numerous wallets make it dead simple to create a paper wallet. With Electrum, you just open the program and it automatically generates 12 words which you can write down on paper or learn by heart. It doesn't get much easier than that,
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by Cyther606 12y ago
First, Bitcoin resembles MLM / network marketing more than any one traditional financial instrument. Second, that the State would want to allow a free market currency of fixed supply to compete with their own digital currency that can
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Satoshi wrote in the genesis block: The Times 03/Jan/ 2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks Bitcoin was released in staunch opposition to the banking system. > Storing value in an encrypted wallet on you
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Android Studio will soon feature NDK integration. You can reuse C/C++ code on Win/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS, achieving native performance everywhere, and then use the recommended GUI toolkit on each platform [i]. Howeve
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by Cyther606 12y ago
I was hoping this would be about Nimrod. - Pythonic syntax with static typing - Compiles to C, C++, Obj-C and JS - Produces small executables without dependencies - Performs comparably to C - Docs and community need to grow
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Over a very short time frame, you mean? Show me a single example of a Bitcoin stock price chart that looks anything like this: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg730zczsg2012-0... ASICMiner is in the gutters
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by Cyther606 12y ago
I'm sorry, but is your optimism supported by history? There's no way to hold above-the-law institutions to the same standards as the public, by definition. Curb the NSA's budget and they turn to the black budget. Restrict the
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Let's fund a pay-per-install Tor Browser program. It would start by paying ISP techs BTC to install Tor Browser on every customer's computer indiscriminately. Maybe even make Tor start up in the background. If everyone is using To
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Did you know three skyscrapers collapsed on 9/11? In fact, prior to the downfall of the third tower, Larry Silverstein instructed the NY Fire Department to quote "pull it" [i]. Subsequently, Silverstein Properties issued a st
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by Cyther606 12y ago
I do too. In the history of Bitcoin public offerings, never has a single company outperformed holding BTC itself over a modest time frame. SwarmCo is raising a boatload of BTC up front for a risky venture, and taking 1/3 of the funds t
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by Cyther606 12y ago
While attacking the NSA on legal grounds is admirable, they operate above the law. If their public budget was ever threatened, they would just turn to the black budget. Any laws attempting to restrain the NSA's power would be circumven
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by Cyther606 12y ago
Sorry, but you can't compare MtGox to the NYSE. Two points: 1. Bitcoin is _very_ thinly traded. I'm speaking as someone who sold at $1100 and bought back in at $450, which at the time was very near the bottom. In a matter of secon
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by Cyther606 12y ago
I've been holding Bitcoin since it was $10. In my view, Bitcoin has always been thinly traded because most people new to Bitcoin learn that they should acquire as much of it as they can afford to, and then withdraw all of it from a cen

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