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by DINKDINK 8y ago
>someone (me) says: in the future, most cryptocurrencies will trade at ~$1 per coin Will you sell me a call option?
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
>Bitcoin is anything but it was it was supposed to be Bitcoin was suppose to be an open, peer-to-peer, decentralized, self-sovereign value transfer network. After GS facilitates BTC trades, bitcoin will be an open, peer-to-peer, decent
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
You assume no state-granted ISP monopoly.
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
>95% accuracy is outstanding 95% specificity and 95% sensitivity isn't good enough to test the general population. See why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16981888
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
Relevant stats: >The algorithms predicted a clinical diagnosis of ASD with high specificity, sensitivity and positive predictive value, exceeding 95 percent at some ages. More about the metrics you care about[1] Edit: Many people in this
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
firic: "[I'm ok with other people subsidizing my believe that ethical, two party consent should be imprisoned]"
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
My guess is that, in the spirit of all Ethereum Crapcoins, it's been coded with minimum attention to security and maximum attention to marketing.
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
>Would you support the imprisonment of someone who was proven to have smoked cannabis back when the state viewed it as illegal? So you're arguing that: yes, the state should expend resources today to imprison past-crime even though
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
Would you support the imprisonment of someone who was proven to have smoked cannabis back when the state viewed it as illegal? Shouldn't we imprison all those people too because 'they broke a law when it was illegal'? What an
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Sharding: Putting the trust in trustless /s
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>since you can just screen shot it. The benefit with automated rention policies embeded in content is that it's less easy for the information to be weaponized ex post. I.e. Now that a couple has broken up, a vindictive partner does
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy."[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEDkMTO0mSI
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>research into the persona of the press leaker Source?
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
TEMPEST[1] / Van Eck threats are still prevalent. All EMF is going to leak information so sensitive devices have shielding when they are under elevated threat. See the government-grade shielding on Trump's monitor here: https:&
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Sample size of 200 with no baseline. Ignore the study.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>(because why would they?) Because a company understands their product in the field and cares about what effect a change might have. Now is that cost justified? arguably no.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Bitcoin's valuation is too unstable at the present to be a good store of value Are you framing your Store-of-Value judgement on a very narrow, confirmatory window of time? There have only been 5 months out of the past 96 months of
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>why would anyone do that with bitcoin when they can buy USD How is a Venezuelan suppose to buy things online with paper USD? If you have to order medicine to stay alive because there's a scarcity in Venezuela, you cannot use paper
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>bitcoin has absolutely no use. I would think that putting your savings into bitcoin would have use over holding a currency (Bolivar) with an annual inflation of ~6000%? It is your argument that using bitcoin as an inflation hedge isn&#
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Imagine a few different personas, such as investment banker, retail store owner, and soccer mom. Then complete the following sentence: I need a decentralized method of sending bits to other academic computers across the country so that I ca
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
CodeWarrior, now there's something I haven't thought about in ages.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
They're posting death rates of being a passenger not dying because of exposure to cars (passenger, driver, pedestrian etc). They should retract their position or they're being deceptive.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Riding inside a car, van or truck: My claim was a car accident not strictly, riding as a passenger. I'll assume you weren't trying to be deceptive and provide the mortality rates from all vehicle related deaths: "Any m
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Americans are more likely to die in car accidents than be shot. Don't confuse the lurid with the empirical.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
My hope is that in the future lightning network micro payments will be a better alternative than captchas for rate limiting page access.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
The delay event(bankruptcy, Visa’s servers go down for an hour) is meaningless. The point of debate is “Is the payment settled?”. To which the answer is a simple “no”.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Stuffing people into Memory Holes.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>The payment happens and confirms instantly. Let's say that merchant accepts payment via Visa on Day 1. On Day 2, Visa goes out of business. The merchant will never receive the payment. So no the payment is not instantaneous. Th
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Payment is still instant unless there is a dispute If that was the case a merchant could withdraw cash immediately after someone paid them with a credit card. Which patently isn't the case. So no, Payment cards are not instant.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Payment by credit card is instant Hardly. Chargebacks on credit cards can occur up to 3 months after payment. Good for customers who need that dispute feature but bad for others because those costs are socialized onto merchants and othe

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