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by Jenya_ 9y ago
He can send transaction with $0.5 fee, but it is very close to the lower level limit. The link below shows that median sized transactions with $0.5 fee (about 75 satoshi/byte) have a waiting time up to 24 hours at the moment. https:&#
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
Ethereum has a difficulty bomb (mining becomes more difficult with time). This is a form of control from developers over blockchain. If miners refuse to cooperate, they are left with the blockchain which is more difficult to mine with time
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
Also free state of New Hampshire: http://freekeene.com/2017/06/07/nh-governor-signs-bill-prote...
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
Judging by the size of financial industry, the electronic money which could be programmed to do things with money without human help 24 hours per day is a serious threat to many companies in finance.
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
The comments to this video actually say (with proof) that this was an error in the video.
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
The glorious leader of Russia's people himself said that patriotism is a good enough reason for Russian hackers to exist (and I guess Russia does motivate patriotism with money): https://arstechnica.com/security/20
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
https://bitcoinfees.21.co/
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
About instant transactions in Dash. They did not implement yet a critical feature which would make instant transactions useful for merchants. Currently a merchant is not able to declare his receiving Dash address as "Instant transactio
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
Adventure Capitalist is another addictive clicker, also Kittens Game and a Dark Room.
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
There is already a system in Go which allows to measure the difference between unequal opponents - handicap stones.
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum) and his tweet about Turing completeness (now I only need to understand what a "rich statefulness" is): https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/854271590804140033
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
GDAX example is not a good one. They started up trades after the maintenance shutdown and they did it incorrectly. They allowed market trades before order book had a chance to fill up.
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by Jenya_ 9y ago
Intel hired people from Elbrus, to work in Moscow Intel's office https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/56406-intel-hires-elbrus...
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
I would agree if you said "Bitcoin vs a debit card", but a credit card has a serious disadvantage: 2% fee on merchants. Percentage based fees are so lucrative that banks are offering all sorts of bonuses to credit card users: disc
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
The paper trail is perfect only if bitcoin was exchanged for money. It is possible to construct a chain of transactions without touching any money (I buy a widget from China with bitcoins, widget's owner buys something else with these
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
Yes, with imminent AMD Ryzen debut I would be more inclined to believe in the AMD route for Apple desktops versus ARM route, at least in short-term.
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
the final decision will be made by miners anyway
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
One comment in the link says there actually was a timing mat at the turnaround point: "Fantastic investigative work. HOWEVER. Not sure why you had to do this. You see, I ran the race. And you wouldn't know this because you didn&#x
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
Unlike Windows 10, Mac OS X still supports subpixel font antialiasing (similar to ClearType in Windows 7), it is called LCD font smoothing there, e.g.: https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/os-x-yosemite-disable-lcd-font-...
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
iPhone SE has its deficiencies (in comparison with 5s), it is darker (contrast ratio 804:1 while 5s has 1219:1) and iPhone SE does not have Corning Gorilla Glass, oleophobic coating: http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPh
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
“Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.” ―Sydney J. Harris http://izquotes.com/quote/343900
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
The iPhone 5s is still active model, the only difference is that it is sold in retail stores, here is a news piece about this from India: http://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/Apple-denies-it-is-disco...
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
On the box of purchased iPhone 5s it says - manufactured October 2016. http://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/Apple-denies-it-is-disco...
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
The difference is mostly a technicality, taking into account that I referenced an Apple Premium Reseller site. The iPhone 5s is not discontinued yet and that was exactly the point of the article (mass-production of cheaper iPhone models).
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
Five years later, Apple has expanded the iPhone line to include five models, two of which are last year's flagship versions. Here in Moscow (at Apple Premium Reseller site) it has eight models, down to iPhone 5s (which I resently pur
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
200% above average is not twice normal, it is 100% + 200%, that is x3
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
I do not agree, oil wealth moved Russia miles ahead of 80s USSR experience (I see this first-hand).
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
I like to have short names for similar things which are described by different people, in this case the name is likely to be Dunning–Kruger effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
because tablet is not a laptop, relevant story which also mentions laptops: http://www.cio.com/article/3058715/ios/why-i-ditched-the-ipa...
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by Jenya_ 10y ago
yes, the others, if Heisenberg (or other German scientists) would be a bit more smarter then WWII may have ended differently and in that new world no one would be praising Einstein, for obvious reasons: http://history.stackexchan

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