Kinnard

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by Kinnard 9y ago
Perhaps the author bought her(his?)self some Torcoin before publishing?
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Hebrew is a great fit for this method, there are centuries of music, the entire language and culture is based off of the Torah which in fact is a song: http://zemirotdatabase.org/
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Mods should merge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14185279
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Should resubmit with a "Show HN: " prepended.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
How is this going to be better than scrypt PoW which is designed to be more decentralized by requiring a lot of memory?
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by Kinnard 9y ago
What makes you say that?
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Assets than can be created ex nihilo which will drive inflation.
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by Kinnard 9y ago
Ok, I'm calling it, this is technically a flying car!
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by Kinnard 10y ago
I bet a hackathon would do a ton of good for the SVG Ecosystem. The social/community/ecosystem aspect of programming technologies should not be neglected/ignored.
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by Kinnard 10y ago
Why do you oppose things being run on something like Servo categorically?
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by Kinnard 10y ago
While agree the increase in supply would drop the price I don't think the Spanish Price Revolution is analogous . . I think that's more analogous to what cryptocurrencies are doing to the Dollar.
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by Kinnard 10y ago
I find it interesting that he did not mention Bitcoin or other blockchain based solutions as an alternative to SWIFT. I doubt that that's because the author is unaware of these technologies.
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by Kinnard 10y ago
Perhaps this is semantic?
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by Kinnard 10y ago
That's not an increase in the size of the block per se, as much as it is an increase in the efficiency of encoding off-Blockchain information, no?
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by Kinnard 10y ago
You are correct and such proposals have been put forward: http://moneyandstate.com/thoughts-on-segwit2mb/
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by Kinnard 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14047294
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by Kinnard 10y ago
That doesn't explain what the divide is about(How to scale Bitcoin now that it has become so much more popular) and doesn't touch on the fact that as Bitcoin is still achieving internality, and most users don't hold their own
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by Kinnard 10y ago
This is old [divisive] news on a rapidly developing situation. Several mediating proposals have been put forward in the time since this was published: http://moneyandstate.com/thoughts-on-segwit2mb/ https://
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by Kinnard 10y ago
In other news ZeroNet has been banned from giving its TEDtalk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14039219
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by Kinnard 10y ago
Was any explanation given as to why it was cancelled? Zero-Net is a critically important censorship resistance technology . . . especially these days!
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by Kinnard 10y ago
That's a great idea, like the ban the box campaigns to prevent discrimination against ex-con's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_the_Box http://bantheboxcampaign.org/ I bet some sort of unco
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by Kinnard 10y ago
I wonder what the author would replace LaTex with . . . ?
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by Kinnard 10y ago
Interesting experiment . . . I'd love to see an update a month or so in.
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Buy Congress' Browsing Data(gofundme.com)
7 points by Kinnard 10y ago|1 comments
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by Kinnard 10y ago
I wish there was a way to 'tag' mods for questions like these.
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Brave Browser Attention-Backed Ad Currency Whitepaper[pdf](basicattentiontoken.org)
2 points by Kinnard 10y ago|0 comments
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by Kinnard 10y ago
I bet they do . . . I have a friend with Stalinist grandparents . . . And many Americans relate the same way to our own prison camps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola_prison
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by Kinnard 10y ago
Why would you want to flag it?
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by Kinnard 10y ago
I am wondering how this will effect some of the companies working on media monetization, in particular medium.com . . . Cf: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13933550
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Brave Browser to Launch ICO for Ethereum-Based Ad Token(coindesk.com)
2 points by Kinnard 10y ago|1 comments

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