Phlarp

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by Phlarp 13y ago
>Facebook purchasing Snapchat is just creepy. They think delete=hide. You really think Snapchat deletes the images? Lets pretend they did, I bet the NSA keeps a copy. laughable.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
A while back PG asked "what motive could a government actor have to create bitcoin?" Could the long game answer be "To teach the masses of idiot developers basic info security"? If you take a step back the whole thing is
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by Phlarp 13y ago
I absolutely agree with everything you wrote (particularly the last paragraph, as a Duluth MN resident nothing will beat the view over Superior) Nothing is wrong with the path these students are choosing, I just don't see business anal
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Reverse argument, for context, I'm just about to graduate from a mediocre state university in the mid-west: Not all of the young minds that are "learning to code" really have the potential to write programs at the same level
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by Phlarp 13y ago
This is a terrible reason. These men were the definition of the type of thing a system like this should catch. intelligence agencies had been warned about one of them multiple times and they were both using the internet to self radicalize.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
3.5%? By my last count they had less than 2% of currently issued coins and less than 1% of the eventual 21 million?
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by Phlarp 13y ago
I have to assume it was traded as part of a deal with the prosecution. He made plenty of blunders, but if he had legitimately messed up with the encryption or storage of these coins it would make much more sense that they would have found t
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by Phlarp 13y ago
>"Party A has the wallet and therefore only they can spend what's in it" When the private key is gone, the coins are gone. Might be forgetting a brain-wallet, might be forgetting the password or losing the keys to the encr
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by Phlarp 13y ago
So what happens when you remove 1% of the currency from the market in a single day?
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Most times when one person "loses" cash another person "finds" it, leaving the money supply unchanged. When a private key is lost all the coins in that wallet are lost effectively forever. If this happens with large acco
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by Phlarp 13y ago
That completely depends on how they were stored. If the FBI has his encrypted wallet file and DPR has the password to access those keys then the coins are effectively dead don't you think?
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by Phlarp 13y ago
My pet theory is that a good amount of the early coins are effectively "dead" with either the keys lost, brain wallets forgotten or the back-up USB keys long since formatted (or you know, you got arrested and the encrypted wallet
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by Phlarp 13y ago
>cannot be confiscated. Several internet drug lords would beg to differ.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Go look at the top 250 addresses, a _majority_ of them have never been spent from. There isn't any conclusive proof that the #1 address (111,111 BTC) belongs to DPR, but it is clearly linked to SR in one way or another. I'd be wi
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by Phlarp 13y ago
And yet I doubt any of these saw 40x YoY increases topping out at a $2.5 billion valuation.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Aha, but did your general laziness prevent you from properly storing the keys?
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Theoretically yes, but in practice mixing services make this much much more complex.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
You cant be bothered the four extra lines it would take to properly salt and hash these before storage?
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by Phlarp 13y ago
The current owner stated this was the case in an interview he gave after the FBI had already found and imaged the server hosting Silk Road. Given the information released today this claim seems to be false in every way.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Right, who needs meat packaging standards! Salmonella is just a government scare tactic to inflate federal budgets!
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by Phlarp 13y ago
I'm not aware of any official provisions for a "full shutdown", but if the debt ceiling isn't raised in roughly two weeks the government would technically default on it's obligations. This could certainly be viewed
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by Phlarp 13y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/27/us/who-goes-to... Broad strokes seems to be that anything a normal citizen would enjoy or a program of social uplift etc gets shut down. National parks,
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Yes! I loved doing this. Faction arbitrage, cornering markets, playing the weekend tides. At one point I even had a bot set up to snipe epic items that people were transferring on the neutral AH.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
The hacker community has clearly created software that masses of people find incredibly useful and worthwhile. How is that success something to be compared to a cocaine addiction? Have you heard stories about people trading sexual favors fo
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by Phlarp 13y ago
How much time did you put into this upfront? Seems like the most "passive" item in the entire thread so far. Can I ask what book this is for? whats the lifespan of a solutions manual like this? Have you been selling it for several
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by Phlarp 13y ago
How did you break into this industry? I've done random work as a freelancer for a few different adults sites, but I've always felt like running my own was the real "money shot" as far as passive income goes. Can you elab
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Presidents get much larger platforms from which to sell their opinions on foreign policy to Americans.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Nine hour detention in a foreign airport is perhaps a far cry from torture; the implicit threat of a protracted prison sentence is getting a little bit closer though. In America, prison might as well be synonymous with rape, which is genera
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Could you elaborate on which subs these are?
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by Phlarp 13y ago
This is an excellent basic strategy. I've applied it to my own work; obviously avoiding government or defense contracting work is a good first step, cutting out Wall St. proper and stock/bond/asset trading is likely a prime s

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