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Some problems with SQRL(grymoire.wordpress.com)
7 points by RickHull 13y ago|5 comments
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by RickHull 13y ago
I suppose you would know.
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by RickHull 13y ago
Just found Robinson's take: https://medium.com/glimpse-labs/4aa5b6a6a665
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What Women Don't Want(medium.com)
7 points by RickHull 13y ago|7 comments
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by RickHull 13y ago
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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by RickHull 13y ago
Bezos: > While I hope no one ever threatens to put one of my body parts through a wringer, if they do, thanks to Mrs. Graham’s example, I’ll be ready. TIL that this is a reference to a threat from Nixon's Attorney General, John Mi
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by RickHull 13y ago
No, that part is already solved. That's what containers do. I believe philips is saying that CoreOS is still experimenting with and reifying exactly what the layer above containerized applications should be composed of and look like.
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by RickHull 13y ago
> it's actually more like 3x3. The "City" is confined to a tiny area downtown and in the Mission and SOMA. What about Nob Hill, Russian Hill, and North Beach? Pacific Heights, Marina, Haight? These aren't examples l
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by RickHull 13y ago
I'd say that quote means he is a utopian. Communism describes a particular methodology (e.g. abolition of private property) that is theorized to lead to said utopia. I'm not so certain he is a proponent of Communist methods.
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by RickHull 14y ago
An alternative way of saying that Bitcoin is deflating is that the purchasing power of Bitcoins is growing. Recognizing that the purchasing power of any currency is driven by two long-run factors -- changes in productivity and in the money
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by RickHull 14y ago
What's the Modula-2 equivalent of the goroutine concurrency primitive?
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by RickHull 14y ago
BTC is still the adoption / speculation phase. As the market share increases, it should tend to stabilize. If Felix is saying that Grandma shouldn't take out a BTC loan, then I agree completely. But it might be a different story in a few
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by RickHull 14y ago
Bubbles will pop and tend to revert to mean. The question for Bitcoin is, what's the mean? $1B is small potatoes in today's global economy. If the total market value for BTC is closer to $100B or more, then this is only the beginning of
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by RickHull 14y ago
> From your pic you look like a brogrammer > Or am I missing the sense in which we're using "bro" here? I'll bite. You are completely missing the sense of bro grammer. Brogrammer refers to behavior and attitude and not looks
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by RickHull 14y ago
> B. Columbia make a movie. Netflix buys the rights to distribute this movie from Columbia It's interesting that Columbia is treated as a plural subject while Netflix is singular. I'm pretty sure it's a Britishism to treat a firm as
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by RickHull 14y ago
Yes, I agree that the strict interpretation of Gresham's law is not exactly applicable here, since there is no enforced BTC-USD rate. But the broader sense can still inform, along the lines of Rolnick and Weber: > They also focused ma
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by RickHull 14y ago
> Bitcoin was built to be a currency, to be used to trade for goods and services. However, a significant portion of BTC is being hoarded and not traded This could easily be an instance of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
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by RickHull 14y ago
So you start with a 4MB music file with DRM and lossy compression. After stripping the DRM, you've now got a 40MB music file at the same quality. If you want to get back down to 4MB, you must lose quality.
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by RickHull 14y ago
5 Mind-blowing facts! 1. Social media didn't kill email. Blind. Mown. 2. Outlook is the most popular email client. Utterly shattered. This linkbait article is bad and submitter should feel bad.
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by RickHull 14y ago
In this house, we obey Poe's law!
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by RickHull 14y ago
> What determines a "wild run?" Parabolic trajectory is a common indicator for a very sharp top and major correction.
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by RickHull 14y ago
> Exceptions are called exceptions. But they really aren't. They're two concepts conflated together. > They aren't exceptions. They are a way of declaring a handler ... Hm, if that's the case, then you described the handling of
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by RickHull 14y ago
> I'd expand on one of his points and observe that one of the core problems is that they are called exceptions, which prejudices the discourse in advance. They aren't exceptions. They are a way of declaring a handler ... I can't figur
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by RickHull 14y ago
This is misleading. Becoming a shareholder is a one-time event. Taxes occur continuously. Governments get nearly all of their income from citizens on an involuntary basis. Enterprise gets a one-time infusion of funds from investors, and
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by RickHull 14y ago
> At what point did it become OK When everyone agreed to it, I suppose. > If so, fuck that, and fuck investors. This seems rather naive. No one takes investors for the fun of it. Investment describes a mutually beneficial rela
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by RickHull 14y ago
Markup -> HTML -> Markup s/Markup/Markdown/ # ?
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by RickHull 14y ago
One thing to note, there is a major typo which makes the history between these two coalitions confusing. Original > Years before, the Test Alliance was part of the HoneyBadgers in a hulking super-coalition. Seeking to carve out a piece
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by RickHull 14y ago
Fun facts: This fight was between the Honeybadger Coalition (HBC) and the Clusterfuck Coalition (CFC). The core of the Honeybadger Coalition is TEST Alliance, and the core of TEST Alliance is Dreddit, the "original" Reddit-based corp (ther
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by RickHull 14y ago
When the issuer of those securities is the one defining the amount of inflation, that issuer has every reason to understate said amount, and the holder of the securities may still lose purchasing power. Consider e.g. Argentina's official in
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by RickHull 14y ago
> > "governments are going to default.", "we live in a socialist world bent on confiscating savings (at the benefit of the state) using inflation" > These are contradictory. Governments don't have to default if they inflate the

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