SI_Rob

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by SI_Rob 7y ago
I like to think of exchanges as an unacknowledged patch to the Bitcoin protocol as it stands in 2019. Or even as it stood in 2012 or 2011. No, they're not in the source code itself, but without them the project would still be sputteri
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
so the anonymity is pseudo, whereas the pedophilia is real?
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
That, or a spare comet prop accidentally dropped from the Oort catwalk that surrounds our solar-system-scale Truman Show /s
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
And yet there are kids observing this play out right now, who never knew a world where Twitter (or more broadly, a mass communication "brand" of some sort) wasn't the primary platform by which world leaders directly communica
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
I understand that "the media" has held this kind of sway for a long time. But here we are with a single, publicly identifiable organization (and ultimately a private individual) casually invoking their power to mute every world l
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
What organization or individual ever in history could claim to have this kind of power over world affairs? There's never been anyone quite as potently leveraged as Jack Dorsey. As much as I am in favor of the (superficial, at least) sp
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Not sure about such laws, though there's lots of "if you see something, say something" PSA posters around. It's possible the person who recovered it saw it fall, but they didn't explain their actions or even identif
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Every so often my pessimistic tendencies get a healthy slap across the face by the actions of someone who took the high road when they easily could have chosen otherwise. It's a couple summers ago, at the height of the summer tourist s
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
I totally agree that this quote is almost too economic for its own good and that as a consequence, overexposure has brought it to the threshold of fatal banality. However, OP didn't misapply it in this case. Rather, it looks like you m
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Or just block port 8333, or implement DPI and null route anything that looks like a block header or transaction, or any manner of things that can be done when the "virtual" currency still has to traverse very real public infrastru
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
I spent a couple years in the DC blockchain scene. If my experience is anything to go by, the answer has a lot to do with how much of the technical expertise in this space is concentrated behind a screen consisting of a relative handful of
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
The bar for grasping decentralization fatally flexible and bends very low. As in "If you can't immediately name the individual who has the majority of leverage over the operation of X, then X is decentralized" low. It's
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
> one giant utility for an entire state PG&E is big, but it doesn't cover the entire state. For example, much of San Diego is served by SDG&E, much of LA is served by SoCal Edison, and several larger LA satellites like Rive
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
I just visited there a couple months ago - there's a small camera mounted on a pole about 10 meters from the structure. If it's not a national or state-maintained monument, then who's monitoring this feed?
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
I never noticed this, heh. Indeed If those two files were made into a protocol that is automatic, user-transparent, and active at the BIOS layer then it's a pretty good portmanteau on both semantic and conceptual levels. Amiga systems
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
1987 has been on the line with AUTOCONFIG [0], but the call was disconnected in 1995 after being transferred a half dozen times to clueless sales departments [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoconfig
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
> If you could literally sell meaning to people for less friction than those alternatives they'd eat it up. "If you want to get rich, start a religion" - L. Ron Hubbard prediction: 2020's will be a decade of hyperact
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Though I now cringe at the angsty teen outrage dripping from every word of this post, it's hard to believe that I wrote this on AskSlashdot 19 years ago: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/00/01/22/18432
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
About a year ago I attended a talk he gave at the CATO institute (long story, but with Bitcoin) regarding this TZero project and something called Medici which I now forget the purpose of, in part because his wooden mannerisms and appearance
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
and the corollary, "the uncountable is of no account"
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
How long has it been broken like this? By my count, at least 346 years, reckoning from the premiere of The Imaginary Invalid by Molière. The opening scene features the protagonist iterating over a series of rationalizations for reducing his
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
It's because Slack's IPO is tomorrow
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
This is not a problem (for the cryptocurrency "thought leaders" at least). It is literally the primary motivation for its existence. Look at the message embedded into the Bitcoin Genesis block - it's no secret that the entire
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Funny thing is that brighton36 is quite well known and among a handful of the very most well-connected individuals in the cryptocurrency space. Nevertheless they can't seem to stop trying to make fetch happen by strangling what are oft
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Well, sure, but then the 4 year chart of returns on my high school summer lawn moving business went up 13,500%, from $5 net my first week, to $675 on my last. Behold my 15 year old financial genius. /s Any asset that doesn't cras
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Too long and getting OT to explain here, but in The Social Network it was explored pretty... <dons shades > dramatically
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
The joke (maybe, maybe not) in drawing the presumably intentional astrological connection has to do with the fact that the Winks and Zuckerberg have some ... shared history.
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
I would strongly disagree here. Decentralization, though a term fraught with poorly acknowledged and contradictory premises, is essentially the defining value proposition of cryptocurrency. Take away decentralization (which I would be mor
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
About the name - Libra IIRC the Winklevoss twins have a Bitcoin exchange called Gemini Surely a coincidence brb going all in on tokenized cults
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by SI_Rob 7y ago
Heh. You know their Bitcoin exchange is called ... wait for it... Gemini, right? They've wallpapered the DC Metro system with ads for it... calling it the first safe regulated Bitcoin exchange.

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