VMG

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1. 601.▲
   by VMG 9y ago

   Nice to see them being more resourceful. Coinbase was wasting thousands each day for a while by overpaying in bitcoin transaction fees - effectively donating customers funds to miners.
2. 602.▲
   by VMG 9y ago

   There is and will be a place for strong crypto for trust, however probably not on standard commodity hardware.
3. 603.▲
   by VMG 9y ago

   There is no consensus opinion. The anti-war movement died with Obama's election. Since the consensus is that Trump worst president ever, actual crimes of previous administrations are irrelevant. Calling a country a shithole is worse th
4. 604.▲
   by VMG 9y ago

   The irony is that Bitcoin was invented as a response to government bailouts of banks
5. 605.▲
   by VMG 9y ago

   I did - also very interesting!
6. 606.▲
   by VMG 9y ago

   He is a very prolific writer. Try "The Blank Slate" and "Better Angels of our Nature".
7. 607.▲
   by VMG 9y ago

   what is impressive is that humans cannot do it
8. 608.▲
   by VMG 9y ago

   Bitcoin was inspired by Hashcash in 1992: a Proof-of-Work that protects services from DoS. Now we have come full circle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
9. 609.▲
   by VMG 9y ago

   I imagine the mining code can be transformed so that it will be hard to detect.
10. 610.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    > Is this a hack that should not be allowed? not by default, no
11. 611.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    they also managed to make the content glitchy and slow to load
12. 612.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    resource is much better than the submission that went to space.com
13. 613.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    Also they reset your notifications settings regularly. I have disabled the email notification settings at least 5 times but after a while they keep coming again.
14. 614.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    How is this instance an abuse of power or shady? I would be surprised if service wouldn't index my site after I put one of their pixels on my site.
15. 615.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    Those people should suffer the consequences. I'm not a fan of facebook in the slightest, but they are crawling websites they were essentially invited to.
16. 616.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    browsers still have it
17. 617.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    any calls for a hardfork yet?
18. 618.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    thanks for the clarification
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    ObjectModel – Strong Dynamically Typed Object Modeling for JavaScript(objectmodel.js.org)

    2 points by VMG 9y ago|0 comments
20. 620.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    Isn't any competitive offer intended so the customer shuns the rivals?
21. 621.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    are the kernel patches accounting for potential microcode fixes?
22. 622.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    The Satoshi whitepaper calls middlemen "trusted third parties"
23. 623.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    we haven't even reached the phase were https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/ gets new hourly entries
24. 624.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    If Bitcoin goes to 0, I will buy all of it and display the Trezor that stores it in a museum
25. 625.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    Works pretty well. If you want to minimize trust you can add signing, encryption and hash-chaining to your central database, but I doubt people actually care much about any of that.
26. 626.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    Yes you can. Google made a business out of it.
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    by VMG 9y ago

    It can be equally well done with a Postgres database.
28. 628.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    Yes, crypto is not complete until there are synthetic CDOs!
29. 629.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    To inflate success metrics
30. 630.▲
    by VMG 9y ago

    It is, but people pumping these coins do not care.