WinstonSmith84

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by WinstonSmith84 5y ago
If you think the current system is that good... think again. In Europe, the protection is capped to 100K Euros. And that's the EU, not a third world country .. :-) https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro&#x
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
yup. Even password managers half the time fail to properly capture a password change so that the easiest way is simply to increment the password, then add that increment in the password manager - instead of going through the trouble of gene
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
BTC was never meant to be used to purchase groceries (transaction fees + limitation on the number of tx/s). There are other cryptos which (could) do that very well, however. But large bank transfer may be convenient with Bitcoin: have
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
Because we don't know enough about Monero? Unless proven otherwise, Monero is anonymous. The IRS is even paying a nice bounty of 625K (but not that much actually as per the IRS resources) for whoever can crack the protocol https:&#x2F
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
> Bitcoin can be traced by sophisticated nation state actors at the cost of tens of millions per intercepted target. Please... Bitcoin transactions can be traced by whoever has a laptop and internet. If you want to stay anonymous, there
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
Probably Coinbase is going to relist XRP. That was probably to be beyond conform in regard to their IPO and the SEC investigation in Ripple, now settled ... As for Zcash and Monero, yes, these are sensibly some more anonymous cryptos, still
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
Usually? Please ... That's called insider trading and those who do that ends up in jail or at best have to hide in the sun for the rest of their life.
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
Better the devil you know? The worse that Google may do with your data is targeting you with some personalised ads. As for Apple, they have probably even less interests with those... But your government is a different matter. Speeding, fina
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
A waste by your societal measures. It's easy to see it as enormous waste, for you Speaking of "burnt gigawatts", if our society is still using coal to produce energy, are you blaming also Bitcoin for this? Too easy, sorry
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
Transactions are registered on the blockchain, and that's transparent, verifiable by anyone. Much more than through any bank, ironically. Regardless on how the car is paid, a car is delivered to a physical person, and Tesla asks for su
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
proof of work may be superseded at some point (e.g. by proof of stake). Not even mentioning the Lightning Network which is going to help a lot... Avoiding Bitcoin because we use coal to produce energy cannot be more wrong. The problem is th
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
please explain how this shall be orchestrated on a multi-sig wallet, it's not like they do not already have more than 1.5 billions worth of USD already...
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
I like different languages and Rust most particularly, but when it's about getting things done, in a reliable way and within a short timeframe, I couldn't find yet a better trade off than Go.
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
If it can comfort you, there are software which are a lot more worse than Jira (check out HP ALM :-) )
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
> If you measure the "unemployed" as anybody over 16 years old who isn't earning a living wage... Over 16 years old, a lot of people are at school / university and likely "funded" by their parents. And those
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
It's, also, important to keep in mind that Influenza has a vaccination, which is very cheap and many elderly people take it. Yet, many die from it (and it doesn't make any headlines). We are at the end just comparing apples to ora
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
Really? From which point of view? Arguably true for the Yemenites, but the fact is, no one really care about the Yemenites (sorry if there are Yemenites reading that but it's a fact). Saudi Arabia doesn't try to interfere with any
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
People complains about this setup but WASM is optional. I've been using Golang with Lorca without WASM. I actually don't see the value of WASM here.. Anyway, I used Svelte on the frontend, pretty straightforward but any other li
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
Or the other way around
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
Nothing proves that a "real" second wave will come with a similar lockdown to the first one. The first lockdown was catastrophic for the economy of some countries and didn't really help anything at all in regard to the health
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
The teaser shall have been simply more exciting (if there is really something groundbreaking). Reading well known "facts" is not going to make buy this book...
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
"a groundbreaking study..." hm, I'm left wondering what's groundbreaking in this article. It's all accurate and well known information and barely scratched the surface. If anyone learned anything reading this, they
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
Nothing against Python, but I'd have expected the choice of a little more (statically) typed language for such a critical application (also considering future maintenance). Any reasoning behind why?
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by WinstonSmith84 6y ago
The dynamic is just different for those dialling in. People are simply not on the same level than those on site who have a clear advantage. I saw this working relatively well when the person remote is some senior person coming with a lot of