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by _coldfire 9y ago
Bitmain claims they don't use it on mainnet https://blog.bitmain.com/en/ >Our ASIC chips, like those of some other manufacturers, have a circuit design that supports ASICBOOST. However, the ASICBOOST method has
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by _coldfire 9y ago
The increasing number of empty blocks along with spymining that has been pushed under the table in this bizarre war, these are the real threats going forward. Segwit or not, these issues will have to be dealt with at some point.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Best summary here, came to this thread all excited for some technical talk, a bit disappointing to see it immediately descend into the madness of the reddit-schism and bitcointalk Feels pointless trying to argue an opinion lately, all the a
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Ethereum is still doing pointless hash crunching, just with Keccak-256 instead. The energy wastage will go away with a move to PoS Regardless, the smart contract computing is still removed from the consensus mechanism.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Which of those two skyscrapers would you prefer to be inside during an earthquake?
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by _coldfire 10y ago
A big red flag in the SEC decision was that large arbitrage opportunities exist in bitcoin markets for far longer than is considered normal. Anyone wanting more mainstream adoption of bitcoin would do well to promote arbitrage trading to as
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by _coldfire 10y ago
>Some of the most talented software engineers in the world work intelligence I truly doubt this for a multitude of reasons, but pay alone suggests otherwise.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
This comment with paragraphs: http://pastebin.com/raw/EgaH3WSh
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by _coldfire 10y ago
>solve virtually all non-military drone events That's the same scenario I'm talking about. Overpowering the input signals is a proven, scalable defense that can be easily deployed to police forces, stadiums, national monuments
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by _coldfire 10y ago
You don't need any tech to solve this problem. Simply buy two drones. I'd estimate one falcon costing easily $100K annually, compared to a $300 consumer drone. The entire concept is incredibly expensive, doesn't scale and com
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by _coldfire 10y ago
>Bitcoin community is split Yet not even the advent of quantum computing with todays algorithms could undo a few hours of the Bitcoin blockchain. A bit too much credence is given to people arguing on the internet rather than the raw stat
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by _coldfire 10y ago
I'd say that applied to music/videos long before streaming was even a word. Things are much better today.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Bit of a tangent but a shoutout to the darksky movement. Just because lighting is cheaper doesn't mean you have to turn on the switch. https://phys.org/news/2017-01-dark-astronomy-life.html
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by _coldfire 10y ago
effect on roadways would be far greater than any pollution cost and that translates quite well into fuel consumed
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by _coldfire 10y ago
I'm in the same boat, well aware of chrome option to switch accounts, but the simplicity of dual browsers wins when two people use the same login regularly. Also I get to keep up to date with changes in firefox.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Millions of tonnes of copper are mined every year. Dietary copper is on the scale of micrograms. Your conspiracy has a problem of many magnitudes.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Taking large doses of anything is never a good idea, normal doses of zinc over a long period is excellent starting advice for many dermatological conditions. Zinc in general is one of the few supplements shown to actually have benefit for t
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Except that we control the flow into the pipe and can turn it off in a minute, unlike every oil-related accident.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
There's MSoffice for mac, haven't used it but it certainly exists. Unless you mean VBA? Don't see why they'd sell office without macros.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
I've seen a few companies using google docs because no one knew excel also has a collaborative spreadsheet mode. All had MSoffice. Last place had about 60 users. Average load time for the gdocs page is ~90 seconds. Users access the pag
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Correct. Vanity addresses are popular in bitcoin, but difficulty rises exponentially with each character. Most people don't want crunch random numbers for 6 months. The solution to 3rd party key generation is split keys. Essentially th
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Sounds like a lot of family run businesses I know. Just vastly different in scale.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
>There's a LOT of people, both red and blue There's a magnitude more of people who aren't either and wouldn't even understand the meaning of that phrase.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
That is certainly not the case. Renewables are solved. Storage is not. Until that problem is fixed 24/7 generation sources will still be needed.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
It's speculated to be due to capsaicin which is essentially what determines the scovilles rating. No real evidence yet though. Everything in moderation also, too much vitamin c actually makes it an oxidant in the body. Beta-carotene in
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by _coldfire 10y ago
>many inputs hash to the same value ? The chances of a sha256 collision is essentially zero barring a vulnerability being found in sha2. Far more likely for a comet to wipe out earth in your lifetime.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
It's a common trope of the far left in Australia. People aren't actually being killed.
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Please don't use Tor for torrents. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-go...
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by _coldfire 10y ago
China should simply go into another jurisdiction and start investigating it's nationals? It doesn't work like that. They already have an annual limit of $50,000 that can be transferred out of the country, they also ask foreign cou
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by _coldfire 10y ago
Had this thought too. Mass broadcast will eventually learn and issues like this avoided, but what about the life of everyone with those names and their acquaintances? Simply talking to or about them in your living room can now be a problem

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