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by alvarosm 11y ago
And don't forget the hypocrisy of bashing money-worshipping, when Kickstarter (which is now a for-profit corporation, by the way) is run by profit-maximizing algorithms. Strickler sounds like the typical caviar socialist.
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by alvarosm 11y ago
99% of conspiracy theories are false, unrealistic. Reality is worse then the average Joe's wildest dreams. The backdoors are probably there, they're just not the obvious exploits that exist out of incompetence and neglect and are
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by alvarosm 11y ago
actually, it measures stupidity
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by alvarosm 11y ago
To rob you. Just like their fees, which should be used to compensate fraudulent transactions and go to their profit instead.
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by alvarosm 11y ago
This article, as much of what's published in the west nowadays, is a terribly shameful and outright dangerous reinterpretation and re-writing of history from a communist standpoint. Stalin wouldn't have done a better propaganda jo
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by alvarosm 11y ago
Kickstarter will promote anything that has the chance to make it big. Their only goal is to make sure most pledged dollars go towards ultimately funded projects, and that hype and funding grow in them to the maximum extent possible. Docum
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by alvarosm 11y ago
You can and you should blame entire nations for their cultural differences. It's obvious they're responsible -and must be held accountable- for how they behave. This is elementary. You could attack me or you could use reason. You
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by alvarosm 11y ago
Because it's the only way to make sure there's less squandering. Mediterranean countries are screwed because they're so lame they couldn't do anything worthwile with the easy money they got, so they wasted all of it. Air
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Wise Orchard smart garden system launched on Kickstarter(wiseorchard.com)
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by alvarosm 11y ago
See https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitfinex-passes-stefan-thoma... and https://www.bitfinex.com/pages/audit But even if you trust that (just think that they could borrow the money or convert usd to bt
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by alvarosm 11y ago
Let's hope it's actually the first time.
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by alvarosm 11y ago
No, we need exchanges not built by a bunch of amateurs, opportunistic risk takers and outright scammers.
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by alvarosm 11y ago
They should have stopped using that hot wallet immediately as soon as transfers not authorized by them happened. They detected that manually after a few hours, not automatically. There's still much to be improved in terms of security i
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by alvarosm 11y ago
Thanks. If only everyone did that on HN... Someone should teach people they're supposed to upvote stuff based on how useful it is, not on how much they personally agree with opinions expressed.
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by alvarosm 11y ago
Don't worry, the fanboys will spam HN then again.
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by alvarosm 11y ago
An overengineered and useless cryptocurrency (Bitcoin-like currency). It was also pre-sold so they've made quite a bit of money for themselves (out of nothing) already. Smart contracts are pointless since you need trust anyway to deal
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by alvarosm 12y ago
and they have plenty of cash to keep at it forever
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by alvarosm 12y ago
Yeah, exactly. If you have just a couple ideas and you think they're great what are the chances they're actually great? you should have dozens and be pretty sceptical and critical to filter out the really good ones.
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by alvarosm 12y ago
It is often inexperienced people or "business" guys without any technical background who think they have the billion dollar idea when in fact there are a thousand people who had the idea before who couldn't or wouldn't e
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by alvarosm 12y ago
yeah, another bitcoin pipe dream... what's needed is probably something like integrating a wallet+bitreserve+exchange+payment processor in a single business. And then forking/enhancing btc itself. Some of the top btc companies hav
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by alvarosm 12y ago
Blockchain pruning would drastically reduce the size and it could be implemented relatively easily but it's not on the standard client(or any other afaik). You only need to keep unspent transactions (after you're confident a block
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by alvarosm 12y ago
It works fine. Still a bit of a memory hog but we have more ram now. They're going down the path of adware/spyware too, however, you have to opt out in a convoluted way and you're still shown ads. But at least it doesn't
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by alvarosm 12y ago
yeah, Litecoin actually
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by alvarosm 12y ago
It's shameful that somebody at Yc feels like protecting Google (or anyone) by switching topic titles.
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by alvarosm 12y ago
OP: did you edit the title? it was "Should The Inability To Hear On A Nexus 6 Be A Small (Low Priority) Issue?" and it looked appropriate enough to me. This is about Google's neglect more than about the issue itself.
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by alvarosm 12y ago
Depends on how many video/audio ads Google wants to shove down your throat. Not many yet, so I guess it's not a high priority yet ;) Google has the annoying habit of ignoring bugs that don't affect a lot of users, no matter h
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by alvarosm 12y ago
Both the author of the article and the people he talks about, embody the most absolute emptiness. You're not like them, it's understandable that you don't get it. I'm going to call it bullshit culture: a bunch of disorie
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by alvarosm 12y ago
When you don't know whether you're going to break even- because you don't, since this is a risky field and app stores are not even free markets to begin with-, a 30% tax is a strong deterrent.
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by alvarosm 12y ago
Forget about discussing anything here. You'll get downvoted to oblivion by the Marxist religious zealots.
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by alvarosm 12y ago
So he wants to be a Marxist but he can't reconcile that with the economic facts he's learned, because Marxism is completely wrong. Too bad. We don't need to read his painful and boring rant.

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