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by annabellish 9y ago
What's wrong with any of those things?
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by annabellish 9y ago
Bitcoin does not solve 2, 3, 4, or 5! You have a job, so you get wages. These wages are sent to a bitcoin address. Now your employer can track every transaction you make. There's no reason why this would not also have to be reported fo
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by annabellish 9y ago
It's coming, but ten years is unreasonably optimistic.
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by annabellish 9y ago
The idea of giving the average user, or even the average power-user, a device which a) doesn't automatically and aggressively update, and b) is full of every single kind of mainstream radio is terrifying. Smartphones live in one of the
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by annabellish 9y ago
It's a lot easier to have a thick skin when you're in a demographic nobody discriminates against.
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by annabellish 9y ago
What happens to the transactions in the chain that were thrown away? Are they just lost now? Do they need to be added again?
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by annabellish 9y ago
But then what's... the point? That vim has a rich and expressive language for text navigation and manipulation is the only thing that sets it apart from more modern competitors.
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by annabellish 9y ago
Not really, the databases are designed to be effectively public information. The security comes from the encryption, not OS-level file permission controls!
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by annabellish 9y ago
The idea you can put a number on how many guesses/second you can make on a keepass database at least is silly - that number is _configurable_! There's even a button in the UI which tunes that value to an estimated amount of time o
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by annabellish 9y ago
>with less transaction fees and a better api Bitcoin has significantly higher transaction fees than paypal and a much less mature, much harder to use API.
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by annabellish 9y ago
The internet primarily runs on open source software. Your browser is primarily open source software, unless it's IE/Edge, but let's be serious here. Your phone - primarily open source, unless it's WP/BB, but again,
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by annabellish 9y ago
Yes, but also no. The trick here is that if you're paying for your £1,000,000 space rocket by transfering the bitcoins from one address, it's a small transaction. If you're paying for your £3 coffee by transfering small amoun
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by annabellish 9y ago
> However, in software it is often taught to build a wall of failing tests People teaching that are not teaching TDD. They may be letting the tests drive the development, but TDD specifically is _all_ about the second-to-second cycle of
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by annabellish 9y ago
>as long as the transaction has a reasonable fee attached to it, you can proceed immediately (this is called a 0-conf transaction) Not true. A 0-conf transaction is a transaction which has not been confirmed at all, which is orthogonal t