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by apeace 9y ago
> 35.7 ±2.5% believe that Private Browsing “Prevents search engines from knowing my searches.” This doesn't seem too inaccurate. When you search for something on the Google search engine using private browsing, presumably you have n
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by apeace 9y ago
Not sure why you have been downvoted, since it is a valid question and you phrased it in a productive way. I think the reason people focus on border searching so much is that it's presumed to be one of the easiest entry points for the
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by apeace 9y ago
I read that they are not able to force you to provide a pin. But even if you're right, this doesn't change my argument. Most people are less secure most of the time in the absence of biometric authentication. Because without it, t
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by apeace 9y ago
> ...when you do use the biometric options we're about to get into, you're still going to need [a pin] on your phone anyway. For example, every time you hard-reboot an iPhone with Touch ID you need to enter the PIN This is what
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by apeace 9y ago
I think your point is void here, because in both of the cases I mentioned, the car was clearly worse than a human. Who drives into a concrete barrier or the middle of a tractor trailer truck? If the technology were better than humans I&#x27
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by apeace 9y ago
I'm a huge Musk fan and wish him and Tesla all the success in the world. But releasing any kind of machine-assisted driving without a near infallible "don't hit objects in front of the vehicle" function is simply irrespo
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by apeace 9y ago
You can't accomplish that with the -g glob flag?
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by apeace 9y ago
I'm surprised that ripgrep is so low, at #227. I've been using it instead of grep the last few months and I could never go back. Check it out if you haven't! Here is the repo and a technical breakdown by the author: https:&#
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'Major Pucker Factor': Will SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Ace Its Maiden Launch?(space.com)
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If only it were possible to set a default browser on iOS.
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by apeace 9y ago
Can you contact me via: https://apeace.github.io/contact.html I've been reading the i2pd source the past few weeks and would love to pick your brain over a couple of emails!
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by apeace 9y ago
No matter how you debate the validity of the science, I hope people pay attention to one suggestion the 'manifesto' author made: that his company should do more pair programming. Pairing has always struck me as a great way to get
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by apeace 9y ago
Don't you think that clients' peer selection logic could be improved to build lower-latency tunnels? Perhaps an intuitive UI could be provided, allowing the user to tradeoff anonymity with latency.
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by apeace 9y ago
I think you're ignoring the larger "currency" and focusing on "fiat currency". When people traded in gold (or Native Americans traded wampum, etc) it was certainly never destroyed! And there was no one in particular
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by apeace 9y ago
Right, debt came first. Then we invented currency as a store of value, so that we could perform even transactions. To avoid creating debt!
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by apeace 9y ago
Try this one with your friends. Tell them that if there were no debt, there would be no dollars, because debt and dollars are the same thing. You can quote the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Marriner Eccles[0]: "That is
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by apeace 9y ago
I don't necessarily ascribe to direct democracy ideas, but if you want to learn about why some people think it's a good idea, check out "The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement" by David Graeber. It chroni
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by apeace 9y ago
Thanks! I will certainly re-read it. As I said to Peter Todd in that thread, I'm a neutral observer and a fan of both of yours. Having been a programmer for over a decade, it's a shame that even someone like me can get so lost in
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by apeace 9y ago
Yes, SegWit has always had widespread support. But what I would call "most of the industry" supports a block size increase, in addition to SegWit[0]. As I said in the parent comment, rather than making a compromise with this huge
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by apeace 9y ago
Exactly. To make an analogy, consider what would happen if the president/congress appointed an incompetent fool as the chair of the Federal Reserve. The whole world would lose confidence in the dollar, and another currency would take o
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by apeace 9y ago
> 51% of hashing power in order to be safely backwards compatible with non-upgraded nodes, however it's always safe with upgraded nodes Yes, what I was pointing out is that in a soft-fork there is a risk of an eventual re-org, where
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by apeace 9y ago
Don't be fooled into thinking a soft-fork is the "same chain". It simply tricks nodes that don't know about SegWit into validating transactions that they don't really know how to validate. It's possible for a n
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by apeace 9y ago
Something I haven't seen in the comments yet: it's a realistic possibility that the Core team will make a change to Bitcon's proof-of-work, with the explicit goal of shutting down miners' efforts to implement the "2
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by apeace 9y ago
Everything you said is correct AFAIK. > It's not clear to me why an increase to 2 or 4MB wasn't done though. Perhaps to force the issue? Yes, and it seems also out of spite. They could have increased to 2MB in order to avoid th
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by apeace 9y ago
I hope Github introduces this to the main code browser as well, not just PRs. I very often clone repos just so that I can open the code in an IDE, CTRL+Click a method and jump to its definition. It would be neat if Github had IDE-like featu
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by apeace 9y ago
Hey, thanks again! Educational to hear your perspective. After re-reading it, I was absolutely mistaken. Hearn did mention a functionality to alert you when your node detects an invalid block. But he was trying to make the point that this w
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by apeace 9y ago
Thanks for your reply. I'm a fan of your work and consider myself to be a neutral observer in these debates. Regarding your first contestation, I think as another commenter said, you are cherry-picking. He explains soft forks well and
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by apeace 9y ago
For the past two years, the Bitcoin community has been embroiled in a debate about how to scale the network to handle more transactions. The debate has at times become less technical, rhetoric about "centralization" and the values
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by apeace 9y ago
At time of this post, 230 out of 336 blocks in the current period (68% of them) are signaling for BIP 91 and 54 blocks remain in the period. The threshold is 80%, so that means 39 more blocks are needed. There are 54 blocks remaining in the
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BIP 91 is projected to lock in during this difficulty period(coin.dance)
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