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by askmike 8y ago
Most bikes in Amsterdam are stolen at some point. There is little crime except when it comes to stealing bikes. Mostly because the police doesn't do anything when bikes are reported stolen, so unless you're caught red handed you h
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> bitcoin claims to be this decentralized democratic technical project where anybody can contribute Where is this claimed? The technical project is just another open source project, not very decentralized. The idea of bitcoin is that you
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In most countries there are no hoops. In most places in Europe it's harder go get a bank account than to get bitcoin. Does that mean only morons go through all the hoops of obtaining bank accounts?
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Pretty biased story, sounds like it was Blockstream against everyone else (it wasn't). Most people on the mailinglist thought it was dangerous to increase the blocksize, not just people who worked for Blockstream. > Some of the emp
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Exactly: No crypto in it's current state is liquid enough for any serious moving of money. Slipping, fees (and potential hedging costs) will eat you if you need to to move serious money. As such it only works for entities who don'
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This is not functionality meant to make sure the other party will not have access to the massage after X time anymore, it's just convenience opsec: If you don't want someone to know X after some time, you should never tell him in
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> Linux Foundation article about Microsoft *About Microsoft buying Github. Yes, most definitely.
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> we will have to trust some authorities Which is fine, but than don't talk about cryptocurrencies. These are supposed to be trustless, not trustless-except-we-all-have-to-trust-the-government. Just talk about some new state system
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> Finally, where does payment come into play? Merely commenting on the word customers: npm has few customers but a lot of users. > Second, the service should respond with 400, not a funny 418 when it fails to parse the host field. Thi
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The status page doesn't display what customers care about. It displays whether the servers are up and reachable. If this effected everyone I see your point, but it didn't. Note that most NPM "customers" don't pay a
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> when states issue more currency to buy bonds, do you call that stealing? Nope, definitely not stealing without question. It's economic policy which is a lot more nuanced. Not saying it's never stealing, but issuing more curre
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That is about as far from a decentralised system as I can imagine, we now all have to trust the Estonian government (everyone part of the e-ID chain).
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You can buy things with a coin and double spend these coins later. I reckon you can call that stealing.
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And there is! The law applies to all but fines/punishment are handled on a case by case basis.
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Most websites are products nowadays. If you have a simple blog without trackers and ads this is really not going to effect you that much. > The internet doesn't know political boundaries Tell that to this US law the whole world has
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Yep but twice the amount of incoming requests spread out over time. When the site doesn't load I think it's fair to do either 1 of 2 things: 1. Accept that you can't read the article. 2. Have some kind of retry mechanism ( fo
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I think the criticism from the regulators has to do with the fact that you cannot create something representing a dollar without approval from regulators and without requiring anyone to do KYC - effectively circumventing all KYC/AML sy
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I'm not saying to hammer down the refresh button. And yes there is a very good reason for it too work: in most scenarios the amount of concurrent connections to the DB is at the limit. If you refresh once a minute later you're rea
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That tends to happen when a website gets on the HN frontpage. Try refreshing, eventually that worked for me.
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> 'fraud' and 'illegal' might be problematic words here. The tax evasion schemes used by large corporations are often considered exploits of loopholes - i.e. technically legal. In your example on Apple this is not cle
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by askmike 8y ago
"throwaway account for obvious reasons - I'm a devops for the C&C servers. Our process is actually quite similar to most other tech companies. We spend half our time arguing over what programming language to use (node/go&
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Exactly. It will take a while before standards and best practices form, but they will.
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AFAIK that simply means that GDPR applies even if your servers are in the US (or anywhere else outside of the EU).
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Ah, well there is no system ever that will solve that problem. Blockchains are simply systems that allow for the (as much as possible) trustless formation of consensus. So as soon as you have fraudulence data entering your system you know e
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> PoW I don't know any private blockchain solution in the supplychain space that uses PoW. There are more ways to form consensus. > This is genuinely amusing to me. I feel like in these discussions you can replace "blockchai
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I'm not saying it applies to everything. I'm not talking about you getting into a fight with your neighbor and the blockchain will help you settle things. But when two financial companies (for example) enter in some kind of contra
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> The only thing block chain adds to any problem is when you don’t want a managed good or service to be under central authority or if it can’t be under a central authority (the later situation is probably more interesting). Trust (and th
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by askmike 8y ago
I should have better clarified what I meant. I think online payment systems that require you to enter: - your name - the card number - the expiration date - the CCV security code In any system that is not controlled by your bank is very ins
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> As a Go developer Pardon my ignorance but last time I checked Go deps where a mess: you list deps as github repos always pointing to latest master. The concept of version control did not exist. I have written some go and write a lot of
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> Taking on a new dependency was a big decision: do I really want to rely on this DLL file being there for me, or having to carry this separately built binary blob in my project? I'd argue that the NPM ecosystem (although not perfec

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