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by askmike 7y ago
What does OP mean with "liquidity issues"? Lightning is a routing network, and you can connect directly to your counterparty, circumventing all potential liquidity issues. > But companies and organizations routinely transfer mi
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by askmike 7y ago
Situation is great, note that I operate my own channels and I'm not sending millions around every day.
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by askmike 7y ago
> Stocks represent actual ownership in the company, potentially voting control of the boards decisions. A company is an abstract concept around a group of people, framed inside a legal entity. But yes, if you own many stocks you can sit
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by askmike 7y ago
> but nobody was saying "the internet is a bust" Many people were saying this, Paul Krugman (one of the leading economists) went as far as comparing the internet to the fax machine: "The growth of the Internet will slow dr
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by askmike 7y ago
I don't know the answers to this strange question. What's the most you can send to another bank account without compliance issues?
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by askmike 7y ago
> Almost everyone who had the opportunity to use the Internet, would. I'm too young to have experienced this. But I've seen countless of clips and interviews of people claiming they would never use the internet because they can
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by askmike 7y ago
That's subjective. It's a lot cheaper and fast to send money.
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by askmike 7y ago
Agreed very much. I want to add that Bitfinex is making huge parts of their code open source: https://github.com/bitfinexcom/ Paolo Ardoino (CTO) basically pushes code every day: https://github.com/prdn
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by askmike 7y ago
You're clearly listening to the wrong people. It's usable for sure, but that doesn't mean billions of people can (nor want) to use it now. I'm using it just fine.
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by askmike 7y ago
The internet didn't support millions of users after a decade either. Is the internet a scam? I'm not sure why you are saying all efforts go into a flawed second layer? a) Dozens of teams are working on other efforts. b) Many do no
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by askmike 7y ago
The idea of Bitcoin is a system without any centralized trust, eg. "what do you do if the bank mugs you" would be a counter argument. Some people used to think/want that Bitcoin was going to take over all other forms of money
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by askmike 7y ago
The idea here is that the blockchain model where everyone checks everything that happens doesn't scale to billions of users. Fortunately for people who disagree, there are hundreds of crypto projects that think this is possible. Includ
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by askmike 7y ago
I'm betting it's the keyboard.
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by askmike 7y ago
(I am no expert here, I live in userland. But:) Does OS cache persists between reboots? I think this allows the postgres cache to persist between those.
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Interview with a (self-taught) crypto quant about HFT trading in crypto(youtube.com)
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by askmike 7y ago
While I'm happy to hear you are a happy MBP user (so am I to be honest), the articles isn't arguing current MBPs are bad, just that they are not the performance power beasts they used to be. He talks about Tim's shift from pe
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by askmike 7y ago
> And since 4G does not work abroad What do you mean? I can roam 4g just fine.
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by askmike 7y ago
The reason I said Google because I think that if the NSA pulled some strings at Google, this exploit would not have been published. As such this was all in the hands of Google.
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by askmike 7y ago
I think open-source software is great as well, but assuming these kind of bugs are found because you can inspect the code is very wishful thinking that doesn't always hold up. This specific example required a Google department to find
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by askmike 7y ago
It sounds that your additions aren't values by your team. It might be because (like you say) you are the only expert on X. If you are in such a situation you should be in charge for X, if not you'll be fighting these battles every
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by askmike 7y ago
This isn't just a frontend optimization that can be applied in isolation by a good dev. With WS or SSE there now needs to be server written & supported to push this data over. On top of all the networking issues that come with thes
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by askmike 7y ago
Good point. I meant there is no reason to dispute the article because it talks about CF monetizing that data. Because it doesn't.
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by askmike 7y ago
This is where me and the author disagree with you. In most places in Europe there is a complete distrust of US companies and hosting anything on US soil. Historically we've seen many cases of US companies handing over data to US author
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by askmike 7y ago
I should have worded that differently: the default is a US company. Which applies to everyone who doesn't change it specifically for Firefox (the vast majority of users).
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by askmike 7y ago
> if you're silly enough to believe that CF is actively logging DoH requests and selling them (CF is involved with serving vast swathes of the internet anyway - if they wanted to go down this route they have far more lucrative avenu
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by askmike 7y ago
Disclaimer: arguably a quant but definitely not this kind. In this specific case you only need access to Trump his tweets, which you can get without parsing and evaluating the firehose (expensive to get and process). > In particular, bas
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by askmike 7y ago
Yep, but the timer potentially resets every time this money is moved.
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by askmike 7y ago
In some cases more onchain transactions does mean more rewards for miners, as transactions will need to outbid with more fees for blockspace. How this relates to hashrate depends on things like the ratio of the block reward vs the block fee
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by askmike 7y ago
There is no relation between the hashrate and the amount of transactions being mined. So to answer your question: That depends on a few dynamics, mostly the price of electricity compared to the price of a bitcoin given an amount of inflatio
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by askmike 7y ago
Forcing coders to make legal choices is a sure way to make users happy.

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