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by askmike 8y ago
You can lock bitcoin up inside the BTC mainchain by using certain OP codes. This allows you to create a sidechain. For example Liquid does this: https://blockstream.com/liquid/
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The article talks about Dapps and decentralized finance, but WBTC is centralized and managed by a custodians. Sure you could use it in your smart contract, but it has the same kind of risks as using Tether. I think it can be dangerous to bu
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Are you sure this is a problem you want to (try to) solve technically? - You'll make it very hard for genuine people to contact you. - You don't solve the problem, you only make it more expensive. As long as the benefit of calling
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by askmike 8y ago
> Incidentally, but very likely related, I always failed to have any glimpse into how design works. I have no idea which colors "go" with which ones, and pretty much all fonts look like the same for me. I'd just want to po
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Not just that but sounds like a completely different world from my experience. I travel around and work from coworking spaces a lot, I have seen more than ~20 different ones but have never seen any coworking space with a ping pong table, fo
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Used in production doesn't always mean used by all users of a public app that might go viral. If you have an app with an admin interface/CMS/monitoring interface and you know there won't be 50 administrators for your app
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Other browsers won't prevent you from any of these things. Some browsers are on par with Chrome when it comes to speed and extensibility (plugins and such).
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A few years ago they were considered the new IE when it came to html5 compat (which was lagging behind other browsers). I'm not sure what the status is now.
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I felt like this as well when I was still using Chrome for everything (I switched when Firefox launched Quantum). For me it simply turned out that after getting used to Firefox (again) I had no problems at all with the UI. Chrome felt bette
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I don't agree: I'm not from the US and generally think everyone is over reacting with constantly (threatening) to sue everyone else. But here the problem here isn't that the dog died, it's how Wag has handled the problem
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> The attacker controlled server [...] drops .bash_aliases file to victim's home directory when the victim performs scp operation from the server. The transfer of extra files is hidden by sending ANSI control sequences via stderr. [
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(not big in American ethnicity but) I think his point is that "looking like a US citizen" is basically either being European, native American or African American. Which I guess is kind of like everyone except for people who look l
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Not according to everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The problem with Facebook is that they track everyone, FB users or not. Most likely breaking GDPR for basically every European who uses the internet. Good talk from a few weeks ago: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_
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> They are not advertising their replacement as MongoDB, either. I don't really agree there. The service is called documentDB and this is how they describe it [1]: > Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) > Fast, scala
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> They do; for a transaction to be revocable means you haven't accepted that it went through. If every block is revocable indefinitely, then you can't say that 20 confirmations confirm a block, because they don't. From the
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We call it a 51% attack an attack, but from the perspective of PoW it's always about the chain with the most work. Anyone is just as valid as anyone else to propose blocks. That's the point of Bitcoin: a way to always figure what
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> If I were to hash the headlines from a 1969 "ON THE MOON!" article, would it prove that my block is older that the bitcoin's genesis block? That would only prove your block is NOT from before 1969. The date of the articl
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The text in the hex data seen in the article (part of the Bitcoin genesis block) was the headline of The Times to prove the block wasn't generated prior to the newspaper's date. Bitmex (one of the largest exchanges at the moment)
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Ah yes Immer is the framework I read about a few months back but couldn't find anymore. Thanks for reminding me. > My only concerns are that the code _is_ mutating unless you wrap it in RSK's "magic" `createReducer` u
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> As for the "boilerplate" line... everyone throws around this word, and everyone means something different. Could you clarify what specific things you're thinking of when you say that? As stated before I haven't done
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[not OP but I can remember feeling the same, also I haven't done a big redux project in about a year] I haven't looked at the docs in a while but I'm not sure that's where the big problem lies. The hard thing about Redux
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If these people write an article like this we would be discussing it as well :)
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fair point, I keep confusing the two.
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[I'm no expert on hardware security] This is a full damage contain mode PR article. That said, I do agree that what was presented doesn't mean all ledger's are compromised and or as vulnerable as claimed. A few attack vectors
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Sure, but I don't see why the tip in OP is "don't use CORS". To me that implies there is actually something insecure about using it.
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Wondering about the same thing.
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That's not how OTC markets work. Have you tried to buy or sell a big amount and did you not get a price you were looking for? Or have you ever read anyone that had this problem? I don't know anyone that has ever complained about t
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Very much so, I'm not sure why you think you couldn't. 10 million really isn't that much.
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This wasn't the default autopilot but a new system, as such they didn't know what was causing the behaviour. On top of that all their sensors gave them different information. > If the autopilot tries to screw things up it is st

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