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by beefield 9y ago
The more I think the more intentional this feels. I mean, if Google really wanted to filter out low quality websites out form their search results, I can't imagine much more reliable algorithm than to ask from the users to indicate t
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by beefield 9y ago
I have had some astonishing discussions where people actually refuse to accept that the verbal part of the thinking (talking in my head) is almost insignificant part of what thinking actually is. Or to be accurate, people claim that langua
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by beefield 9y ago
Thanks. Wonder how I have missed that.
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by beefield 9y ago
This is one of my pet htes with google at the moment. They helpfully tell which of the search terms are missing in each result, and every time I see that "missing" tag, I am starting to draft an email in my mind: "Dear Google
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by beefield 9y ago
Google has personal blocklist addon for chrome that you can use to block unwanted sites from the search results. I just wonder why this obvious tool is not account-level functionality that works across browsers and devices. If it is because
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by beefield 9y ago
I have not had time to figure out how this works, but in inoreader mobile app, you can pull down in the article stubs and quite often you get the full article downloaded directly in the app. Weirdest is that this seems to work even beyond s
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by beefield 9y ago
Apologies for my laziness, but what is meant by "private API" here and why Apple does not want them to be used?
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by beefield 9y ago
relevant xkcd flowchart to wizardry: https://xkcd.com/627/
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by beefield 9y ago
I strongly assume that a strong entity would prefer to create a new coin from scratch instead of donating huge amounts of value to existing bitcoin owners.
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by beefield 9y ago
Yes, easily if it is made by government. But if you wanted to do that without government help enforcing things bit in a distributed manner, I find it a bit more difficult.
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by beefield 9y ago
Each one of the cryptocurrencies I have encountered relies on the idea that the supply is somehow predefined. Give me a cryptocurrency whose supply is adjusted based on the needs of their users and I am interested. Give me a cryptocurrency
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by beefield 9y ago
The problem is that it has potential to change world for the worse, not the better. Fixed supply monetary systems have been tried in the history and there are reasons other than evil bankers wanting to get power for their dismissal. And cla
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by beefield 9y ago
>Search quality is no longer a core competency of Google There should be some "wiki/stackoverflow" type search engine, where would be no other algorithm but users voting the goodness or badness of a link for a given search
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by beefield 9y ago
> that's basically giving all the power to banks and governments to control the transactions which is exactly what we have now. Sorry for a possibly stupid question, but... what, exactly, is wrong with the current control government
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by beefield 9y ago
Just to note, financial transactions from bank account to bank account are slow and expensive compared to other methods. Even with BTC -> BTC transactions, there are much faster options, and if you claim they are cheap, you must take
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by beefield 9y ago
Ok. I am not sure if I still understand completely, but there is a possibility that that could solve the scalability issues technically. The issue it does not solve, though, is the volatility.
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by beefield 9y ago
I am more interested in the costs and timelines than a guide, so this is helpful, thanks. But still I fail to understand what is the case where bitcoin is a competitive option to get money from bank account to another. in addition to the po
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by beefield 9y ago
https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/210959... Please correct me if I am wrong, but it very much looks like I need to pay minimum 1.49% to convert from USD to BTC and also your brother needs
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by beefield 9y ago
I think you forgot that I started with having the 5000 dollars on my bank account. So I need to convert them first to BTC before I can do the transaction. What are coinbase fees, and how much does this process add to the time of exposure to
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by beefield 9y ago
Can you explain me what is the current status in dollar terms if I want now to send 5000 dollars from my bank account to your brother in ukraine, when does he have usable it in his local currency, how much disappears on the way in transacti
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by beefield 9y ago
Do I understand it right that if I want to purchase some pizzas over time that pay 1 BTC each, I make an account with the pizzeria where I put 10 BTC that I own, each time I buy a pizza, the transaction is added to the lightning ledger, and
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by beefield 9y ago
Well, that sounds like a long term value proposal...
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by beefield 9y ago
Who/what I trust if I make a transaction in these solutions? Obviously it is not bitcon blockchain that I can be trusting?
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by beefield 9y ago
and doubling the capacity solves all scalability problems? That is still minuscule capacity to enable any serious use of bitcoin as means of payment. And if the simple transaction is me purchasing a pizza instead of transferring a million f
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by beefield 9y ago
Now, a good store of value to me means that the value is stable . And yes, also gold is really bad store of value by that measure. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_price_in_USD.pn...
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by beefield 9y ago
Sorry, I have not been following Bitcoin news lately. Could you give a comparison of the expected transaction capacity, expected fees and expected time to confirm a transaction by mid November against typical credit card company? That would
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by beefield 9y ago
I would somehow think that an entity that has no intrinsic value, but only speculative value is quite bad store of value? (Of course, you are more than welcome to correct my hypothesis by indicating what is the intrinsic value bitcoin has.
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by beefield 9y ago
But that is _exactly_ what is the case with bitcoin. It by design has no mechanism to manage supply, so only thing that affects price is demand, and as demand varies, there is volatility. So volatility _is_ intrinsic to bitcoin. (And to be
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by beefield 9y ago
So, if bitcoin has no value in illegal trade, what is the intrinsic value bitcoin has left (other than speculative value, that is)? Honest question. To me, a couple of transactions per second with high fees compared to the competition does
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by beefield 9y ago
what makes you think that there is more corruption in public transport related agencies than car traffic related agencies? Why would vote system and election costs be allocated more to public transport than car drivers? (In economics parlan

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