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by brainburn 13y ago
The calculations get more or less likely to produce a correct result, depending on how many calculations are done per second. In the end, on average, 1 correct result is found every 10 minutes.
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by brainburn 13y ago
|new bitcoins are created by carrying out mathematical operations which become progressively harder as the bitcoin space is explored No, no, NO! Statements like this immediately lessen the writer's credibility.
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by brainburn 13y ago
To get people thinking I generally have them agree there are 9 possible games to play, so the final win-chance cannot be 50%
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by brainburn 13y ago
That doesn't explain anything except that people will be influenced because you pointed to another star.
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by brainburn 13y ago
Are there architectures where a programmer can just use a specific opcode to inform the cpu what's most likely?
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by brainburn 13y ago
Xcode makes me cry everytime i'm forced to use it (editing storyboards). AppCode has such nice navigation and completion. It all makes me wonder how on earth anyone could say they enjoy xcode.
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by brainburn 13y ago
Go right ahead https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
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by brainburn 13y ago
Then how will I prove i possess a certain amount of this coin?
39.
by brainburn 13y ago
"Steve Jobs is dead" -God
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by brainburn 13y ago
Don't blame archlinux for your forgetting of the wallet, you did that. Think of it like you're losing 3 days of cpu cycles, not 160K.
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by brainburn 13y ago
They are just a few bytes yes. But it's rather hard to generate the correct bytes. Referring to the bytes that constitute a valid block in the blockchain.
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by brainburn 13y ago
The problem with governments is that they will stop at nothing (well, maybe murder) to make you comply with what they want.
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by brainburn 13y ago
Nobody will spend, tomorrow you can get your stuff cheaper
44.
by brainburn 13y ago
You mean you stopped doing that?
45.
by brainburn 13y ago
The problem description could be a bit clearer. What exactly are the rules?
46.
by brainburn 13y ago
I know the docs say it has to be a bunch of zeroes at the start, the actual test is whether or not the generated value is below a certain number.
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by brainburn 13y ago
It's pretty nice, save for the 'k'.
48.
by brainburn 13y ago
Noone in their right mind would do that
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by brainburn 13y ago
Which are optional
50.
by brainburn 13y ago
Too bad it's in an inferior currency
51.
by brainburn 13y ago
Second time I read this. How so? The address has been used to receive coins, surely a private key must exist?
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by brainburn 13y ago
> Thus, if your Bitcoin funds are stored in an address that you have not spent from (so the public key is unknown), they are safe against a quantum computer – at least until you try to spend them. Uhm, no such thing? Every mined bitcoin
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by brainburn 13y ago
29 bytes sierpinski: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4856
54.
by brainburn 13y ago
Or maybe as snork-eater-eaters http://wharble.com/sites/default/files/Snork-Eater_Eater.jpg
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by brainburn 13y ago
In a mindmap. For example Freemind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMind
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by brainburn 13y ago
Tabs on the left is so awesome. First thing I checked, sad to not see it included :( Firefox has a plugin for it but it's all just too sluggish. I'll just use the old opera for now.
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by brainburn 13y ago
I'm with ya. Select, scroll, know where I was. Just disable javascript for this page. (in opera at least)