cwkoss

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by cwkoss 14y ago
This a thousand times. It totally makes sense that you should be able to copyright code. If someone uses your exact code without permission, you can ask them to pay you. But deciding which ideas are non-obvious is clearly something the US
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Wow, great write-up and sorry you've had to/are still going through this.
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Facebook IS Government Surveillance.
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Your tone isn't helping your argument. Just saying.
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Unless you don't have to put on pants, I'd still call the Pirate Bay more efficient.
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Stallman is talking about a search of a local filesystem.
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Yeah, if they paid you directly from an online wallet, sending funds back to the address you received them won't necessarily get deposited in their account. And if they don't hold the private key, they can't sign a message to you with it...
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Wow. William has received more than $1300 in Bitcoin donations in the past 3 hours. http://blockchain.info/address/1CPKAMtD4bcLrh8SRHfSxBBMmQQ5c...
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Would we be able to differentiate a massive Dyson Sphere from a black hole?
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Well, if you are mining as a hobby, you get to write off all of your expenses before having pay taxes on any profits. Want a new top-of-the-line graphics card? Until it pays for itself, you don't owe any taxes. (In the us, from my understa
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by cwkoss 14y ago
>But the decision "with my current fixed plant, do I mine this hour, or not?" is unaffected by anticipation. Either the expected-reward is enough to pay incremental costs, or not. Some people use mining as a way to privately purchase Bi
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by cwkoss 14y ago
I'd say give it another month or two. Many are still able to mine profitably if they have 4x cards per rig (dividing the "fixed (power) costs" of motherboard, psu, etc). Once ASIC mining hardware comes online, GPUs will be completely worth
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Nodes can see which IP address sent them the transaction. Usually, this is a "supernode" connected to hundreds of others which received the transaction from someone else. However, if you have your own supernodes and can see which node firs
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by cwkoss 14y ago
Hasn't it been over a year since the MtGox hack?
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by cwkoss 14y ago
I think they have a general policy against using PayPal to exchange digital currencies? The _real_ reason is that lots of scammers used paypal to buy bitcoins, and would then initiate a chargeback. High chargeback rates are painful for paym
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by cwkoss 15y ago
But with each exchange fee only 0.65% (MtGox's highest rate), 1.3% is competitive with many other transfer methods.