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deweller
12y ago
@notahacker - As I understand it, Trademore offers leveraged loans. This means you can trade with 2.5 times the amount of the amount of the loan. So, for example, you borrow 10 BTC at, say, 20% APR interest for 6 months. You have control
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deweller
12y ago
I would assume they are lending your BTC to traders for substantially more than the 5-10% rate that they are paying you. In exchange for taking the risk, they keep the profits.
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deweller
12y ago
A Ponzi scheme is is where the operator pays returns to its investors out of the money brought in by new investors. That is not what is going on here. TradeMore lends your money to borrowers who then pay the money back with interest. That
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deweller
12y ago
As a lender, may I use the service anonymously? Or do you require KYC account verification?
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deweller
12y ago
Say I lend 1 BTC to a borrower and that borrower defaults on his loan. Your FAQ says: > In the event that external markets are not able to fulfill the order necessary to close out such positions, TradeMore will act as the counterparty t
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deweller
12y ago
I like the idea of discussing best and preferred practices by showing snippets of code. Interesting idea.
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deweller
12y ago
Does this mean that Google feels confident in running untrusted code inside containers? Or is each container actually running in an isolated VM? It is my understanding that Docker containers are "generally" secure ( https:/&
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deweller
12y ago
Apple Pay is supported. > Does the Smart Terminal accept payments by Apple Pay? > Yes, the terminal accepts Apple Pay since the iPhone securely communicates with the terminal through NFC. We here at Poynt made our first Apple Pay paym
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deweller
12y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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deweller
12y ago
From a technical perspective, it can. See http://counterparty.io/ for a decentralized exchange in action. Do you mean you don't think people can be trusted to keep their own shares safe? Securing a large value of cry
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deweller
12y ago
Update [9/24]: https://twitter.com/jquery/status/514811609752289281 "We have detected a new compromise of http://jquery.com and are taking action to mitigate the attack. Updates to follow.&q
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deweller
12y ago
I don't get it. What should I be looking at?
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deweller
12y ago
This implies that the script tag injection was indeed served to a wide audience. Although I guess there is no way to know that these requests came from the jquery.com site.
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deweller
12y ago
I went to breakfast and came back and it had refreshed by then.
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deweller
12y ago
Seems to be down or overloaded this morning. After 5 minutes the page did not update for me.
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deweller
12y ago
So let's say that the jquery.com server was not compromised... What else could have caused RiskIQ to see the injected script tag at the end of the body element? Could there have been an injection at the ISP? Was it a DNS heist? Or a
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deweller
12y ago
Here are the details on the RIG exploit pack served to users who visited jquery.com during the time in question (September 18th). Exploits: Java – CVE-2012-0507, CVE-2013-2465 IE 7/8/9 – CVE-2013-2551 IE 10 – CVE-2013-0322 Flash –
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12y ago
I'm the same way. Alcoholic drinks never appealed to me in any way. To me they taste bad and smell bad. And the idea of becoming intoxicated is in no way appealing. I am clearly in the minority of people in the world. But I really
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deweller
12y ago
The Apple Watch looks beautiful when photographed by itself. It looks absurd to me when photographed on someone's arm. In time perhaps history will prove me wrong.
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deweller
12y ago
And just like that, now it is magically fixed.
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deweller
12y ago
I'm in a position like that right now. And it is driving me crazy. Sure the pay is good. And the responsibilities are well-defined and reliable. But the challenge and enjoyment is not there. I find myself working like crazy after ho
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12y ago
On the topic of tmux, has anyone created a nice way to save an active tmux configuration layout? tmuxinator and the like let you specify the configurations ahead of time, but I want to save an active layout for later use. I haven't fo
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Abstract syntax tree in PHP 7
(wiki.php.net)
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12y ago
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deweller
12y ago
Looks like coinbase.com is not loading at the moment. Is it conceivable that this crashed their site?
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deweller
12y ago
If this donation is tax deductible, I expect it is so they can send you a receipt. Still, an anonymous option would be nice.
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deweller
12y ago
If you can find the time, I highly recommend reading this: http://theleanstartup.com/book This book changed my perspective on these things significantly for the better.
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12y ago
Yes. This.
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12y ago
They don't own the computer power. It comes from the miners who join the pool. The 51% attack problem is something that needs to be solved for bitcoin. But it isn't as bad as you think it is. I used to think that someone who too
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deweller
12y ago
For anyone interested in cutting-edge cryptocurrency protocols, I recommend checking out the Delegated Proof of Stake protocol by Invictus: http://bitshares.org/documentation/group__dpos.html
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12y ago
I program all day long and I spend about half my day at a walking desk like this one. I was distracted by the bobbing up and down for the first day. It was a little less distracting by the second day. And by the third day I didn't ev
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