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by dougk16 5y ago
Look into privacy coins like Monero.
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by dougk16 5y ago
Ah ok good, that means you won't fix the caching..."feature" that I found. :) Thanks for the discussion!
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by dougk16 5y ago
Good question, and thank you for the question. Both at the time of my initial development several years ago, and including now when I just tested it, scraping has faster response times (cache invalidations) to profile updates than the API.
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by dougk16 5y ago
It's a powerful idea but say I'm a website that wants to add "Sign In With HN". Me personally I've lost faith with "Sign In With Facebook/Google/etc.", nevermind some random site offering sign in
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by dougk16 5y ago
I'm doing something similar with my service https://aytwit.com/thoughter There is a trick to busting the cache but I almost don't want to say it in case they fix it lol. Feel free to contact me directly.
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by dougk16 5y ago
I'm doing something very similar with my service: https://aytwit.com/thoughter To the author, there is a simple trick you can pull in order to make the confirmation instantaneous and avoid caching. Have you figured it
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by dougk16 5y ago
Bitcoin is like the " http:// " of cryptocurrency. Public balances, public transactions. We need that little "s" on the end. Taproot doesn't come anywhere close. Monero and PirateChain are the leading &quo
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by dougk16 5y ago
The only way to win is to not play the game.
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by dougk16 5y ago
Interesting I had not heard of SCRT. The others I've vetted pretty deeply but of course I could be missing something. Everyone do your own research of course and it'll be interesting to see which one(s) win.
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by dougk16 5y ago
Good analogy with http. But keep going. After http people realized the importance of https. Sending credit card numbers and passwords in cleartext over the Internet was clearly a bad idea. So what is https in this analogy? Monero, PirateCha
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by dougk16 5y ago
PirateChain and Aeon as well.
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by dougk16 5y ago
I'm with you, I don't trust it's private/secure at all, but until proven otherwise it's a very interesting technological feat.
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by dougk16 5y ago
There is at least $625,000[1] on the table already. Not to mention how many blockchain analytics companies and other actors would pay millions to have such a capability. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb
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by dougk16 6y ago
See my peer comment. You can "synthesize" gold pretty easily. I agree most people don't consider this when buying gold though. So "stronger belief" is still accurate. Unfortunately unscrupulous people make fortunes
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by dougk16 6y ago
> It at least is tied to a physical thing. People should know more about the paper gold market. Most importantly how much gold people think they have stored safely in vaults, but is essentially just an IOU that could never be paid if eve
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by dougk16 6y ago
Who gets the megaphone? My answer is either everybody or nobody. :)
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by dougk16 6y ago
I get what you're saying of course, but as a fun counterpoint, I gave my brother $50 worth of Monero for Christmas and he has absolutely no idea how cryptocurrencies work, had never heard of Monero. I simply wrote out instructions on a
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by dougk16 6y ago
Thanks for all your comments in this thread. I looked at your profile to try and find an email address to say this personally but I figure it's good to say this in public too. You're writing all the things I would if I had a bit m
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by dougk16 6y ago
Great comment thanks for putting it out here. I'm excited too. :)
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by dougk16 6y ago
I'll take that as a compliment. Indeed I was "taught" poorly and so educated myself. If you're trying to prevent repeating history it doesn't matter as much what the number is. It matters how you allow a society to
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by dougk16 6y ago
To summarize the major issue, we're taught in schools the results of something like Nazi Germany, 6 million died in camps, Hitler was a psychopath, etc., all the details of how horrible it was and how we can never let it happen again
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by dougk16 6y ago
Ok, thanks for your reply and perspective.
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by dougk16 6y ago
Hancock has at least one transcribed interview with Klaus. Look it up for yourself. They had an interesting relationship. Klaus definitely did not agree with many of Hancock's ideas. It's admirable, an open exchange of ideas with
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by dougk16 6y ago
Just open one of his books. He travels the world with his partner and takes incredible photographs, scuba dives submerged ruins, interviews locals and mainstream archaeologists like Klaus Schmidt, digs very deep into mythology and cross ref
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by dougk16 6y ago
I'm with you. I tried to find that keen edge of sarcasm in my comment but I missed the mark. And really it was childish and I shouldn't have even attempted it. Apologies to AlotOfReading for not replying in earnest, and since I th
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by dougk16 6y ago
Ok I will stop recommending his books. Thanks for the heads up. I did not know his ideas were causing such destruction. I will still read all his books with an open mind but you don't have to worry about me looting any sites. :)
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by dougk16 6y ago
Great book, highly recommend. Even if you say 90% of it is pseudo-scientific bs, fine, read it like you would fantasy or sci-fi and there's still easily 10% of mind-expanding possibilities in here. I've read many critiques of Hanc
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by dougk16 6y ago
You didn't mention email confirmation in the first place but figure I'd mention this for others. I recently ran into a similar situation and had the idea of registrants emailing ME a secret code I give them instead of confirming t
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by dougk16 6y ago
Thank you. :) See reply to smt88 if interested in a counter.
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by dougk16 6y ago
Thanks for the response. :) My guess is that more users will be alienated simply because it's, well, alien. They're not used to it. I've never heard of a service doing this. But if you think about it it's not that onerou

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