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by dperfect 13y ago
The "puzzle" to be solved is a hash (of recent transactions and an arbitrary number) with certain required characteristics, and finding a valid solution is a matter of chance - basically through brute force. The fastest supercompu
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by dperfect 13y ago
From the article: "...one fundamental building block that BTC needs right now: legitimacy" "Imagine if you were able to provide governments assurance that every BTC wallet that cashed out into USD had a thorough KYC procedure
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Any performance issues (which you brought up before the edit) should be entirely the concern of the class whose method is causing the issues. Anything on the outside shouldn't have to rely on syntactic clues to discover when something
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by dperfect 13y ago
It's not about a fear of losing the original, but losing each step in the process (which may be thousands of steps), having flexibility, and maintaining pixel information/quality throughout multiple edits. Another way to think abo
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Agreed. Some gifted people create stunning works of art with unconventional or limited tools. Tatsuo Horiuchi uses Excel to create beautiful paintings. I guess my point is that it's hard to argue against using non-destructive editing
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Non-destructive editing has been on the list of GIMP feature requests and roadmaps for many years. I may be wrong, but it sounds like the problem is more a misalignment of project goals with target user requirements rather than a sheer lack
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by dperfect 13y ago
Non-destructive editing isn't about knowing or not knowing what you want. If you're a professional coder, shouldn't you know exactly what you want to accomplish without needing to experiment? Why not then write the final vers
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by dperfect 13y ago
The thing you're missing is that the differences between GIMP and Photoshop are not just user interface idioms. I wish it were that simple (I'd love to switch to GIMP if I could). It's not a matter of "learning somethi
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by dperfect 13y ago
If you're using Photoshop for the purpose it was designed for (editing photos, not illustration/painting from scratch), then GIMP is absolutely inferior in its current form. If you're making edits directly to source pixel lay
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From what I can tell, the still-perfect bracket is not in the Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge, but just at the top of the overall leaderboard among all brackets/pools on Yahoo.
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I'd venture to guess that the difference between a requirement of just 1 endorsement from users with karma >= 1 and the current HN is fairly significant (a downvote differs conceptually from a nonexistent endorsement), so you may no
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I agree. I've seen some beautiful PHP over the years, but much of it... isn't so beautiful. The culprit as you say isn't so much the current state of the language, but the legacy left as the language has evolved and the commu
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Maybe the biggest tragedy of Mt. Gox is that even after doing well and earning loads of revenue, they still didn't recognize (or hire someone who would help them recognize) their own weaknesses. This story should be a wake-up call fo
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Neither. I prefer a successful company run by competent people since it has greater chances of survival ;)
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Many people are expressing surprise by the events that have unfolded here with Mark Karpeles and Mt. Gox, but I'm not surprised in the least. I've known several web developer "enthusiasts" over the years who know just en
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Would you rather give your money to fix a symptom of the problems we face currently as humans, or to help build a self-sustaining machine with the economic incentive to improve lives for as long as we vote with our dollars that the machine&
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My comment refers to the hope or expectation that noble acts will always be outwardly rewarded in some form (in this life or after) by a being who rewards us based on merit. That expectation is not a driving force for an atheist or naturali
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If that kind of "reward" isn't noble enough (I don't know of anything nobler), then we might as well not live at all.
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Not sure who said it, but "our greatest reason for being is to serve others." Even an atheist must admit that there's a certain satisfaction that comes from helping other people (even anonymously) that really has no limit. Go
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I assume this only affects configurations with ngx_http_spdy_module enabled. Can anyone confirm whether or not that's the case?
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by dperfect 13y ago
Looks like it's just adding convenience to built-in RubyGems signing. Relevant lines: https://github.com/steakknife/waxseal/blob/master/bin/waxsea... (generates the signature using "gem ce
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by dperfect 13y ago
True - most do some heavy IO when first launched. I've tested syncing modest amounts of data with Google Drive, Dropbox, Box.net, as well as backups with Dolly Drive, CrashPlan and Arq. In my experience, none of the other clients come
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by dperfect 13y ago
I think the point is that it should be user-configurable. Most of the competitors' desktop clients (including Dropbox) have a setting for that, so you can choose what suits your needs.
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I agree. Due to the lack of throttling, I had to write a script that paused Google Drive any time I was using the computer - just to have network and CPU resources to do simple things like browse the web (and this was on a fairly recent, fa
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by dperfect 13y ago
I won't go near Google Drive until they fix some serious longstanding issues with the desktop client. The two that caused me to abandon Google Drive (I even have a free TB for 3 years from my Chromebook Pixel): 1. No way to re-sync exi
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Practical applications of Bitcoin (as a network) are popping up all the time, but it's true that they are still in their infancy. That doesn't mean the value isn't there. If value were judged purely on current implementation
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"all transactions are being translated to other currencies immediately afterwards" Many merchants that accept Bitcoin are currently converting as you say via services like BitPay, but I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say
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by dperfect 13y ago
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Is_Bitcoin_a_Ponzi_scheme.3F As mentioned in the link, Bitcoin certainly has tremendous value beyond simply making early adopters rich. If you don't believe it, I encourage you to li
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"at least a double-digit percentage of transactions belong to the illicit economy" Would you mind sharing your source?
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Nothing new here - it's the same rehashed argument made previously by countless (often uninformed) Bitcoin detractors. Clear and concise responses to the claims made here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Is_Bitcoin_

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