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by dsacco 9y ago
So I have two points for you: > Take a look at so-called 'professional' cryptographers and their libraries, and you'll find that practically all of their code had severe bugs. Professionals make errors like everyone else,
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by dsacco 9y ago
> You can do crypto as a side-hobby and safely put it into production. No, you really can't, unless you stretch the definition of "side-hobby" to the point of breaking at the seams. I'd be shocked if a single person
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by dsacco 9y ago
I think that's a really good point, but I'm still going to contest it. Options are derivatives, so they're different from cryptocurrencies, which are themselves analogous to equities. An option inherently has a date of expira
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by dsacco 9y ago
In what way is teaching underpaid?
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by dsacco 9y ago
Yes, Coinbase should be required to support disbursal for every one, with the proviso that it either passes a certain price or passes a number of customers who want to withdraw it.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Yes. (And as I stated in the comment - with a proviso that the price or adoption of the cryptocurrency pass a very low but nontrivial bar.)
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by dsacco 9y ago
Regardless of the price, an exchange cannot seize customer assets by giving them 10 days notice for withdrawal. It doesn't matter if it's a separate currency - we have things resembling this in public markets, like stock splits. I
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Except they did not do anything stupid and harmful. Okay, fine. They "gave customers a 10 day ultimatum, at which time they said they would forfeit the Bitcoin Cash because it's unsupported." You can't do that. It
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's immaterial, because a company cannot force customers to forfeit assets by giving them a 10 day ultimatum.
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by dsacco 9y ago
I agree. Frankly I'm shocked it even got this far. Who on Coinbase's legal team gave the okay for such an insane directive? You can't just give customers a 10 day ultimatum to withdraw their funds or forfeit them. An exchange
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by dsacco 9y ago
That doesn't resemble anything like the business practices of mature exchanges. The best analogy I can think of offhand is a stock split or (more frequently) a dividend. An exchange could not in any universe give its customers 10 day
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by dsacco 9y ago
No, because exchanges in public markets never get to this point. Unless you're margin called, you're not put into a position where you forfeit your assets. Moreover that's still not an ultimatum where value simply goes from t
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Later, my friend took over this team of developers for his startup. What he found is that 30% developers in his team were working for two or more employers. That sounds like something inherent to the sort of candidates you hired, not
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by dsacco 9y ago
The IACR eprint archive, which is essentially arXiv for cryptography. Essentially everything worth reading in cryptography is either in the IACR eprint archive or a conference proceeding. All conference proceedings from the IACR conferences
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by dsacco 9y ago
That seems like a No True Scotsman :) If non-fashion, non-mass market brands targeted at the mid and high tiers of in-house haute horlogerie don't constitute "real watches" for you, what does? Your comment reads like I ment
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's such a generalization that I can't believe I'm bothering to refute it, but: 1. I consider myself pretty nerdy and I love the Apple Watch. You now know me, at least through Hacker News. I made another comment in this th
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by dsacco 9y ago
Hacker News is actually relatively cheap to run, because Y-Combinator owns and maintains the server hardware in-house. Instead of paying a monthly bill to a cloud company, they opted to pay a lot (relatively) for a dedicated server and amor
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's mostly linear algebra, probability theory and calculus. You're going to have a difficult time self-studying all of that if you haven't had much exposure to it. Books are probably a less efficient method of learning the
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by dsacco 9y ago
I have a few points for you in response: 1. I'm what you'd call a "watch guy." In the time I have had the Apple Watch Series 2, I have barely used my mechanicals (including a Lange & Sohne and a Nomos Glashutte). The
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by dsacco 9y ago
It's still worth a lot to be good at systems programming. Outside of the HN bubble there are plenty of companies willing to pay extremely well for people who can do systems programming, particularly under high performance constraints.
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by dsacco 9y ago
The Pi (and other mathematical constant) computation records don't go that far. They verify random results towards the end with a different algorithm.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Sure, and I'm not disagreeing that his opponents can be ridiculous. But they can also be very intelligent, and the audience will never see that side of them. The audience will see isolated clips that exaggerate their seeming incompeten
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by dsacco 9y ago
3GB of RAM is precious (and I say that as someone who has 128GB)! Your bar should not be, "Well, I don't see a slowdown." Many people still develop software on computers with only 8GB total RAM. Throw in a browser and one or
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'm of the opinion that John Oliver is not really a good source for changing people's minds. I agree with a lot of his points and he cites sources, but I find him difficult to watch. A lot of his show appears to endorse an echo ch
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by dsacco 9y ago
The commenter you're responding to is aware of all of that, as he works in the industry. With regard to "the point" of hedge funds, what you're saying is not actually correct - the S&P500 is not necessarily an approp
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Are there "societies of scrapers"? Not that I'm aware of, no. > Inside, are certain sites more worthwhile - and which ones (eg reddit, eBay, trade union websites, whatever) Yes, absolutely. For many purposes websi
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by dsacco 9y ago
Does the pool have any recourse if you proceed to bypass the ban? Do you have to re-enter to pool to bypass it, or does sending in confederates with their own badges to continue your work also bypassing the ban? How about sending in new mot
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by dsacco 9y ago
Ostensibly "ethical considerations" are a precursor to a law being ratified, and will also be used when a law is not sufficiently specified as to obviate the decision. If a party is not denying their activity in court, but rather
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by dsacco 9y ago
Satellite imagery like this is legal to within a few feet of practical resolution, pretty much anywhere. The effective countermeasure is hiding things from a satellite, not attempting to sue satellite operators for flying overhead. I'm
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's a pretty literalist, one-size fits all approach to policy. I don't think it's a good framework to use for applying ethics considerations. If I can walk near a pool, should I also be able to run? Is running anything mor

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