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by dsuth 13y ago
I was under the impression that the whole point of Bitcoin was that it was a decentralised currency, and your coins lived in your wallet. What is the value of actually entrusting your coins to 3rd party where they're outside of your co
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by dsuth 13y ago
> There are plenty of entrepreneurs on HN alone who given the resources Gox had could manage to not (unknowingly) lose half a billion dollars due to broken programming in the timespan that Gox did. Easy to say. Nobody sets out to fail.
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by dsuth 13y ago
Absolutely not. Purge systems like this WILL go off if they are not bypassed. Typically you have a short amount of time to hit the 'don't purge me, bro' button, before the system dumps. They're designed to protect critic
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by dsuth 13y ago
I think this is key, and it's important to understand that the self-discipline you are required to learn to excel in school and university is a large part of the reason you're there in the first place. It's not just about lea
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by dsuth 13y ago
Agreed. The subset of people who think they're great, and are great is vanishingly small IME. In fact after around 15 years of working as an engineer, I can think of maybe 2 people who fit that subset, and easily 50 who were legends
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by dsuth 13y ago
Wait no longer! At the bottom of the linked post: More importantly, McCaleb replied to my email. In response to my question "Did anyone ever actually trade card for card or money for card on Mtgox.com?", he replied "yeah the
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by dsuth 13y ago
You mustn't work in an office environment then. The only significant break from MS products I've seen has been Lotus Notes... which was significantly worse than Exchange. MS Office is the defacto file format for office work, and M
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by dsuth 13y ago
Sadly, twitch gaming is not something that improves with age. Think more strategic gaming (and no, Dota2 doesn't count).
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by dsuth 13y ago
Depends on weight.
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by dsuth 13y ago
That sounds like an expensive way to do it. Shin splints are incredibly common for runners of all types, and a lot of the solutions are well-understood. 1. Get fitted for proper running shoes. There should be shops nearby that will watch yo
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by dsuth 13y ago
So. There are sports which don't require competing with other people in any real sense - take a look at rock climbing, hiking, riding bikes, SCUBA diving, tai chi, yoga, dancing etc etc. Some of these can be solitary if you don't
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by dsuth 13y ago
1000 calories a week seems a little bit low, but I'll admit that's just anecdotal - I'll do about 1kcal in a single 10 kilometre run. In terms of fitness and general health, I notice a big difference if I'm getting regul
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by dsuth 13y ago
Likewise disappointed at what passes for discussion on this topic, on Hacker News of all places.
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by dsuth 13y ago
It's recently been suggested that it actually is possible to drain someone's wallet using transaction malleability, if they are not using the reference software. See below: https://anders.io/the-troublesome-history
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by dsuth 13y ago
At this stage those two thing (free and peaceful drug trade, and illegal drug trade) are very much the same thing.
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by dsuth 13y ago
This is weirdly incorrect for a number of reasons. Firstly it's not simply a domain change. There's very good reason to believe that the architectural problems MTGox are facing today may be due in part to re-using not fit-for-purp
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by dsuth 13y ago
People have been calling it that for as long as I've followed BTC and MTGox; that is, after all, it's name. And there have been serious questions about it's credibility in all that time as well.
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by dsuth 13y ago
> Medicine hasn't fundamentally changed our quality of life. Maybe not for you, but I think many current and former developing countries would strongly disagree. Take a look at this: http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.or
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by dsuth 13y ago
Not to mention the environmental concerns with putting industrial complexes in one of our most pristine environments.
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by dsuth 13y ago
I hope you weren't seated at a desk when you wrote this out; it's a pretty horrific knee-jerk reaction. Nowhere in the article does it suggest that sexual assault based on clothing is ok. It's actually a well-reasoned article
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by dsuth 13y ago
Oh god, I bought this hook, line, and sinker. Son of a...
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by dsuth 13y ago
As I understand it, Apple also required any app selling things in iOS to give them 30%. Which is why for example, Amazon does not have an in-app link to their ebook site through the Kindle app. Bitcoin could potentially circumvent this.
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by dsuth 13y ago
I don't think anyone is forcing you to use an iPhone? They are well within their rights to decide what is and isn't acceptable on their devices. And you're well within your rights to buy something else. Or buy nothing (crazy
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by dsuth 13y ago
Agreed, the first thing that comes to mind is "careful what you wish". At present, the NSA has an obvious vulnerability in that their data centres are somewhat in the open, and scattered around. If this scheme actually worked, the
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by dsuth 13y ago
As you would, really.
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by dsuth 13y ago
Not here (Australia). iTunes can take anywhere up to 40 minutes to download enough of a high res movie to start watching. And can then randomly stop the movie as it fails to keep up enough bandwidth over the 1:30 or so run duration. Torrent
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by dsuth 13y ago
I think a lot of time is wasted trying to interpret comments with spelling/grammar problems. Every time I see something like 'should of' instead of 'should have', my brain trips out and I have to re-read the sentenc
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by dsuth 13y ago
In some cases IAP actually facilitates better games. Developers can put in enough effort to get the base game up and running, and then use IAP to spur additional content development throughout the life of the game. I'm thinking specifi
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by dsuth 13y ago
I never had the click about pointers, I guess the way they were introduced to me just made them feel intuitive. I'll never forget the time when programming changed from mechanically entering statements, to controlling the flow of data
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by dsuth 13y ago
Don't these bans typically have to do with things like exporting cryptographic softer or techniques? This is the first thing that popped into my head.

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