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by everfree 6y ago
> Why would one person want to reduce the ability to apply economic policy in their country? It might not be good for the people as a whole, but preventing your money from being inflated is very good for any given person taken individual
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by everfree 6y ago
> You don’t need most to agree. Just the basic majority (50%+). This is a common misconception about how consensus works. Everyone on the network has to agree, anyone who doesn't agree by definition won't be on the same netwo
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by everfree 6y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to, but smart contracts will be disruptive to the finance industry. Why settle a contract in court when a computer can make a free, automatic, final deliberation based on software rules that bo
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by everfree 6y ago
Many coins are experimenting with alternative consensus algorithms, the most promising imo is proof of stake. No wasted energy beyond the cost of running a normal computer.
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by everfree 6y ago
They did? Signal seems to claim otherwise. From the linked Signal post: > Not only can Cellebrite not break Signal encryption, but Cellebrite never even claimed to be able to.
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by everfree 6y ago
At least the regulators are very keen on that one. They've been having a lot of trouble getting into that space.
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by everfree 6y ago
A simple native payment on Ethereum is only $0.16 right now, complex transactions inflate the average. And roll-up transactions are currently sitting at less than a penny.
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by everfree 6y ago
I really don't see cryptocurrency pop up that often on HN or Reddit. It's usually only when a big event happens, like this post about the most actively used network launching their 2.0 update that's been in the works for the
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by everfree 6y ago
Guaranteed payout on triggered scenario is one of the big promises of smart contracts. * Sports betting where the contract itself pays you the winnings. * Insurance where everyone pools together as peers, and the contract arbitrates payouts
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by everfree 6y ago
Linux is not "for everyone", yet it works in the background serving up major internet apps and running databases and computer systems for the benefit of everyone. Ethereum (and its competitors) aspire to be the "linux" o
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by everfree 6y ago
I know someone who needed to do a small task for someone overseas, for $50 or so. An international wire transfer would have taken $35 out, and both parties would have had to go to their banks and fill out paperwork. With PayPal, the other p
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by everfree 6y ago
It definitely doesn't go undetected, as the conflicting transactions would have to be in blocks both forking from a common block, both signed by the attacker, which is a slashing condition that would burn their staked ether.
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by everfree 6y ago
Yes, take a look at Rocket Pool: https://www.rocketpool.net/ The trick is that as the pool leader, you have to put up a 16 ETH stake and other participants pool together to make up the other 16 ETH. If you misbehave as the
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by everfree 6y ago
Computers can make predictions about conscious agents and even revise their predictions based on past data, a counterpoint to the idea that agents cannot be predicted without theory of mind. Unless I'm showing my ignorance here, which
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by everfree 6y ago
That helps a bit. I could be wrong, but I think the common belief is that professionally-developed HTTP-only sites don't really have a place anymore on the 2020s internet due to HTTP/2, security, referral tracking, and SEO limitat
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by everfree 6y ago
> Perhaps one of the downvoters can explain why the implied opinion "Nobody should be able to access your site without clearance from a third-party gatekeeper" belongs on a site called "Hacker News." I didn't vot
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by everfree 6y ago
Your post is brief, and has a grammar error that makes it harder to understand.
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by everfree 6y ago
Turn what stupidity off? The menu item that you can use to opt in to it?
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by everfree 6y ago
My guess is that either there's a built-in rule for that, or you can just click the "Continue to HTTP Site" button like in the screenshot.
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by everfree 6y ago
> No one forces you to use these services. They're voluntary The problem is that they are a lot less voluntary then you think in certain segments. * Running ads against a blog without using Google Adsense puts you at a disadvantage.
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by everfree 6y ago
That one's on the author, not the medium.
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by everfree 6y ago
Stable coins are not really tangible assets either, because they are backed (usually) by USD, which is in turn itself not backed by tangible assets.
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by everfree 6y ago
Android has an "allow software from unknown sources" option buried in the settings menu. As long as you don't specifically go looking for that option and THEN approve the source of the .apk file and THEN click install on the
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by everfree 6y ago
Your browser isn't connecting to your own IP, it's connecting to a shodan.io server which looks up your IP in their own database. Of course Shodan's web servers are always listening on port 80, just like with all websites.
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by everfree 6y ago
The results are cached: > Shodan has servers located around the world that crawl the Internet 24/7 to provide the latest Internet intelligence.
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by everfree 6y ago
Ti-ta-no-bo-a 5 syllables. Agreed that this is unwieldy to say in normal speech.
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by everfree 6y ago
Most cases are still solved by good old fashioned detective work, not digital surveillance. Cops wanting access to people's private data is just lazy. They already have access to my cell location records, financial records, surveillanc
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by everfree 6y ago
Strictly speaking, can you even have any exchange of value without a third party, though? The money has to come from somewhere at first - the government, or in the case of gold, a third party who dug it up. I think your argument is ad reduc
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by everfree 6y ago
I wouldn't necessarily want the stock of a company that I just found a critical vulnerability with.
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by everfree 6y ago
...according to some schools of belief. Truth is, there is no way to prove or disprove that, it's a debate for the ages between atheism and religion.

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