exo762

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by exo762 11y ago
This thread needs to get nuked by admins. Amount of "downvote because I disagree", "upvote whatever because hype" is astounding. Your response is an example. It's better articulated then many others [0], [1] and yet
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by exo762 11y ago
> I believe that most of money consumed by the financial system actually goes back into the economy. Some bankers buy sushis, then sushi chefs buy gasoline, then oil drillers... and so on. BitCoin tends to waste energy irrecoverably. Bit
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by exo762 11y ago
> Because if somebody can spend $1mln to perform 51% attack and move around $1bln, that will likely be done. This attack allows double spending and censorship. It does not allow to directly steal someone's BTC. > Also, when a ban
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by exo762 11y ago
IPFS is an attempt to fix link rot by addressing content by its contents, not its location. Very cool project.
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Nor it is server's fault. Do we have http status code group for reality flaws?
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by exo762 11y ago
Signal having all three qualities author is blogging about: security, multi-device cync, and usability basically makes this post and SMU theory nil. This looks like a case of "I have my theory, now lets bend facts to fit the theory&quo
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Chromium? No more closed source blobs [0] [0]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/26/googles_not_listenin...
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by exo762 11y ago
From what I've read in docs posted above, identity key is copied from S-Android to S-Desktop. If you lose S-Android, there are two possibilities. 1) Your keys are safe (device was encrypted and/or you've wiped it remotely, wh
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by exo762 11y ago
This is false. I've tested this possibility by turning off phone and Signal Desktop still receives messages. Description of plan around which protocol was build is here [0]. [0]: https://gist.github.com/TheBlueMatt&#x2F
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by exo762 11y ago
Signal is currently beta testing "Signal Desktop" which introduces (somewhat limited) multi-device sync capability. I use it and I'm happy about experience. I basically don't need other communicators right now for close
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I agree. Increasing block size to 4-8 Mb is probably safe. And it would encourage more adoption. At this moment, unfortunately, confirmation times are close to unreliable.
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by exo762 11y ago
I personally use it for amounts starting from 30c. But two questions should be answered. How micro is micro-payment? Popular fee right now is at 0.0001 BTC which corresponds to ~0.04USD, which could be considered not very "micro-fee&qu
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by exo762 11y ago
Nice little project! The issue is, at this moment Bitcoin does not really support micro-transactions. There is a proposal in progress which will fix this though. Its called "Lightning Network" and it will act as aggregator of tran
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by exo762 11y ago
Your argument is in fact two arguments. First one is: "women are discriminated against". Second one is: "women are fighting back, men brought it onto themselves". So lets go through part one, "women are oppressed&qu
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by exo762 11y ago
Yeah, we do what we can, as good as we can. But I'm imagining that medical community also tries their best to a) push state of knowledge forward b) safely apply known best practices while curing patients, thus acting in patients best i
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by exo762 11y ago
I wonder when software developers of the world will apologise for systematic under-evaluation of time required to finish the project, failing projects, state of end-point security, software patents. Sincerely yours, software developer.
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This is just like printing out private keys for bitcoin wallet. AKA "paper wallet".
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by exo762 11y ago
This is very peculiar. New tool is introduced, which joins a set of existing tools (bots) which address the same problem. Some comparison of quality and robustness is expected. Instead author gives us some insight into his/hers source
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by exo762 11y ago
Anecdotally, on my year around 75% of students were there just because CS was supposed to bring money. They've started CS studies while not knowing how to program, knowing nothing about operating systems or caring. For them it was a 9-
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by exo762 11y ago
I disagree. In small group all people who can judge you interact with you on every day basis and they KNOW you. Also, they have all reasons to believe that "Do to others as you would have them do to you" actually works, since judg
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by exo762 11y ago
Self-driving cars are the necessary but not sufficient condition to solve traffic problems. Start with that and remove 1-person-1-car model [0], add ride-sharing software, ban human drivers [1] and done, no more traffic problems. As for you
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by exo762 11y ago
This is false. E.g. they make perfectly clear that some software (e.g. games) are perfectly fine being proprietary and closed source.
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by exo762 11y ago
Informing NSA about bugs before fixing them is grand. This alone qualifies MS software as malware.
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No really. Bot was executed on user's machine, but effects of bot work were reaching well beyond user's machine, destroying economics of game, user experience and company profits.
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a) closed source b) what does this exactly bring to the table comparing with Erlang/Elixir, Rust, Haskell or Go? I think that chances of this project getting traction are low. So question is, why?
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by exo762 11y ago
Project is alive. Latest update on blog [0] is only a week old. AFAIR they have moved from Namecoin to Bitcoin blockchain some time ago. [0] http://blog.onename.com/
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Hugged to death. https://archive.is/cMWCQ
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by exo762 11y ago
> Bitcoin solves none of this, btw - you still want to make sure whatever micropayment scheme you use doesn't hand over your Bitcoin to a fraudster. Such scheme being HTTPS? Unless you are speaking about "stolen content" w
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If your threat model involves wrench, you are OOL. Fortunately, its not true for most of us.
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There are existing algorithms that do that. E.g. Paxos, Raft, 2PC. Real breakthrough of Nakamoto is devising a scheme where whole network is protected against Sybil attack. I.e. there is no need to don't trust or register parties who p

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