flashdance

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by flashdance 6y ago
> That money's not going to the homeless people. It's going to the people who run the services to support them. You think they'd want to see homelessness end? Yes, I think those people want to see homelessness end. Why els
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by flashdance 6y ago
That's exactly what it is. If you recall, these image based captchas were originally in 2007 for digitizing books. [1] In 2012, Google started using captchas to identify house numbers from google street view. [2] Now, users are identif
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by flashdance 8y ago
Well, I'll be damned. It looks like there's going to be a general strike primarily organized by the US Government. I guess horseshoe theory is real after all. Seriously though, it'll be interesting to see how much disruption
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by flashdance 9y ago
I think that's because nothing on wikipedia links to that page. I managed to go from spud gun -> great depression -> dissolution of the soviet union -> soviet union -> sputnik, but I couldn't get the last step!
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by flashdance 9y ago
Oh, I see what you mean.
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by flashdance 9y ago
You can premine chain splits. See bitcoin gold, which had a premine of 100k coins, or the very coin this thread is about, with a premine of millions.
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by flashdance 9y ago
One public key contains 1.8B USD, but take a look at the address again: 3D2oetdNuZUqQHPJmcMDDHYoqkyNVsFk9r See how it starts with a 3? Most normal bitcoin addresses start with a 1. The 3 means that it's a pay to script hash address, wh
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by flashdance 9y ago
Yes, maybe, kind of? With quantum computing it's expected that the ECDSA public-key cryptography used in bitcoin addresses will be broken. However, the ECDSA public key is only exposed when your first transaction out of the address i
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by flashdance 9y ago
Your source uses poor methodology to calculate inequality, and is really outdated. The 2014 article you're citing uses this 2013 article [1] as a source. This uses data from bitcoinrichlist.com, which contains balances for all active b
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by flashdance 9y ago
> It pays dividends It doesn't pay dividends in ETH, it pays dividends in more kitties. Is that really a dividend? If apple shares could only pay dividends in more apple shares instead of USD would they have any value? > This is
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by flashdance 9y ago
That's an MMORPG for kids. You can go on quests, enter contests, chat with friends, post on their forums, make guilds, do battle against other pets, solve puzzles, trade on the NEODAQ, and make a little home. Pets cost a few bucks. Hon
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by flashdance 9y ago
> The game's top cat brought in $117,712.12 (£87,686.11) when it sold on Saturday, 2 December. Is it weird that I think that the cat that was sold for 100K was a wash trade (someone trading with themself)? Who would honestly pay 100
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by flashdance 9y ago
Fair enough, I just figured others may find the exceptions interesting. And to be fair, both of those cryptocurrencies have been around for ~3 years now, which is practically ancient history in this field.
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by flashdance 9y ago
Monero and dash both have fairly good privacy built into the protocol [1] [2], although monero suffers from large transaction sizes and dash suffers from centralization as a result of this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by flashdance 9y ago
Many are located in Georgia and WA (honourable mention goes out to Labrador), which have cheap hydroelectricity.
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by flashdance 9y ago
Your blog is excellent, but your BM1387 numbers are a hair off. BM1387 has worse performance than 0.10J/GH @ the wall in practice. Bitmain has released 3 BM1387 based miners (S9, T9, R4). Only two are intended for industrial use and sh
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by flashdance 9y ago
Poe's law is working against me here, what gives away that this person isn't serious? I think it's cool, by the way.
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by flashdance 9y ago
That's correct, but this isn't the same! I've seen some folks on reddit mention you can get 7% of someone's deposited money as a bonus if you refer them. Only a ponzi scheme can sustain that sort of aggressive networking
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by flashdance 9y ago
> That said, I'm not sure it's a ponzi scheme exactly. Red flags: * Incredible, almost unbelievable returns * A referral program to draw in new people * Open-ended IPO, the platform has no limit on investment * Incentives for i
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by flashdance 9y ago
If you guys want to check out the most ludicrous scam I've seen, take a look at Bitconnect. It's a 2 billion dollar literal (and I mean literal) ponzi scheme. They promise 1%/day returns but only if you deposit your money on
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by flashdance 9y ago
Yeah the volatility is a huge problem right now, agreed! There's a lot of greed, too. It reminds me of 2013, but worse.
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by flashdance 9y ago
You wouldn't have a self contained lightning channel with every single merchant that has to be settled individually. I'm not sure what makes you think that, as my last post describes why the lightning network has "network&quo
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by flashdance 9y ago
With lightning it's still ultimately settled on the bitcoin network. Here's a lazy copy/paste from the site: > The Lightning Network is dependent upon the underlying technology of the blockchain. By using real Bitcoin&#x2F
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by flashdance 9y ago
Bitcoin's block size should begin to approach 1.8MB (with a super theoretical maximum of 4MB IIRC) now that the segregated witness upgrade has been activated. In the long term, additional scalability can be done using the lightning net
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by flashdance 9y ago
It's probably because you're calling him snow dog.
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by flashdance 9y ago
There is no evidence that PGP is compromised. In fact, the snowden leaks revealed that the NSA has "serious problems" following people through TOR, and is unable to decrypt some OTR and PGP encrypted messages. https://w
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by flashdance 9y ago
You're an all-star. Thanks for this, the GIFS took up half my screen.
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by flashdance 9y ago
Just noticed I said Purism 5. It's called the Librem 5--and of course I see this after it's too late to edit! :'(
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by flashdance 9y ago
The Purism 5 is going to be using a baseband processor that's similar to ones used in car infotainment systems. It won't share RAM with the CPU and will be isolated from the rest of the phone. It'll even have a hardware kill
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by flashdance 9y ago
Fair point.

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