genwin

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by genwin 13y ago
I understand your position. Presumably SO wants to maximize its readership. What I've seen is that they allow any programming question, even of trivial nature, as long as it's objective not subjective. I like that and think it&#x2
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by genwin 13y ago
If I'm reading correctly: Coinbase provided confirmation that the email addresses on pastebin are Coinbase customers, and also provided the associated names. Coinbase doesn't think that's a serious issue.
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by genwin 13y ago
Asking stuff that is already on StackOverflow I agree, otherwise I don't. On SO people vote, and the answers can be edited, so a very good answer among any documentation anywhere is often near the top of the SO question.
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by genwin 13y ago
It's great when you have time to spare, to learn every nuance of a thing. It's worse than alternatives when you quickly want an example to copy/paste, which is usually my case. For instance, compare googling for "c# run
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by genwin 13y ago
I reckon non-anonymous bitcoin holders are at greater risk than the average person with money in the bank, since draining the account of the former is a relative cinch once the keys are divulged. The whole crime could be completed within a
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by genwin 13y ago
Yes, or sleep to elapse a time that's longer than needed to queue up the async message, say half a second, before returning the message to the browser.
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by genwin 13y ago
> Admittedly I am mostly a C# developer and Microsoft does a really good job when it comes to documentation, at least in most cases. I too use StackOverflow as a reference manual. Often the #1 answer is the concise example I'm looki
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by genwin 13y ago
Except for the non-zero possibility it could make the difference between you being murdered during a home invasion, or not.
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by genwin 13y ago
I think I see your point; clever. The site could show the message and only then send the mail asynchronously. I guess that's why you said most implementations.
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by genwin 13y ago
How would they be vulnerable to a timing attack?
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by genwin 13y ago
The IRS is 100% in the business of noticing when your tax filing doesn't jive with the numbers others reported to them about you. To have low risk of getting caught with unreported Bitcoin gains, you'd need to sell anonymously.
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by genwin 13y ago
> Keep your funds in your own secure cold storage wallet, and you'll have them forever. In regards to Coinbase, if only because their terms make it clear they aren't liable for a customer loss of any cause whatsoever.
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by genwin 13y ago
> bitpay already offer 0% fees for a flat $30/month What about the spread? The transaction fees charged by stock brokers approaches zero because they make the real bank on the spread.
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by genwin 13y ago
For CC I get "charged" ~1.5% (pay extra, because prices are higher due to high CC usage), because I get ~1.5% back as a reward I'll definitely use. The exchange spread cost for Bitcoin could easily be > 1.5% and it would b
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by genwin 13y ago
Agreed, when the coins are tumbled like that. But if they weren't?
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by genwin 13y ago
You can, but it's tax evasion when you acquired the Bitcoin for less than its value when you bought something with it.
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by genwin 13y ago
It's an honor system, the same as for other non-tracked property. You sell bitcoin, you pay capital gains taxes to pay for gov't infrastructure and services provided to you (the things they give in exchange for taxes). You get rob
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by genwin 13y ago
Perhaps the difference is that the IRS can theoretically tell how long you've held the particular bitcoin coin you're selling, whereas gold coins aren't so easily traceable in that way.
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by genwin 13y ago
Don't take my advice: Forget about it. Don't spend many hours trying to report a relatively small loss the IRS presumably doesn't know about, especially of a new type of property the IRS might be very interested to know (if
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by genwin 13y ago
Or avoiding your service altogether when they realize they can't depend on the cloud being always accessible.
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by genwin 13y ago
I've been wondering myself, if CloudFlare helps against DDoS attacks when the page is dynamically generated for each user. For static pages it should help.
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by genwin 13y ago
People downvote when they disagree. Presumably they won't endorse a pending comment when they disagree, regardless of quality.
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by genwin 13y ago
There is already a "downvote to gray-out" feature for that, that works fine for the few comments like that.
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by genwin 13y ago
Pretty much my sentiment too. Noise is good. I endorse a comment by reading halfway through it. Forget about making unpopular viewpoints, no matter politeness or evidence; they're not getting past the pending comments filter.
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by genwin 13y ago
Probably better for them if they be upfront by showing buy and sell rates like other money changers.
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by genwin 13y ago
> Myself for instance, I don't consider facilitating tax evasion and impossibility to regulate by democratically elected governments a point in favour of bitcoin. If we had a strong democracy I'd support your viewpoint here. Bu
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by genwin 13y ago
I get your point that it can be indirectly devalued. That should be true for any store of wealth imaginable. A transfer of cash is a transfer of a continuously devaluing currency. If I bury a barrel of cash to give to my heirs it might be w
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by genwin 13y ago
1. Good points. I'm thinking in terms of giving, not trading, as in heirs. Currently leaving money for heirs is messy with probate and paperwork and taxes. There are solutions like living trusts and so forth but again that's paper
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by genwin 13y ago
Two benefits that makes it all worthwhile: 1) you can transfer it to someone else (e.g. an heir) cost free, tax free, paperwork free, without the gov't even knowing you did it. Illegal, but you can do it and probably get away with it.
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by genwin 13y ago
In which case the banks can simply have the gov't force future taxpayers to make them solvent again. Perhaps bitcoin will one day attain "too big to fail" as well.

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