gerikson

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   by gerikson 7y ago

   Ah, the call of the sea... In my late teens I took a course in French in the city of Royan, on France's Atlantic coast. A couple of my classmates were from the US, and they invited me over to where they were living. It was a small sail
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   Same here. I can sort of understand why people confuse 'lose' and 'loose' due to incorrect spellchecking, but 'loosing' isn't even correct English.
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   Craig Wright in particular is suing people in the UK for libel for stating that he is not Satoshi.[1] Being sued for libel in the UK is no joke. [1] https://decrypt.co/6520/peter-mccormack
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   Swede here. I asked my wife too, her reply is that the color "khaki" is a shade of green - "khakigrönt". But the specific style of pants - "khakibyxor" - are generally beige.
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   [I now see I mispelled "gold" as "good" in my comment, my bad] As far as I know, none of those countries promises to redeem bearers of banknotes with an equivalent value in gold, which is what being on a gold standard me
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   > It is incredibly ironic to me that anyone in a leadership role at Wikipedia would criticize Zuckerberg or Dorsey. According to (ironically) Wikipedia[1], Sanger left the project in 2006^W the early 2000s: > Frustrated by sustained c
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   Thanks, I’ve missed that development.
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   This is the second time today I’ve seen someone say that governments use good as a currency. What governments do this?
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   Are there any live sidechains in production? I thought the team behind them moved on to the Lightning Network.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    I can write cursive but I can’t read my own handwriting - so now I print.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Thanks for clarifying! Fees are denominated in satoshis though, and even today the average USD amount of fees is around $8,000 per block[1] (around 6% of the total reward). A 10x increase of the BTC price will make that amount around the sa
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    > many countries don't tie their currency value to gold Is there any national currency still on the gold standard?
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    > But at that point the cost of the electricity consumption of Bitcoin will be borne entirely by Bitcoin's users I'm not sure what you mean by this. If a certain percentage of energy is used by PoW, less is available for other
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Mining rewards will be replaced by transaction fees. There will still be an economic incentive to keep the hardware running.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    > Food companies are responsible for producing healthy food. Automobile companies are responsible for producing safe vehicles. Social media services should be responsible for creating environments and discussions that benefit the people.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    You used to send sealed letters with the reasonable expectation that it would arrive intact and unread. Now everyone[1] sends the equivalent of a postcard - the vast majority of which are actually read/scanned by the entities doing the
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Thanks for sharing your experiences. I've never visited Appalachia, and I'm afraid my views are filtered through popular media. But even if a TV show like "Justified" (I've seen the first 3 seasons) bends to narrati
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    The banking system is decentralized too, but the word has a specific meaning in cryptocurrency circles - which I think Libra is invoking. I do agree that currently the Bitcoin mining/transaction system is centralized to a few very larg
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    I missed that! That's very interesting.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    M-x spook. https://everything2.com/title/M-x+spook
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    I liked Google Wave. It was helpful in planning a trip with multiple participants.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Exactly. This will just be a "meta-currency", stable against a basket of government-issued fiat, and with a permissioned transaction system built on top of it. Libra's use of buzzwords like "blockchain" and "de
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    > I'm questioning why FB and the member parties didn't just support an existing solution/infrastructure. You cannot build a stablecoin on crypto-assets that have limited issuance.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Good answer. I doubt however that Libra's terms of service will allow purchase of "real" crypto - just like I doubt they will allow purchase of drugs, porn, or malware.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Are you asking why you personally should not use Libra in preference to BTC/ETH, or whether the parties in the Libra organisation should use BTC/ETH?
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    by gerikson 8y ago

    Loyalty programs fill that role.
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    by gerikson 8y ago

    > The code that runs on your bank and "legal system" was written by people who make mistakes as well. And the results the code produces is constantly audited, both internally and externally.
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    by gerikson 8y ago

    Both solutions rely on trusted 3rd parties then.
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    by gerikson 8y ago

    Russia moved over to constant DST with around 6 weeks notice a few years ago. It was chaos.
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    by gerikson 8y ago

    The company I work for uses Microsoft libraries, and we deal with timezones and DST all the time. In my opinion, Microsoft does a great job keeping track of the different changes instituted by politicians around the world. It's unfortu