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by greyman 12y ago
In my experience, one of the easiest ways is to just get employed by a company, where coding is done in C. You will have to code in that language a lot and the colleagues can help you. I also learned a few languages myself in my spare time
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by greyman 12y ago
Alien Blue is simply the best, there is no replacement for it (so far). I was able to find sidebar rather quickly, when I wanted to look at it. Maybe most of your visitors just doesn't care enough about a sidebar? :-) (Also, such an ar
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by greyman 12y ago
As I see it, Amazon supports authors, but not the best ones. Amazon basically wants to condition people that the price of an e-book should be no more than $9.99 max. That is good for basically all except the most quality authors (and publis
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by greyman 12y ago
My colleague uses it to run a python script to periodically download and store virtual currency prices. As I understand it, it is useful if you want to download stuff from the internet in certain time intervals.
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by greyman 13y ago
OP: Your account is interesting, but was it really necessary to confirm the doxxing?
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by greyman 13y ago
From the network. Or, at least as I understand it, Transaction Malleability basically means, that the "final" transaction can have different txid, so you shouldn't rely on it. But you can check if the transaction went through
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by greyman 13y ago
I am not bitcoin implementer, but I believe you need to maintain the list of pending withdrawal addresses, and monitor that the transactions with mtgox outputs sent to those addresses received at least 6 confirmations.
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by greyman 13y ago
Ok, but it is not very ethical. I bought their device with a good faith, that I will be able to perform most mobile computational needs with it - the device was advertised as such. Now, my need includes also to manage my crypto-currencies w
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by greyman 13y ago
Why is it a good thing?
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by greyman 13y ago
I tend to agree with you. Moreover, there is an issue of keeping the incentive to mine. The theory is, that when a coin is mined, and when it will become popular, there will be a lot of transactions, and the fees will make up a large sum wo
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by greyman 13y ago
Why do you think the price is inflated? The whole market cap is only $11B.
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by greyman 13y ago
What's so wrong with ASICs? Litecoin don't have them, and now they are plagued by a botnet who mines on infected PCs.
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by greyman 13y ago
Do you have some overview like which ones are the most promising, etc.?
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by greyman 13y ago
They forgot Bitcoin, imho.
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by greyman 13y ago
Yes, but you need a trusted authority. But I probably didn't explain it well enough. I didn't mean that you would vote which politicians will rule, you would vote on concrete decisions state such make. Nowadays, you vote politicia
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by greyman 13y ago
I am not a libertarian and do not have a political agenda, but it is imaginable that certain parts of the government could be replaced with the structure like this one. I don't know how the transition could happen, but at the end, the
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by greyman 13y ago
Ok, but I think the point is clear. USD has value because U.S. government said so and people trust that government, and Bitcoin has value because some people trust the Bitcoin network as the "currency issuer". If we imagine a scen
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by greyman 13y ago
The Krugman's problem is, that he is used to certain definition of "money", and then when something else comes, he compares it to that definition. For example, the original paper from Satoshi didn't mention the term &quo
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by greyman 13y ago
> He's entirely correct in saying Bitcoin has zero inherent value, as opposed to gold and USD. No, no, he is NOT correct on that. Bitcoin's inherent value is in the Bitcoin technology. Inherent value of USD is that government d
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by greyman 13y ago
I disagree, it was not making fun of bitcoins as a concept, but only satirized some aspects of the bitcoin community, and at the same time trying to make the cryptocurrencies to be more accessible to people. Moreover, part of the joke was t
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by greyman 13y ago
Yes, indeed. It is quite difficult to stay neutral when you invested into bitcoin. But it is also true the other way - some people have vested interest for bitcoin to not succeed, and are making statement to mainsteam media, which are not b
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by greyman 13y ago
> I don't think people should buy Bitcoins for speculative purposes. Why not, if you suppose that its price will go up?
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by greyman 13y ago
Yes, this is something above the Byzantine Generals Problem - that scenario didn't take into consideration, that the general's "agenda" is changing over time. Another interesting angle is, that in case of Bitcoin, both g
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by greyman 13y ago
By proof-of-work mechanism. Here I dug up the explanation of the Satoshi himself: http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099...
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by greyman 13y ago
I think the real question now is, whether Bitcoin can be stopped. For example, banks are "not feeling comfortable", since more fiat money are being extracted from their money network and put into BTC network. For example, I took a
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by greyman 13y ago
I would just like to mention, that "buying at the current value isn't feasible" is only your opinion, and might be wrong. I for example buy BTC even now, since I think the value in the future will be much higher. (but I also
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by greyman 13y ago
Yes, it was. But anyway, even after the correct Bf1, there isn't a mating attack, and the game would probably lead to draw, which isn't good enough for Anand. So he spent almost all his time to find some decisive attack, but there
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by greyman 13y ago
No. They are doing fine. My employer pays me a MSDN subscription, and I see a lot of great software there - it's just that tech media aren't writing much about it. They made some mistakes, yes, for example removing the start butto
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by greyman 13y ago
I wonder if it is possible to create an "ultimate" notetaking application. What I found out is that whether it is "open" is not important to me, but the GUI is. For example, organizing notes in a folder tree doesn't
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by greyman 13y ago
Why? Those two are a pretty good match.

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