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by grubles 11y ago
To clarify my stance: I am not pitching bitcoin to anyone on hackernews (this is not a Show HN). The ability to not claw back bitcoin is a reality, unless there are flaws in the technology behind bitcoin. I believe this is a feature and soc
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by grubles 11y ago
What you speak of RE: claw-back ability is easily solved by multisig transactions with bitcoin. However, the so called "moderator" must be trusted.
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by grubles 11y ago
You don't get it. Every 7 or so transactions that bitcoin has processed in that couple or so seconds cannot be clawed back, as in NEVER, unless there is a flaw in very popular and important cryptographic technology which in of itself w
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by grubles 11y ago
Cash has failed!
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by grubles 11y ago
Why did you double post this? It's borderline FUD.
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by grubles 11y ago
>it's insulting to suggest that we get those who are "unbanked" as a result of living at no-fixed-address (ie: "homeless") should eventually move on to Bitcoin as an alternative to mainstream financial institutio
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by grubles 11y ago
>Now you're going on about chargebacks. What is with the attitude you have? I wasn't going on about anything, really. You brought up transaction times which are related to confirmation times. Anything other than bitcoin is mola
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by grubles 11y ago
>You're either clueless or lying here. Surely, before claiming I could be lying you at least googled credit card chargebacks? This is an example from Discover: "If you have found a charge you believe is incorrect, you may reque
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by grubles 11y ago
And this medium.com post signals yet another of the hundreds of forks of bitcoin that have failed and not bitcoin itself.
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by grubles 11y ago
The China mining percentage could change and is likely about to change: http://www.coindesk.com/bitfury-details-100-million-georgia-...
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by grubles 11y ago
I did and it's FUD.
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by grubles 11y ago
>maybe a few minutes to a few hours for your transaction to go through? Credit cards take 180 days for the transaction to confirm. Paypal is able to be clawed-back for up to almost the same amount of time. Cash can be counterfeited. Even
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by grubles 11y ago
> boots at least twice as fast as Honestly, why is this important? I want a system that is fast once booted, not a system that boots quickly.
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by grubles 11y ago
Actually, it doesn't matter if the clippings wash down into the drains because the rain water will absorb the nitrogen and herbicide/pesticides which will then flow into the wetlands. I live right next to a popular lake where ther
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by grubles 11y ago
But, I thought noscript breaks the web? What it seems like is web-devs are breaking the web. Somehow, they have turned browsing the web into a worse situation than watching cable television.
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by grubles 11y ago
Further down the twitter convo: https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt/status/631715218788360192
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by grubles 11y ago
The light pollution is solved with an eye-cover, at least.
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by grubles 11y ago
That device is called ear-plugs.
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by grubles 11y ago
What? AMD has support for IOMMU.
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by grubles 11y ago
Great name! For those that don't know Senna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSZj8v_Dqzk
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Apple crashes into bear market: $160B gone(usatoday.com)
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by grubles 11y ago
Correct. P2P payments brought to you by profit-seeking, privacy-invading mega-companies are not relevant to most people.
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by grubles 11y ago
>these people really didn't do anything to warrant the unreasonable amount of gain they have or will have. Not true. Miners helped secure the network (and were rewarded with more bitcoins for doing so due to the mining difficulty) w
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by grubles 11y ago
Perhaps because the people in the video are only floating faces without a skull, neck, or hair?
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by grubles 11y ago
"comparisons of different archived versions of the three smoking gun posts from Wright’s blog show that he did edit all three—to insert evidence of his bitcoin history. The PGP key associated with Nakamoto’s email address and reference
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by grubles 11y ago
The issue is what law(s) did the RC heli pilot break? A part of that issue is making RC pilots aware of the limits of their flying.
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by grubles 11y ago
Clearly murder is way way way more widely known to be illegal. That isn't a good example. The article doesn't even mention the laws the RC helicopter pilot could have broken.
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by grubles 11y ago
The wrong-drummer-guy killed it! He made the other band members look out of place.
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by grubles 11y ago
What systemd?? OpenRC here. <:)
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by grubles 11y ago
HP Mini (Intel Atom) with Gentoo here! With no X it sits pretty at 12MB RAM usage. Now to figure out what daemons to run on it...

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