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Uber banned in Germany(translate.google.com)
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by gst 12y ago
Most of the current systems appear to use manual rebalancing - if bikes aren't evenly distributed someone from the company operation the bike share program manually distributes bikes from one station to another station. I wonder how we
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by gst 12y ago
According to the site it's 2.5% instead of 2.75%.
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by gst 12y ago
https://justcoin.com/ would be an option (appears to currently have the largest Stellar volume out of the few exchanges that trade it). Here are the current prices: http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/s
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by gst 12y ago
I've heard multiple times now that it's hard to cancel contracts at various providers, but I don't really see how this is an issue. If the official way (according to the contract) to cancel a contract is a phone call, what di
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by gst 12y ago
What is the license under which those hashes are distributed? Just because something is distributed publicly doesn't mean it can be legally redistributed.
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by gst 12y ago
IANAL, but many European countries have something called "Database copyright" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_European_... ). Basically if you build a database of something you can get
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by gst 12y ago
Credit card fraud is a problem for credit card companies, but as a user I couldn't care less. The last time someone copied my credit card I've got a call from Amex within a few days, they reversed the transactions and sent me a ne
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by gst 12y ago
Not the lack of nodes, but the lack of exit nodes. It doesn't look like OnionShare requires/uses any exit nodes.
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by gst 12y ago
Yes to both questions (under the assumption that those vhosts use different SSL certificates).
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by gst 12y ago
It's a zero-sum game. Revenue = cost.
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by gst 12y ago
You mean that the number of transactions grows faster than the mining capacity? I've covered a similar case in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7846564 (it's #2). In general, if you want more transactions you
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by gst 12y ago
You can't create money out of thin air. It's the same as with dollars (and any other currency). The more money you print the more you will devalue each individual unit (due to inflation). In Bitcoin this currently doesn't mat
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by gst 12y ago
See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7846502
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by gst 12y ago
This externalized costs basically result in inflationary factors, as it increases the number of Bitcoins in circulation. So everyone who is holding Bitcoin is paying for them. Currently those inflationary factors are offset by the deflation
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by gst 12y ago
The block reward will continue to half in regular intervals during the next decades, while the price of a Bitcoin can't continue to double in regular intervals during the next decades (see: limits of exponential growth, etc.). This lea
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by gst 12y ago
The direct cost per transaction (= the mining fees paid by the person who initiated the transaction) is $0.06. The externalized cost per transaction (= the block reward divided by the number of transactions) is $50.
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by gst 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how this will work out in the long-term. Currently the cost of Bitcoin transaction is already at around $50 which makes Bitcoin transactions quite expensive. The only reason why this cost doesn't matter ye
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by gst 12y ago
Given that almost all clients support SNI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication ) nowadays, there's not really a need anymore for wildcard certificates (if all you want to do is enable a few subdoma
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by gst 12y ago
That new law seems to address this: "... and require them to base their processing center in Russia". How would sanctions work with a local subsidiary that does the processing?
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by gst 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking
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by gst 13y ago
> and neither is anyone else who is living in the United States.
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by gst 13y ago
That really depends on the country. For example, in Austria there's the "Buergerkarte" which is essentially a smartcard that can apply digital signatures. Your public key on that card is certified by a government agency. If y
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by gst 13y ago
The 2K BTC were mentioned on the leaked MtGox documents which were published one week ago or so. Given that many facts in those documents match with information that was published later on, it appears that those documents could be authentic
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by gst 13y ago
That would be MtGox 3.0. MtGox 1.0 got hacked in 2011 and users of MtGox 2.0 didn't seem to care.
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by gst 13y ago
People aren't hating Mark Karpeles because he messed up, but because of the completely absurd response to this situation. Optimal response: A message to the customers as soon as the issue is noticed: "Due to a technical problem we
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by gst 13y ago
> Apple's iMessage works fine with Android in the western developed world where you can get unlimited/cheap SMS. No, it doesn't. It works in simple cases as long as none of the iMessage participants invites someone else in
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by gst 13y ago
"Most liveable" always depends on what factors are important to you. If you average out everything I guess Vienna looks quite nice: Low income disparity, good social security system, low crime rate, etc. But if you're a HN re
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by gst 13y ago
I meant the "until you send it back part". If "every wallet becomes tainted" and "you can't send it back" this would make it trivial for an attacker to taint a large number of wallets in the Bitcoin networ
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by gst 13y ago
This doesn't work in practice. Transactions using Bitcoin "addresses" are just one (out of many) transaction types. As far as I understand the protocol it's possible that you receive those coins via a transaction type th

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