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by gst 13y ago
Technology doesn't move backwards in time. Or in other words: As long as there isn't (from a technical point of view) a better thing than Bitcoin (for all of its current use cases) Bitcoin won't die.
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by gst 13y ago
I like his quotes: > I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I&
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by gst 13y ago
pwdhash uses a weak hashing mechanism, making it possible to brute-force master passwords. It is OK to use, but make sure that you have a cryptographically strong master password.
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by gst 13y ago
So the user got lucky once. The thief can repeat that process as often as he likes. He only needs to succeed a single time. And even if he doesn't succeed the evidence is pretty thin and might not be enough for a prosecution.
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by gst 13y ago
I'm not sure if it's that easy. There are dozens of sites that allow you to mix your coins - so that it's harder to track them back. In theory, all it needs is one single non-cooperating gambling or dice site: 1) Split your i
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by gst 13y ago
So how does your argument affect stock options? Once a company IPO'ed they aren't much different from stock from any other company. Do you suggest to sell them as soon as they vest?
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by gst 13y ago
So how would you provide it in an anonymous fashion? Send it via mail, with your fingerprints and DNA on it? Or try to electronically transmit it via Tor or something, and if you mess up get jailed for electronically submitting such informa
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by gst 13y ago
Which difficulties? When you sell on coinbase they ACH you your dollars within 2 business days. The problems you're talking about only affect a single exchange (MtGox) out of many.
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by gst 13y ago
Actually you could. Just limit the max. number of instructions that are allowed to be executed in order for a script to be valid.
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by gst 13y ago
> The platform would never tank because people know roughly what it's worth. So what exactly is the worth of one ounce of gold? The current market price? Or another price? What's the difference to Bitcoin in regards to pricing?
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by gst 13y ago
Haven't lived in Munich yet, but I expect salaries in cities like London or Zurich to be significantly higher.
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by gst 13y ago
But which advantages would this have for me as a user? As far as I know the merchant contracts with the credit card companies require merchants to charge the same fee, independent of the payment method. But then, when I pay via credit card
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by gst 13y ago
Isn't there a tax treaty between Germany and the United States to avoid double taxation?
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by gst 13y ago
The behavior of US CBP seems reasonable to me. The traveller gave an incorrect address and so they sent him to the secondary inspection to clarify things. Better than slowing down the whole queue of people waiting for primary inspection. An
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by gst 13y ago
Most European banks do. Only few US banks do. Primary reason for this difference is that it's trivial to transfer money from one European bank account to any other bank account. It basically works like email, where you can just enter a
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by gst 13y ago
Do you have any reason to believe that the wealth distribution of other coins (forked from Bitcoin) looks much different? With an deflationary currency you will always have early adopters that own a large percentage of the wealth.
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by gst 13y ago
There are already some existing Bitmessage gateways such as http://bitmsg.cc/ . Looks like using something like this would be a better solution for a Lavabit-successor: Use a secure messaging protocol and then only use gatew
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by gst 13y ago
Does the Opera license allow to distribute modified versions setup to automatically use Tor for .onion URLs, without getting special permissions from Opera Software? In addition: Why Opera? I don't see any significant advantages over F
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by gst 13y ago
Firefox is open-source and can be legally modified. Opera isn't.
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by gst 13y ago
Even though it seems that in this particular there is no extradition, it's somewhat concerning that there are so many countries that would extradit their citizens to a foreign country, although those citizens might have never visited t
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by gst 13y ago
Only if you assume that there won't be any other advances in technology that will speed up simulating a brain (such as more specialized processors). Look at genetic sequencing. It was really hard to get from 0% to 1% of sequenced human
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by gst 13y ago
Similar (official) reason to why data retention for cell phone location data exists in Austria: To locate mountaineers who got lost in the Alps.
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by gst 13y ago
Hetzner's prices include 19% German VAT. If you order from outside of the European Union Hetzner doesn't charge VAT, so you only pay around 50 Euros instead of 59 Euros.
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by gst 13y ago
Due to the UK's key disclosure laws ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingd... ) encryption doesn't help. If you don't provide your key to the government they can put you in jail for
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by gst 13y ago
Censorship is always the solution. Because the user does not know what he wants. Is this what you want to say?
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by gst 13y ago
Shouldn't this be actually the better case (Apple not replying to a DMCA notification?). IANAL, but it seems the safe harbor policy of the DMCA don't apply if the service provider just ignores DMCA notification. Which means you do
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by gst 13y ago
The problem is not allowing or disallowing GM food, but the strict labeling requirements in the EU. If there's GM involved it must be labeled accordingly. Unrelated to if oppposing GM food is a "knee-jerk" reaction or not, th
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by gst 13y ago
With 1/10th of the cost ($3000) you can pay a good programmer for something like a week at most. Do you think this app will be completely done within one week?
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by gst 13y ago
English law is common law. For further reading I recommend the following two Wikipedia links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term) It
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by gst 13y ago
If you violate money transmission laws because you pay a salary to someone (without being a licensed money transmitter) there would be lots of people violating those laws in California.

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