haakon

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by haakon 13y ago
If Litecoin is anything like Bitcoin, here is a good explanation: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_a_CPU...
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by haakon 13y ago
It's certainly a point of trust, but ultimately it's the miners who decide how Bitcoin works. So far this has predominantly worked by them using software from bitcoin.org and upgrading it relatively frequently, but this would prob
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by haakon 13y ago
Bitcoin definitely favours the merchant/receiver in this aspect. Escrow can be used where desired, though it probably won't make sense for all everyday purchases (escrow for a cup of coffee over the counter is probably a bit overk
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by haakon 13y ago
To be precise, each block contains the hash of its previous block.
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Startup cities to become reality(edanyago.me)
3 points by haakon 13y ago|0 comments
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by haakon 13y ago
So – did you email him?
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by haakon 13y ago
> The USD has had zero intrinsic value since the end of the gold standard. That's why, by definition, it is called a fiat currency. The definition of "fiat money" depends on who defines it, but in my eyes the most correct
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by haakon 13y ago
There are probably many reasons; this post on bitcointalk lists most of them: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313806.msg3367122#ms... (I know this forum is pretty bad in general, but I like that specific post.)
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by haakon 13y ago
Same here, because they noticed I am "engaged in https://github.com/playframework/playframework" . I've not even tried Play, let alone been "engaged" in it. Really unsolicited.
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by haakon 13y ago
Or teen sexting, you know. Child pornography production is a serious offence.
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by haakon 13y ago
You're supposed to pay to a bitcoin address included in their press release, and then notify them about this. For a major NASDAQ-listed company, this approach seems startlingly half hearted.
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by haakon 13y ago
I'd like to see the reverse in airports: Land in some strange country, immediately get local currency for bitcoins.
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by haakon 13y ago
I had the same reaction, but it's pretty cool that the "official" bitcoind regression test suite works on this implementation.
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by haakon 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Tor does smart peer profiling/selection to optimize for throughput. Lots of people run Tor relays on their silly little home DSLs and Tor still works.
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by haakon 13y ago
For testing you can even run it with 'java -jar gitbucket.war', and five seconds later you have it up and running.
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by haakon 13y ago
http://ripplescam.org/ has a bunch of arguments for this.
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by haakon 13y ago
What if you genuinely don't remember your password? Is it in effect memory loss that's been made illegal?
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NIST reopens public comment period after concerns about NSA(nist.gov)
10 points by haakon 13y ago|0 comments
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by haakon 13y ago
The larger issue here is that they "covertly introduce weaknesses into the encryption standards". It's not that they cleverly and fairly break encryption, it's that they sabotage the standards.
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by haakon 13y ago
Walter White wears a pork pie hat, not a fedora.
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by haakon 13y ago
Of all his work I only know "The Last Theorem", which he co-wrote with Arthur C. Clarke. Unlike what seems like most people, I quite enjoyed it.
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by haakon 13y ago
That's more likely to be reddit's vote fuzzing mechanism; any post with lots of upvotes will automatically get tempered with "fake" downvotes by the system.
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by haakon 13y ago
I get the same thing, for humankind-001. Oh well.
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by haakon 13y ago
It figures - this "leak" seemed completely uncharacteristic of Snowden's other leaks.
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Bradley Manning statement: I want to live as a woman(today.com)
12 points by haakon 13y ago|0 comments
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by haakon 13y ago
Note that this article is one month old.
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WikiLeaks publishes three new encrypted "insurance" files(facebook.com)
1 points by haakon 13y ago|0 comments
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by haakon 13y ago
I think Primecoin is interesting; instead of mindlessly computing hashes, it computes Cunningham prime number chains, and has already set a few records doing this as I understand. This might not feed hungry children, but perhaps it has some
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by haakon 13y ago
It's not easy to do something like that without sacrificing decentralization, which is a cryptocurrency holy cow. It would easily become a competitive advantage to remove the charity cycles from the mining client.
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by haakon 13y ago
Safari is just a re-skinned Konqueror, anyway.

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