hasa

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by hasa 9y ago
What is worth of 1.000.000$ of BTC or any other cryptocurrency? Can you go to Bitcoin bank and tell: "Put my money in dollars to this suitcase now" ?
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by hasa 9y ago
Does the particular content object live as single chunk of data in the decentralized network or as multiplicated copies as in case of virtual currencies ?
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by hasa 9y ago
I see only the fundamental design flaw in the decentralization. Copying a infinitely growing dataset to increasing amount of processing nodes is just worst kind of design error I can imagine in any decentralized system.
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by hasa 9y ago
I must admit I did not understand even the basics of this posting. I Need to start way further behind this level of abstraction.
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by hasa 9y ago
You're right. 2FA is convenient as hell until biometric authentication will do it with user's consent ( just tap something ). Yubico is quite near this target, but fragile usb dongle hanging from the side of your laptop isn't
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by hasa 9y ago
Yes, biometric authentication is the future. And intelligent wearables or some other assets carried daily like mobile phones. USB dongles are just for techies and last season anyway.
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by hasa 9y ago
FIDO U2F is just enterprise stuff. My mom will never own one to log in to Facebook. So the market is very difficult for newcomers. That's why we see lots of low quality products which come and go.
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by hasa 9y ago
Heavy futurism, well said, even bullshit. Mechanisms which would make the IoT pieces work together do not exist. There is no "evolution" of internet which would make this happen in the long term. Everything is designed by humans b
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by hasa 9y ago
Blockchain mentioned. Please explain me how it would ever work in the long run, if it scales extremely badly ?
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by hasa 9y ago
No. It is not so simple as that. Some developers don't like mindfuck with cryptic lines all the time. But as with placement of curly braces, the coding convention battle rages on. Btw the old symmetric C-style is the only right way ;)
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by hasa 9y ago
Yesss, evil nazis taking over the country. I don't see the point of the article. Automated work and cheaper labour is searched everywhere to produce more profit. Only way for people to survive in this race is to develop themselves, edu
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by hasa 10y ago
I used Gopher 1993 in university, but I don't see it relevant today. It's history.
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by hasa 10y ago
Takeover AD behind the link. Is this acceptable for a hacker news link ?