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by jafaku 12y ago
I'd think you'd be insane to miss an investment with such a disproportionate potential returns / risk.
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by jafaku 12y ago
"danielweber"
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by jafaku 12y ago
If you don't see the difference between a currency that can regulate its price artificially by printing more of it and Bitcoin, then you have definitely misunderstood it. If you don't feel comfortable comparing it with stock, then
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by jafaku 12y ago
You realize Bitcoin and the USD are quite different things, right? One has its price regulated artificially by creating more of it, while the other depends solely on the whims of the free market. And besides, Bitcoin is much smaller, and th
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by jafaku 12y ago
But still, they could have asked 10% more if they used Bitcoin.
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by jafaku 12y ago
> How else do you propose to create a distributed concurrency? That's the point: No one knew how to do that before Satoshi. > The traditional approach would be a public ledger mantained by the 'miners' aka a block-chain
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by jafaku 12y ago
Yes, Bitcoin price fluctuates. Why is this on the frontpage?
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by jafaku 12y ago
The blockchain is a creative leap, not an "improvement".
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by jafaku 12y ago
What about the idea of a blockchain? Because that's the creative leap.
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by jafaku 12y ago
I'd bet 0.05 BTC he watches anime.
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by jafaku 12y ago
How can you say that with a straight face? That's like saying Bitcoin was being given out freely just because there have been a few faucets running for some time. You are a scammer by any standard.
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by jafaku 12y ago
A non-profit organization that is accepting money and sending it straight to its founders' pockets. And of course those founders are always here on HN ready to downvote any criticism.
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by jafaku 12y ago
And only scammers say that pre-mined != scam. Else explain why you tried so hard to remove all the Ripple references from Stellar's code, and market it as a completely new system (after selling all your ripples of course and crashing i
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by jafaku 12y ago
Except the network can adapt by modifying the code, so calculating the cost of destroying Bitcoin is not trivial. The security of the network is not static, because it's also made of people with economic incentives, the same way any ot
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by jafaku 12y ago
Again, not a problem.
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by jafaku 12y ago
Why not use coloured coins (Bitcoin) or something like that instead of the Ripple/Stellar scam?
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by jafaku 12y ago
But HTTPSB is only for Chrome? If so, meh.
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by jafaku 12y ago
> can solve any problem in computing Maybe you should have phrased that differently, because it's obviously false.
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by jafaku 12y ago
Every time Bitcoin makes a first step, haters will ask "but where is the second step?". By the way, Overstock is now holding bitcoins (about 3% of their Bitcoin sales). I wouldn't be surprised if Newegg did the same after som
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by jafaku 12y ago
I think they were using the "last price" instead of the "weighted average", or some stupid mistake like that, and obviously without any sanity checks. Meaning someone could manipulate Coinbase's price by placing a t
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by jafaku 12y ago
Does that frighten you?
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by jafaku 12y ago
Kind of offtopic: As a professional of web development and operations with ~10 years of exp... Any ideas where I should start if I want to learn game development? I want to be able to create something by myself, like the Dwarf Fortress guys
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by jafaku 12y ago
I started using these recently: set -o nounset set -o pipefail set -o errexit set -o xtrace I added them to all my scripts, and I also added all except errexit to ~/.bashrc The first one would save you from unset variables.
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by jafaku 12y ago
Y u no source version control?
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by jafaku 12y ago
svckr 2 hours ago | link [dead] Reminds me of the "most stupid thing" I ever typed into Terminal.app. I somehow managed to create a subdirectory named "~", and decided it was a good idea to do this: rm -rf ~ It
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by jafaku 12y ago
For a currency with true decentralized anonymity, check out Monero: http://monero.cc/
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by jafaku 12y ago
Yeah, my grandma has also run into some troubles when trying to send an email. She had to: - Investigate which PC she should buy - Find someone willing to sell a PC at a fair price. This is a problem because PCs get old really quick, and so
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by jafaku 12y ago
The free cryptography courses at Coursera. I have seen the videos uploaded somewhere, maybe you can find them.
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by jafaku 12y ago
I was being serious, I don't know the entire history of every country. Thanks.
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by jafaku 12y ago
> you still need a very well oiled and consistent automated testing I would say this is true for any professional team. Nowadays I don't even develop personal projects without continuous delivery. The idea has been out there for yea

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