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by jasonzemos 15y ago
Denial of service by malicious pool owners is not an issue AFAIK. Pool owners are encouraged to package outstanding transactions in a mined block to claim the associated transaction fees. The only reason a pool owner would deny service is i
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Cuban's tl;dr point is that Wall Street has become a simulacrum. Now go read Baudrillard.
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Volumetric energy density isn't the only consideration for fuels though. Ethanol burns cooler, faster, and with more stability. When you raise the octane rating to reduce detonation you also reduce wear on the internals, allowing the manufa
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by jasonzemos 15y ago
Ethanol itself is far superior to petroleum distillates for internal combustion engines, especially small displacement turbocharged ones. This point needs to be made /extremely/ clear to everyone before pursuing the political end of the dis
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Valgrind.
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"If the value of each bitcoin did not rise, no one at all would mine and the network would grind to a halt (no confirmed transactions)." This isn't true. The system has several modes of adjustment and it will always be worth it for someone
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by jasonzemos 15y ago
You're right that sha256 will one day be in jeopardy, but there's no reason why the system can't update itself well before then. If sha256 is broken, all it takes is for people to update their clients and only start accepting sha3, etc.
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by jasonzemos 15y ago
I don't see how this is a problem. There will only be 21 coins in existence and their cost per generation (hence their intrinsic value) will rise up until that last coin is generated. At that point coins will just be subdivided many more ti
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by jasonzemos 15y ago
Facebook, Microsoft, and Zynga are all indirectly controlled by the state. They can be completely dismantled if we are so inclined. Bitcoin cannot be dismantled via the same direct political power.
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There's an old saying that a good prosecutor will convict most guilty men, and a great prosecutor will convict a few innocent ones too. The sole purpose of law enforcement is to collect evidence to convince a trial jury of guilt. Whether or
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No government is immune from public opinion, that's why no government that rules by pure force has ever lasted a significant period of time either.
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The most puzzling aspect of C’s dominance, to me, though, is that C has had no competition in its problem domain. Nobody has really said “I’m going to create a better C.” Pretty sure Bjarne Stroustrup said just that.
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by jasonzemos 16y ago
This is what wowd ( http://www.wowd.com/ [no longer relevant]) tried to do for realtime search before they had to pivot. Current browsers with ECMAScript as the only API are simply too insular, too limited and too slow for any useful distr
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Consider a synthesis of the two -- and then perhaps this is the wrong question to be asking. The mind may appear physical in the ways we can observe it, even if we were to record and analyze every single neuron and synapse and draw accurate