joosters

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931.
by joosters 9y ago
Tim Hunkin's TV programs are excellent!
932.
by joosters 9y ago
You can't, but that is irrelevant if the centralized service is required. You can point at the blockchain data all you like, but if the centralized service that you rely on chooses to ignore the blockchain data, you're out of luck
933.
by joosters 9y ago
Once you add any centralization, the rest of the blockchain becomes pointless. If you rely on one database/oracle/trusted service, you might as well let them do all the rest of the work and scrap all the chain building, as it woul
934.
by joosters 9y ago
I think they are referring to sports betting rather than games of chance. There’s no point calculating an elo rating for number 5 on the roulette wheel.
935.
by joosters 9y ago
But does anyone actually follow that algorithm 100% faithfully? We are not machines, fortunately.
936.
by joosters 9y ago
Ah, you unique snowflake :) It’s astounding when people think that advertising doesn’t affect them. And yet companies continue to pay billions for adverts...
937.
by joosters 9y ago
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they keep laughing, then they start choking on their laughter, and then they go and catch their breath. Then they start laughing even more.
938.
by joosters 9y ago
I call bullshit. Investing frozen cash into stocks sounds far too complex, and you can imagine so many pitfalls (how the hell do you fudge the accounts for missing cash if the investing loses cash?) Show some evidence, op.
939.
by joosters 9y ago
Well they're not going to be buying anything in bitcoin, might as well talk about the real world value. Better yet, cash out as soon as they can...
940.
by joosters 9y ago
What? Are you seriously claiming there are regulations on what ports a laptop needs to have? Perhaps you should sue Apple for removing the floppy drive...
941.
by joosters 9y ago
There are endless reports of exchanges holding people's crypto coins for weeks and months at a time. Tether is no safeguard here.
942.
by joosters 9y ago
This short link seems to work: http://1b.yt/exfqj (regexper.com doesn't seem to cache results, so this is going to hit their site hard...) [edit: oops, it's all client-side so no problem for the site]
943.
by joosters 9y ago
Waze performs surprisingly well when you have no signal during your journey - I guess that it pre-emptively downloads the bits of maps that it knows it will need. OTOH, Waze is next to useless when trying to first pick a route when you ha
944.
by joosters 9y ago
I'm not arguing that they're genuine, the quote was simply to show that they do in fact claim to hold $/£/etc to back the tokens, and not just general 'assets' that the parent comment described.
945.
by joosters 9y ago
From their homepage: Every tether is always backed 1-to-1, by traditional currency held in our reserves
946.
German shock at car exhaust tests on humans and monkeys(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by joosters 9y ago|0 comments
947.
by joosters 9y ago
In the UK, ibuprofen, aspirin and paracetamol are sold freely everywhere (but only in small packs). Painkillers containing codeine are available over the counter, after talking to a pharmacist. Anything stronger requires a prescription.
948.
by joosters 9y ago
Here's a suggestion: Don't trust any exchange (or, let's face it, any company) whose only contact details on their website are email addresses or instant messenger. Binance looks as shady as they get.
949.
by joosters 9y ago
The last time seems to have been in May 2017, when there were 'only' $60 million tethers floating around, compared to the $2.2 billion in existence now...
950.
by joosters 9y ago
In the old days, people complained when Microsoft added a program to their OS, because it competed with third parties. Nowadays, people complain when Apple removes a program from their OS, even when there are plenty of third party options..
951.
by joosters 9y ago
I thought that 'real-time' is not about how fast a program is. Instead, it's about being able to guarantee that a program will always complete in under a fixed amount of time, under all circumstances. I can't see how t
952.
by joosters 9y ago
'Fraud Protection' ??? I'd love to hear how they think they can justify that.
953.
by joosters 9y ago
I agree, it definitely hurt mainline Perl development when Perl 6 was this promised great new thing. At least Perl 5 never got abandoned, and there is development and bugfixing still going on today. Perl 5 has a feeling of being 'compl
954.
by joosters 9y ago
There are gotchas and unsupported functionality (e.g. 'since Perl 6 does not have the same concept of "context", Perl 5 methods are always called in list context.') which effectively mean that you've got no idea if
955.
by joosters 9y ago
I don’t understand why Perl 5 and 6 are still tied together as if they are the same language. There’s no compatibility between the two. You can’t write a library that works in both versions, so you lose CPAN and the thousands of packages th
956.
by joosters 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zruGBWLk9s8
957.
by joosters 9y ago
So you’re saying you have all the inside scoop on terrorism just because you’re an Arab? You should get a job in the US intelligence agencies, they seem to have similar thoughts!
958.
by joosters 9y ago
Why do you think the comparison with the internet is fair? Why not compare it with the initial flurry of investment into dotcom no-hopers like pets.com and webvan.com ?
959.
by joosters 9y ago
IMO the person they were replying to sounded superior. There will always be a more important issue than the one being discussed. (in the eyes of someone, at least). That's no reason to prevent talking about anything else.
960.
by joosters 9y ago
I doubt that the people involved are stupid, or are trying to punish their opponents because of a lack of education. Better education might lead to more effective attacks, it won't stop them.

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