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by kobeya 9y ago
You are wrong to think I'm not aware of the grisly circumstances under which many work, or that I've never been in despicable situations myself, or that I'm not familiar with the literary works of the communist-leaning John S
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by kobeya 9y ago
If you apply pressure and bad things happen unilaterally as a result of that pressure, yes it is your fault. Cause and effect, whether you intended for it or not. Denying that is simply not taking responsibility for your actions.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I'm glad they have a job. Their families probably need it very much. I hope that their hard work allows the next generation of Congolese to live in greater prosperity.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I've been in that position, and yes you are spot on.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> China is still getting the "developing country" discount from the USPS. I thought imports from China was cheap because it was subsidized by the PRC?
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by kobeya 9y ago
He said "the trading volumes." Could have been either, but BTC trading volume is even more meaningless than USD trading volume. An inflation-adjusted aggregate volume is probably the best metric, which is closer to the USD trade v
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by kobeya 9y ago
BIP91 is not segwit2x. It is just the lower threshold activation of segwit.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Because of BIP91, any miners who fail to signal segwit will have their blocks orphaned. It's pretty much a done deal at this point.
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by kobeya 9y ago
...it's exactly the same thing.
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by kobeya 9y ago
What does Blockstream have to do with anything?
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by kobeya 9y ago
Issueing orders you intend to fill would not be illegal, even if in response to spoofed orders.
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by kobeya 9y ago
garbage in, garbage out
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by kobeya 9y ago
> and plenty of non-steel-reinforced concrete things will last just as long as the Roman stuff Not as long as you would think. Non-reinforced concrete only lasts a few generations, whereas there are Roman concrete roads still in (mild, r
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by kobeya 9y ago
Then make something else. Bitcoin is not designed to be a low/zero transaction fee system. It makes clear architectural choices in support of decentralization at the expense of scalability. Don't destroy bitcoin because you wanted
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by kobeya 9y ago
In the context of information technology that's perhaps somewhat accurate though, right? City states centralized information into religious and political power structures. That pretty much stayed the same until the invention of the pri
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by kobeya 9y ago
How? Look twenty years out and it appears vertical. But 10 years from now it will look much flatter, and what's then 20 years out (30 years from today) will look vertical. The grass is always greener 20 years in the future.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> baseless claims on exponential acceleration of paradigm shifts I'm not a fan of Kurzweil, but isn't this really one of his claims with the most data behind it? His presentations on exponential trends is always accompanied wi
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by kobeya 9y ago
Aviation, medical devices, civil engineering.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Ok, well I HAVE the early code and it very much does have transaction replacement code using the sequence field.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Gavin setup the github repo. So I guess he granted himself commit rights? But in any case I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Market cap is not a useful metric. It hase very low liquidity at the moment.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Such as? If there are any complaints against Bitcoin Core it is that they have been ignoring this issue, not fighting battles.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The very first version of bitcoin had payment channels in the code. That's what sequence numbers are for. That's why there are sighash flags and weird rules for blanking sequence numbers. That's why the first version of bitco
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by kobeya 9y ago
BCH has ~2% mining power behind it. That's not "significant".
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by kobeya 9y ago
He meant server hosting costs.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Are you sure? If you lose privacy, that sucks but it reverts back to bitcoin of today. If you lose inflation guarantees, then it doesn't matter if you have privacy because the whole system becomes worthless.
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by kobeya 9y ago
There's a trade off you have to make where you can choose either absolute privacy and computational inflation guarantees, or vice versa. Strangely confidential transactions chooses strong privacy over inflation guarantees.
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by kobeya 9y ago
> On the other hand, I am surprised by the claim that AI is stuck; my outsider's impression is that progress has accelerated. Perhaps the impression of being stuck comes from more people realizing how difficult a problem it is. Deep
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by kobeya 9y ago
> Nobody really thinks we are anywhere close to general intelligence The kind of people that attend AGI conferences do.
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by kobeya 9y ago
I don't know. It sounds more like the current approaches don't get us AGI. The machine learning tools are not enough. But that doesn't mean AGI is intrinsically hard. Maybe you just need a couple of different things in tandem

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