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by lectrick 13y ago
This is clever. However... The problem as I see it with this sort of cleverness is that it's difficult to optimize to this. It leads to quite variable best-case and worst-case scenarios and general unpredictability. As, say, a C progra
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by lectrick 13y ago
I am a little surprised that it took them this long to go to a CDN, actually
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by lectrick 13y ago
"24" and "Boardwalk Empire" are 2 series I stopped watching due to torture scenes. In "24" it was some scene where Jack Bauer had to shoot and kill one of his own guys in order to not blow his cover. I tapped o
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by lectrick 13y ago
Any country in charge of its own currency can always fund a war without a vote by simply printing more of it for itself (debasing the currency of course via "invisible tax"), which is why I support cryptocurrencies. Any person who
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by lectrick 13y ago
They're probably generated from random numbers so that they reveal no information about what they are naming. Look up "PGP word list", for example.
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by lectrick 13y ago
> wouldn't you like it if when you get an exception notification instead of just a text blob of a stack trace you can resume a continuation of the state of the system as the user saw it at the time of the error? this, along with cap
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by lectrick 13y ago
If what you're saying is true, then I'd like to know why Instant Runoff Voting seems so superior to binary voting schemes (like "democratic" or "republican" with the occasional "green" candidate actin
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by lectrick 13y ago
I assume you're against all forms of lobbying, then?
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If I lend you 20 bucks (money), "credit" is the belief I have that I'm going to get it back from you.
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by lectrick 13y ago
I'd add, if possible, work directly with others as much as possible. Consider renting some space in a startup incubator, just so you get some interaction going.
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by lectrick 13y ago
> Currencies aren't like some weird subset of commodities. I have a chart that is just begging to disagree with you: https://www.google.com/search?q=usd+vs.+euro To wit, "Currencies! So stability! Wowe!"
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by lectrick 13y ago
"OrientDB does away with the concept of a join table, one of the most significant bottle necks in relational databases." I'm having a hard time not reading this as "joins are too hard for me to understand, so I love the
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by lectrick 13y ago
SteamOS on a Mac Pro: The most elitist of elite gaming machines
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by lectrick 13y ago
I hope 3 things happen 1) SteamOS is very successful along with Steam Machine 2) Windows is knocked out as a gaming platform 3) SteamOS users will be less annoying than Xbox and PS3 users
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Someone thought of something called "proof of storage" instead of "proof of work". Not sure if it would work, though. But the "waste" would be in data storage instead of power usage.
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They call that the "moving the goalpost" fallacy, don't they?
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> stealing electricity from a public university If they give you free electricity, is it really "stealing"?
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> its lack of traceability The fracking director of FinCEN herself said, and I quote, "Cash is still the best way to launder money". She said this at the hearing(s) on Bitcoin.
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by lectrick 13y ago
I love the idea of Coinpunk. And I wish I could contribute, but I'm so jaded and scarred by Javascript at this point it's not even funny. (For context, I spent a lot of time debugging JS on Internet Exploiter in the early 2000&#x2
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> one of the big features of a modern fiat currency is the ability of the central authority to react to market changes This is also its Achilles' heel if this central authority acts poorly. There are MANY worldwide currencies which
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Good luck tracking people bringing bitcoin into the country
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by lectrick 13y ago
Only 5% of the currency in circulation is in cash. The rest is stored as numbers in a database somewhere. There is no "gold backed" currency anymore, which is why we call it Fiat. It is simply a number at this point. So how does y
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> you've got to call it something It's not quite like anything else, so why pigeonhole it? Call it a "decentralized cryptocurrency" or just "bitcoin" or "a perfect simulation of gold in electronic form&
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This is a nonevent. In the US, on the advice of my accountant, I have been treating Bitcoin gains (for "sold" BTC) as capital gains for tax reasons for over a year now. I don't think the IRS would have a problem with this.
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by lectrick 13y ago
After sleeping (for consulting work) amazingly, at the Marriott Financial Center in Manhattan, I ended up inquiring as to which mattress they use. A few days later I found myself ordering a Jamison mattress for almost a grand. My rationale
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Since all of these are fluid and electronic, it wouldn't take very much for someone like bitpay to write a coin-agnostic API that interfaces with multiple cryptocurrencies.
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by lectrick 13y ago
Serious HN is serious. Really, though... It was a great game and an unfortunately obvious reference if you've ever played Pandemic 2 for any length of time (and you're only missing out on the fun cleverness if you haven't).
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It's a Flash game reference AND an old Internet meme (based on it) reference. Chill out, dude.
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> It's pretty... bare. Or it was last time I looked. Well then, that's running with scissors as far as any modern legit open source project is concerned. That should be the VERY FIRST thing rectified.
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> the onus is on the submitter to demonstrate that 1) the fix fixes the problem and 2) that it doesn't break anything else. No. The onus is on Reddit's test suite which, ostensibly, would cover voting (one of the core fea

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