m3ta

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by m3ta 9y ago
Bots and cheating are in a similar category but considered different things. Cheats unfairly enhance a player's ability to raise their rank while bots sell the lowest-level accounts to people who don't want to spend time grinding
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by m3ta 9y ago
What about the ETH blockchain is needed to fulfill this requirement? Bitcoin's blockchain can be used in the exact same way.
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by m3ta 9y ago
Theoretically ETH can easily replace bitcoin as a payment method for anything that can be bought with BTC currently. I would imagine some people investing in ETH are expecting that to happen.
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by m3ta 9y ago
My BofA account has a whole spending habits section with graphics and charts and a ton of features, for free, which comes with my debit account. Why would I want to do all this myself? The only real answer is privacy, but I would just use B
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by m3ta 9y ago
I'm not quite sure I follow. I only see news posted by my friends and the pages I follow. What would FB lite look like?
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How blockchain startups solve the identity crisis for the internet of things(forbes.com)
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by m3ta 9y ago
In most publications editors select headlines for all stories in an issue. The writer does not have a say in what is printed as the title of their own article.
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by m3ta 9y ago
This is a perfect example of what I was talking about. It is a nice idea. However there are no problems charities face that existing FIAT currencies or bitcoin or standard real-world contracts don't already solve. Unless there is a cas
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by m3ta 9y ago
> That's not true at all though. Smart Contracts are being used in a wide variety of great projects. Do you have any examples of projects that would be truly different or impossible to implement without smart contracts?
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by m3ta 9y ago
Using a blockchain to enforce scarcity and authenticity of digital objects is a cool idea on paper but only actually becomes effective under one of two scenarios: 1. Everyone simply agrees and acts accordingly thereby giving the ledger valu
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by m3ta 9y ago
The more confusing thing is what will happen when the userbase finds out Ethereum "smart contracts" aren't good for anything except online gambling which certainly will not be allowed on the TokenBrowser app. Also, I shook my
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by m3ta 10y ago
It's not only a free-market solution, it's also the solution that doesn't involve giving your ISP plaintext data and trusting them to do nothing wrong with it because the government said so.
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by m3ta 10y ago
I was mistaken, and you're 100% right. I hadn't realized Pewdiepie lost so much from this slip-up.
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by m3ta 10y ago
It seems like the definition of "imploded" in the context of JonTron and Pewdiepie is "lost an insignificant and negligible amount of subscribers".
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by m3ta 10y ago
If someone is concerned with their ISP knowing the sites they visit, they can use TOR or a VPN to re-route that traffic elsewhere. There is no way to avoid this. The way the internet works right now, someone at some point has to know which
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by m3ta 10y ago
You do not have to be tech-savvy to install a browser addon.
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by m3ta 10y ago
This does not restrict your freedom because you can still encrypt your traffic and obfuscate your browsing history easily using free and open source software.
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by m3ta 10y ago
Of course you shouldn't use a free VPN for anything sensitive, but to obscure your browsing data (like what you search for or what media you consume) it's completely fine.
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by m3ta 10y ago
TOR is free and is specifically for the purpose of anonymizing your connection to the website you're visiting. This article isn't about authenticity of your identity, it's about confidentiality of your browsing history. Using
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by m3ta 10y ago
Ethereum tried this, and a bug in the code lead to millions of dollars of value lost. They ended up hard-forking the code by changing it to match the intended outcome of the code, thus reversing the actual outcome of the execution of that c
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by m3ta 10y ago
To put things into perspective, let the Bitcoin network hashrate (double SHA256 per second) = B and the number of SHA1 hashes calculated in shattered = G. B = 3,116,899,000,000,000,000 G = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 Every three seconds the B
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by m3ta 10y ago
Google filters out negative auto-completes. Try the same thing with Trump or any controversial figure, like Martin Shkreli. For example, when typing in "Martin Shkreli is a" on Google, the only auto-complete is "Martin Shkrel
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by m3ta 10y ago
Not necessarily. It depends on defensive capabilities. It's very possible that two countries get into a conflict thinking it is a mutual assured destruction scenario, only to find out one country is better at neutralizing attacks in-tr
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by m3ta 10y ago
Yeah, that screenshot comparison is like comparing a basket of mixed apples at a market to a vast field of apple trees.
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by m3ta 10y ago
"Doug Ericksen, the communications director for Trump's transition team at EPA, said he expects the communications ban to be lifted by the end of this week."[0] and, "ARS spokesman Christopher Bentley said the ban would
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by m3ta 10y ago
Is there a source for this? I am not seeing a source in OP's article nor am I seeing any sources in any of the articles that show up on the front page of DuckDuckGo. Also, none of the articles written about this are written in a major
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by m3ta 10y ago
Occam's razor is a good guide to avoid critical thinking.
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by m3ta 10y ago
Sorry, I don't understand. If the problem is a hypothetical situation where a compromised developer uploads malicious code, then how does IPFS relieve any pressure from that circumstance? Individual IPFS nodes are certainly blindly tru
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by m3ta 10y ago
The subject could be seen as very complex but for most use-cases there is a simple litmus test. Do you need censorship-resistant transactions or a neutral/decentralized timestamping server? If not, then you don't need a blockchain
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by m3ta 10y ago
I use toggl[1] exactly this way. Check it out. [1]: http://toggl.com/

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