markburns

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by markburns 11y ago
Well I've not looked into it myself yet, but apparently payments are a nightmare to implement in Japan. As they were in the US/Europe before Stripe/Braintree etc came along. My opinion of what Stripe brings to the table in ge
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by markburns 11y ago
I'd advise anyone trying to learn by implementing ECC to be careful using this article as an introduction. It's written as if you can follow along, but there are some omissions (see the comments section). James D'Angelo has s
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by markburns 11y ago
Anonymity and lack of susceptibility to a certain class of quantum computing attacks
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by markburns 11y ago
> Does anybody believe you when you say those things in a job interview, though? I wouldn't. A job interview is fundamentally a competition against other candidates. I think you are being a bit negative. Why not believe the intervie
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by markburns 12y ago
I was quite intrigued by this position, but if it's a repost of yours I'm probably as confused as you are about what is going on. Did you stop pursuing that venture? E.g. it's someone you worked/were going to work with?
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by markburns 12y ago
Yeah it's an obvious bootstrapping/critical mass problem. It will be interesting watching to see if it does cross that line. If the usability is never there I can imagine it never quite taking off, and something slightly better&#x
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by markburns 12y ago
That's true whilst it is treated as effectively a foreign currency. It may start to become irrelevant if bitcoin spreads and is generally held and used as a currency for earning income in, paying for labour/goods/services etc
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by markburns 12y ago
A fascinating thought, thanks.
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by markburns 12y ago
> I'm sure Sapporo have pretty deep pockets, which the author rightly took advantage of, but that doesn't make it any less superficial. Seems a bit unfair as a comparison. He is talking about a simple trick to save time and mo
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by markburns 12y ago
I agree that because of the lack of controls it will be more volatile than other currencies, but I think volatility will at least reduce to something like gold once the majority is mined. It's volatility is partly due to the difficulty
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by markburns 12y ago
There is an incentive for miners to not have confidence in bitcoin damaged. It's a bit of an interesting Nash equilibrium kind of game. In general, I think these things will balance out assuming rational actors. Yes there could be a cr
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by markburns 12y ago
The short-term market price doesn't have a lot to do with it's long-term viability. Liquidity is relatively tiny hence shocking volatility. Anyone's bitcoins only represent a loss on a particular day if they actually choose t
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by markburns 12y ago
Interesting point from the retraction article. > He says the account was randomly assigned to him by the Mt. Gox exchange So the suggestion that DPR is not Satoshi relates to evidence from Mt Gox.
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by markburns 12y ago
It's not that far off. It is the busiest day of the year for them and the company president or CEO, (not sure which) chips in to make the food. However, whilst it does happen, I've seen KFCs without snaking lines.
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by markburns 12y ago
This kind of discrepancy seems more like a penalty for being poor _and_ breaking the law.
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by markburns 12y ago
I made a mistake by bringing Japanese into it - see my other comment. It's the language we speak at home so the one I use to talk to our son. The emphasis was supposed to be on baby-talk not foreign languages.
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by markburns 12y ago
Obviously you can find tons of examples of words that are different in different languages. I probably confused the situation by bringing Japanese in. My son is Japanese so we talk in Japanese to a baby. I wasn't trying to compare lang
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by markburns 12y ago
There is some non-arbitrariness to language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect I guess it gets arbitrary at complex enough levels thoug
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by markburns 12y ago
This is his homepage http://www.cazuc.info/
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by markburns 12y ago
I've not used trailblazer myself but I've utilised some of the concepts or similar ones on existing projects and green field projects. I think the answer to 1. would be hard to express without getting deep into a specific complex
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by markburns 12y ago
I would guess the demand would be created to a certain extent. A single data point, but I travelled to Tokyo from another part of Japan to visit the only BTC ATM in Japan, so there may be a novelty factor involved for other people too.
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by markburns 12y ago
They are looking at using a crypto-currency backed by the shares. https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2hwpmm/fundraising_fo...
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by markburns 12y ago
Whenever I see "Natural Language Parser" mentioned anywhere I get excited then a little disappointed because it implies something much more profound. Not to belittle the tremendous effort, but most projects I have seen are "E
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by markburns 12y ago
That sounds like a fair question but could equally be disingenuous. Is the rate of lack of use of bank accounts ever likely to be public knowledge? There's zero incentive on the banks' side to publicise that kind of information. I
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by markburns 12y ago
Inefficient on an individual level, but the adaptability and robustness is more on a species level. It's probably pretty efficient in that regard. A high risk, high reward strategy that works out well for humans that survive and end up
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by markburns 12y ago
xorcist choosing to question a comment on a website does not necessarily put him in the same category as people wishing to start a bitcoin startup handling others money
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by markburns 12y ago
I think this is just about in-groups and out-groups. If you're reasonably liberal-minded, you probably count the human race as a large in-group. They are favoured over animals, and then even more so over plants. A lot of people probabl
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by markburns 12y ago
Yeah, I'm familiar with tweeting in Japanese, and how much more information you can get across in a tweet, which made me question the number. However, I'm still not sure why (in an imaginary world where twitter doesn't encod
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by markburns 12y ago
What is the number 840?
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Email from Mtgox: Commencement of bankruptcy proceedings (Japan)
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