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   by mhluongo 10y ago

   Not really, if the fork is orchestrated and primarily by one group (the Ethereum Foundation).
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   by mhluongo 10y ago

   A couple benefits cryptocurrency brings over the traditional finance system, off the top of my head. * democratic access. I don't need to ask Visa, PayPal, or any other payment processor to accept payments online. There are plenty of b
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   by mhluongo 10y ago

   Ever read "The Imp of the Perverse"?
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   by mhluongo 10y ago

   I don't see why not. You can do it today with headless options like PhantomJS (headless WebKit), and this seems to be intended for similar uses.
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   by mhluongo 10y ago

   There are a number of proposals. In bitcoin, sidechains (separate blockchains that get anchored to the main chain) are oft-touted, as is the lightning network. The idea is that only the most important / highest value transactions make
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   by mhluongo 10y ago

   I believe that's open to tampering by miners (more easily than a sybil attack, IIRC).
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   by mhluongo 10y ago

   Quick refs to logic programming and pattern matching in Clojure. core.logic https://github.com/clojure/core.logic core.match https://github.com/clojure/core.match
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   by mhluongo 10y ago

   Congrats guys! Stoked to see BitQuest evolving.
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   by mhluongo 10y ago

   ...joke- hotdesking is also called out in the article.
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    by mhluongo 10y ago

    I know bearer bonds can be stolen. What I meant is that the idea of "ownership" is more complicated than you're admitting. We can choose to ignore what the crypto says about who owns an underlying asset. The asset can be seiz
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    by mhluongo 10y ago

    Look, I'm a big crypto fan myself. I appreciate what you're saying, but it doesn't match the real world. Put land grants on the blockchain. Crypto all you want, but the guys with guns can seize the land next regime change. Wh
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    by mhluongo 10y ago

    I think the bigger point is that settlement, at some level, is a social fiction. Anything in the physical world can be altered or voided through the use of force. We're talking about ledgers across potentially unstable economies and go
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    A single IP can't "DDoS" anything.
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    My spouse is a special ed teacher. She was pretty excited to see this- her last school district had an entire office devoted to cheap, practical affordances like this. I can't wait to see at-home manufacturing / 3D printing start
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    BlockCypher[1] has written about this. I think SnapCard did something similar, though the closest I can find is an article about the laundry service they started[2]. [1] - https://blog.blockcypher.com/what-adam-saw-that-sam-
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    That's not the sort of DDoS going on here. Classic nodes are getting DOS'd in a way that Core is also vulnerable to. Classic hasn't activated yet. If Classic were already accepting 2MB blocks, the chain would have already for
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    Custom DSLs eventually pick up those things, anyway. Greenspun's 10th rule? http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GreenspunsTenthRuleOfProgramming
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    Not really relevant- small miners can buy ASICs too.
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    *Bitcoin, no capital 'c'
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    Experimental scraping tools in Clojure. Right now I'm focused on what we need for https://foldapp.com , supplementing what we've already built (first Python, then Scala).
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    I was just going to suggest Subledger, only to see you're already on it! We're working on a Subledger integration as well for https://foldapp.com . We need to account for USD, bitcoin, and multiple gift card brands, and
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    Nitpick- BTC's market cap is ~$6.4B right now.
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    IAM roles let you assign temporary credentials to machines running scripts. The machine can then hit an internal AWS URL to get the temporary credentials. Many tools know to look for these credentials by default- eg boto checks for credenti
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    Fair enough- and I do. I assumed you were commenting on the tweets, my mistake.
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    > tl;dr she got exactly what you would expect when you're intentionally stirring shit up at any company. I'm not sure what she expected. What? Sharing salary information is a protected employee activity, and retaliation is ille
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    Someone sharing something on Twitter isn't supposed to be journalism. AFAIK the original author isn't a journalist, she's a technologist who got fed up.
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    Pretty sure that's the joke...
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    You really should. It's not about profit incentives, it's about proper use of their resources. Squashing tiny companies might make them feel better, but it's not impactful. Going after companies defrauding investors / pl
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    I think bitcoin is a wonderful example. Regulations should scale with volume- clearly Gox wasn't in the "small startup" category, and should've been under more scrutiny. Also not really a useful comparison, since it&#x27
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    by mhluongo 11y ago

    Good point -_-