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by milcron 9y ago
Yes and no. Once the blockchain forks, the distinction between all those coins is very technical. Coins from one ledger cannot be spent on another ledger. You're right though, cultural convention decides which blockchain is the "r
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by milcron 9y ago
If your payment is denominated in BTC, you can't pay it with BCH even though they're a fork of the same blockchain. BTC proper is scarce, regardless of how many times the chain is forked.
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by milcron 9y ago
They're building domestic datacenters, not iPhone factories.
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by milcron 9y ago
See this mailing list post https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2
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by milcron 9y ago
> Any interest in bitcoin cash changing it's algorithm? I doubt it. One of the reasons BCH hardforked was so large mining pools could continue to take advantage of Asicboost, a patented approach to Bitcoin hashing that provides a 20
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by milcron 9y ago
> Both are in fixed quantity so none is more rare than other. There is 80% more gold aboveground today than there was in 1980.
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by milcron 9y ago
M-DISC is even better. Burnable discs use an organic dye which oxidizes over time. M-DISC uses a "glassy carbon" layer that is inert to oxidation. They adhere to DVD-R, BD-R, and BD-XL standards so it's readable in standard d
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by milcron 9y ago
Check out M-DISC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
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by milcron 9y ago
"The swamp" is a metaphor for DC politics. Unpleasant to navigate and very slow moving.
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by milcron 9y ago
I'd never heard of a giro transfer. In the states we use ACH and it takes 2-5 days to clear. The ACH numbers are also reusable - your numbers never change, and they can be used for withdrawal as well as deposit.
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by milcron 9y ago
You might be interested in the free decompiler Radare2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radare2
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by milcron 9y ago
There are some MLM scams in crypto. Bitconnect, for instance.
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by milcron 9y ago
Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 million BTC. Fiat can be printed.
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by milcron 9y ago
The Education edition of Windows lacks Cortana.
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by milcron 9y ago
It absolutely is going away. The courts ruled that those stipulations aren't enforceable unless ISPs are Title II common carriers.
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by milcron 9y ago
> I was running under Cygwin and the issue was something about the Java-based readline library. Apparently the problem is that the '+' character was being thrown out, so Scala only saw '12'.
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by milcron 9y ago
I bought a preflashed phone direct from them and didn't have to follow those steps. Even so, it's probably not for everyone but I think it deserves a shout-out.
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by milcron 9y ago
I use the Copperhead ROM with F-Droid apps, and it addresses nearly all your bullet points. Excellent battery life, surprisingly high quality (and FOSS!) apps, and zero bloatware whatsoever.
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by milcron 9y ago
It enables DRM technologies, too.
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by milcron 9y ago
Some of them have ARM TrustZone. I'm pretty sure that i.MX6 chips are relatively clean. Modern chips are becoming less so.
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by milcron 9y ago
There's a whole subreddit dedicated to this https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/
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by milcron 9y ago
You can use me_cleaner, and it's better than nothing, but the ME is still required for booting the motherboard.
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by milcron 9y ago
> No one is doubting that we are doing this overseas The 2nd highest comment is "honestly curious" whether the US participates in propaganda campaigns.
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by milcron 9y ago
That's a good point, which potentially leads to Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism > Georgism, also called geoism and single tax, is an economic philosophy holding that, while people should own th
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by milcron 9y ago
Nintendo is finally switching to Nvidia.
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by milcron 9y ago
The Kelly Criterion is a betting strategy that, given the probability and payoff of different outcomes, tells you what percentage of your bankroll to bet.
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by milcron 9y ago
> they would be extremely likely to invest that money in a variety of financial instruments, making that capital available in the market so it can be put to good use This improves the supply-side of the economy, but doesn't do anyth
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by milcron 9y ago
Gargoyle is responding to "No word on if they are allowed to use Equifax, etc to pull salary data from?"
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by milcron 9y ago
Reinstalling the OS may be good enough for most people, but you also have to be aware of firmware.
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by milcron 9y ago
In this sort of context I feel like "robots" is a euphemism for "automation". Software has the lowest marginal cost out of all forms of automation. Consider robo-advisors [0], automated financial advisors written in soft

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