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by moe 12y ago
Hm... ok, guess I'll quote myself again then too...: Since you know there is no Chargeback mechanism wouldn't it be wise to demand product/service first or use an escrow service? What part of "Bitcoin is not a credit
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by moe 12y ago
but the reality is And wouldn't it be nice if Bitcoin changed that reality for the better, a little bit? So I come back to my original point, adoption is margnial, at best. Especially in poor countries. Which I never argued. I mere
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by moe 12y ago
I'm not sure how to make it much clearer, so I'll just quote your own words again: I'm not confusing it [Bitcoin vs CC] at all. I was giving an example that closely maps to the security concern with a credit card. First you
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by moe 12y ago
the net trend is less coins per unit hash, which means the marginal energy cost of the coins approaches infinity. Miners optimise for USD$/kWh, not for coins/hash. The latter is entirely virtual and largely unrelated to the netw
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by moe 12y ago
I'm not confusing it at all. I was giving an example that closely maps to the security concern with a credit card. So if you agree that Bitcoin is not a credit card then what relevance does an example have that maps to the security
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by moe 12y ago
Bitcoin is the electronic version of "let's buy a lot of gold and stash it somewhere". It's also the electronic version of: Be able to move that gold around the globe near instantly, without a middleman, at almost zero
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by moe 12y ago
Cases where they don't agree they should refund you. Um, and with VISA they will just happily ignore you taking back what they consider their money and wish you a good day? Cases where they just don't want to refund you. Sam
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by moe 12y ago
Finally and most importantly [...] the difficulty goes up, so more and more power is required to preserve the status quo. Except... The difficulty also goes down . But don't let facts get in the way of your flaming argument...
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by moe 12y ago
Ask your money back and they transfer it back to you in a new transaction. What's the problem?
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by moe 12y ago
... and exponentially worse as time goes on (by design). Only for people who don't understand the design. Google "bitcoin difficulty".
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by moe 12y ago
Yes, bitcoin mining would be worse. Provably worse. Your premise is wrong. Bitcoin has a mechanism called "difficulty". It's very much at the core of the protocol, google it and ponder how it affects your argument. Furtherm
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by moe 12y ago
Does it really matter ? For BTC as a currency it doesn't matter at what price it's going to stabilise, as long as it reaches an equilibrium.
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by moe 12y ago
Cue the standard HN bitcoin thread with everyone explaining why it is dead, why it could never work and why everyone involved with it is a scam or stupid anyway...
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by moe 12y ago
paramilitary gear There's nothing "para" about it. That gear is coming straight from the military. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/upshot/data-on-transfer-of...
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by moe 12y ago
The probability of the original input list being in the exact order it's in is 1/(n!). If that's the order you wanted then the algorithm might very well approach O(0).
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by moe 12y ago
The ECC version costs $81/mo at Hetzner. 3 years reserved c4.8xlarge costs $501/mo at EC2. If you can commit for 3 years, why would you pay a 6x markup for "elasticity"? (11x if you commit for only 1 year...)
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by moe 12y ago
Pricing still looks pretty far out there. Their CPU has a passmark score of 16k[1] and they ask $1300 USD/mo for it. Hetzner will rent you one with passmark 10k[2] for $60/mo... [1] http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.
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by moe 12y ago
Ah, the good old Libretto[1] form factor. It actually used to be moderately popular back before smartphones became ubiquitous. It's just amazing what you can build nowadays on a shoe-string budget with off-the-shelf parts... [1] http:
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by moe 12y ago
Combine the two of these and you'll get roughly a 100x cost saving over dumping a JS function into Amazon Lambda. And then move it off EC2 onto dedicated hardware and you'll see another ~30x cost savings. Running a permanent tra
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by moe 12y ago
and bingo: the phone is charged. Isn't it more like "Bingo: now I have a battery pack dangling from my phone for the next few hours"?
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by moe 12y ago
I have a better service. Aren't you tired of boring, bland, random passwords? For just $5 I'll generate you a beautiful, memorable vanity password that you can use for everything and show off to your friends! See my profile for co
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by moe 12y ago
Progress? Yes. For the companies selling the parts and the repair services.
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by moe 12y ago
Let's combine a cheap seat with a bad lock and market it to hipsters...
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by moe 12y ago
Looks like he reinvented scp -C ?
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by moe 12y ago
Is the address of the stolen wallet known? It would be interesting to watch where that money is moving and how the thief goes about anonymising it.
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by moe 12y ago
Any electronics device can die at any moment without a chance to tell you anything. That's why you have to make backups and run your disks in a RAID.
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by moe 12y ago
you've now made the world worse for everybody So you don't mind when Apple ships you an 800x600 display with your MacBook because, sorry, we ran out of Retina screens this week?
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by moe 12y ago
And sometimes you just want to get stuff done. The kind of mistakes that good programmers make are not normally caught in code reviews. That's pretty much the definition of a good programmer; their mistakes are rare and subtle.
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by moe 12y ago
Where is all this money going? Presumably into keeping their retail prices slightly below the competition, and free shipping.
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by moe 12y ago
Where is all this money going? Presumably into keeping their retail prices slightly below the competition, and free shipping.

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