natrius

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by natrius 12y ago
You can rebase without squashing to get the benefits of both approaches.
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by natrius 12y ago
You're right in the sense that distributed ledgers are effectively an end run around regulations and trusted parties who we pay for centralized ledgers today. I think you're underestimating how important that is. Transaction fees
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by natrius 12y ago
There's a common view that Bitcoin's proof of work is the only way to maintain a secure blockchain. That view is the product of a herd mentality of people who have bought bitcoins and want them to increase in value, so anything th
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by natrius 12y ago
When are we moving to the mobile security model on the desktop? I love knowing that nothing I install on my phone can ever to anything like this or access data that belongs to another program in general.
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by natrius 12y ago
It's possible to achieve the best of both worlds. We could introduce the concept of a standard distribution instead of a standard library. A release of Python should ship with specific versions of requests, nose, and other packages tha
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by natrius 12y ago
There are two similar methods for generating addresses for a recipient. Hierarchical deterministic wallets (HD wallets, BIP 32): https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi... Stealth ad
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by natrius 12y ago
I don't know how people will communicate in 2115, but I can't imagine a 2115 where every human doesn't know every language without any effort at all. How can a discussion of life that far in the future not mention how compute
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by natrius 12y ago
Blockchains allow people to enter into agreements that don't require enforcement. They're enforced by the programs that generate and validate the blockchain. Eliminating the need to enforce agreements will make them easier to ente
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by natrius 12y ago
After using ESIs with Varnish for a project, I'd never do it again. Cached static pages with Javascript that pulls in the dynamic parts is an easier solution to maintain and has better failure modes.
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by natrius 12y ago
BitShares is a platform for stable value cryptocurrencies. http://bytemaster.bitshares.org/guest/2014/12/22/How-BitShar... This login stuff doesn't seem super interesting, but stable cryptocurrencie
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by natrius 12y ago
ChangeTip is a solution to the transaction volume problem. Tips happen off of the blockchain.
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by natrius 12y ago
The two I'm familiar with are BitShares and NuBits. BitShares uses contracts-for-difference and price feeds to create stable "BitAssets", like BitUSD, BitCNY, and BitGold. NuBits is a central bank on a blockchain, and it uses
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by natrius 12y ago
No one has figured out a way to do this without outside information. Some blockchains include price feeds from the outside world that let algorithms keep prices relatively stable. Others use votes by currency holders to adjust the money sup
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by natrius 12y ago
So your position is that no one is ever going to figure out how to make cryptocurrencies sustainable? Bitshares is already doing it today, and any strategy that proves itself can easily be added to Bitcoin. It's a bad bet, but good luc
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by natrius 12y ago
Bitcoin speculators. The folks who hook up their bank accounts to the Bitcoin network don't hold bitcoins or pay the block rewards.
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by natrius 12y ago
Let's say I'm buying an Overstock rug with bitcoins. I do an instant buy with Circle and and send the bitcoins over. Am I paying $10-$20? Is Overstock? Block rewards have no effect on whether people will use Bitcoin, especially si
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by natrius 12y ago
Bitcoin transactions are cheaper than credit card transactions. Using the card networks exposes merchants to chargeback fraud, but since the internet now has cash, many merchants can transact with wide swaths of the globe that they previous
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by natrius 12y ago
You're attempting to discredit my argument based on my ethnicity. You shouldn't do that. I am Nigerian. Not that it matters.
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by natrius 12y ago
It doesn't matter. These jokes perpetuate a meme that makes Nigeria poorer. I hope you'll join me in avoiding that.
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by natrius 12y ago
These jokes aren't funny. They marginalize an entire nation of people. You should stop making them.
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by natrius 12y ago
Most CNY exchanges don't have trading fees. As a result, comparing their volumes to USD exchanges isn't really meaningful.
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by natrius 12y ago
Lots of the world gets by mostly on rice. Soylent is oats, rice, starch, fiber and vitamins. It doesn't scare me, especially when supplemented with actual plants.
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by natrius 12y ago
Because cracking down on drug buyers is low-priority for law enforcement.
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by natrius 12y ago
Tools are top priority. You must read this: http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-a...
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by natrius 12y ago
Seems like a straightforward optimization problem. Only alert someone if the expected probability of disease is high enough to be worth the risks of radiation and unnecessary procedures.
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by natrius 12y ago
Claiming that virtual reality is a wave on the same order of magnitude as mobile is an understatement . High fidelity virtual reality will change the way we communicate. It'll change the way we live .
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by natrius 12y ago
All bets require a margin to be escrowed on the blockchain. If the bet goes bad, it gets margin called. The bets are also fungible—holders of blockchain "dollars" can trade them freely instead of relying on the original backer of
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by natrius 12y ago
People have figured out how to hold stable value on blockchains by using them to issue contracts for difference. You can acquire a token that maintains the same value as the dollar, backed by people betting on price changes between the doll
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by natrius 12y ago
One gap in my understanding is who exactly the Token Service Providers are. That article says the card networks are, but I guessed that the issuing banks were when I read the spec the first time. I'll read it again eventually, but if a
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by natrius 12y ago
Implementing Apple Pay isn't a technical feat. There's a standard for it.[1] As long as the banks let you access their token generation service, it's straightforward. However, I haven't heard of anyone other than Apple g

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