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by nikcub 9y ago
This is a new crime. The original crimes he plead guilty to in 2015 and was sentenced (money laundering, obstruction of justice). This new crime he plead guilty to a few months ago and was sentenced this week (money laundering). The new cri
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by nikcub 9y ago
If you haven't heard it already - his music is great coding music. Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5mQMN1KktY
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That's the moral of the story - but a lot of people don't I still haven't convinced my own brother that he needs to move his coins off-market - he said he'll "get around to it at some point" Also have tech fr
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by nikcub 9y ago
More dangerous than the tech part of the fork IMO is that with any one fork one or more of the bitcoin deposit holding companies can decide at-will that they'll follow a fork as the "new" bitcoin This is an even bigger threat
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by nikcub 9y ago
> Fiat currencies don't fork There was an interesting situation after the fall of the Soviet Union. Because most of the states didn't have economies strong enough to support their own currency, they remained a unified currency
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by nikcub 9y ago
Coinbase didn't sign the notice calling off segwit2x[0] even tho they were an NYA signatory - but rather said they were "monitoring"[1] the situation I sense some uncertainty from Coinbase on what they want to do next. edit:
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Project I know just replaced sequelize with TypeORM and is about to go into production - the beta has been great There is this issue talking about production readiness with more feedback: https://github.com/typeorm/type
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by nikcub 9y ago
funny i'd just bookmarked inversify-express-utils the other day and have been meaning to go back to it :) the Typescript ecosystem has really come a long way
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Three i've read through recently: 1. InversifyJS - DI in Typescript / JS https://github.com/inversify/InversifyJS 2. TypeORM - as it says, might be the best ORM for nodejs projects: https://github.
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by nikcub 9y ago
> > Are they mad because they feel like they missed out? > Eh, I doubt it. I think there is something to this. If you've been on HN for 5+ years and have followed the progress of Bitcoin, but never dived in - but then gone o
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If you bought in when the 2x futures began trading you've already made more from the BTC price rise than you would have from the air drop.
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I assumed the same. Mainly because anecdotally the last dozen people I know who were new buyers knew little about the fork and were mainly buying in via the price-news cycle Conversely for those who were following this removes the uncertain
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Considering the history of spoofed messages aimed at manipulating the market, they should have cryptographically signed the message That said - if this is true, they've done the difficult but right thing.
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Similar services exist. If you're a foreign short-term contractor in the UK it's common to use a services company to setup a company in Jersey for you, setup the bank account and then run payroll for you. I could see something lik
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I'd be more ok with it being paired with exception filtering (or what Netscape called conditional catch clauses), ie. } catch (e if e instanceof CriticalError) { // handle critical } catch (e if e instanceof
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Optional catch binding[0], which is at stage 3, seems like a bad idea[1] and has been pointed out as such[2] [0] http://2ality.com/2017/08/optional-catch-binding.html [1] http://wiki.c2.com/?EmptyC
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by nikcub 9y ago
coercion throws a type error - you can only do ops between bigints
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by nikcub 9y ago
It was only recently bumped up. You can help out by contributing testing etc. in babel[0] or typescript [0] https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/6015
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by nikcub 9y ago
Polkadot has its raised coins in a Parity multisig wallet, and it alone is ~$140M iirc: https://twitter.com/polkadotnetwork/status/92788076205302170... edit: they just put out a post to say that not all of their
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by nikcub 9y ago
> they're stuck there forever. It's ethereum, they'll just hardfork those coins back Apparently almost $300M stuck - I don't see them not bringing up another hard fork to retrieve them
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I'd be curious what that could be shaken down to with pkg and have it distributed as a single blob edit: the answer with pkg and node bundled is 64MB and about edit: 2.4MB rolled up with the bugs fixed
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by nikcub 9y ago
That benchmark needs more context because were I to guess i'd say they're using stream rendering[0][1] in React 16 I also agree with one of the comments in reply who linked to "How to win in web framework benchmarks"[2]
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by nikcub 9y ago
If you are looking for a practical use of hidden services: we use them as ingress for Docker and K8 management. You start a container that runs just tor with a config and can read the routing endpoints from your config, or link to localhost
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To add: at the time that original story was posted I left this comment[0] explaining what I believe he was seeing He was asked to ping tor-security or file an issue and never did, afaik - nor was it ever really seriously discussed [0] http
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Only if you believe in a world where the USA has a right to tax all income everywhere
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Reputation is also a force in onion land. There are hidden services that are trusted and those that aren't. You see it with the drug marketplaces - users self-organize a distributed reputation system that tells other users which sites
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by nikcub 9y ago
There is a pluggable name resolution proposal: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/279... You'd be able to run namecoin and other systems edit: to add, I haven't yet completely
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He didn't discover an issue - he just FUD'd long enough until a few people believed he did. That he believes there is something "suspicious" about Tor nodes because their IP doesn't match to any country or AS name i
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There's nothing about blockchain's that prevents them from scaling beyond single digit transactions per second - you're referring to the design decision Bitcoin has made to opt for a smaller blockchain in order to ensure dist
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by nikcub 9y ago
> boasting much faster and cheaper transactions and real anonymity Cost me over $4 to send Monero transactions last month. Cost me about $3 to send a Bitcoin transaction this morning. The average and median transaction fees between the

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