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by nokcha 9y ago
>Two, what the heck does "knowingly facilitate" mean? Is it enough to know that, in the abstract, your service is used to facilitate sex trafficking? One would hope that the courts interpret this to mean that the defendant knew
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But you shouldn't be storing a raw, unhashed password in the database anyway.
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by nokcha 9y ago
>Not sure about the trading fees I believe they factor into calculating the gain/loss. E.g., if you buy 100 units for $99 plus a $1 fee, then your cost basis is ($99 + $1)/(100 units) = $1.00/unit. If you later sell them
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by nokcha 9y ago
IEEE 128-bit decimal can handle a precision of 34 significant figures (decimal digits). You can store a million times the world GDP (1e6 * US$75.59 trillion) accurate to picodollars. How much more precision do you need?
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by nokcha 9y ago
Has the issue with HSTS supercookies leaking into Private Browsing mode been fixed yet?
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I use Tarsnap for storing backups of my files. Data is encrypted client-side, so the server can't decrypt it. Tarsnap is designed for backups, though, not for general file storage. Some encrypted cloud storage offerings are mentioned
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by nokcha 9y ago
IQ can be measured in middle school (before the student has a job or income), and the resulting score can be used to predict future income and job performance. In that sense, it is a predictor rather than a mere association.
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>* Intelligence is a statistical construct defined based on a group of rather arbitrary tests. >That one is true. In what sense are they "rather arbitrary"? It sounds to me that you might be suggesting that there is little
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by nokcha 9y ago
Link to the actual paper: http://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-07714-001.pdf
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>Legal tender is perhaps the most important corner stone of a modern nation state, if an entrepreneur can invent their own money and subsume the one issued by a government then you don't have a government. Legal-tender laws already
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by nokcha 9y ago
Coinbase has been extremely conservative in which digital assets it supports (viz., only Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Cash). None of these are securities.
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by nokcha 9y ago
Either the author of this article is confused or I am. He describes the situation of a deliberate hard fork into two chains with different consensus rules. He then notes that Alice can spend her original (prefork) bitcoin differently on t
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by nokcha 9y ago
Sorry, I was sloppy in saying that the judgment itself would be quashed. What I meant is that any attempt to enforce the judgment would be quashed. Since (by assumption) the defendant doesn't any assets in Europe to pay the fine, e
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by nokcha 9y ago
What if the purpose of the archiving is to not only record what was changed but also who changed it?
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And it's also protected by the right of freedom of speech: the entity operating the git server has the right to inform the public of who committed which changes. The GDPR explicitly recognizes "exercising the right of freedom of
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by nokcha 9y ago
>A bipartisan consensus has formed around this idea. Senator Elizabeth Warren has charged tech giants with using their heft to “snuff out competition,” and even Senator Ted Cruz — usually a foe of government regulation — recently warned
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by nokcha 9y ago
To me, the most interesting part is the following: >What we know is we must commit to a rigorous and independently vetted set of metrics to measure the health of public conversation on Twitter. >So we’re seeking help by opening up an
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by nokcha 9y ago
Personally, I have trouble falling asleep without at least a light bed sheet.
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Melting of the northern permafrost could release a large amount of mercury (estimated around 800 gigagrams). ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330219 ) There is also worry of a positive feedback loop that could cause g
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by nokcha 9y ago
>Will post-quantum crypto require new hardware? No. We just need to switch from existing public-key cryptographic algorithms to quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms. There are already a variety of such algorithms develop
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by nokcha 9y ago
It's a fundamental architectural decision that has both advantages and disadvantages. It means that there is no single point of failure, but it also means that it's difficult or impossible for the system to remedy things such as
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The problem is that thieves will often quickly mix the stolen coins with untainted coins. So, there will be a large number of descendants of "tainted" transactions, the majority of which are held by completely innocent people. A
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by nokcha 9y ago
I think a good argument can be made that a law restricting the sale of non-registered securities to wealthy ("accredited") investors and excluding poor people violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. (And, alth
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by nokcha 9y ago
I think this means: - nobody can destroy or seize your coins unless they have your private keys - keeping your private keys safe is not simple
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by nokcha 9y ago
Of course we don't know for sure whether Satoshi is really a man, a woman, or a group of people. But for ease of conversation, people use the gender and number of the pseudonym (masculine, singular).
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Arizona Senate votes to accept tax payments in Bitcoin(fortune.com)
24 points by nokcha 9y ago|10 comments
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>That problem is hard. It's not just that we need a way to tell the source ISP to drop the traffic on their end, it's that we need a way for them to trust that you are the actual destination and not someone trying to cause a de
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JavaScript code running in a properly sandboxed modern browser can potentially exploit these vulnerabilities.
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Burger King introduced WhopperCoin in Russia: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/28/burger-king-russia-cryptocur...
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>Many believe that you owe taxes as soon as the funds for a bitcon fork are available to you. I think that belief is mistaken. (1) Suppose Bitcoin has a contentious fork into two chains, say BitcoinA and BitcoinB. The supporters of eac

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