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by notsrg 7y ago
At least on Android, Telegram is available via Fdroid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.telegram.messenger/
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by notsrg 8y ago
AirBnb always comes up as an example of a team abandoning RN but it seems like no one actually read the entire blog post. Migrating an existing native app to RN is going to be hard for anyone. Starting from scratch with CRNA? Not so much.
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by notsrg 8y ago
If you actually read the full blog you'll realize it'll actually convince the right people to either adopt or avoid RN: >The path of a world that is 100% native or 100% React Native is relatively straightforward. but ultimately
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by notsrg 8y ago
One of the best CS textbooks I've ever read. I recently reached out to my OS prof because I couldn't remember the title. Funny to see it posted on HN a couple days later.
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by notsrg 9y ago
What do you mean "deliberately [...] impossible to use"? Select a contact and choose "Start secret chat", wait for the keys to exchange and then the entire experience is identical to unencrypted chats.
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by notsrg 9y ago
I'm not sure how you can come to that conclusion.
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by notsrg 9y ago
1. Banks/exchanges/Paypal have KYC regulations - fulfilling these are impossible due to Onion routing provided by the nodes. 2. My mom does not know how HTTP works and she uses the Internet just fine. It's naive to think that
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by notsrg 9y ago
You could argue it, but you'd be wrong. 0-conf requires trust, LN is trust-less.
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by notsrg 9y ago
If only Coinbase and large exchanges can afford to run full nodes, how many programmers will be able to afford to program your programmable money?
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by notsrg 9y ago
As long as you solve transaction malleability (segwit), #1 is a non-issue.
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by notsrg 9y ago
Already happening in Canada.
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by notsrg 9y ago
https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/ 153 nodes currently on mainnet.
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by notsrg 9y ago
Widely accepted by who? Not lawyers. Try actually reading the bill: http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/royal-as...
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by notsrg 9y ago
Uber would probably disagree that you need permission for anything.
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by notsrg 9y ago
And Bitcoin Cash will need GB or even TB sized blocks to scale to the size of Visa. If scaling the network was as easy as changing 1 variable it wouldn't be that hard to get consensus on a scaling solution.
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by notsrg 9y ago
The last 1% of unmined Bitcoin will last over 100 years. A majority of mining profits at that point will be from tx fees.
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by notsrg 9y ago
You can see on a regular basis that South Korean exchanges are always paying 25-50% more than Western exchanges. The Bitcoin pump to 20k, the entire history of Bitcoin Cash, and recently the Ripple pump to $3 were all pumped by Bithumb, Upb
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by notsrg 9y ago
Even with wallets using Bitcoin is not user friendly in any sense of the word. If you already use PGP, sure. If not, good luck securing those keys. Oh and hope you made backups.
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by notsrg 9y ago
Luckily you could use literally any other cryptocurrency that anyone isn't using to get fast tx's and low fees.
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by notsrg 9y ago
Obviously can't give you a date but they recently hit a milestone with all integration tests passing: https://cdecker.github.io/lightning-integration/
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by notsrg 9y ago
Increasing the blocksize increases centralization at a time where miners have unprecedented power.
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by notsrg 9y ago
That's a lot of work to make software you paid for not spy on you...
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by notsrg 9y ago
Don't look at the prices Canadians pay (for less), you might choke on something.
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by notsrg 9y ago
iTerm2 + 1Password + sudolikeaboss is an amazing workflow that I depend on on a regular basis.
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by notsrg 9y ago
This cli is free and easy to add to a CI pipeline: https://github.com/nodesecurity/nsp
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by notsrg 9y ago
Ughhhh... what?
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by notsrg 9y ago
Gitter is a great idea in theory. In practice it's just been a place for my questions to go unanswered.
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by notsrg 9y ago
I would rather the complexity live in a third party library with an extremely simple public interface than have it live in multiple 1000 LOC of vanilla JavaScript that's laid out however whoever wrote it felt that day. You couldn'
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by notsrg 9y ago
You think someone is going to start a new project and use a 7 year old OS? I don't think it's "unfortunately my problem" when biz/client reqs for a 7 yo OS are completely out of my hands, unless of course the mindse
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by notsrg 9y ago
More and more people are moving into condos in cities where a board picks one ISP and that's what you get. Are you really going to move just to switch ISP's?

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