npongratz

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   by npongratz 9y ago

   Image also archived here: http://archive.is/wdET3
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   by npongratz 9y ago

   I'm probably misunderstanding something fundamental. If there's 14 times more 24h volume in LTC than NEM, wouldn't a seller experience more slippage in NEM?
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   by npongratz 9y ago

   You can use apropos to search names and descriptions inside man pages. For example: $ apropos timezone Date::Manip::DM5abbrevs (3pm) - A list of all timezone abbreviations dm_zdump (1p) - timezone dumper Time::Zone
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   by npongratz 9y ago

   This is interesting. A citation that helps strengthen the explanation: https://golang.org/doc/asm " The most important thing to know about Go's assembler is that it is not a direct representation of the under
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   by npongratz 9y ago

   > ... crypto-nutcases view of the world ... I'd suggest that discussing your point without the ad hominem s makes for a stronger argument.
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   by npongratz 9y ago

   The Clapper never needed to phone home to the mothership.
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   by npongratz 9y ago

   I think I do not understand. If I possess a certain amount of currency, is it not my property? And why would it matter what's the "intended" usage of it? Who determines intent? Might every holder of the asset/currency&#x
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   by npongratz 9y ago

   > He spent 1,000 DASH / (4,000.00 [USD/BTC] / 300.00 [USD/DASH]) = 13.(3) BTC Maybe I'm calculating this incorrectly, but using the above, I come up with a cost of 75 BTC for 1000 DASH. And given the current BTC
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   by npongratz 9y ago

   Until the population exceeds 2^33 = eight gibipeople.
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    You're in good company with some folks recently discussing this on SE: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/166884/plate-tecto...
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    After the fork, BTC and BCH are distinct and independent. So buying BTC after the fork would gives the buyer zero BCH.
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    The Shuffle supports loading multiple playlists, which you can set in any order you like. You can also choose "shuffle" mode (in other words, you're not stuck with "shuffle" playback on the iPod Shuffle). Assuming y
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    > The super majority of people (89%) voted for the Hard-Fork... Wasn't it 89% of those who voted? What was the voter participation rate?
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    They might have great features, but are Dashlane using the term "zero knowledge" in the accurate, historical (25+ years), cryptographic sense, a la [0]? Or are they just using it in the hand-wavey slick markety sense, "We cou
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    I find EOS especially hilarious. Per their own FAQ[0]: "The EOS Tokens do not have any rights, uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features, express or implied, including, without limitation, any uses, purpose, attributes, fu
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    GP states they are referring to "... the major GPU-minable coins ... ".
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    https://www.inc.com/guides/201101/how-to-protect-your-tradem...
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    The Xena Research Project(amigaonthelake.com)

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    by npongratz 9y ago

    Some old discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6732110
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    > Paying a ransom is the opposite of this. The action only helps yourself, but harms everyone else, but providing funds to the ransomer. Reminds me of my relationship with the people who call themselves the taxing authorities.
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    Spotify apparently stopped their P2P distribution a few years ago: https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-starts-shutting-down-its-ma...
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    > 1.) If you truly are "rich," then you pay for your home in cash. You do not take out a mortgage on your house As a counterpoint, Mark Zuckerberg paid for his home with an adjustable rate mortgage, as reported in 2012: http:&
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    by npongratz 9y ago

    >> forcing someone to sell something they own > this is of course a regulatory burden One person's mere "regulatory burden" might be another's "theft at gunpoint."
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    by npongratz 10y ago

    > I do not shed a tear whenever the words 'kill/terminate process' appear on my screen - I don't get visions of beheadings, I don't associate it with the act of ending a human life. I'm totally with you. Jus
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    by npongratz 10y ago

    Here too. Going from a single keystroke to a minimum of three per term still really grinds my gears, every time.
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    by npongratz 10y ago

    > Perhaps one day, thousands of years from now, technologically advanced dolphins will one day watch us doing the same thing again, and they will have a similar article about us! I'd be curious to know how much of human technical ad
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    by npongratz 10y ago

    Indeed, the official participation rate may perhaps offer a better indicator of overall employment in the US [edit: than employment rate alone]: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 Zooming out and eyeballing it
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    by npongratz 10y ago

    This post's (current) title is verbatim in the content: "Don’t build apps that encrypt customer data", and in my opinion is significant and surprising enough to call out as a title.
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    by npongratz 10y ago

    > 100 gallons of gasoline also creates a ton of CO2 for context. I thought I understood the Law of Conservation of Mass, but I guess I do not. If 100 gallons of gasoline has a mass of ~283.49 kg [0], how is a ton of carbon dioxide create
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    by npongratz 10y ago

    Not a public debt or tax, and it's noted that this doesn't "legitimize" Bitcoin in the minds of the authorities, but looks like Norwegian prosecutors recently demanded the penalty for one criminal act to be partially pai