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by ojr 9y ago
You can't send money to multiple people using paypal without being approved by PayPal and with KYC and other regulatory laws there's a lot of friction using paypal send api with bitcoin on the other hand, no permission is needed t
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by ojr 9y ago
closest thing to Bitcoin was gold certificates not the tulip bubble that lasted 2 years. Gold certificates stopped circulating when the US government said so with Executive Order 6102. Bitcoin is not gold to me, gold is a shiny rock, period
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by ojr 9y ago
"proportional dispensation of voting rights are important indicators of common enterprise" same author
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by ojr 9y ago
Is selling new Kanye West sneakers, yeezy's, a security? The resale price is usually 5x the retail price. I know there are some edge cases but how you market it can be the difference between illegal and legal. I think a problem with th
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by ojr 9y ago
That's a good point, if the drinking age was moved to 25, I think it'll be a bigger effect
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by ojr 9y ago
No mention of how to authenticate on mobile? I don't think a guidance on how to authenticate for the Modern Era is complete without having a mobile solution
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by ojr 9y ago
the federal government can reimburse the person I was replying to because they control and mint dollars. With Ethereum you can control and mint your own currency, I didn't want to use the word currency earlier, it is more of a digital
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by ojr 9y ago
it is because the federal government mints and controls the currency of dollars, with Ethereum you can create an arbitrary token and mint this token to any amount, essentially be your own federal reserve, Ethereum is an interesting software
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by ojr 9y ago
You wouldn't trust a bank with an SQL-injection vulnerability or a hospital running on an old version of Windows either but that doesn't mean all banks and hospitals are not trustworthy A new monetary system created 3 years ago an
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by ojr 9y ago
it was missing one keyword that was the parity bug not in the 2228 lines, and the DAO hack had a line that was place 3 lines too early, a monetary system created 3 years ago and is highly demanded might have some growing pains
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by ojr 9y ago
The language was not made from "scratch" but a progression from bitcoin scripts, Ethereum is the like to blockchain dev like Unity is to gamedev, it lowers the barrier to entry, it has a lot of the similar apis and functions as bi
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by ojr 9y ago
It is interesting to see but I think Solidity is the first software language/framework that people with no experience writing it or running it, comment and write about it on hackernews as if they did. A common criticism is the way for
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by ojr 9y ago
Earlier in 2017, Atlassian acquired Trello (MongoDB, Node.js, Redis tech stack) for 425 Million dollars
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by ojr 9y ago
the developer experience and tooling is easier the bitcoin I believe, it has an official javascript api for its blockchain, and also has a framework/language (Solidity) for creating financial applications on top of it
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by ojr 9y ago
You can't issue more dollars, but you can issue more of your token, It would be better for an app to have hacked token addresses than hacked credit card information, these tokens are usually cheap initially and its a free market, inves
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by ojr 9y ago
I don't believe all ICOs are illegal ICO tokens are digital commodities/assets that are more similar to app credits or in-app mobile purchases than securities. Unlike with Ethereum apps/dapps, you can't trade traditional
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by ojr 9y ago
the average 4chan user probably doesn't own a finney so I wouldn't worry about it, the development team for Ethereum is pretty solid I think that should be taken more into consideration before contributing money to a software proj
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by ojr 9y ago
a pull request being approved by core developers in an open source project is different than a bank being bailed out by the government, different scales as well
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by ojr 9y ago
bitcoin is an open source C++ computer program that created a deflationary currency that somehow was able to be seen as intrinsic value to the market, its impressive the emotions it brings out of people like you. I believe from a software s
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by ojr 9y ago
the cool years of node are just beginning with AWS Lambda and other cloud services that help node.js scale easier
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by ojr 9y ago
With React, Redux, Babel, Webpack, I would say there are a lot of innovations coming in through there, and the plugin system is being moved from angular, jquery, gulp to these, if you're writing old javascript to target ES5 compliant b
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by ojr 9y ago
the text editors/ides I use today have bracket matching and with eslint it's been easier to track missing/extra bracket bugs, the example you have is heavily exaggerated, nesting like that is bad code with or without brackets
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“There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free compet
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by ojr 9y ago
the best pleasing ui to users is a website loaded with javascript
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I've done React Native, it is beta but Ive dealt with XCode builds breaking when upgrading versions multiple time, also XCode builds need to pass and bad builds are not hard to come by, fixing XCode builds can be painful, for example y
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by ojr 9y ago
in react, styles can be just another variable in the component model/props <div style={{ fontWeight: 'normal', fontStyle: 'italic' }}/>
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by ojr 9y ago
I want to go long on a component paradigm that targets the web (server or client rendering) and native iOS/Android views, only one framework has strong support for this (React). It speaks highly of its design
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http://www.fast.ai/ is a mooc, Coursera is a mooc that has courses on the topic also there is udemy, the knowledge you retrieve depends on the effort you put in, just like front end development
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by ojr 9y ago
"Always invest what you cant afford to lose" is a very common investing advice given to beginners. You don't need and an Economics PhD to understand this concept
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for whats its worth a lot of cool people/influencers are still using Snapchat over Instagram, Kardashians, DJ Khaled, etc, this metric doesn't reflect my reality, I wouldn't sell any $SNAP shares, I'm more likely to buy

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