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once_inc
4y ago
What would the absolute worst outcome of that attack be? Miners don't have the option of spending from addresses they don't have the private keys of; all they can do is rewrite history to a certain extent. Would it be bothersome?
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> The FAA signed on September 1 supplemental type certificates that allow .... As a non-native English reader, why is this not written as: > The FAA signed supplemental type certificates on September 1 that allow .... The current sent
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4y ago
I might be able to best that, if Skippy would reprogram a wormhole in the neighborhood.
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4y ago
I too thought for a moment that this was real-time until I noticed the absolutely frighting speed at which these trains would be passing through the tubes. People waiting at a station would be sucked onto the tracks by the vortex created in
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4y ago
I would pay for this to happen.
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4y ago
I was able to get something passable with: https://splasho.com/upgoer5/?i=Gz8tMz9loFOiMvOgo25yrFO3MFO1p...
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4y ago
Article 12 of the United Nations's Universal Declaration of Human Rights [0] would like a word. [0] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... .
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4y ago
For a very successful debut album on deep rock beats, check Meteora by Linkin Park.
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4y ago
Building a mixing service that allows people to buy stuff without their employers being able to track it is a legitimate, non-trivial reason. These mixers are privacy enhancers. Privacy is a general term, and doesn't have to relate to
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4y ago
If this developer only created the mixing service smart contract and wasn't actively operating it or advocating for it, I doubt Dutch judges can rule him guilty for money laundering. The 9/11 reference made by others is very much
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4y ago
Writing is one of the skills that you get better at later in life, because of accumulated experiences broadening the range of situations and interactions your characters are placed into.
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4y ago
And if you do it eight times afterwards, your son can become a sourcerer.
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4y ago
You can use Python macros with libreoffice, right? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Guide/Intr...
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4y ago
True, but those aren't readily available in Africa, and come with a significant amount of red tape. A DIY 4$ desalination solution is a boon to anyone close to the sea.
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4y ago
> Building an Instagram clone the way it used to be is fairly trivial these days. I could probably throw one together in a few months, but growing its popularity is practically impossible these days with such entrenched incumbents and no
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4y ago
Bitcoiners in general say this too. Blockchains don't make sense except in the single, highly specific use case for which has already been implemented.
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4y ago
It always is, until it is proven a fact. In my country, people were being alarmist about the Corona travel restrictions, the vaccine, and the negative externalities of closing the healthcare system to pretty much everything. The alarmists w
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4y ago
Requires numbers inserted to be unsigned, and to have a maximum value within reason, and doubles memory usage. Very nifty trick though!
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4y ago
The term "Inflation" is used in two forms interchangeably by most people, and this leads to miscommunication. Inflation is used for: (a) price inflation: increasing prices for individual goods. (b) monetary inflation: an increase
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4y ago
For what it's worth, most of the population of Earth is located at or near the coastal areas.
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4y ago
Cinderella's story arc doesn't look the same to me. She is told from the start that she has until 12 to enjoy herself. When the spell wears off, she doesn't complain or even feel very sad; she just relishes the experience she
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4y ago
> I don't mean worthless in a conceptual sense like all crypto As a Bitcoin Maximalist, I agree with your statement almost wholeheartedly. These platforms offer nothing valuable except for the life lesson at the end not to gamble aw
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4y ago
With Schnorr signature aggregation, you can combine an unlimited number of signatures, but Bitcoin has a maximum of 4MB witness data, so there is certainly a cap.
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4y ago
Define pleasant. There a quite a few people happily using umbrel or similar products that allow you on the LN with minimal hassle.
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4y ago
This argument usually comes down to the "Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash" quote from the title. I'd like to point out that the word "cash" is used differently in the cyberpunk community from before 2008. BCH
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4y ago
Please re-read my post. I specifically speak of people using money without being aware of all the specifics. Noting that the dollar is not backed by gold. That ended in 1971 by the way, when Nixon ended the gold standard for the US dollar b
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4y ago
> As opposed to an un-elected, un-accountable cluster of core contributors and mining pools. These people don't control bitcoin. Developers and mining pool operators have their purposes in the network (designing new features and tim
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4y ago
The Liquid network comes to mind. Basically, any sort of system that allows users to swap coins and settle back to bitcoin is a layer 2 solution. Banks could build an SQL database, generate a single Bitcoin address, and tell everyone to dep
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I'd like to counter that with the opinion that for most people, controlling their own keys isn't a priority. These are the people that don't even know there isn't any gold backing the dollar, or where money comes from. F
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4y ago
Lighting is indeed one of the many layer 2 solutions.
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