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by pipermerriam 10y ago
There is actually already fledgling support for this in Solidity (the prevailing language that Ethereum developers use to write smart contracts). https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/3779/formal-verificati...
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by pipermerriam 10y ago
From my point of view, the US Government has not acted in such a way that they deserve to be extended any "benefit of doubt". The three recent events linked below come to mind as supporting material. They have consistently demons
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
> If there were automated ways to create a corporation and give it legal personhood, along with an offshore bank account, the possibility of the emergence of self-sustaining autonomous corporations may become more of a certainty. Take a
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Developing on the platform right now is akin to writing software to run on a VM that has no operating system. The services that are being written right now can be thought of as the operating system (foundation) that everything that will co
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
> Give me any ethereum use-case & I'll tell you how to do it with bitcoin. I'm failing to see your point. Does the fact that things are possible with bitcoin make the technical merits of Ethereum less in some way? > Wha
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Have you read up on the proposals and information on plans for Proof-of-Stake (Casper) and Scaling/Concurrency via sharding? Both of those are directed at fixing the "fast enough" problem.
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
This sounds awful similar to the "Nothing to hide argument". People have a right to privacy and shouldn't have to provide a reason why they deserve it. Tracking should always be opt-in. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Quite fair and message heard and received. I hope you can take this for what it is, an oversight rather than intent to deceive.
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
I still stand behind everything I said regardless of the technology that ends up accomplishing it. I chose to mention Ethereum because I think it has the best shot. If Ethereum fails, I'll be looking for the next best viable option f
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
I've come to believe that "the powers that be" will never stop this progressive march towards pervasive monitoring and surveillance. If we succeed in keeping this bill from passing, we'll just be fighting another just l
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Despite how troubling this is, I have trouble accepting that end-to-end encryption is useless . It still offers significant protection from being monitored even if that protection can be theoretically circumvented by lower level methods.
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Looking through the getting started, one of the instructions is to run geth with the following flags. `--rpc --unlock 0 --rpccorsdomain "*"`. Please be very careful with these two flags as they will allow any malicious javascrip
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Cannot recommend this enough. Strong female lead character. Entertaining enough for adults to watch. Math!
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Yes to this. Thus far it is shaping up to be a powerful platform with some realistic potential to changes to how internet software is built.
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Can you please back this up with some actual citation or something. I'm pretty involved in the Ethereum community as a developer and this statement seems founded either in fantasy or in information that I'm not aware of. > Eth
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
This is an honest question. Realistically, how do we dismantle the police state. It seems like the NSA, FBI, and some not insignificant percentage of the police forces have gone entirely rogue or lost track of their mission entirely. It fe
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
I haven't heard it put that way, but now having heard it, I like it a lot. Thanks for giving me a new way to talk about this sort of thing.
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What is Ethereum? – A high level intro to the problems Ethereum can fix(medium.com)
8 points by pipermerriam 11y ago|2 comments
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
@vessenes, I would ask that you backup that assertion with an actual explanation of why Alarm should never be used for Augur. Just saying it shouldn't be used isn't very constructive. Edit: If I make some assumptions about why you
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
A point of clarification. All call execution is just a ping. If the call requires call data it is supplied by the scheduler and cannot be manipulated or changed by the caller. All call execution is relayed through the alarm service so it
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
* Recurring and Scheduled payments. On the first of every month, the alarm service pings my wallet to pay my utility bill. Most of the other potential applications it's easy to argue that they could set up their own incentives to get
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
I think the number of transactions/second will always be reached before demand could outpace the ability for people to execute the calls. You are correct that it would be an interesting world if somehow demand for scheduled call execut
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Executing a scheduled call is always profitable, so no. People would just make less money. The market aspect is more akin to a marketplace where people are hired to do a job. And the job is entirely automatable.
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
Calling contracts has to be profitable, otherwise nobody would do it. Since there is no way to reject a transaction, every person who attempts to execute a scheduled call will have to pay some small amount for the transaction. If the servi
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
A contract is the term for an application that has been deployed on Ethereum. Contracts expose functions as an API that others can use to interact with them.
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
On Ethereum there is no built in way to have a contract be called periodically, say every 5 blocks, or at a specific time in the future. This contract creates a market which allows contracts to hire people to call them at the requested time
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
I'm curious if you would expand on why this is a terrible idea.
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
I'm the author of the service. This is a fundamental limitation of the network as opposed to a shortcoming of the service. When you submit a transaction, it is up to the miners as to whether it gets included in the next block. There
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
fun. https://gist.github.com/pipermerriam/d1b5a24230f2f9ec4446
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by pipermerriam 11y ago
In all seriousness, what can I actually do. Nothing I've done in the past has felt like it moved the needle at all. - Calling my local representative (Someone on the other end of the line thanks me and then politely dismisses me sayin

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