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by px43 6y ago
Moving money over the internet without needing a central authority. It really doesn't matter if you don't recognize how big of a deal that is, but to A LOT of people, it's a complete game changer. If you don't need a s
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by px43 6y ago
It's depressing to me that the reason we don't have decent automation systems in place is that humans are still much cheaper than kiosks. It's an insult to our species IMO that humans are still used for tasks that could be do
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by px43 6y ago
If you can't see the practical utility of cryptocurrency in 2021, you're being willfully ignorant. If you actually believe what you're saying, then short it[1]. If you really think that the practical value is non-existent, th
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by px43 6y ago
The PoS network is actually up now, it'll still be a year or two until the old network is connected in, and the PoW can be shut off though. Real progress has been made in that area.
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by px43 6y ago
Each hour 430 quintillion Joules (430 exajoules) of energy from the sun hits the Earth.[1] It is almost exclusively reflected back out into space, and wasted. We have nearly no incentive to capture it, so the energy is being wasted at a min
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by px43 6y ago
Eh, I'm not going to download a whole app for reading one article a month. There really needs to be something where I can just hit a bunch of checkboxes for the news sites I want to subscribe to, and then that app could charge me accor
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by px43 6y ago
Tether definitely sucks, but it was an absolutely reasonable response to banks randomly freezing out USD bank accounts of various exchanges, for various reasons. If you're an exchange that's going to be touching actual USD bank ac
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by px43 6y ago
How do you subscribe through Google? Do you need to download their app or something?
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by px43 6y ago
I've never seen a gym that you can join without signing a contract. My sample size is three, but still, seems pretty common.
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by px43 6y ago
When I closed my Wells Fargo account, they took out all my money, charged me some account closing fee, which over-drafted and fell back to a credit card which now had a balance on it due to the overdraft and they told me they couldn't
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by px43 6y ago
First off, "healthy" is subjective, and open to the interpretation of the builder. Second, why would someone work to build unhealthy incentives? Seems counterproductive.
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by px43 6y ago
Hey there. I'm one of those people who read Schneier's Applied Cryptography in highschool in the 90s, and immediately recognized the groundbreaking potential of using asymmetric cryptography for currency. I work in information sec
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by px43 6y ago
> What incentive will there be for the community to continue verifying transactions after all the bitcoins are mined? How are these questions still being asked, and more amazingly, still being upvoted? First off, there will not be a time
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by px43 6y ago
Please put on your critical thinking hat for a minute. Using electricity is not the same as contributing to carbon emissions. Bitcoin is mostly mined in areas overflowing with excess green energy, and thus contributes negligibly to carbon e
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by px43 6y ago
That's easy enough to say, but time and time again I see codebases, even ones making extensive use of prepared statements, falling back to doing string concatenation from time to time. Prepared statements etc are an example of "op
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by px43 6y ago
It annoys me when someone gets interviewed, and they make intentionally vague comments to avoid leaking non-public information, and the interviewer fills in the blanks with whatever they think will generate the most clicks, wildly misrepres
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by px43 6y ago
> If you have a basic understanding and use it right, security is great as well. I'd say about 90% or so of the code I look at where someone is building raw SQL queries has trivial SQL injections in it. I'm sure there are a ton
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by px43 6y ago
There's a really fancy new -R feature that I love (added in 2017 I think). ssh <target> -R <just a port number> This opens up a localhost port on the target that acts as a socks server which tunnels all your traffic through
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by px43 6y ago
"The Cleaners" is a great documentary about this. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecleaners2018 One really eye opening thing that was super obvious in retrospect is the societal context that's required for
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by px43 6y ago
I like that Jeff has the funds to dump into important projects like Blue Origin, and General Fusion, etc. Projects that have zero chance to be profitable at a small scale, but significant benefits to humanity once things start working. Elon
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by px43 6y ago
Actual DeFi is great. It's non-custodial, on chain, and mostly easy to verify just by reading the code. Any Ethereum based asset makes this trivial to implement, and for the most part, the DeFi ecosystem on Ethereum is incredibly matur
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by px43 6y ago
Or maybe instead of educating the users we should be educating the criminals so they can get paid to work on more productive things. Lots of solutions here.
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by px43 6y ago
Unless you're using publicly available malware that is known to be used for crime, AV isn't going to detect anything. That's how it works, and that's how it has to work. I haven'y fully read through the paper, but i
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by px43 6y ago
Can XMPP do encrypted group chat yet? I ran a medium-small sized XMPP community for many years, and eventually the community abandoned it and went back to IRC because it had better client/bot support. Matrix has a really good solution
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by px43 6y ago
Presumably it's no longer accelerating though, so it doesn't really matter how fast it's going. I guess the thing is still going to be in our solar system for another 15 years or so, so a solar sail or any number of other opt
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by px43 6y ago
I was mostly speaking in terms of corporate crime/greed and the general public's willingness to let it slide, which is admittedly a pretty hard thing to quantify.
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by px43 6y ago
Where did you live 10 years ago that wasn't run by corporate greed and corruption, or were you just too young to remember it? If anything, things are better now than they were 10 years ago, and things were even worse 10 years befor
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by px43 6y ago
From what I recall, it's more like they said they aren't going to take public stands on divisive political issues, and they offered generous separation packages to anyone who had a problem with that. No one was discouraged against
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by px43 6y ago
Discord is an app for kids to talk about playing video games. That's like being upset that you got banned for cussing someone out on Club Penguin. The target audience for Discord is kids, of course they're going to have harsher mo
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by px43 6y ago
No amount of out-of-context interviews are going to change the fact that she called him up and conceded on election night. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/09/clinton-calls-trump-to-conce... She might complain to

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