pyalot2

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by pyalot2 13y ago
So thing is this, you're using proof of burn and/or some derivative of proof of stake or whatever. Thing is what proof of * you use don't matter. You're not in control of the chain, and anybody can just spam the bitcoin
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The 2008 collapse saw initial bailouts of $500b. A subsequent $700b was approved and executed, and later on over $7t where commmited (but not all used) for bailouts. That easily puts the bailouts that banks needed in order not to go under a
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by pyalot2 13y ago
You know, I saw that video when it came out (also known as the Roger hostage video). And somehow, strangely, it didn't give any more confidence in Gox. Yes, that video looks like Roger is held at gunpoint by his captors forced to read
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The FDIC covers up to $250k for each account. It does so using a fund that's about $50b, for a depositor liability of around $5t. If you do the math, that means around 1% of depositor liabilities are covered. There are over 5000 instit
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The FDIC insurance funds only covers a small fraction of the liabilities of deposits. If one of the too big to fail banks fails, and isn't bailed out, depositors are gonna get Goxed.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The second it became apparent that Fiat withdrawal from Gox turned out to be problematic, it was clear nobody should have his assets on that exchange (that was over a year ago). Why? Well, according to Gox the Fiat withdrawal issues where c
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by pyalot2 13y ago
It may be impossible. However, medical scanning technology today already does things considered impossible 10 years ago. While in no way sufficient today by any means, you can't exclude (at this time) the possibility that adequate tech
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by pyalot2 13y ago
If Kurzweil is right or wrong and by how much is completely irrelevant. What is relevant, and this is the only relevant thing about the entire discussion is: 1) When will we reach the ability to take a snapshot of an entire organism with a
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by pyalot2 13y ago
You know you don't substantiate your claims to experience or your "analysis" of the protocol in any way. So your sole acumen far as can be determined is setting up a blog and reading another bloggers blog entry. Yeah, tons of
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The bitcoin protocol is not obfuscated. That's how protocols look like. It's actually a fairly simple and straightforward protocol compared to others. As a means to outsource SHA256 cracking it would be patently useless. To crack
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Nomination for worst information graphic design of the year.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Well here goes. My site is this http://codeflow.org/ I haven't been terribly happy with Apache, it's, fast-ish, but configuring it is pain. Also dispatching dynamic requests via (whatever mod-wsgi or something) is
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Having written pages, by hand, for ages now (like 15 years or so), I recently took this to a new level. I'm now hosting my site on my own hand coded webserver and no other server in front (please don't make me explain).
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The benefit of having some (any) facility to be able to write non vendor prefix/semantic infested CSS and to have nesting take care of an otherwise entirely unmaintainable flat CSS selector soup so far outweights any drawback that what
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by pyalot2 13y ago
All traded things are subject to market manipulation. It helps though if there's a bunch of real volume and a dozen or two active exchanges, that makes it harder to move the market. With Dogecoin however, barely any exchanges, and most
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Java applet, but yeah, same here, not gonna happen. It's not that I don't trust the source. It's that I don't trust Java. Had they done this as a browser plugin, python script or whatever, that'd be totally fine.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
I've mainly 3 problems with 3D-movies 1) For some reason, when I watch one, the first 20 minutes or so my left eye feels "numb". Hard to describe, just unpleasant. 2) I wear glasses, and I can't wear contacts. Clunky 3D
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Link to the documentation and blob d/ls for encoding/playback. Is that so much to ask? It's an "open technology" isn't it? Anybody can implement a browser right? Link, link, link. It's not difficult, see,
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Oh yeah that's smart, all the critics have no idea right? Ok smartypants, open technology right? Doesn't mean anybody should be to do these two things: 1) Implement a browser, that implements the DRM (or at least talking to the DR
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Cool idea for creative writing class, would've helped in plausibility if they'd thrown a few nano and quantum randomly into the essay instead of "negative time delay circuit".
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> it's about creating a data structure that allows you to quickly answer queries with which to build visualizations Hm, I see, so this can output the virtual miplevels quickly? Also, would it work with a "full" dataset (i.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Or as we in the graphics fields call it: mipmapping, geoclipmapping, megatexturing, virtual texturing or slippy maps. There's a related capability called "interpolation" which could be linear, bicubic etc. Looks nice too, try
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Rampant humbug again from Wired (a web puplication, written and editorialized on personal computers). Even if you discount the horrible fragmentation in mobile devices, and the difficulty this creates for developers to deploy apps, any apps
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by pyalot2 13y ago
HTML-DRM, proudly building "solutions" to problems nobody has, by following requirements nobody knows about, to create a landscape of content nobody can play. Way to go W3C, keep up the "good" work.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
There's a couple problems with that idea. 1) It requires the US government to run the payment network. That's an expensive and security sensitive installation. The government, by far and large, isn't terribly good at running
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Also automatically setup the github or bitbucket repo, create a subreddit and you could also throw in an exchange with the new homepage.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
While undesirable, bloody revolutions happen pretty much all by themselves once some hard to estimate pain limit is crossed. I tend to believe, most western civilizations are pretty far from that limit of pain. But, at the same time, they&#
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by pyalot2 13y ago
This new tax is paid by the company, and capped to 5% of the companies earnings. It's already a loophole. Now a company can just funnel earnings straight to salary and have tax be capped at 5%...
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Here's the new tax: Income above EUR 1 million, tax is paid by the company, amount is capped to 5% of the companies earnings. Congratulations Mr. Hollande, you just created a fabulous tax loophole to get corporate tax down to 5%. Keep
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by pyalot2 13y ago
At the time I wrote my first programs I was about 10 years old and I wrote them on an IBM x8680 that an acquaintance donated to us because he'd have thrown the machine away otherwise. I didn't receive any tutoring in programming u

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