pyalot2

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by pyalot2 13y ago
Using a captcha to annoy and drive away users. It was super effective. Please, just stahp.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
While I would be glad if people would stop using that unnamed OS, what I meant isn't that everybody should just hop to some *nix. What I meant is that pretty much every OS out there does security completely wrong, for no discernible re
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by pyalot2 13y ago
I'm actually pretty happy cryptolocker's around. No, wait, don't hang me yet, stuff your pitchforks, let me explain. Let's face it, computer security has been pretty bad trough pretty much the entire personal computing e
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by pyalot2 13y ago
There's been no "investor" in the history of investment that made money by buying high and selling low.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Norway fails bitcoin test.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
And since images are now no longer proxied, that's the end to this "email DRM" sillyness. Good riddance.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
I actually suspect that the accountable game doesn't work. Have you ever heard of that guy? Nope. Will you ever hear of him again? Well only if he was right... The game works essentially like this. Create N identities for a topic, at e
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by pyalot2 13y ago
On the 3rd of january 2009, satoshi nakamoto did an extraordinary thing. He put online an invention unlike any invention before in the history of mankind. The invention is a solution to a supposedly intractable problem that defeated the bri
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by pyalot2 13y ago
How to spot people who are talking out of their armpit? They're engaging in prophecy about the future, that's how. Nobody has any clue what the future holds, let alone the one of bitcoin. Everybody has a guess of course, but that&
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Yeah, maybe not link directly to the exe file hm?
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by pyalot2 13y ago
It's not that terribly hard. Tungsten is ferromagnetic, gold is weakly dimagnetic. If you have quite a strong magnet (like a large permanent magnet) and a fine scale, you can detect the presence of ferromagnetic materials even if prese
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The arbitrator is not in control of the funds. He cannot defraud either merchant or customer directly. That is the nature of multisignature transactions. The law's got a lot of catching up to do.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
DRM undermines the web.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Almost no single prediction, critisism or estimate that held up to the test of time. Moral of the story, don't play the prophet and try to predict the future. The future is always stranger than anybody imagined.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Everything you see to much of gets you annoyed eventually.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> So, i see there will be a lot of virtual currency flying around, all of it as qualified as bitcoin (sharing similar source code) and the idea that it will all be worth 1,000 a unit (or more) forever just doesn't make sense. Do you
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Of course if a majority agreed to a blacklist, redlist, whitelist or any other exclusionary mechanism, then some coins become less usable than others. However I think you will find that really nobody wants to participate in such a scheme fo
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Yes, but the volatility nobody is debating is that it was below $1 in 2011 before it shot up above $33 and then came down to $2 at the bottom again. A similar development could be observed earlier 2013 where it started the year around $10,
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> In this sense, Bitcoins is not a Ponzi scheme. It is simply a supermoney scheme. Admits that bitcoin is not a ponzi scheme in his own article. > The money was siphoned off from the beginning. Somebody owned a good percentage of the
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by pyalot2 13y ago
I'd argue no. It's definitely some kind of valuable and/or dense, but it's not that simple. The value is purely held up by what value people ascribe to this information. This can change rapidly (and it does), so the prec
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by pyalot2 13y ago
You're using escrow already when you use a bank account, CC processor, paypal, google wallet etc. You don't really get a choice, and you carry the mandatory cost because merchants roll the cost of chargeback fraud, CC fees and ban
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by pyalot2 13y ago
There different ways to implement escrow with bitcoin. 1) You could ignore all technicalities and simply send the coins to a third party which releases it back to you or forward to the merchant. That's probably the least recommendable
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by pyalot2 13y ago
@RyanZAG Please look into what escrow means. Of course you can do business with an entity you're not sure is legit. The assumption is that you trust the escrow provider, and the Escrow provider is trusted by the merchant. So, the crite
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by pyalot2 13y ago
If by recourse you only mean chargeback, sure. But that's not the whole story. If you have a legal entity behind something, like say, bitpay or coinbase, you can take legal steps if they screw you over. You can take them to small-claim
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by pyalot2 13y ago
You are surprised that when you trust your coins to the anonymous operator of a drug marketplace that you get ripped off? There's three separate reasons why you're screwed: 1) You have no recourse because you can't report the
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by pyalot2 13y ago
It's not so bad either, imagine you held the continental dollar or the zimbabwe dollar, or even just the USD since 1975. They did worse than silver.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
If you care about color, you should not miss "The importance of being linear" http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch24.html and corresponding discussion on wrong gamma in a variety of programs
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Maybe people who swoop in on this meta thread including poster should be hellbanned? Ah, right, righteousness only applies to others.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Curious question. If you deploy a wallet app trough an app-store (such as iOS appstore or google play), people send coins to that wallet and then the app-store pulls the app, which will also delete the app from the users device, the coins a
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Will be taken down by the SEC in 3, 2, 1...

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