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by rickycook 7y ago
that’s true, we have been handling trust transactions for centuries, but they’re largely enforced by the government of a country. blockchain allows us to extend certain kinds of that trust out indefinitely, across national boundaries.
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by rickycook 7y ago
well, don’t trust or don’t have a holder of the records per se. in the case of escrow, it also may be that you don’t trust the holder of some large amount of money, but you do trust them to arbitrate disputes.
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by rickycook 7y ago
in the US maybe, but in many other countries repayment of legal fees is at the discretion of the judge i think?
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by rickycook 7y ago
And it only works like that because of the current financial system. Flattr exists because of the lack of a solution in the current financial system: Cryptocurrency (eg ETH with Web3) would allow sites to build a Flattr-like system without
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by rickycook 7y ago
And yet again you've missed the point... So I don't understand how the ownership and transfer of ownership of vehicles works in the US (where, BTW, I do not live, and have no need to understand). Let me say it again so it's r
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by rickycook 7y ago
I wouldn't say "better"; That's pretty damn hard to substantiate! What's the other option? Well 1 is that the game wouldn't exist. I guarantee that Popcap [1] wouldn't be too happy, and there are plenty of
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by rickycook 7y ago
Flattr is micro-payments, and is fantastic! AWS became successful party because of the "micropayments for servers" style hourly model. Micropayments are most certainly a limitation of the current financial system: Pulling together
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by rickycook 7y ago
> If you sold one of your TODO notes for $170,000 frankly I think that'd be a fair judgement to make. Other than the fact that people spend stupid money on stupid things [1], I'm not sure what your point is > You know you ca
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by rickycook 7y ago
stealing private keys is the same thing as forging an identity in that case. someone can always forge documents to make a transfer of the asset
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by rickycook 7y ago
well they don’t have to be... tokens are just code running on the blockchain, so you can apply anything you like to them... you can block a transfer until the recipient is in a whitelisted KYC list so that real world identities are known, a
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by rickycook 7y ago
judging a cryptocurrency projects usefulness on cryptokitties is like judging a front end frameworks usefulness on “TODO MVP”: it’s just the example of a tradable asset that everyone uses BECAUSE it has no value and anyone can just set it u
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by rickycook 7y ago
95% of blockchain projects are a garbage heap, crypto currency is WAY overvalued, but the 5% of projects that are actually useful, and have a real need for a blockchain may just fundamentally change parts of how we live life when micro tran
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by rickycook 7y ago
i don’t think it would tbh... the US already places limitations on free speech: you’re not allowed to advertise using false information, the “fire in a crowded place” type thing you might SAY that it’s a slippery slope but i’d argue that it
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by rickycook 7y ago
rats are not a native species in most places; they are introduced and actually harm native species and ecosystems. the article mentions this
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by rickycook 7y ago
there has been mention that it could be lower latency for crossing the world, because of the speed of light in space is faster than through fibre the further your communication has to travel, the better starlink will be for latency
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by rickycook 7y ago
why is that? you can still interact with the stellar network with just xlm->xlm; you don’t have to pass it through and anchor to pay in some fiat-backed token
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by rickycook 7y ago
so the people who maintain our site content using markdown and hugo, commit/push git, and trigger a CI build and deploy automatically MUST be developers? answer: they are not, but they can handle basic git just fine. we aren’t some spe
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by rickycook 7y ago
well they kinda can... if they do any update to include software, that software can be anything... update systemd to include remote execution, or to install any package they want (but why would it be a package??)
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by rickycook 7y ago
i think it’s a combined “fixed cost” rather than just computational power... like you could do it with x, thus it should cost at most y similar to saying that you could do it with a raspberry pi
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by rickycook 7y ago
some might say that’s a feature though!
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by rickycook 7y ago
i think that’s pretty incorrect tbh; xmpp/otr, and matrix handle federation and private chat/encryption just fine id much prefer to see chat that’s just thinly wrapped in a pgp implementation that gets its keys from keybase (maybe
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by rickycook 8y ago
implying that makes it unworthy of praise?
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by rickycook 8y ago
because banks are worse at tech than tech companies if it’s critical, make sure it’s isolated
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by rickycook 8y ago
welllll, i definitely wouldn’t say for no benefit... recursion is a much more flexible construct than loops, and when you combine that with pattern matching you can do some really nifty things in a way that’s incredibly easy to reason about
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by rickycook 8y ago
well yeah but applying electrical tape to a product does kinda ruin its aesthetic in almost all cases don’t ya think
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by rickycook 8y ago
but the content won’t likely be the same across regions. netflix for example has a very different library depending on where you are in the world. eg CANADA had about 50% of the US library in 2016 (many other regions sitting with UK/AU
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by rickycook 8y ago
source? because it sounds like that’s an unfounded knee jerk reaction that’s not backed up by fact. there are lots of factors that contribute to fewer enterprises in the EU, and i’m not sure that regulation is anywhere near the top for the
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by rickycook 8y ago
of course, but what other options are there? i think the point being made is that all banks large enough to provide an “apple-scale” service are pretty damn awful. who knows? this could be an apple “toe in the water” play to see if it works
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by rickycook 8y ago
unlikely since it was last updated in 2014 :p *edit: according to another comment someone else posted
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by rickycook 8y ago
you increment your database ID for each row... 9-10 is natural for numbers but doesn’t flow for strings. making the number into a string is pointless because it always starts it’s life as a number

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