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by sirsar 13y ago
To get a sense of the scale of inefficiency, writing this code was certainly less profitable than walking down the highway picking up bottles to return for their 5-cent deposit.
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by sirsar 13y ago
I have found that the TI-83 series handles numbers remarkably better than many programming languages and even software packages. The built-in functions are diverse, composable, and very powerful, yet simultaneously simple to use. When I wan
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by sirsar 13y ago
This sounds reasonable enough. But how will I know when to ask a question? It's not just hellbans; it's my understanding that there is no notification when one's account is penalized for some technicality (e.g. deleting a pos
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by sirsar 13y ago
I'm having a hard time finding a use case. Unless Identitymind also handles money transmitter licenses (one for every state), which was not mentioned in the article, that is still a huge hurdle to regulatory compliance for exchanges. S
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by sirsar 13y ago
I disagree that the rules stem naturally from common courtesy. - We have a system in place that prevents duplicates. - Except we expect you to find holes in it and bypass it when necessary. - Except you should never delete the original befo
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by sirsar 13y ago
Your "while I'm at it" comment contained one rather specific rule that can penalize accounts. I (and presumably the parent) would much prefer a centralized list of guidelines, rather than trying to remember tidbits of advice
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by sirsar 13y ago
Yes, the blockchain is globally appendable by anyone with Bitcoins. This is a feature, not a bug. Having it any other way would imply possible censorship.
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by sirsar 13y ago
If I'm not mistaken, this represents a reversal of Ebay policy: in the past, they used to terminate your account, freeze your assets, etc at the first hint that you were selling Bitcoins. They didn't do this to everybody, but it h
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by sirsar 13y ago
I have a hard time drawing the conclusion that eating a vegetarian diet directly decreases quality of life. Participants who ate less meat also had poorer health practices, such as avoiding attending doctors appointments for preve
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by sirsar 13y ago
> This piece works only to show that Patrick can tell people what they should do, but there is nothing Patrick has done to actively improve things. I believe that's called consulting.
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by sirsar 13y ago
This isn't specific to Bitcoin, although Bitcoin prompted the question. For a non-superficial answer, you'd want to read papers by Austrian economists. If you want amateur opinions, which I'm willing to bet is all you'll
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by sirsar 13y ago
As pro-cryptocurrency as I am, this still reads like a poorly disguised advertisement written by someone on fiverr.
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by sirsar 13y ago
> If coin price > mining cost / 2, it becomes worth it to acquire 51% of mining capability so you can vote the other 49% to yourself, no? No. The most powerful thing a 51% miner can do is roll-back transactions. The currency go
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by sirsar 13y ago
A great deal of consumers are behind NAT, and punching through that is a huge pain. UPnP is sketchy, STUN is difficult, and custom schemes like uTP are undocumented. You'll get the occasional consumer who is willing to forward a port j
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by sirsar 13y ago
This bothered me as well. That's a 3.6% error, which is far from negligible. Was the main problem too few trials?
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by sirsar 13y ago
Presumably because verifying the composition of the entire coin without destroying it is a very hard problem.
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by sirsar 13y ago
Reaching for a stretch goal has a way of solving a lot of problems on the side. The space race didn't cure polio, but it did give us smoke detectors, memory foam, improved water filtration, and many others that I can't list off th
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by sirsar 13y ago
"Ponzi scheme" has a very specific definition (early investors paid by late investors rather than from profit). While Bitcoin may certainly be in a bubble, a sharp rise in price does not qualify it as a ponzi any more than tulip b
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by sirsar 13y ago
At least one API it uses has been killed as well.
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The ICANN uses physical keys(businessinsider.com)
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by sirsar 13y ago
Turns out the blockchain makes a great log. The number of coins involved in malleable TXs does not add up to MtGox's loss.
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by sirsar 13y ago
And then test them live on the testnet. That's what it's there for.
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by sirsar 13y ago
There is an alternate blockchain explicitly created for testing called the "testnet." It works exactly like Bitcoin except its genesis block is different, so it has a different blockchain and set of transactions. Testcoins have no
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by sirsar 13y ago
A notable difference between your examples and "religion" (or at least some subset of that widely scoped word) is that religion, at least in the context of this conversation, is someone else's large set of loosely-correlate
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by sirsar 13y ago
(2012). This is not a Snowden leak, as I mistook it at first.
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by sirsar 13y ago
I think, with books, one is supposed to read .
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by sirsar 13y ago
Main problem is graphics; there's no specification about that in the language, so you'd need to be writing to video memory, or do something funky with the print statements
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by sirsar 13y ago
The parent was referencing the merger. There's no competition with oneself.
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by sirsar 13y ago
There is a very interesting paper which solves the problem when there are 100 prisoners, and there is only one lightswitch and one light bulb. It's like an exercise in communication over the lowest bandwidth channel imaginable. Some of
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by sirsar 13y ago
Here's Google's cache. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

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