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by smokeyj 11y ago
Writing six blocks in a row doesn't mean you can double spend a transaction with six confirmations. Unless you meant something else.
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by smokeyj 11y ago
I think confirmation count does a good job of this, allowing processors to choose the balance between risk and convenience. No one's going to convert large fiat to btc without increasing confirmation count, and splitting smaller transa
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by smokeyj 11y ago
It's called principled reasoning . Radical stuff man, give it a try. You hold no principle to be true that dictates voluntary and peaceful cooperation should be prevented with threats of violence in order to achieve safety . The only
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by smokeyj 11y ago
But the undocumented workers who handle your food, fix your car brakes, built your house and construct the fairground rides get a free pass. I don't understand the mental gymnastics required to support regulating ride sharing before
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by smokeyj 11y ago
Of all the dangers associated with traveling in a flying hunk of metal it's rapist drivers . Please, enlighten us more about your liberal ideology.
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by smokeyj 11y ago
I meant on my burger. It really left a bad taste in my mouth.
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by smokeyj 11y ago
One time I went to McDonalds and the pickles were all mixed up with the mustard. This industry really needs a regulatory overhaul.
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by smokeyj 12y ago
Didn't manufacturers grant google the right to extortion when they licensed g-products? Unless manufacturers are children without the ability to consent to terms I don't see why I should care about their arrangement.
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by smokeyj 12y ago
> My understanding is Google also blocks hardware vendors from working with alternative android based OSes. What right do manufacturers have to reproduce google's code? It's not like those manufacturers can make iOS devices eit
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by smokeyj 12y ago
This is like breaking into your neighbors house to see if they have any plans to break into your house. How tragically ironic.
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by smokeyj 12y ago
> And ultimately if it doesn't pan out, he can sell the company to a larger processor and cash his 100% stake out. Do you honestly think that isn't plan A? He's going to flip the company, pocket the cash, and all those emp
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by smokeyj 12y ago
The team as a whole becomes less sustainable. Profit margins went from 2m to 500k. That's a lawsuit away from being in the red. Is the entire team going to take pay cuts if profits aren't coming in? Does someone get fired? I think
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by smokeyj 12y ago
> Hi Andreas - I'm not saying it was posted publicly by you or someone in the Bosnadev team. Please contact me directly (matt at recordedfuture dot com) and I will share more details with you. You left this comment on Bosnadev'
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by smokeyj 12y ago
> after having spent over a year working with it on a large project What issues are you running into? I always hear people complain about angular but rarely hear why.
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by smokeyj 12y ago
No problem. Here's an open source implementation by bitpay https://copay.io using their open source framework http://bitcore.io This isn't pie in the sky tech. It's real and accessible from your mobile
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by smokeyj 12y ago
Yes I mean low friction. I think we're largely talking about different markets, see my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9313044
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by smokeyj 12y ago
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi... I think the main advantage to a blockchain solution is the cryptographic verifiability. Not only is the accounting accurate, but the funds
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by smokeyj 12y ago
Let the record show it's CRYPTOGRAPHY that requires faith, not the enshrined powers of the IRS.
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by smokeyj 12y ago
My comment wasn't about billion dollar IPOs. I'm talking about small communities that would like to purchase something like a solar panel. Maybe they want to sell excess power and return the profits as dividends. My point is, smal
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by smokeyj 12y ago
If the IRS is going to work out in the long run, it will need arguments that work even if the blockchain retains its ability to maintain a globally distributed ledger. Are you surprised bitcoin still exists considering the white paper unapo
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by smokeyj 12y ago
You describe the Western Union of bitcoin. The game changer will be the Nasdaq of bitcoin. The frictionless issuance of stocks bonds and dividends will change everything. Operating agreements will be codified in software and organizations c
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by smokeyj 12y ago
Oh sure, there's infinite differences. It just sounded as if anigbrowl was taking a principled position on exclusionary practices. Almost like we should tolerate people who look and act differently than ourselves instead of secluding o
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by smokeyj 12y ago
Like code camps exclusively for gender/race/socioeconomic/etc groups? I thought exclusionary practices were the pinnacle of progressive reasoning.
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by smokeyj 12y ago
> It has nothing to do with speech, it is about unlawfully flying The act of flying a plane becomes retroactively illegal because money was made from a video? Can we be adults and admit this has nothing to do with lawfulness and everyt
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Ask HN: I want to move to the Valley. How would you do it?
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by smokeyj 12y ago
A universe neatly compartmentalized into good guys and bad guys. How wonderfully simplistic. Let's just hope the good guys always wear capes so the government knows who to hire.
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by smokeyj 12y ago
We've moved past the "Bitcoin will die" phase to the "Bitcoin may not be the largest technical innovation since the internet" phase. I'm okay with that.
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by smokeyj 12y ago
Almost like the Internet. So spooky
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by smokeyj 12y ago
> There are some pretty cool and useful things you can do with an Android app that you just can't do on iOS, period. Such as?
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by smokeyj 12y ago
> The idea that my mom will someday use Bitcoin to buy books online is about as realistic as the belief that, any minute now, youngsters will realize that the daily newspaper is better read in paper form Your mom probably didn't pus

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