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by sonoffett 11y ago
Which source? Bitcoin is a network of computers speaking a common protocol, not one implementation. Yes Bitcoin core is governed by core. If you're not happy with core then go run a different client or go write your own. You don't
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by sonoffett 11y ago
It's just a fact? Citation needed.
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by sonoffett 11y ago
I'm not saying you don't need consensus. I'm saying anyone can write their own client but the burden is on them to drum up support and achieve consensus if it's going to be useful. People talk as if there is a Bitcoin co
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by sonoffett 11y ago
You don't need a permission slip to write your own client with whatever rules you want. You do need to convince people to use if you want it adopted. What do you mean that it's centrally planned?
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by sonoffett 11y ago
AFAIK the intent of segwit is not to reduce overhead but to fix tx malleability. As an consequence of the politicized block size debate a discount was added to increase the number of txs per block--and this was seen as a compromise for the
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by sonoffett 11y ago
Luke jr showed how you can implement segwit as a soft fork. The txs look like "anyone can spend" txs and the signatures are excised to the witness data structure (decreasing the tx size). To validate the segwit txs you need to upg
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by sonoffett 11y ago
Take a look at the discount for segregated witness transactions. You'll see that in a world with segwit there are more transactions per block than without.
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Drinker paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sonoffett 11y ago|0 comments
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Richardson Maturity Model(martinfowler.com)
2 points by sonoffett 11y ago|1 comments
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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science Since 1996(jeffhuang.com)
72 points by sonoffett 11y ago|11 comments
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Bitcoin: Launch of Segregated Witness Testnet(bitcoincore.org)
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by sonoffett 11y ago
I know of 2 Google van guys in MTV and the parent is not one of them. It's definitely a trend.
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by sonoffett 11y ago
What do you think the purpose of the NSA is? I'm trying to understand if you're arguing that the NSA should not exist or if in this case it is acting outside its jurisdiction?
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by sonoffett 11y ago
Yes, I agree, we must address all the problems brought to our attention immediately.
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by sonoffett 11y ago
What the thinker thinks the prover proves. Instead of starting some metaconversation, it might be more productive to address how this information is new news or why the NSA should not be spying on foreign intelligence?
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by sonoffett 11y ago
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! But seriously, is this not what the NSA is paid to do?
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by sonoffett 11y ago
A good paper on this point "A Fistful of Bitcoins": https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf
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by sonoffett 11y ago
Are we ? The mass Internet surveillance by the u.s. gov was known well before snowden [1], albeit the specific actors were not. Post snowden I've seen public outcry lead to a destabilization of NSA meanwhile private corporations are co
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by sonoffett 11y ago
Are you being sarcastic ? http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
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Edward Snowden Supports Apple’s Public Stance on Privacy(techcrunch.com)
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by sonoffett 11y ago
Along the lines of a Snowden conspiracy theory, Dave Emory has done a fair amount of research and constructs quite a complex theory (see the "For a The Record" series on spitfirelist). He presents some interesting arguments that s
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by sonoffett 11y ago
I think you're right.
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by sonoffett 11y ago
The mantra of the fundamental materialist is always "it is only a coincidence" and it is quite useful to recite to explain away topics that might make one uncomfortable. Another good one is "correlation is not equal to causat
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by sonoffett 11y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience.
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by sonoffett 12y ago
General semantics helped me be aware of how easy it is to confuse the map for the territory, as well as adopt models based on their usefulness. As a great philosopher once said, reality is what you can get away with.
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by sonoffett 12y ago
Methamphetamine is legal so long as you have a permission slip to buy it from an approved dealer (ask for your doctor for desoxyn).
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by sonoffett 12y ago
They do have research labs, eg lab 126 and a9.
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by sonoffett 12y ago
Neophilic interests often span areas that are taboos within (American) mainstream society. It seems to come with the territory of genius, but some are better at hiding it than others. Tesla's ether physics and Wilhelm Reich's orgo
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by sonoffett 12y ago
A world dominated by the dogma of the fundamental materialists is quite scary indeed. Geniuses such as Ramanujan would never see their gifts blossom. ``...and claimed to dream of blood drops that symbolised her male consort, Narasimha, afte
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by sonoffett 12y ago
Yep, going to leave this here again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Inquisition

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