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by sparkie 8y ago
It's solving the problem that currency, up until now, has never had a finite supply, and that even currencies with limited supply could be forged, seized or inflated until they became worthless. Bitcoin is the first money ever, which n
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by sparkie 8y ago
Ideally we would be better with increased decentralization. It could be a problem if they colluded and attempted to censor or double spend. Chances are they won't, because it will probably negatively affect their own bottom lines (redu
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by sparkie 8y ago
The decentralization is that anyone can participate, and anyone can be the bank. There is no authority and you do not need to ask permission. You do not require any large investment because the resources require to run the node are minimal,
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by sparkie 8y ago
It might be a feature if you're a consumer worried about having your card stolen. If you're a business, it's a bug. Ideally, you would prefer to not even accept credit card payments and only accept cleared funds, but since yo
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by sparkie 8y ago
Mining pools can't change the rules of Bitcoin. They can only change the rules in their own clients, which would have them producing blocks which are not accepted by the larger Bitcoin network. Changes to Bitcoin rules require consensu
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by sparkie 8y ago
The problem with the comparison to Visa and Mastercard, is that settlement is never really final with those services. A transaction can be reversed even 6 months down the line, as anyone who runs a business probably knows. The cost of fraud
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by sparkie 8y ago
Realistically, what features can be provided by the language but not by libraries? If there are many cases, would that not indicate that the language's expressiveness is lacking? IMO, the goal of languages isn't to provide many fe
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by sparkie 8y ago
The larger problem is that there is information asymmetry between the weak and the powerful. The powerful know almost everything about the weak, and it becomes trivial to discredit any of them based on some past evidence they can dig up. Th
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by sparkie 8y ago
"paper" here could be used loosely to refer to traditional contracts enforced by the state, in any form. They can still be electronic, but the databases will obviously be administered by the state, rather than being immutable on a
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by sparkie 8y ago
I just wonder how many people have heard of say, Secure Multi-Party Computation, before they come to the conclusion that they need to print their own money. Yao pioneered many interesting concepts which have basically been swept under the r
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by sparkie 8y ago
Uh, that's completely the opposite scenario that I've seen over the past several years, where any accusation made against a white male are met by hoards of keyboard warriors quickly pointing the finger on social media, handing out
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by sparkie 8y ago
If Satoshi had thought that a selected set of entities was an adequate replacement for the central entity for control over the money system, he would never have invented Bitcoin. The driving force behind Bitcoin was that it doesn't mat
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by sparkie 8y ago
Also, many of the largest internet businesses in China started out as cheap imitations of western websites, but gained success as the western versions were blocked by the great firewall. The Chinese government has basically propped up their
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by sparkie 8y ago
It is not only that the companies pushing those languages have lots of money, it's that they already have lots of users. Often, they publish their language as if it were an "upgrade" from what they were already using, with an
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by sparkie 8y ago
It isn't just about doing business in China, but the nature of the business (and propping up the Chinese regime). Apple have had plenty of stick about their practices too. I think they just have too many diehard followers that the nega
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by sparkie 8y ago
Houby hunting, then PF Tek. Obviously, do lots of research. There aren't many deadly varieties by some of them look very similar to edible ones.
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by sparkie 8y ago
The main complaint is that manufacturers of budget phones are following suit, but damaging themselves in the process because they're misguided about what their users really want. Having android phones with 3.5/2.5mm jacks would ke
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by sparkie 8y ago
If a user already has F-droid installed, they can scan a QR code, verify that the signature matches, or just click on URL. Example here: https://f-droid.monerujo.io/ The only difficult part is the user getting f-droid on th
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by sparkie 8y ago
Perhaps the most insane example of literate programming is Axiom [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system... ], which is several books worth. It wasn't originally written in literate style, but
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by sparkie 8y ago
I'll recommend Odoo. Easy to deploy, configure, and it is fairly simple to make modifications or extensions you need in python. Demo here: https://demo3.odoo.com/web
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by sparkie 8y ago
> With enough political or legal pressure, you easily deploy a "51% attack" on the chain, and fork it as you like. A 51% attack can do two things: Enable "double-spend" attacks - where the hash rate majority will igno
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by sparkie 8y ago
When given the choice, that's what you'd expect most people would think. But when not given the choice, it turns out people are quite happy to give over their data in return for no payment.
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by sparkie 8y ago
> You have to admire those who challenged the law and the majority’s view by protesting for women’s abortion rights, for animal rights ... This one is completely nuts. Mistreating animals: Not good. Mistreating unborn babies: Totally fin
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by sparkie 8y ago
The downside is that in a few years, most of those references will be 404.
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by sparkie 8y ago
KDE connect is awesome. You don't actually need to use KDE as your desktop as it will work on any Linux, with just a few KDE/Qt libraries. It even works on Windows, although not all plugins are able to work.
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by sparkie 8y ago
a is just a universally quantified placeholder for some type. Essentially someFunction :: ∀a => a -> a -> a
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by sparkie 8y ago
I wrote a YAML file for flexget. Much easier.
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by sparkie 8y ago
There's nothing stopping you from receiving an iPhone, taking a photo of a brick, and getting a refund either. The payment provider will most likely side with you and refund your money, unless you do it repeatedly, in which case they&#
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by sparkie 8y ago
One idea would be to create a cryptocurrency where the currency supply increases following a Gompertz function rather than a log function. If you could magically guess the right variables so supply approximately followed adoption rate, you&
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by sparkie 8y ago
The shit you read on reddit is full of conspiracy theorist nonsense, and completely detached from Bitcoin development. Development is done and discussed in the open on mailing lists, github etc, and is subject to community review. There&#x2

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