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by sparkie 8y ago
I'm guessing it's more to do with transaction times than anything. A merchant needs to wait 10, 20 or 30 minutes to get a confirmation in Bitcoin, because he can't be sure there will not be a double-spend of the money until i
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by sparkie 8y ago
This can't be proven in a traditional market either. The reverse is also true: as a seller, you can't prove they shipped the iPhone and not the brick the user claimed to receive (or that it wasn't tampered with by someone in
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by sparkie 8y ago
Osaka probably isn't a good representation of the rest of Japan's public transport and I can see why it wouldn't leave an impression. Particularly if you catch the slow JR between KIX and Namba. Osaka-jin are typically more l
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by sparkie 8y ago
Humorless, apparently.
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by sparkie 8y ago
If they wait 18 months, it will be Coinbase buying Facebook.
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by sparkie 8y ago
Depends where you are. I use Coinfloor (UK). I've heard good (and nothing bad) about Gemini for US. I also used Kraken in the past but now I actively avoid any exchange which deals in Tether, as they've repeatedly failed to produc
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by sparkie 8y ago
Extremely large blocks will require the big miners to all host their servers in a ULLDMA-like facility, because low latency block propagation gives them the advantage. Anyone not in the club will suffer high-latency block propagation which
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by sparkie 8y ago
There are products like Cryptosteel, which are designed specifically to be able to survive a typical house fire and a variety of other disasters. Combined with a passphrase, it also means your money can't be stolen if your house is bur
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by sparkie 8y ago
> Suddenly you can't receive payments if you don't hold any coins yourself. This is completely untrue. The person who is sending you coins can open up a channel to you and load it with the money they're sending you. Someti
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by sparkie 8y ago
You should always have your own local wallet, and if you use an exchange, you should immediately transfer your funds to your local wallet once you buy them. In terms of exchanges, there are many alternatives to Coinbase which you should loo
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by sparkie 8y ago
It's not a collapse of all banking systems, but the fiat money system which is dictated by central banks (which are mostly private entities, not government bodies). It means when governments want to borrow more money, their lenders act
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by sparkie 9y ago
The idea of looking at things as a call tree (or graph) rather than a plain old stack is how Schemers think about things. We specifically avoid terminology like "stack frame" and refer to them as "continuation frames" be
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by sparkie 9y ago
Almost all people use at least basic arithmetic daily. They need it to count their change. There was a time, and not too long ago, where people could not do the basic calculations needed to conduct trade, and would require a smart man to te
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by sparkie 9y ago
Let's not teach children to read or do basic math either. We should try and make sure they don't learn the skills that will give them the greatest opportunities in life.
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by sparkie 9y ago
He's not exactly robbing old ladies though. He scammed a bunch of idiots who willingly threw money at something they obviously had no understanding of. The warning signs for ICOs have been pretty clear for a some time now, but it see
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by sparkie 9y ago
Cryptocurrency is driving both improvements in computational efficiency and in cheaper clean energies. Most of the big mining operations are run on 100% renewable energy sources.
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by sparkie 9y ago
What happened to radio was due to limited spectrum availability and laws prohibiting its use. This can't really be compared to the others. Bedroom servers still exist, and are probably more popular than before. It just appears there&#x
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by sparkie 9y ago
I mentioned Venezuela because people there are using Bitcoin, despite it being illegal, despite it being volatile. Because it's objectively better than what their government is offering. You're really thinking short term if you th
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by sparkie 9y ago
Right, as I said, the vast majority of people don't need to. Banks aren't going obsolete, but they'll be different in form for a world of people using cryptocurrencies. The way I see it is that existing banks will have to ada
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by sparkie 9y ago
I generally prefer MDI applications to having separate desktop windows for everything. I currently use SpaceFM, which isn't quite MDI (it only supports 1 to 4 active frames which are tiled automatically), but combined with tabs per fra
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by sparkie 9y ago
I miss old Opera (before it became a cheap Chrome variant), which had a great MDI and supported tiling and stacking of open tabs.
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by sparkie 9y ago
Using cryptocurrency does not forfeit the ability to have a third-party take custody of your funds for you. But because you are useless at looking after things, everybody else should forfeit their right to be custodian of their own funds? T
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by sparkie 9y ago
99.9% of people where? If you look at the world outside of your little bubble, there are over 3 billion people with little or no access to banking services that the west takes for granted. And do you think people in Venezuela, India, Greece
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by sparkie 9y ago
This isn't really true. Zcash isn't private by default, which weakens the concept for anyone who wants to use the privacy features. If not many people are using them then analysis of the transactions that are meant to be private b
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by sparkie 9y ago
Every website you visit that has a Facebook beacon on it. They collect this even if you're not a Facebook user.
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by sparkie 9y ago
China isn't just "stealing IP", they're also innovating in means of production. It's not just "cheap labor" that people get things produced in China for anymore - it's because China is way ahead of an
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by sparkie 9y ago
The same lack of regulation over what Google, Facebook et al can collect about you is also lack of regulation over what Huawei, Xiaomi et al can collect about you. It's not giving US companies any competitive advantage. The Chinese com
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by sparkie 9y ago
Because facts can upset some people.
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by sparkie 9y ago
The title was worded this way deliberately to bring attention to the issue. It's unfortunate that it gets a barrage of downvotes before people even click and read it.
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by sparkie 9y ago
You're introducing a logical fallacy here too, by arguing that "all white turkeys are gone," which is absolutely not the case for hiring male developers. If your hiring pipeline is working, and you're successfully hiring

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