swift532

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by swift532 8y ago
But if enough people say it incorrectly long enough, it becomes correct, no? Not that I disagree that it hasn't happened yet. I too find it quite annoying when people say they "could care less".
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by swift532 8y ago
Don't forget exposure and people like me who can't be bothered to buy a game if it's not on Steam or GOG.
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by swift532 8y ago
Wouldn't you then have to log in twice to the same site if you have it opened in multiple tabs?
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by swift532 8y ago
While that is true, it is also true that it's much easier to remain on a sustainable amount of calories if you're eating better, more filling food that's not just empty calories.
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by swift532 8y ago
To me it was quite apparent that he referred to produce quality and quality of ingredients/too much sugar in various products.
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by swift532 8y ago
That, and maybe instead of giving the money to a big, inefficient corporation that's going to spend it on low quality bullshit and snake oil, spreading the money along multiple established companies and startups, seeding them all with
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by swift532 8y ago
In proof of stake, that could be a problem (though there are mechanisms people claim can handle it). But in a proof of work currency, having majority consensus would mean they'd have to have the majority of miners - and even then they
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by swift532 8y ago
Yes, you are correct. And also, all of those are useful features (except time taken to update, which is a side-effect of consensus/propagation costs).
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by swift532 8y ago
I'd like more time to pass in order to see what shape (graph-wise) the network will take, and how realistic running your own personal node will be 10-30 years from now (provided Bitcoin and LN remain viable). I like the concept of LN,
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by swift532 8y ago
Fair enough on the phrasing, but when I say "I believe", I mean to say that I reason that isthe truth but like to try to remain modest and not throw around very bold claims. Anyways, solely by the fact that some people use it as a
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by swift532 8y ago
I think the instability of the past (contentious forks, DAO, anything else) are growing pains, but with enough time I believe it's possible that we as a sort of hive mind will settle on something more permanent and stable because, at o
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by swift532 8y ago
This is a very good comment. I'll think about this and edit this comment when I can. Sorry, not trying to cop out. Hopefully I can sort some stuff out for myself too while responding to this. I'm not trying to overstate my knowled
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by swift532 8y ago
I do believe it can be used as a medium of exchange right now. However, yes, it is very limited due to current price instability and lack of global scaling. The jury is still out on whether that'll change.
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by swift532 8y ago
To my knowledge, not without a centralized arbiter which can then be evil, stupid, or taken over/destroyed by bad actors. Please correct me if I have the wrong info.
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by swift532 8y ago
In the way that they are forkable and sufficiently large groups of people (because a very small number has little effect) breaking away, or just having that ability, can: - disincentivize those participating in network decisions from making
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by swift532 8y ago
From what I see in discussions about blockchain hype, blockchain is conflated with cryptocurrency by largely ignorant opinions on the Internet. I concede this: It's true that a blockchain is just an distributed immutable series of tran
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by swift532 8y ago
What even?
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by swift532 8y ago
Thank you for this. This probably ranks as the algorithm with the greatest coolness / simplicity ratio I've heard of.
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by swift532 8y ago
I'd like this more than the status quo, but this still leaves the door open for governments to read private messages and leverage social platforms for manipulation. In my mind, and I admit I am not certain this is possible - the only r
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by swift532 8y ago
It was a pretty bold claim lacking evidence but your analogy is way off base. His claim has one missing step, while yours is a journey of a thousand miles.
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by swift532 8y ago
It's not really true for any forum. It's true that most people are interested in the getting rich part, and I wouldn't expect anything much more different, considering how many(not too many) people incline toward libertariani
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by swift532 8y ago
I'm not sure how we're defining an old car here, but I'm pretty sure a car from 2010 is not noticeably more dangerous than cars today. Preferring a car with more freedomey™ qualities because you don't want to be tracked,
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by swift532 8y ago
That is not what is meant in the GDPR writeup. I think we can all agree that it's clearly aimed at whether something is technically required for a service, as for example a cookie is required for a login (not the best of examples, but
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by swift532 8y ago
If you have to opt out of one option at a time, it is against the law. According to GDPR, everything must be opted out by default.
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by swift532 8y ago
As a "consumer" who develops iOS apps, what alternative choice to a mac can I make? With monopolies that tend to crop up these days, the phrase that customers have a choice rings hollow.
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by swift532 8y ago
You can use a yubi key, or IMO better yet, a trezor crypto wallet(as unlike yubi, you can clone and restore it more easily with your seed words). Not sure how yubi works, but trezor generates deterministic passwords based on your private ke
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by swift532 8y ago
It's all because schools generally focus on the common denominator and more talented children are lost to boredom and lack of challenges. This doesn't apply everywhere, but it certainly applied to my pre-university education.
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by swift532 8y ago
Depending on how well you separate them, they might link them together.
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by swift532 8y ago
Well with Bitcoin it's trivial to prove that a transaction went through, and you'd only pay for 5 computers if you carelessly transmitted a transaction without reading the amount.
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by swift532 8y ago
If it's truly more useful for businesses, you might get a discount. Or maybe just because you like freedom.

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