tal8d

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by tal8d 6y ago
...that is why you were congratulated. Nice reading comprehension there. I've had this exact conversation at least a dozen times over the years, it is formulaic. There is always a claim of some kind of nonsensical fraud, after that unr
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by tal8d 6y ago
But the beanie baby craze only lasted 3 years. The CBOE didn't start trading beanie baby options. NIST didn't begin several beanie baby focused work groups and studies. The IRS didn't provide tax guidance on beanie babies...
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by tal8d 6y ago
So not a "Classic Ponzi scheme", but the opposite - where Charles Ponzi is the victim of "people who have latched on". That is twice now that you've claimed something based on a bizarre redefinition. Even if there w
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by tal8d 6y ago
lol, so nothing even close to an off chain network - but somehow the "same value". Well, except for the real time cryptographically secure stuff - but nobody wanted those values anyway. 10+ years is a pretty long con, that satoshi
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by tal8d 6y ago
I'm trying to imagine how you think that'd work without them also running an exchange and eating slippage, or maintaining a massive hot wallet.
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by tal8d 6y ago
I don't follow the day to day, and it has been years since I contributed any code, but a quick peek at the lightning network stats makes me think that everything is fine. Good organic growth, with over 1000 BTC presently in flight. A l
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by tal8d 6y ago
I haven't received my official enthusiast talking points memo, but the obvious solution was proposed years ago: off chain transaction that use smart contracts for settlement on the public ledger. I vaguely remember "store of value
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by tal8d 6y ago
Canada actually tried that, at least once - maybe twice. When it became clear that the government was talking about a pre-mined, non-transparent, centralized fedcoin - everybody laughed and then ignored it.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Many years ago USPS provided a data stream that included every sorting machine operation a mail piece went through, the location it occurred (zip code), and the local time (sans timezone information). That was an absolute nightmare of a pro
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by tal8d 6y ago
BoA had it happen a couple of times after they screwed over home owners and tried to ignore the courts. It seems like there should be a significant consequence to forcing the aggrieved party to form a posse with the sheriff in order to coll
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by tal8d 6y ago
Sounds like classic trolling fare, as in: Mitt Romney's penis is only discussed in places where mention of his penis is frowned on. Given how many Americans think "hate speech" is a legally defined thing, I'd expect offe
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by tal8d 6y ago
I guess c-span got a lot more interesting since I stopped watching tv, not only allowing racist rants on air - but doing it to a degree that develops a level notoriety supporting cultural shorthand. Like Emily Post. Either that or... nah, I
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by tal8d 6y ago
> ...bordering on c-span call-in line territory and really off-putting and demoralizing. Is this a roundabout way of complaining that you can't block or flag people you disagree with in meatspace?
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by tal8d 6y ago
ah, I see the problem now. You should open with that line in all your exchanges, you'd get fewer people trying to explain to you how you're wrong.
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by tal8d 6y ago
uh huh, but their tangibility has as much to do with randomly modeling them as a proof of work in a crypto currency - as every potential tangible thing you can spend the currency on. That is to say: none.
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by tal8d 6y ago
So is "free energy" and "cancer cure". Of course Bitcoin's intangibility has tangible benefits this very second, those others do not.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Like a global realtime financial network that grants participants complete freedom to do as they please with their own money? Yeah.
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by tal8d 6y ago
This has been wondered for years, usually by people who don't know the purpose of hashing functions. If nuclear fusion models + protein folding were easily verifiable, then there would be no point in leveraging distributed computing fo
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by tal8d 6y ago
The counterargument has been the same for years: the present financial system consumes for more energy, to the point where people complaining about it look like they're either trying to deceive others, or they've just put so littl
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by tal8d 6y ago
> There are no "black box processes". Do you know how much of the fingerprint match process is left up to the judgement of the examiner? You can't get much more "black box" than another person's brain. Last
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by tal8d 6y ago
lol, yeah, "networking". That kind of self delusion will come in handy as the cartel activity becomes increasingly bold and the regulatory capture ensures no way out.
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by tal8d 6y ago
That would be a good argument if there weren't public conferences, discussion panels, and work groups that these companies send representatives to in order to coordinate their efforts in "combating the rising threat of <insert
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by tal8d 6y ago
Enforce existing law. You remember the last several times that a person/alt-service was permabanned across multiple platforms in a period of time so short that it looked coordinated? It looked that way because it was. That kind of coor
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by tal8d 6y ago
My point is that systemd is intentionally designed to make that impossible to do without also pulling linux (ABI, environment, whatever) within the same standard.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Are you intentionally missing that the point is the fact that any one of them can use the portable init system that isn't systemd? > No, they should turn systemd into a real standard. ECMAinitd :-p Well systemd can only work on linu
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by tal8d 6y ago
lol, wow. On one occasion I actually did need to know, but only remembered which playlist it would have been in. I ended up having to search for websites that linked to a few dozen dead youtube urls. I never thought I'd be happy to lan
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by tal8d 6y ago
> So, like mobile? Which is 70%+ of computing these days? :-) Media consumption spy devices + smiley emoticon. Yuck. > ...and ideally standardized fully... uh, you know that you are advocating for the direct opposite of that - right?
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by tal8d 6y ago
So what are you arguing? Because I see a list of disparate platforms sharing the same init system, and I see the homogeneity that is systemd/linux. What is that a counterpoint to? Or is this a celebration of network effect? > POSIX
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by tal8d 6y ago
I've always used private playlists to organize things. They look like swiss cheese with all the deleted videos.
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by tal8d 6y ago
> Honestly, what do we need POSIX for in 2020? You've never written portable software, have you? You can't write portable software without a common interface. Have you ever looked at what autotools vomits out? You'll see s

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