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by toomim 9y ago
Sure they can: https://imgur.com/ag2kNr9
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by toomim 9y ago
In order to enforce such a terms of service, the company would have to send a lawyer to court. Most companies don't even show up to court, because the cost of paying a lawyer is more than you are suing them for in small claims court. I
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by toomim 9y ago
You can take them to small claims court, for about $50.
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by toomim 9y ago
This is a good point. Single founders fail when the single founder has problems. Relationships fail when both individuals have problems. The value of a co-founder is that they can cover for some of your problems. But likewise, a co-found
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by toomim 9y ago
If this is like git, does that mean that you can merge two different branches of data? For instance, if I have two runs of a test, that produce different outputs, can I merge the data back together at the end? If not, then this is only ca
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by toomim 9y ago
Wow, thank you! This is great feedback!
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by toomim 9y ago
I love Differential Synchronization. Howevr, Google Drive doesn't use it. More specifically, by Google Drive, I assume you mean Google Docs. And Google Docs doesn't use diffsync, it uses OT.
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by toomim 9y ago
I've built a new version of HTTP that lets you build apps from multiple websites, linking their internal state together as easily as we link pages together today. I think this solves much of the difficulty in building the decentralized
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by toomim 9y ago
Except this one actually exists. Beetoken is just an ICO without any working product.
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by toomim 9y ago
> I've been self-hosting mail for ages with a postfix + dovecot + cyrus + spamassassin + opendkim + dkimproxy + lets encrypt stack. So you call it easy to configure together 7 different systems just to get a working mail server
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by toomim 9y ago
> However, the fraud that ends up making it through the pipeline is so minimal that we cover it fully. You're contradicting yourself when you also say that you charge $20 for chargebacks.
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by toomim 9y ago
Bitcoin is not anonymous. (Reporter needs to get a clue.) Once you link an individual to a single transaction, you can trace them through every other transaction to and from that address. In practice, this means that if you use coinbase
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by toomim 9y ago
I'm a landlord who accepts crypto. You can pay tax with a shift payments visa card via coinbase. In general, you pay through an intermediary that swaps it for you, or cash out just what you need to pay tax when you need it.
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by toomim 9y ago
It adds a datapoint (my own behavior) that contradicts the parent's claim of what people will do. I think what you really mean is "your statement does not contribute to my argument ," not "your statement does not contri
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by toomim 9y ago
Bitcoin competes with Visa. It's in Visa's interest to cut it off, while giving only vague "reasons" why, so that we all assume that it's because Bitcoin users have high fraud.
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by toomim 9y ago
Maybe that's what you do, but that's not what I do, and that's certainly not the hacker way. So instead of saying "this is false", you should be saying "well, this is just, like, my opinion, man."
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by toomim 9y ago
Cool! What company and product? I'd love to see a positive example.
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by toomim 9y ago
Welcome to the echo chamber. In my experience, the only people who think CHI publishes great papers are the people publishing at CHI. (Disclosure: I've published at CHI a few times myself. I'm done with it.)
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by toomim 9y ago
Ah, if only CHI and UIST had good papers these days. :/
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by toomim 9y ago
Yeehaw! This was the best paper I read in 2012, and then again in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
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by toomim 9y ago
The cost is increasing because more people are trying to use Bitcoin, but it has an artificial limit to the number of people who can use it per second. Thus, with increasing demand, and static supply, the fees rise roughly quadratically ov
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by toomim 9y ago
Preface: I'm a 2.25MW bitcoin miner myself (see https://toom.im ). This author is getting the causation backwards: > Is there a correlation between power consumption and the cost of bitcoin. Yes, of course there is a corr
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by toomim 9y ago
Again, this is a myth spread by people trying to tarnish Bitcoin Cash's image. The truth is that the money can't be lost. If you have the Bitcoin Cash private keys for the deposit address, you have the Bitcoin Core private keys on
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by toomim 9y ago
A 51% attack only allows you to (1) censor transactions for a short time, and (2) double-spend. The first part is a mild nuisance. The second one can be retaliated against off-chain, which puts the attacker (who must be a large entity) at g
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by toomim 9y ago
Put simply: Bitcoin has split into two camps. Big blockers and small blockers. Blockstream is a small block company. Bitcoin Cash is a big block technology. So Bitcoin Cash and Blockstream are politically opposed.
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by toomim 9y ago
Use shapeshift. No id verification needed. The tradeoff is you pay more in fees.
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by toomim 9y ago
Here's a historical explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6rxw7k/info...
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by toomim 9y ago
This is the way to do it. Let the individual states experiment and decide. If net neutrality really IS good/bad, you'll notice it when you cross state borders and go online.
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by toomim 9y ago
When you're talking about a routing proposal, I think you are referring to this? https://github.com/vyzo/research-pubsub/blob/a6cfdd3fec9d595...
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by toomim 9y ago
It's safe if you trust coinbase. I trust coinbase, so I think it's safe.

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