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by toomim 9y ago
I liked it.
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by toomim 9y ago
This is very cool! There must be a way to do it on mac, too. Does anyone know the equivalent commands to grab the current window title, and grab the clipboard or currently highlighted text?
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by toomim 9y ago
That's what the book said.
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by toomim 9y ago
It's not that simple. You've mentioned only one of the possible meanings of `this`: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... In the global execution context (outside o
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by toomim 9y ago
Yes, I watched Bram's talk in Berkeley two weeks ago. It indeed runs with much lower power costs. The cost is the power to do a hard-disk seek every long once in a while, rather than to compute sha256 over and over again. It does
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by toomim 9y ago
Berkeley too.
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by toomim 9y ago
Not true. It does make formal definitions and proofs. Without being a PDF.
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by toomim 9y ago
Pdfs are suited for printing. That has nothing to do with rigor. You're conflating fashion with intellect. Example: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt
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by toomim 9y ago
Exactly. Then merkle trees don't help you. They only work for static documents.
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by toomim 9y ago
And Urgent Care will often just send the patient to the ER with the same company, because it makes them more money. My girlfriend went to an Urgent Care with a stomach bug. They asked if she had any abdominal pain, and she said yes. That
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by toomim 9y ago
Only a business must do KYC. KYC is regulated by FinCEN. FinCEN requires every “Money Services Business” to register with them and do KYC. If maintaining a supernode is so costly that only businesses will do so, to make a profit, then sup
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by toomim 9y ago
This author confuses a hard fork for a github fork : > The bitcoin chain has been hard-forked at least five times, [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bitcoin_forks Ouch! Those aren't hard forks—
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by toomim 9y ago
Lots of people try to take credit for the ideas in Bitcoin (especially Adam Back, who you linked to), but Satoshi was its clear inventor.
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by toomim 9y ago
This problem would be solved if HTTP provided state synchronization rather than just transfer . Then we wouldn't need a reload button. The invisible college built a solution called Statebus: https://stateb.us It's
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by toomim 9y ago
It's not for coinbase being hacked. It's for the much more common case of user accounts being hacked.
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by toomim 9y ago
> This feature will not make your coins more secure It does make your coins more secure, by requiring 48 hours and additional confirmation emails before they can be withdrawn. If a hacker manages to get your password and (if enabled) t
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by toomim 9y ago
What do you mean by "deployment-based"? You want things to expire each time you "git pull" on the server?
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by toomim 9y ago
Censorship works. Propaganda works. That's why people use it.
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by toomim 9y ago
> Traditionally, databases have been used as the source of truth ... [but] can be difficult to manage in the long run. First, it’s often tricky to change the schema of a database. Adding and removing fields is not too hard, but more fund
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by toomim 9y ago
After 12 years as an academic computer scientist, Bitcoin was the most impressive computer science research I saw. And it came from outside the academy.
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by toomim 9y ago
I believe this article may have produced the same algorithm as [1] and [2] but applied to tree diffs [3] instead of string diffs. In particular, Myers' algorithm [2] is generally considered the best general-purpose string diff today, a
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by toomim 9y ago
It's a bitcoin wallet. Just like bitcoin core. Bitcoin-core != Bitcoin.
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by toomim 9y ago
Are you sarcastically trying to illustrate the author's point?
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by toomim 9y ago
What an exciting proposition— if you can use quantum teleportation to solve double-spending, then you don't need mining at all! You don't even need proof-of-stake.
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by toomim 9y ago
He's the lead developer of the btc1 Bitcoin Reference client. Here are his recent commits: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/tree/segwit2x
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by toomim 9y ago
He's currently the lead developer of the btc1 reference client: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/tree/segwit2x Here are his recent commits: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/commit
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by toomim 9y ago
That's exactly the information I needed! Thank you! It would be great to have this on the homepage.
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by toomim 9y ago
You are not aware Jeff Garzick is a developer? This is a haiku.
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by toomim 9y ago
That's a censored list controlled by theymos.
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by toomim 9y ago
My, that's a lot of adjectives you're using there.

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