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by topranks 5y ago
It’s precisely like that.
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by topranks 5y ago
There’s been a few articles on it. Chivo -> Chivo transfers are not done with Lightning, or ok the blockchain itself. Govt is not obliged to back the amount of “Bitcoin” in all the wallets by any specific amount. There are, I believe, g
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by topranks 5y ago
Cool stuff. Why oh why the multimode though? Single mode all the way.
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by topranks 5y ago
It’s moronic to keep asserting that Spotify had all the power here, or made the decision on how the labels should distribute revenues.
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by topranks 5y ago
You say it like Spotify has loads of bargaining power in this negotiation. When Spotify started whether the big labels would even licence anything to such a service was far from a given. Many digital music platforms had failed in the previ
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by topranks 5y ago
You got any evidence of that? The labels own the rights. Yes they fleece artists, no it’s not new nor something anyone who wants to deal with them can directly influence.
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by topranks 5y ago
Noticeably smaller than the iPhone 6 from what I can recall. About half way between iPhone 5 and iPhone 6. Or at least feels that way.
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by topranks 5y ago
Think it only has 2 cameras versus 3.
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by topranks 5y ago
The bezel is quite small on it. I’ve an iPhone 12 mini. The body is only a tiny bit bigger than an iPhone 5, but the screen is basically the size of an iPhone 8.
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by topranks 5y ago
Yeah and once you have built all this cross-platform integration and standardisation between the game companies involved…. They’ll find it’s easier to just use a centralised database they collectively run or contract out or whatever. The w
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by topranks 5y ago
At least for my (Irish) pass the cert is signed by the Irish Health service. So I expect each country’s national health service has been issued a key. But what mechanism for revocation might be there I’ve no idea.
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by topranks 5y ago
In France it was scanned a lot when I was there in August. In Ireland it’s hit and miss. About 60% of the time had to produce it, but very few places want to see ID as well, which is needed to prevent people just using someone else’s pass.
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by topranks 5y ago
I was on holiday in France and imported my Irish code to the French app. Found it real easy to use.
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by topranks 5y ago
You using the EU system in Scotland? Good for you guys :)
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by topranks 5y ago
Is there a reason you can’t? In a past life we broke LAGs up to use different subnets per port to prevent traffic crossing the NUMA bridge. I’m sure there are good reasons you didn’t take this approach, be interesting to hear them.
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by topranks 5y ago
It’s an IEEE standard not a FreeBSD thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation
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by topranks 5y ago
The law is here: https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1402446890466217985 Art. 7 states "Every economic agent must accept bitcoin as payment when offered to him by whoever acquires a good or service".
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by topranks 5y ago
Bitcoin was always designed to allow fractions of 1 coin. Its fundamental unit it the "Satoshi", of which there are 100 million in a "Bitcoin".
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by topranks 5y ago
You could reduce the energy use per-transaction if the block size limit was increased. That's not gonna happen at this stage however.
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by topranks 5y ago
I hear where you are coming from. But changing the blocksize is just a software change. It doesn't require outlay on a "bigger engine", or any new engineering. The "existing bitcoin network" could switch to it wit
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by topranks 5y ago
The point is the number of transactions in a block could vary, and not require additional hashpower. Obviously it's limited now by the blocksize (let's not go there). But the point is the "per transaction" figure is bas
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by topranks 5y ago
The fees are inflated because the block size is artificially limited. The mining reward is likely still enough to incentivize miners without any significant fee market, and difficulty adjustment is part of the protocol anyway.
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by topranks 5y ago
Absolutely reason to promote ECH. Sure Cloudflare are better than those other big US ISPs. But for those of us in the EU, where such practices are illegal, we may want to think twice about giving our data to Cloudflare (who are subject to r
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by topranks 5y ago
> Can't you set up your own DoH server with its own domain name, get a Let's Encrypt certificate for it, then point your mobile device at that? Yes. But what’s the angle here? You trust “ISP(s) hosting your DoH server” but no
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by topranks 5y ago
I think that’s the fundamental change it brings. Once the system, or network admin would set the DNS servers up and everything on the system would use those. There is no reason why that paradigm couldn’t continue and move to DoH. The other
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by topranks 5y ago
DoH itself is fine. But to win against “surveillance” you need to make a smart, conscious decision about who you want to give your browsing history to. For me, I’d rather my ISP sees my DNS, than all that data is sent to some American mega-
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by topranks 5y ago
Is this any more than fancy outlier detection (genuinely asking, this is not my field). i.e. if the majority of data fed to a system is bad, will it work?
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by topranks 5y ago
Thank you for the great summary.
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by topranks 5y ago
It keeps copies that your browser locally encrypted with a symmetric key derived from your password. When you log on your browser downloads them, and decrypts them with your password. Protonmail do not see your password and without it cann
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by topranks 5y ago
You make a poor argument overall. Just because convenience will tend to win out doesn’t mean people shouldn’t choose more secure over less secure. Your argument boils down to “govt can force them to change how they do that”, as opposed to

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