tribaal

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by tribaal 12y ago
Well, 10 minutes is still much better than the several days needed to clear an international transfer :)
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by tribaal 12y ago
I live in Tanzania :) I think you're overestimating the impact of bitcoin on poor countries by several orders of magnitude. People who don't have access to a bank account now don't have a smartphone, and certainly not a compu
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by tribaal 12y ago
Well, that is a compelling argument I guess... Bonus points for being honest about it (a rarity) :)
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by tribaal 12y ago
2.5B is the price Microsoft paid for Minecraft. There is approximately 1.3 Trillion Dollars in paper/coin form, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York: http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint&#x
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by tribaal 12y ago
That's exactly why I think it won't see more than marginal adoption. The benefits of bitcoin are outweight by having to secure your private key(s) yourself.
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by tribaal 12y ago
That's where my original comment of "I don't see adoption becoming anything more than anecdotal" comes from :) I don't think the benefits of bitcoin outweight having to maintain (multiple) private key's securit
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by tribaal 12y ago
> Your card is irrelevant. My card is very relevant. If someone steals it, they can use it but it doesn't impact me in any way except having to wait for the new card to come. If someone steals my bitcoins, it means they have a copy
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by tribaal 12y ago
Banks can already transfer fund between themselves electronically and efficiently. And a bank account is exactly storing paper currency digitally. Again, I don't see what the innovation here is, except the technical aspects (the bloc
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by tribaal 12y ago
You're completely right.
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by tribaal 12y ago
Yeah, as much as I like the concept of bitcoin (and the blockchain), I don't see adoption becoming anything more than anecdotal. No interest rate, and you have to secure it yourself? No thanks. My "big bad bank" guarantees me
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by tribaal 12y ago
Indeed :)
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by tribaal 12y ago
That is however the standard way in French to mean "the English-speaking world", specifically the USA-UK-Canada group of countries. Source: I'm French.
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by tribaal 12y ago
Not to mention, massive amounts of lame unit tests exercising a tiny fraction of the code base :p Of course, "java-man" is probably just trolling.
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by tribaal 12y ago
Just a small precision (I am French and following media closely): - Two people assaulted the office, and killed 10, wounded 11 (4 of which considered critical). - They furthermore killed 2 police officers on their way out, one of them point
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by tribaal 12y ago
Yes, I'm pretty sure that's what he meant. Most people who are not in "enterprise" IT (that includes many web developers) only think of applets when they hear Java. Sad, but true.
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by tribaal 12y ago
Well, it seems like Google salaries are very capable of sustaining a familly in Zurich: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Salaries-E9079.htm And that's US salaries (the website only offers a free preview.. ya
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by tribaal 12y ago
Oh look! The site you linked to agrees with the study I linked to! Amazing! http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/city_result.jsp?countr... (see that gauge? It's all the way to green!) EDIT: and here is their rank
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by tribaal 12y ago
Sure it's expensive, but if you live there your salary is indexed to that cost (especially if you work for google), so it's not like it's a problem in practice. Of course, if you're just visiting... ouch :)
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by tribaal 12y ago
Because it's been on position 1 of best standard of living in the world pretty consistently, and Switzerland is geographically central, well interconnected, business-friendly, and not part of the EU? Just a guess :) EDIT: It seems Vien
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by tribaal 12y ago
Yahoo is only in the US . Baidu is now default in China, and Yandex in Russia, likely to have similar deals in place. So instead of one source of income, they now have 3. And I don't see why people switching their search engines back
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by tribaal 12y ago
A small point here: Roubaix is the town where OVH has its datacenter and exchange point, so this is most probably people renting VMs or VPS in there (like Amazon).
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by tribaal 12y ago
Datapoint: I am in Tanzania. I pay 20k TSH per month for 800Mb of 3/4G data, and more talk time and SMS that I will ever need. (That's about 10USD)
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by tribaal 12y ago
Could somebody explain to me (non-physicist) what the principles at play are? Is it "simply" that they fire a strong laser at the front of the object to slow it down, so that orbital mechanics do the rest and make it burn up? Do l
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by tribaal 12y ago
Not only the top contributor, but several others in the top of that list.
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by tribaal 12y ago
That's very neat, and also a surprisingly concise bit of code!
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by tribaal 12y ago
I think the idea is that the components are simple enough in the case that it can be reviewed visually by inspecting the circuit board and comparing it to a signed/verified reference. The last bit that is missing then is the chip'
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by tribaal 12y ago
Oh, I was considering that as part of the "build it myself" point, but yeah, totally.
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by tribaal 12y ago
The point is - you can verify it yourself . Without trusting anybody else. Dumping the firmware means you can ensure it's not been modified (presumably from when you uploaded it to the device yourself). Being able to inspect component
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by tribaal 12y ago
It's much much easier to build from cheap parts than something with a radiation source.
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by tribaal 12y ago
Well, I'm happy to see that for once, they understand that the single most important thing is that it's verifiable . So many crypto-related systems ask you to trust the provider implicitly it's not even funny. I don't c

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