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by tscs37 9y ago
>In a proof of stake system, people who formerly had stake in the system can simulate fraudulent alternative histories forked at the point before they cashed out No because atleast for Ethereum there will be a "point of no return&qu
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>I didn't have a receipt or anything. IIRC from my current law course, if you didn't get a receipt (or other proof of transaction/contract) the vendor has no right to your money. You'll get receipts everywhere. Fraud
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Very very very rarely. I've never seen or heard of anyone using either personally and I'm not even sure where I would get a check book or cash in a check. Germany is very cash. You pay taxi in cash, you pay the restaurant in cash
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> When I complained to them, they called me a liar and refused to do anything. Atleast in germany you have a multitude of options you can pull even without a lawyer getting involved. You can also file legal complaints easily and most fra
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by tscs37 9y ago
>I guess you go to the bank's office if you forget it? Yup. An account reset requires a visit to the bank and you'll get the new password mailed to you via postal service and you'll be required (usually) to immediately pic
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by tscs37 9y ago
CoD is really the worst, most other communities aren't like this. I've been in plenty of online, semi-anonymous, young, male majority communities that were overly friendly, welcoming and inclusive to see that CoD is just a pisshol
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by tscs37 9y ago
I think it's less of an unfamiliarity and more of an outdated development practise. Plus, completing the entire page in under 750ms (measured in Firefox) is still faster than some other pages out there (reddit: 4s, HN: 1.2s, etc) I wou
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by tscs37 9y ago
A well aged wine is usually not a bad idea if you have some money. In a deep crisis, cigarettes aren't a bad idea, they usually end up being a black market currency. In other regions of crisis bullets might also be a good idea. For a p
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by tscs37 9y ago
Well, for one, if someone tells you Gold is an excellent store of value, it's probably bad advice, there are better places to put your money (like a bank account or ETF) Plus, Gold might be highly volatile by some stock standards but i
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by tscs37 9y ago
Rereading the comment it also seems more like Apache is starting something that can become root somehow, I really don't think it is implied Apache is running as root.
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As long as it's growing, correct. But if you want to get that value, then bitcoin is unreliable in the amount you get. And that is only if it has grown over the period you stored your value for.
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When the binary in question is setuid, it doesn't matter what user runs it. It'll run as the owner and group of the file itself.
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Passwords are largely stored in servers with enough storage to deal with the users of them. However, distributing a PSK to every device is not friendly. 10 Million Passwords will at minimum take about 80 MB, some phones and IoT devices have
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by tscs37 9y ago
"Pumpspeicherkraftwerke" (pump storage power plant) are a thing in germany and largely they are used on minute basis, not seasonal, going from 0 Watts to a Gigawatt in about 20 minutes and probably faster if really necessary. [0]
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by tscs37 9y ago
Pump water into a dam with water turbines. If later power is needed you can open up the turbines more. IIRC this has about 80% efficiency and a big dam can soak up a lot of this power without problem.
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by tscs37 9y ago
I think your concerns are valid but on the other hand; Twitter is already an echo chamber. People make it to even worse echo chambers. On Mastodon you have a choice. You can be on an instance that does echochamber and safespace the discussi
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by tscs37 9y ago
I've written a bit of a rant on a sibling comment but the TL;DR is that the IndieWeb movement has spawned some protocols which feel more like "what we happened to use is standard" instead of developing a sane standard. My fav
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by tscs37 9y ago
When you write a Micropub implementation the primary spec involves an unholy JSON format. About 80% of the code I wrote was just dedicated to finding out whether or not I'm updating an article, creating a new one, deleting the article
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by tscs37 9y ago
Some of the PragerU videos are rather disturbing but I'd rather have them public because picking them apart with friends is quite an interesting activity. They are an amazing conversation starter on a variety of topics. I'd hate i
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by tscs37 9y ago
The GDPR specifically addresses only a copy of your data in a widely used digital format. I believe in Germany you can have someone send all your private data once a year in physical copy and you only need to pay for undue transport costs.
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by tscs37 9y ago
The Indie Web movement is a very interesting one, I personally support some of their goals, however, the protocols they design seem a bit... too uncomplicated at times (Microformats2 is impossible to properly parse in JSON form and you need
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by tscs37 9y ago
Atleast, unlike on Twitter, you have a choice about this. If you don't like the rules of the red team (Mastodon) you can check out the blue team (GNU Social) or start your own team (or join the Japanese team)
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by tscs37 9y ago
Yes, bitcoin is decentralized and distributed. But blockchains don't have to be inherently.
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The maintainer must decide which blocks are valid. That's just as much of a consensus algorithm as Bitcoin just not as distributed and decentralized.
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As I mentioned, even with merges it still has the properties of a blockchain, just not the ones traditionally used by cryptocurrencies. You still have blocks (commits) pointing to other blocks (commits). Some blocks just points to multiple
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The first paper on blockchains was published in January 1991 (revised/received in 1990) [0] >The term "blockchain", as used these days, refers to the distributed system underlying cryptocurrencies. That's how you pref
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As mentioned, the git commit log, not the entire repo, which is more organized like a merkel tree, though that is only really the storage. The commit log is a strict DAG, if you don't have any merges, it is a strict blockchain, otherwi
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It is a blockchain is you don't merge since you have a commit pointing at a previous commit, (block points to block), merges point to two parents but Ethereum has that almost with uncle blocks. The commit log of a repo is almost certai
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by tscs37 9y ago
It's not a redefinition, it's a definition that has been around since the 1990's [0], the only requirement for a blockchain is A) directed linked list (block points to previous block) and B) cryptographic security (use hashes
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by tscs37 9y ago
It's a blockchain if you have a directed linked list of blocks. Even git is to some extent blockchain.

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