tudorconstantin

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by tudorconstantin 7y ago
Chess excellence depends very much on experience: the more you play and train, the better you get. See, people say it's the mind game, but it only depends on the intelect as long both players are similarly experienced. Also, a game of
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by tudorconstantin 7y ago
The speed of execution limitation is not because of 0x, but because of how fast a tx can be registered on the block chain. It can't compete (they say for now) at settlement speed with a high performance centralized exchange. But you ha
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by tudorconstantin 7y ago
I personally am not a big music listener, but when I want music, I start YouTube and do it there, for free, with uBlok installed, which is the same thing. And that seems to work for artists and YouTube too. When I was a teenager (20 years a
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by tudorconstantin 7y ago
Maybe the society has to finally adapt & embrace to the way things are going in the last 20 years: music stars to earn their money in the concerts they sold out due to "piracy" and not from selling CDs, movie stars from royalt
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by tudorconstantin 7y ago
My now 12.5 years old daughter started to learn English on Duolingo when she was around 9. She didn't complete the full course, but has around 100-150 days of lessons. It definitely helped her starting to understand the language. She l
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
We can't put an education expert in every home, but we can put all the children in "correct child raising institutions" where they'll follow strict schedules, intense education and balanced diets. So that we'll be
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
What happens on exchanges doesn't have to be settled on the blockchain and higher exchange volume is not necessarily reflected in utxo volume. That being said, it looks like the whole 2018 had more utxo activity than 2017, and things s
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
This was built to shame the politicians, not the nation (although we can extrapolate that a nation has the leaders it deserves - the ones it voted for).
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
> The trick WebAuthn/U2F do is equivalent to if somehow, magically, the device could have an effectively infinite number of private keys, not just one, or one per site, but one for every enrollment on a site. Ledger Nano S (a hw cry
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I wonder how that insurance company expects to continue business. If they don't pay in case of damage, why would anyone buy insurance from them?
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I've programmed in Progress for about 4 years (2006-2010). The language itself is far from awful. It's actually a well thought and easy to learn language. Everything not obvious in it is well documented. What I didn't like ab
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
What does it even mean "demonstrable value"? If a person is willing to spend money (for energy, or for buying crypto on an exchange), we can say crypto has "demonstrable value" for that person, no matter what they want t
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
Why would anyone assume the risk to put a gun to your head when they know you can't give them what they want just by yourself? With blockchain you can prove them that's the case. They would have to also put a gun to the head of th
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
This could be solved with resource access requiring multiparty agreement, like the Bitcoin multisignature wallets: the location that contains the food and water for a week requires permission from 2 parties that are located in 2 separate ge
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I subscribed to a "free for one week" service using a disposable Revolut card and didn't had my account suspended, even though the service kept trying to charge my card weekly. Even funnier, I could use the free trial for abo
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
You can deactivate any Revolut card from your mobile app instantly (don't even have to call them). What parent commenter was complaining about were the cumbersome procedures for refunds of fraudulent transactions. Given the worldwide d
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
It still costs time.
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I switched to Perl in 2010 (from Progress) and sticked to it. I couldn't be happier for the choice I made: I'm working remotely from Romania for a US based company since 2015, making multiple times the average national income. I a
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
With HD wallets you can generate receiving addresses based on the master public key of a wallet, without needing any private key. Is there a reason for not receiving funds straight into the cold wallet? Edit: in the docs it seems that you i
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I don't get upset/disappointed when somebody doesn't remember me, mostly because I forget way too many people too. I'm getting happy when somebody remembers me. Focusing on the positive things in people is a great way to
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I've read a quote somewhere and can't remember the source: "if work would be so great, the rich would keep it all for themselves". Most of us work because we have to. I'd like to reach the point where I work 100% be
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
So, if I beat my wife in front of my kids regularly, I can have a clear conscience if they'll beat theirs or accept abuses from their husbands in the future?
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I found it on jobs.perl.org. I already had about 5 years of Perl programming experience. And I offered to work on US timezone, which I think also helped.
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I found it on jobs.perl.org. I already had about 5 years of Perl programming experience. And I offered to work on US timezone, which I think also helped.
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I had 3 times the average national net salary, not GDP, which I guess should be even more. But that income wouldn't have allowed me to retire either. It would allow us (me, my wife and a child) to live a comfortable life though. As a b
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
By far, applying to work remote for a US based company 3 years ago. I am living in Romania. I still work for them. Theoretically I should be able to retire in about 5-10 years, in my mid 40s, depending on how frugal I am with my expenses. T
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
Putting it in another perspective, perhaps that experience made you appreciate programming and software industry more. It might be a high price you paid (the years of pseudo useless studies), but you'll think twice when considering to
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I think that free competition alone is responsible for having cheaper and better internet access: in Romania I pay 10$/month for a 1gb, unlimited traffic, internet connection. I think we have this for about 3-5 years. In a country with
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
Ledger Nano S protects you against physical theft by having a 4 number pin code. If the pin code is entered wrong 3 times, the device resets itself.
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by tudorconstantin 8y ago
I wanted to post that exact quote as a TL;DR for the article. We can consider the article a reminder that secure communication tools are not enough for full privacy. One also needs a privacy aware behavior to take advantage of such tools: d

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