ur--whale

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by ur--whale 7y ago
The age old question: besides the obvious aesthetic attractiveness, is there really any kind of objective advantages to tube-based audio amps as opposed to solid-state semiconductor based ones?
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by ur--whale 7y ago
The reason I walked away from Chrome a couple of years ago is because of the amount of information it sends to Google. I'm curious to know where Safari stands in that regard: how much and how often does it "call home"? Oh, an
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by ur--whale 7y ago
Conspicuously missing from the entire libra story is how they are actually going to manage the peg. How will they handle the custodian counter-party risk? What I mean by that is: for libra to actually be a stablecoin, for every libra unit
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by ur--whale 7y ago
Here's a cute way to generate Bitcoin key pairs using only bash and some fairly standard command line utilities (disclaimer: I wouldn't use it to generate production keys). https://gist.github.com/colindean/52
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by ur--whale 7y ago
>I guess OP thinks that vanity-eth.tk is a website with server side code. I am fairly certain that very few people go and read the entire supposedly client-side JS code served by that site. It takes a very tiny bit of obfuscated JS to se
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by ur--whale 7y ago
Aside from the obvious fact that the set everyday numbers (both rationals and reals) are fields, most crypto heavily relies on finite fields. [edit] and come to think of it, I might be mistaken I don't think the notion of vector space
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by ur--whale 7y ago
"I went on vanity-eth.tk and generated a public and a private key" That people are actually still willing to do this in 2019 with BTC above 10K and ETH above 300 always surprises me, even if it's for a toy example like this a