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by vanzard 12y ago
He is not locked, he can certainly transfer his domain any time.
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by vanzard 12y ago
The FAA was established in the late 1950s, spurred by the then-largest largest air collision in 1956 over the Grand Canyon causing 100+ deaths. The original intent of the FAA was to increase safety in obvious ways: monitor the air space, de
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by vanzard 12y ago
> Do you have any evidence of this? http://bit.ly/10iW5wJ page 12: "Merchants report that they win, on average, 40% of the chargebacks they dispute". Obviously x% of these disputes (with 0 <= x <= 100) ar
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by vanzard 12y ago
> likely won't result in the customer getting their money back Likewise, a good fraction of credit card disputes end up being resolved in favor of the merchant, not the customer. > involves a lot more work on their part I already
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by vanzard 12y ago
I repeat again: I agree the customer is less likely to get his money back with an FTC complaint than a chargeback. But FTC complaints still work as an incentive to keep merchants honest because what the FTC does eventually is one or more of
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by vanzard 12y ago
Filing a complaint to the FTC or BBB is no more difficult than filing a credit card dispute. In both cases you merely supply evidence of the fraud. But I am not claiming a legal action is as likely as a chargeback to make the customer whole
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by vanzard 12y ago
> it won't actually matter in getting me my money back You aren't answering my point. Your argument was that we need the threat of chargebacks to make merchants more likely to ensure customer satisfaction. I told you that other
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by vanzard 12y ago
> None of those are really comparable in effort, cost, or effectiveness Does it matter? Some defrauded users WILL be persistent and WILL go through the effort of using these recourses, so they do keep merchants in check. The fraud world
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by vanzard 12y ago
What comex meant is Chrome pioneered the use of seccomp-bpf. And indeed, Chrome is by far the application using seccomp-bpf in the most advanced way.
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by vanzard 12y ago
> If the price stays down the transactions must go 250x. I understand you now. That's right. But my point was the price is unlikely to stay down... Anyway this debate of whether the price will go down or up is a little silly: even a
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by vanzard 12y ago
> But the transaction volume in USD This is again irrelevant to the point the OP and blog post author were making. If the number of tx/block continues to increase, then the current level of network security will increase, all else b
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by vanzard 12y ago
> Because they have already stopped No, tx/block certainly NEVER stopped increasing: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?showDataPoints... And price is cyclical. After the bubble of June 2011, it took
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by vanzard 12y ago
> financial transfers can be reversed. Not this time: hackers withdrew some of the money from ATMs.
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by vanzard 12y ago
GDP per capita doesn't matter. PPP per capita is what truly matters when comparing countries. > US to lose its superpower status It already lost it. Not only to China, but also to the European Union. Both now equal or surpass the US
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by vanzard 12y ago
The large binary size of a Go program has nothing to do with "garbage collection". It's because the binaries are statically linked against the Go runtime. Try compiling a static C "hello world" program and it will b
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by vanzard 12y ago
It is very strange his motherboard splits the BIOS on 2 SPI chips of 2 different sizes. I have never seen a vendor do this. Why?
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by vanzard 12y ago
1) When the BOINC servers come under DoS attack while gridcoin nodes are downloading the rankings, some nodes will have the rankings data, some will fail to get it. This would fork the gridcoin chain because some nodes will take into accoun
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by vanzard 12y ago
This "little bit" of centralization makes Gridcoin sufficiently brittle that it completely annihilates its chance of being widely successful AND stable. Here is a thought experiment for you to understand: imagine if Gridcoin was a
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by vanzard 12y ago
Gridcoin's proof-of-research is not decentralized: it relies on the BOINC project servers. So it shares all the same centralization flaws as FoldingCoin which relies on the Folding@Home servers. Gridcoin is a little different because i
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by vanzard 12y ago
> They're trying to pretend like your coins are completely safe. They're not. Nothing is completely safe, not even traditional banks. FDIC insurance has many limits and restrictions (eg. it does not cover safe deposit boxes). I
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by vanzard 12y ago
I wanted to add that naturally it is very costly to run this sort of attack. Because as you are artificially manipulating the prices, you have to keep paying out the customers' arbitrage profits. This is why willy caused MtGox to lose
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by vanzard 12y ago
What you say is true and applies to ANY commodity market (or in fact any non-centrally regulated market): FX, precious metals, oil, textiles, fruits, etc. I can set up my own independent exchange to trade, say, gold in the same way there ar
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by vanzard 12y ago
Officially they spec 1.4 GHash/J but in practice it measures 1.8 GHash/J: see the "0.57 watts per GH/J" quote in the link I gave. Only a few low-performing units bottom out at 1.4. > But if you have to replace yo
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by vanzard 12y ago
KnC Neptune does 1.8 GHash/J: https://www.kncminer.com/pages/neptune-setup-info > I find it unconvincing that everybody is already using the newest hardware. Only a third or at most half of the network is minin
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by vanzard 12y ago
The network never "choked" at 1.3tps. There are peaks of activity near the theoretical max of 7 tps (check for blocks close to 1MB in size). There are thousands of unconfirmed transactions because their senders chose to include fe