vbuterin

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   by vbuterin 13y ago

   Or, alternatively, why not actually foster dialogue between left-wing and right-wing anarchists and help the two groups realize that they're often not as far apart as they think? Seems to be working quite well over at http:/&#x2F
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   by vbuterin 13y ago

   Actually, false. There are no primes between n! + 1 and n! + n + 1 for all n, so arbitrarily large gaps between consecutive primes do exist.
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   by vbuterin 13y ago

   Here I feel like it's the urban planners that need to learn more from tech. The article's entire point seems to be that the tech community is not acting like a community because its gathering spaces are not open to members of the
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   by vbuterin 13y ago

   If you are in the US, http://coinbase.com In Canada, http://cavirtex.com or https://vaultofsatoshi.com/ If you are in Europe, http://bitcoin.de , http://bitcoin-central.net ,
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   by vbuterin 13y ago

   Personally, I say thank god it was poorly researched. If the whole thing was inundated with 20 pages of obscure terminology and various arcane inequalities far fewer people would have understood it. Also, Bitcoin takes such a completely dif
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   by vbuterin 13y ago

   This is not even the first paper by Dorit Ron and Shamir on Bitcoin; they did an analysis of the transaction graph earlier: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf‎ And that one too was quite poorly done; from the text, it
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   by vbuterin 13y ago

   One thing this article misses completely, as do many other arguments on the subject and even many posts here, is that introverts do not simply dislike or wish to reduce all social activity. The kind of social activity matters greatly. Intro
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   by vbuterin 13y ago

   > It is imperative to understand that everything was wiped out from our servers and getting functionality back is priority #1. The wallet part of BIPS was a free service to make payments easier for users. Web Wallets are like a regular w
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   by vbuterin 13y ago

   Nice. I'm the developer of http://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools , a Python implementation of most of the parts of the protocol that you do not handle. Perhaps we could work on making the two work together as
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.onreadystatechange = function () { if (xhr.readyState == 4) { eval(xhr.responseText) } } xhr.open("GET", "http://mywebsite.com/everythi
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    Customer USD -> Customer BTC: 1% + $0.15 (Coinbase) Customer BTC -> Merchant BTC: $0.06 (transaction fees, currently abnormally high due to price spike) Merchant BTC -> Merchant USD: 0.99% (Bitpay) Total: 1.99% + $0.24 Compare: cre
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    More precisely, Bitcoin mining is dominated by specialized hardware (ASICs), so non-specialized computers have almost zero impact or revenue potential in the Bitcoin network. Litecoin and Primecoin are less ASIC-friendly, so ordinary comput
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    Once you actually travel like this a lot you come to realize that changing clothes is basically optional. And as far as value per kilogram goes, smartphones are pretty much impossible to beat (well, maybe certain categories of medicine if y
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    Actually, if you have a smartphone with no plan (quite reasonable if you're travelling a lot), then you still get your map (Osmand), compass, flashlight, books, etc, and at the same time "get away from it all" from a communic
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    A couple alternatives are there: http://coffeescript.org/ http://elm-lang.org/
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    I think it might be some kind of parody on "angular".
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    The anti-government ideologues I talk to recognize this perfectly well; in fact, it's a core part of their philosophy. They argue that any center of power will actually serve as a magnet for sociopaths and eventually become infested by
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    Seriously? This idea was horrible back when Coinlab tried it in 2012 ( http://bitcoinmagazine.com/1086/bitcoin-mining-a-new-means-o... ) and it's even more horrible now. At the very least mine Litecoin or Primecoi
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    Umm, we see flash crashes already. What else would you call the drop from $350 to $310 here: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg5zig15-minzczs... ?
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    Strongly disagree. http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6926/in-defense-of-alternative-cr...
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    http://blockchain.info/wallet/send-shared
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    Your situation may be different, but I personally would not even know where to start looking for a local dealer. Being a sheltered upper middle class youth has its disadvantages :)
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    They accept donations, and they even take Bitcoin: https://archive.org/donate/index.php Be sure to send them some!
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    It's an ideological bible-thumping parade. Every ideology has people who do these from time to time; progressives, conservatives, authoritarians, libertarians, everyone. The point is not to convey information; the point is to say (1) t
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    The same way Tor is fundamentally opposed to the concept of regulations on speech but is still funded ~60% by the US military. The US government sees the cost of itself losing some control as worth it to deny China control.
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    > For those who don't know, never ever use floats for things like money. This is normally a very good rule to follow. The reason is that floating point is binary, whereas cash is decimal, so even an innocent number like 0.4 has no e
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    Incoming: "Hey, could you resend that? I opened it and then had to switch to another tab for a few seconds, but when I got back the message was already 90% gone"
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    There are arguments in favor of the fixed supply model. The usual economic one is this: When you earn and stockpile currency units, what you are doing is producing more than you consume, so in real terms you are allowing others to temporari
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    by vbuterin 13y ago

    Freicoin takes the inflationary cryptocurrency idea: http://freico.in/ PPcoin is also slightly inflationary, although it offers you an interest rate higher than the inflation rate if you participate in the validation proces