vocatus_gate

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by vocatus_gate 8y ago
So why does GPM suck so much then?
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Oh wow, I always assumed he just defaulted to HTTP version of the site, but HTTPS was an option. But nope, there isn't even a version of the site served over HTTPS. In the year 2018.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
If that's the worst that happens I'll take it.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
That's pretty insightful, actually. I mean, outside of Kraken (terrible), who are Coinbase's (legal/compliant) competitors? Basically no one.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Agree with almost everything you've said, and unfortunately if past experience is anything to go by, they'll crash/go down during the next big price dip.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Nope. Their revenue model isn't my problem. uBlock Origin enabled for 99.9% of sites I visit.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
My bad, I think I grabbed the wrong URL and can't edit the post any more. vinw's comment referencing Void Tools is the correct url.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
reddit.com/r/tronscript will remove all the OEM and Metro bloat, kill off Cortana, and disable the telemetry "features"
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Reddit.com/r/TronScript also works well for killing off Cortana and the telemetry "features"
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
For what it's worth I'm another person who's been using "Everything" for years and love it.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
https://reddit.com/r/TronScript will kill off Cortana and all the telemetry "features"
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
There IS a magic search tool, I've been using it for years. https://everything.en.softonic.com/ "Everything" is a fantastic lightning-fast system-wide search that's tiny and can run standalone.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
FWIW Palemoon ( https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml ) is a fork of Firefox that attempts to maintain a power user environment and negate some of the ridiculous changes Mozilla rolls out. Updated pretty regularly and w
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Premine/"founders reward"? Another scamcoin doomed to failure.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
I mean, the value of bitcoin has gone from ~$7 in 2011 to almost $5,000 today. So a momentary dip due to bad news isn't that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Honest question, what do you do for event planning? Literally the only reason I still have FB is because my friend group uses it heavily for coordinating hikes, camping trips, etc. I'd love to delete it if it weren't for that.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
By that rationale, why would anyone buy a flatscreen TV today, when they know they could wait a few months and it would be a lot cheaper?
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
The big mystery to me is whether Bitcoin is the Myspace or Facebook of digital currency. Only time will tell.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Maybe I'm cold-hearted but I believe in something called "personal responsibility." They chose to throw their money into something they don't understand, now they get the consequences of that decision. You can be sure th
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Gwern actually replied elsewhere in this thread mentioning that paper. It's a great read.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Zcash has opt-in private transactions which are computationally very expensive. So, they do work, but being opt-in they might as well not exist. In my opinion full privacy must be mandatory for all participants for it to be truly effective.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Just chiming in to say your username gave me a chuckle. Big Monero fan as well.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Hey gwern, it's you! I remember reading "Bitcoin is Worse is Better" and forwarding to quite a few friends. Great article, really like the pieces you've written over the years. Keep up the good work.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Wasn't anonymous OR untraceable, which is clearly evidenced by the fact that we all know about it and can see it on the public blockchain.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
With the fees they charge, and the volume on the exchange, I don't see how they couldn't be making a profit? Of course I'm not a business guy, might be something I'm not thinking of.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
Security is like Safety: if it is put on a holy pedestal then everything else suffers. I always say "Safety Third."
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
The link goes "monero-project" on Github, that's why.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I get what you're saying but it doesn't really matter. If they don't want to lose a lot of customers (and revenue) they'll offer a withdrawal option.
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
This whole pipe dream of little Jimmy running his full Bitcoin node on a raspberry pi in order to protect against the big bad bankers/government/whatever was never based in reality. Bitcoin was always destined to end up centralize
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by vocatus_gate 9y ago
No, what I'm saying is by refusing to allow withdrawal of the "new" coins, they put themselves in the position to be sued because clients lose potentially a lot of free money. It's an opportunity cost: if I missed out on

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