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by walden42 12y ago
If most of the Bitcoin Core clients, including all the "light" wallet servers like Electrum and Mycelium, and businesses (like Coinbase) switched over, then the bitcoins created by the miners on the "old" blockchain will
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by walden42 12y ago
Soon we'll have people posting tweets with links to BBC/CNN articles with bogus info in it, and other journalists will start taking that information.
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by walden42 12y ago
You can (and many do) just follow the simple teachings of the Buddha that lived 2500 years ago. You don't have to buy into any ideologies you don't want to.
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by walden42 12y ago
Beautiful piece, thanks for sharing.
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by walden42 12y ago
> It often makes me wish for a non-religious religion -- just a refuge of tranquility. Have you looked into Buddhism yet? Because that's exactly one of the ways I'd describe it--a non-religion whose focus is on tranquility. If
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by walden42 12y ago
Looks like you found a bug with your DVD player. Make sure NOT to report it.
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by walden42 12y ago
> On sites like reddit and FB, it costs the content providers effectively nothing to manipulate votes. But that's offset by the sheer volume of people who can freely vote. If you have a system where a vote is a payment, you'll
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by walden42 12y ago
Can't addons be used to supplement the missing features?
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by walden42 12y ago
The one thing I miss from Chrome is the Adblock extension. It has a feature that allows ads on all sites except the ones you explicitly block--a reverse adblock filter, so to speak. I'm ok with seeing ads, but if there's a site I
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by walden42 12y ago
Thanks a lot for this!
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by walden42 12y ago
Would love to see a Firefox port.
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Ask HN: are there any successful businesses with open-source physical products?
5 points by walden42 12y ago|2 comments
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by walden42 12y ago
No, they shouldn't be able to pay to get full service back. Paying any sum of money does not come from their pockets, but from taxpayer pockets. They'd pay any price and not care one bit.
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by walden42 12y ago
Hmm. Might be a trade-off between density and longevity then?
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Ask HN: Do Tesla and others have plans to use the expiring NiMH battery patents?
1 points by walden42 12y ago|2 comments
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by walden42 12y ago
That spinning-scrolling effect is really neat.
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by walden42 12y ago
I would more often use the search bar than the tabs, so I'd reverse the choice.
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by walden42 12y ago
Well, being realistic, I doubt that most exchanges like Bitstamp are sharing their customer's info with other companies, so the original issue that the author was talking about doesn't really apply here. If you're paranoid, y
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by walden42 12y ago
> What concrete things do I gain from opting out? But why is privacy not enough? Why should I have to convince anyone else that privacy is important? If they don't care, then they don't have to be private themselves, but don&#x
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by walden42 12y ago
As far as I know, gift card stores like Gyft.com don't require personal information and you can pay with BTC. For example, in the case of the author, she would buy a Target gift card with BTC, then check out at the register with her sm
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by walden42 12y ago
Interesting concept. Would be nice if you could either slow down the slider or put a pause button, since I can't read the contents fast enough.
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by walden42 12y ago
It's definitely not a wrapper, but it does use a lot of its components.
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by walden42 12y ago
Laravel.
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by walden42 12y ago
> 3. During disputes, the arbiter can side with whoever offers them the biggest fee. Then he would be left a negative review. Arbiters will be chosen based on fairness.
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by walden42 12y ago
They're the same company.
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by walden42 13y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering about Redis because it doesn't replace cached contents when there's no memory left, like Memcached.
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by walden42 13y ago
Spider Oak is great, and cares about your privacy. Everything's encrypted client-side.
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by walden42 13y ago
Do you have a source for this? I just did a quick google search, and although they're somewhat comparable, DO outperformed Linode. And the tests were for read-only, not writes. I'd wager that writes are much faster on an SSD.
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by walden42 13y ago
What do you use for caching that uses the hard drive? Redis?
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by walden42 13y ago
I'll need to choose a cloud host soon for an online service that will require great uptime, and Linode is one of my top choices. The reviews, uptime, and prices are great, including management services. The ONLY thing that's keepi

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