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by xur17 5y ago
Etherscan indicates that the transaction was in the mempool [0]. My understanding is that this wouldn't show up if it was mined without releasing the transaction to the mempool. [0] https://etherscan.io/tx/0x2c9931
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by xur17 5y ago
Some employers will structure these as double trigger RSUs that do not vest until a date passes + a liquidity event occurs to avoid this.
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by xur17 5y ago
> I was involved in a blockchain (DeFi) startup. All the blockchain companies are mostly a huge pyramid scheme. The company I worked for has a lot of big claims, raised millions, wanted to solve world hunger, prioritized partnership, mar
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by xur17 5y ago
> A.k.a trust a third party. True, but in a very limited sense. You're trusting a third party to protect you from your counterparty posting an out of date state. And adding further complexity, your counterparty gets punished if they
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by xur17 5y ago
I'm guessing they also don't want to. If they took custody of the Bitcoin, I believe that would make them a MSB, and hence get to do all of the "fun" associated with that. Also, the additional security and financial impl
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by xur17 5y ago
I agree that it's pointless for emergency surgery, but there are plenty of other cases where a consumer could shop around (colonoscopy, ACL repair, etc), and I'd argue these are actually the majority rather than the minority of ca
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by xur17 5y ago
> Many stores will just send you a mobi or epub file so you can archive that yourself. Do you know what stores offer that? Last time I looked around it was mostly small shops with very minimal book offerings.
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by xur17 5y ago
The main advantage is that the dongles are all built into your laptop. With dongles I have a pile of them in my bag (that takes up more room), I have to remember to carry them around with me if I'm in a conference room, etc.
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by xur17 5y ago
I realize it's irrational given the price of ebooks, but the lack of "ownership" of the books makes me a lot less interested in buying them.
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by xur17 5y ago
Per [1], the minimum income to be part of the top 1% of income earners is $538k / year. I find it incredibly hard to believe you cannot afford to own your own home with that level of income, even in the biggest cities in the US. What l
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by xur17 5y ago
But the quick startup time / ability for small startups to compete was likely due to being able to hire contractors vs "employing" the drivers.
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by xur17 5y ago
I would love to have the option of 1 instead of solving a captcha. Charge me 0.1 - 10 cents worth of bitcoin depending on the action, and I'd happily pay.
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by xur17 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies would be a good solve for this. Specifically, a layer 2 network on top of a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin's lightning network or payment channels on Ethereum, both of which allow for subcent transactions with subcent fee
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by xur17 5y ago
I wish I could be given the option to just pay instead of solving a captcha. At the end of the day that's what bots end up doing (pay a human to solve the captcha for them), so why not just cut out the middleman, and let me pay the web
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by xur17 5y ago
The GP you are replying to provided a citation for their claim. Please provide one for your claim as well.
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by xur17 5y ago
I'm curious - of the folks that have not gotten vaccinated, do we have an idea of how many haven't gotten it because they strongly do not want to get it, and how many haven't gotten it for other less strong reasons (inability
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by xur17 5y ago
I don't think a sharded database is "decentralized".
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by xur17 5y ago
> My biggest challenge over the years was remembering what to do in each place as the security people at the airports had a tendency to get upset if you didn't do it their preferred way. Exactly this. I'm sure to the security p
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by xur17 5y ago
This comes up in every thread about Bitcoin, and in every thread there are numerous responses stating "lightning network is the solution to the fees". And.. that's exactly what El Salvador is using. Instant settlement, with b
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by xur17 5y ago
More specifically, only the channel participants have to store it, and only as long as the channel is open.
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by xur17 5y ago
> No, that is completely inaccurate. > First of all, with current parameters that would mean that you need a good few hundred years to process a few seconds of world-wide transactions. If you settle everything onchain, maybe (I haven&
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by xur17 5y ago
> Yes, lightning network and centralized payment platforms exist on top of Bitcoin, but these defeat the purpose of bitcoin and add complexity. It's important to note that the "centralization" of lightning (a statement tha
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by xur17 5y ago
> Mny password attempts for 1 username, isn't it easier to slow down attempts to authenticate the username after x tries, regardless of the IP? Just the fact that multiple IPs are being used for 1 username in a loop is enough of a r
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by xur17 5y ago
> Or, of course, by not reusing passwords everywhere. At one of my jobs, we ran into this soon after launch. Attackers would loop through giant lists of leaked username / passwords using a different ips for every attempt. Blocking p
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by xur17 5y ago
My understanding is that this is just another provider being added to their existing tip jar [0] feature. They essentially let twitter users link out to their third party cash app, paypal, venmo, etc accounts, and people can use those third
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by xur17 5y ago
You also have the experience of setting up a network in a "professional way" that you can use on the job, etc. Also, maybe OP just enjoys the process / finds it fun?
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by xur17 5y ago
I don't think it's fair / accurate to paint all stablecoins with a broad brush like that. Tether? Yes, it's at a bare minimum sketchy. USDC and GUSD are both regularly audited, and backed by cash reserves.
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by xur17 5y ago
> This is why developers think managers don't do anything. I've started doing more managerial things at work, and it's given me a lot more appreciation for what managers do. Not sure I want management to be the majority of
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by xur17 5y ago
That's one thing I've always wondered about solar. If it truly just flows back into the grid, and you don't get access to it during a power outage, surely a centralized solar energy installation would be a lot more efficient
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by xur17 5y ago
The wifi pineapple equivalent of this would be a device that records all signals sent, filters it for unlock and start car commands, and then allows you to just bulk replay each set back until cars start. You could effectively leave it in t

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