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by yafujifide 12y ago
I think "laid off" is probably the better term. The new executives are not interested in pursuing bitcoin or cryptocurrency at the current time. I was going to be the lead engineer of the cryptocurrency engineering wing of reddit,
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by yafujifide 12y ago
Ryan X. Charles here. AMA.
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by yafujifide 12y ago
That's it! Thanks.
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by yafujifide 12y ago
I was able to set the width of the body using this command: document.querySelector('body').style['width'] = '40em'; However, setting the max-width did not work: document.querySelector('body').style[&#
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by yafujifide 12y ago
Hey, thanks a lot for recommending rust. Since your comment, I've investigated it, and it's exactly what I'm looking for!
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by yafujifide 12y ago
I agree about C and C++, but is there a language that exists today that you think would be better for writing security-conscious code? Should a language be invented that is specifically for writing security-conscious code?
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by yafujifide 12y ago
Although I largely agree with the premise, the author assumes that the only way to solve this problem is with government regulation. I think a better way to solve this problem is with decentralization. The problem Uber solves is one of coor
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by yafujifide 12y ago
Have you tried Circle? They're funded with over $17 million [1], so I don't think they qualify as shady, and I'm pretty sure they let you buy with a credit card. [1] edit. Double checked and the looks like it's $17 milli
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by yafujifide 12y ago
As best I can tell, it does not do any key management. No reference to terms like "Key" or "HierarchicalKey" at all. My guess is that you have to give it the addresses you own, and it detects if payment has been made to
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by yafujifide 12y ago
> anything that takes attention from driving like showing text messages is a terrible idea and should be banned So advertisements beside roads should be banned?
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by yafujifide 12y ago
This is a business opportunity to create that infrastructure.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
Not true. Since using more electricity costs more money, bitcoin miners have an incentive to use less electricity. Their incentives are to maximize hashes/s/watt.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
Preventing double-spends is useful work.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
I wonder if he would change his mind if it turned out the NSA developed bitcoin.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
Another way to mine for bitcoin.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
No, freshly mined bitcoins are never 'sent' anywhere - they just appear in the mining address. Thus, the public key is not revealed until they are sent.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
Perhaps because San Fran, Portland and New York are in the US, which has more onerous regulations.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
This is good news, but it's important to remember that the way Coinbase works is for Coinbase to keep the private keys. A Coinbase "wallet" is really more like a Coinbase demand deposit account. That means you are trusting Co
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by yafujifide 13y ago
If bitcoin replaces the dollar as the unit of account, currency of international trade, world reserve currency, and so on, it might be better simply to spend the bitcoins than to "sell" them.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
> The only way that automation works is through creating a highly controlled environment where production can proceed in a predictable fashion. That's true today, but don't you think artificial intelligence will change that?
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by yafujifide 13y ago
Completely agreed. Your comment is a really good advertisement for normal people to learn Bayesian probability theory. Not because it's useful in science or engineering, but because it's useful in life.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
Mostly by converting them to dollars when I need.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
I am living off bitcoins.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
It sounds like you've gone all-in with the US government, and now you can't criticise it without risking everything. It is possible to internationalize yourself and your assets in such a way that no one government can threaten you
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by yafujifide 13y ago
This is an excellent suggestion. I imagine a future where when we meet people in real life, rather than ask, "what is your phone number?" we ask, "what is your public key?"
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by yafujifide 13y ago
No, I think Schneier is right. Law enforcement and culture may play a role in keeping your home safe, but so does the lock on the door. Certainly when government goes off the rails it's bad for security, but you should still lock the d
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by yafujifide 13y ago
If you operate in the bitcoin economy, you don't have to wait until you're 18.
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by yafujifide 13y ago
Countries I'm researching: Panama, Chile, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam. All have ups and downs. Read the works of Doug Casey, Andrew Henderson (Nomad Capitalist), and Simon Black (sovereignman.com) for information on how to get offsho
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by yafujifide 13y ago
Personally, I'm making plans to leave the US. Since few people will listen to me when I explain how bad things are, I do not believe effecting change is a reasonable course of action. Instead, I will try to internationalize my business
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by yafujifide 13y ago
That's absolutely true. Although I find myself a agreeing with many normal people that government is riddled with problems in practice, they get hostile when I suggest that maybe there shouldn't be an organization with a monopoly

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