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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Pacemakers, satellites, rocket ships, cars, nuclear plants, etc.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
This is the same kind of complaint as was with C, Perl, PHP, then Javascript. All of these languages broke new ground, not in programming languages, but in domains. The people building these languages weren't PL experts -- they were ju
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> By any reasonable definition, Bitcoin is a fiat currency. Sure, if you entirely change the definition of fiat currency. A fiat currency gets its value by being declared by government as legal tender, and then required by law to be acce
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> For example, why assume that an older person should earn more than a younger person? They shouldn't earn more, if they're providing the same value as someone paid less. But, they typically ask for more, because they have more
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> The production curve Satoshi designed was to produce the largest supply of Bitcoins for the least amount of effort/resource input to the smallest group of users running the software. The total supply was fixed from the start and t
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Volatilty will be inherent with bitcoin... majority stake... You're making a strong claim here -- and I think this applies to any scarce resource. Why is bitcoin different from, say, gold? > additionally, bitcoin and the exchan
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
I'm a Postgres fan too, and I remember this -- it really sucked. I loved Postgres, but setting up replication with it was basically duct-tape and string. Not to derail the thread too much, but this is exactly what's going on with
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
This is a ridiculous analogy -- Hospital patients (for the most part) don't have control over their diseases, employees (for the most part) have control over their performance. (Also, patients are customers of the hospital -- you shoul
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Maintaining a social life requires effort -- which means sometimes making sacrifices.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
A blockchain adds trustless governance rules and a verifiable audit trail to using just PKI alone. These are hugely valuable features of an identity management systems.
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Keybase is now writing to the Bitcoin blockchain(keybase.io)
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Even if it is encrypted again before it's put onto the disk, fundamentally the key lives on the server (and has to in order to provide Github's feature set) and so an attacker who had compromised the machine would simply grab
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
My tax sheets are updated throughout the year for various reasons (bonuses, side gigs, property sales, etc.), so I rely on the version history. I also keep a lot of other stuff that I update more rapidly (mostly in text documents.)
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
I'm really happy about this. I have private repos for personal information (e.g., tax spreadsheets going back a decade) that I keep synchronized across machines, and have to jump through hoops to get an encrypted authoritative remote s
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
The key concepts to think about when trying to decide whether you need to use a blockchain are: - consensus between trustless systems - failure tolerance between trustless systems - immutability of data - verifiable audit trails
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Ignore that -- the meat is in the inner content. Very technical, and gets into all the gory details of nearly all aspects of Bitcoin.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Yep, and gold, and oil, and any other store of value has been discovered. Early adopters either took risks or got very lucky.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
It's actually not that hard. Most blockchains use a variation of Gossip, which is quite trivial to implement. On startup, your nodes get a list of seed nodes, recursively ask for peer lists until they can connect to some "max peer
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Find me a system that does not "actively cost users money through bugs and footguns", and I'll find you something that isn't used. > Complex and Sophisticated is not a good thing in mission-critical software. The comp
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Whoa there! Sure Ethereum has it's problems, but going as far as "the people running Ethereum have incredibly bad taste and make poor decisions", displays a huge amount of ignorance towards some incredible engineers who have
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Why would they showcase the drag and drop coupled with this intriguing isometric block UI? Because it looks and feels awesome!? :-) Seriously though, I didn't think it took that much away from the core functionally. I quite enjoye
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
The (unconscious) bias here is via the assumption that one can't hire good developers in India.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Chrome's growth was bootstrapped with very pushy ads on the highest traffic website on the internet, that typically doesn't allow ads. It was (is) also a fantastic browser. > They also paid to bundle it with unrelated inst
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Chrome isn't really that much better than others. The point is that it was much better than the others when it came out. It spurred the competition into actually competing. (If you remember, IE had >80% of the market at the tim
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> What annoys me is that all these issues could always be anticipated even using some rough "back of the envelope" calculations. Hindsight is 20/20. Almost no one could have predicted that Bitcoin would be this big.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
This is no different from early currency -- it was very difficult to protect from theft, and when you had lots of it, you were an easy target. I suspect how this will go down is the masses will use banks, who will offer cryptocurrency accou
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Why not: "take it until two days after you feel better"?
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
You're confusing market cap with market depth, which is a a closer estimate of "new value."
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Why can't you just enjoy that something interesting there and then? You know, it is possible to enjoy something and capture it too. > Do we really need to capture everything and share it with everyone? No we don't. You&#x2
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Usually this means that local Snap employees (if any) are put at risk. In countries like Saudi Arabia, it almost certainly is jail-time in very brutal facilities. (I don't know if they actually have employees there, but in general, thi

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