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by zie 6y ago
My understanding is, if you pay for a support contract, they are happy to make it legally binding. It's literally the most used database in the world, but a giant margin. Every Android and iOS device and every mac and linux machine us
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by zie 6y ago
and the clients are open source[0], so unless the close source it, the arms race is mostly in commit speed. :) 0: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/master
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by zie 6y ago
They get world-class insurance. They do pay for it, but I never said it was free. Incentives matter. If Senators & Congress people were given only medicare and not their ACA Gold plan + perks, medicare would probably be a lot better of
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by zie 6y ago
Mostly true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/members-congress-health-ca...
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by zie 6y ago
Senators and congresspeople get their own very high quality insurance. They have no incentive to fix it, their own health care is world-class.
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by zie 6y ago
Just before the year 2000 tech bubble popped? :P So 20-ish years ago.
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by zie 6y ago
Or, because they have no money and it's all they can afford. it's that or being homeless. In a trashy RV park, they generally get running water, electricity and a toilet that flushes. Actual homeless people are a step down from
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by zie 6y ago
What would a nation state level attack look like? If they took over the network, it wouldn't really give them anything useful. If they took all the bitcoins, the value would plummet rapidly towards zero, unless they were willing to p
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by zie 6y ago
I think it all depends on your local purchasing department(every govt agency/department gets their own, pretty much). Our department's attitude can be summed up(by me) as: select the best solution to meet your needs, mostly irreg
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by zie 6y ago
And those of us that spend govt money generally do this, it's totally fine to not pick the cheapest, you just have to have a sound reason to do so. I.e. if you aren't willing to stand up in court and talk about why Tootie is bette
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by zie 6y ago
Yes, 2 birds, 1 stone.
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by zie 6y ago
AIUI, Tamper Resistant doesn't mean it's not possible to do, but that it will likely be obvious that tampering was done.
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by zie 6y ago
neat! It's seems my client doesn't understand these though. YAY for federated protocols! :)
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by zie 6y ago
I didn't say it was easy :) I think you could sign up across a set of servers, whoever is willing to put their server in the list. But you are correct, there are a host of issues, since it's all decentralized. That's the co
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by zie 6y ago
Good to hear! I haven't tried Snikket, but the more idiot-proof you can make it, the better. Invites seems overly complicated. Can you make it 1 question? what's your email address? Then you just sign them up for a server and tel
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by zie 6y ago
If you think BTC is anonymous you have a mistaken understanding of how permanently public blockchain transactions are. A given transaction might be "anonymous" today(for some definition of anonymous), but chances are it won't
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by zie 6y ago
All of this is based on the premise that 1) Countries want external control of their international transactions 2) They accept Bitcoin as said thing. They are sort of , to some degree, forced to 1, by the US Govt. there is likely near zero
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by zie 6y ago
And none of the XMPP clients or any of the Matrix clients get the on-boarding step idiot-proof. Matrix tries harder at it, maybe they will eventually succeed. I have zero hope for XMPP, but I'm happy to be surprised.
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by zie 6y ago
Bitcoin and most(all?) crypto currencies pretty much suck for payments. I think a BTC transaction costs around $16 USD just to get it on the blockchain now. Plus transactions are not private, and they are permanently public, so even if your
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by zie 6y ago
My math doesn't compute with yours: depending on how you define a TB(memory tends to favour the latter definition, but YMMV): 1,000,000,000,000 / 7.8billion = 128.21 bytes per human. 1,099,511,627,776 / 7.8billion = 140.96 by
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by zie 6y ago
The problem is 2 fold. 1) a bahillion new signups, so they just needed to deploy a bajillion more instances of the server. 2) The clients basically DDoS'ing their servers. If you look at the android client source, you can see all the c
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by zie 6y ago
Git's syncing system is custom and unique also. But yes I agree. You can just copy/overwrite the SQLITE DB file, and do a bulk replace. Not the same as 2-way sync that Fossil will give you, obviously.
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by zie 6y ago
You can't add files or commits from the web UI. The wiki has had some work done to it in recent versions, it has preview now for instance. Fossil syncs *FOR* you. let fossil handle syncing, that is it's bread and butter.
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by zie 6y ago
I use Fossil-SCM for that. 100% OSS, it's a single Sqlite DB file for backups, etc. It's totally fine being offline or online and totally fine being de-synchronized for years and catching up. I put my legal and financial info on
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by zie 6y ago
How is fossil-scm tied to a particular platform? The data format is literally a SQLITE DB, which is the most used DB on the planet. Binaries are available for all the major OS's and many "alternative" ones. I use Fossil-SCM f
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by zie 6y ago
Not really. Git's history is 100% fungible, you can mix and match git's history like a swiss army knife. There are VCS's out there that have unfungible history. Fossil SCM is one such VCS. Git is an amazing VCS swiss army k
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by zie 6y ago
I'm totally fine with the crash, it will be good for me, as I'm still buying equities, I'm not yet in the selling phase of my investment life. So I'm happy to buy equities at a discount! I'll be less happy when I&#
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by zie 6y ago
see: https://brython.info/index.html
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by zie 6y ago
Banks tend to be just as picky. Seeing as Stripe needs continuing love from banks, they are probably contractually obligated to be equally picky. This is a banking and regulation issue probably and not a Stripe or Paypal specific issue.
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by zie 6y ago
Just make sure archive.org keeps a copy for you and give them a donation every month! :)

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