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Comment #45316818
Including India in that list is pretty wild
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Comment #17562211
Many languages will die before being digitized if they have to wait for 20-25 years
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Comment #17503295
I saw this at my last company. Even worse breaking it into microservices allowed teams of 2 or 3 to start building entire realms where only they could commit and used it for intern…
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Comment #17502304
Why do you believe that?
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Comment #17412229
Yeah the first version looks like something that many people would try to 'optimize' but in reality it is extremely readable and should be very easy to change/extend.
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Comment #17404548
> And I would find it interesting to be able to claim that magic leap has sued me for distributing 3 month old api docs to myself. Do you have that much money to burn?
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Comment #17404535
> What if we were to set up a project in response to this that made the Magic Leap API docs available in a distributed fashion? If your name is still attached you will still get th…
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Comment #17183444
In practice there is a time limit. Nodes will not relay blocks that are too far from their current clock.
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Comment #17183350
I've only found yelp to be trust worthy in some cities, not universally.
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Comment #17183227
That fails for the case that you have an appointment at 3pm in 30 days, and 15 days later the timezone's offset changed.
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Comment #17140586
Could you point to a PoW based cryptocurrency that isn't vulnerable to a 51% attack?
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Comment #17139675
As the space matures I'd love to see a company that offers double spend insurance for a given tx. For example changes could wait for 10 minutes worth of blocks then request a quote…
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Comment #17139469
It's great if you own NVDA!
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Comment #17139457
You won't really be able to process tx that low, you'll need to pay a tx fee proprtionate to the number of bytes. 1 satoshi per byte is a good rule of thumb for a very cheap tx. It…
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Comment #17138705
Yeah in the next couple years I'd expect to start seeing smaller PoW chains wither away due to attacks like this and exchanges starting to have prohibitively high conf times as the…
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Comment #17138683
As someone that follows the space partially because it's a really cool story, I am amped about all of the attacks these days! It looks like there weren't any protocol failures or a…
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Comment #17138659
more details here: https://forum.bitcoingold.org/t/double-spend-attack-on-excha... Bitcoin gold was a fork to try and decentralize mining. It changed to a proof of work that is sup…
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Comment #17129886
This is pretty offtopic, but the amount of time it takes to download the block isn't the only factor, amount of time to process & verify the block is pretty important as well as th…
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Comment #16935412
My response seems to have upset you. I'm sorry that happened. In general I believe that number of lines of code is correlated with number of bugs, but I would hesitate to say that …
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Comment #16927551
> we believe that the number of bugs is proportional to the number of lines of code Why would you believe that? And if you do believe that why don't you use a code golfing language…
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Comment #16926766
Huh I didn't know that fraud through email could be considered wire fraud. I also didn't anticipate that abusing a rewards system could lead to a wire fraud case. I am sorry to hea…
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Comment #16926669
Sounds like this a perfect situation to try and talk to a recruiting firm.
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Comment #16926385
> I look at how blockchain don't solve a single problem that hasn't already been solved more efficiently on much grander scales, and I call them out as such. What about the problem…
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Comment #16925914
Neat! Thanks for sharing.
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Comment #16925685
Good point. You'd likely want to also encode something that opaque to who exactly has participated, only really show whether this is the last step and a way for individuals to tell…