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copumpkin

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    Comment #35268657

    I don't think it's silly. Network effects are why Parler failed and Twitter succeeded (thus far at least!), or betamax failed, etc. These things don't succeed or fail for technical…

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    Comment #35268476

    It's different in that nobody can control it. Everything since bitcoin has had some form of leadership, including Ethereum, that can reasonably consistently get the network to fork…

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    Comment #26290598

    Yeah, so that's why I was more hesitant about Deribit than I was about LedgerX. I have full faith in LedgerX the company and the regulator that oversees is. With Deribit you only r…

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    Comment #26289889

    ledgerx.com is tightly regulated (all trades reported to CFTC) and physically settled with (in my opinion) very good security practices, but it's only available to US residents. Th…

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    Comment #26289586

    The market is more liquid than it ever has been. But yeah, not as liquid as I or many others would like. But if you really think it's gonna burst, there are plenty of eager sellers…

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    Comment #26182060

    Get an account on there, get USD in somehow (either wire in funds the old-fashioned way or send in BTC and sell swaps/futures/options), and then you can sell puts at any strike/dat…

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    Comment #16322331

    After looking at it more carefully, I'm not positive that it's a failure to check privileges, although the symptoms at the time made it look like that (literally logging an unprivi…

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    Comment #12160150

    Some points & questions: 1. It's pretty easy to add iptables rules to 169.254.169.254 by uid and gid, achieving roughly the same restriction as file-based access. Not the case on M…

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    Comment #12160016

    Yeah, all API actions will show up as being from ARN "arn:aws:sts:: :assumed-role/ / "

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    Comment #2076954

    Two questions: 1) Will it be available on the Mac Appstore? :) 2) You mention that adding some bytes on the end is instant, and so is modifying bytes in the middle. It seems that f…