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jobeirne

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About jobeirne

https://jameso.be https://twitter.com/jamesob

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    Comment #48777167

    Or if you want to hedge against the various tail risks of third-party providers raising prices or denying you service or somehow abusing your data...

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    Comment #45923252

    Someone rediscovered https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

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    Comment #23529878

    Nope - in free societies you should be able to refuse service on any grounds, including those things. Otherwise you're permitting the government to forcibly compel you to allocate …

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    Comment #23529590

    In societies that have full respect for private property, I should be able to refuse to do business with you for any reason, including the color of your shoes, the kind of music yo…

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    Comment #23529460

    > But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy. Um, think you've got this backwards. …

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    Comment #23338033

    It does parse docstrings in a very basic way ( https://github.com/jamesob/clii#help-text-from-docstrings ) but if you end up hacking in something you want, PRs are welcome.

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    Comment #23337267

    Thanks. That's a really good point - maybe it's usable on earlier versions. Can't remember why I thought otherwise, will have to test.

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    Comment #23337083

    Similar interface, different design goals. This lib has 6x the code, dependencies, and isn't as easy to vendor/audit.

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    Comment #23336658

    I recently wrote this ( https://github.com/jamesob/clii ) because I can't stand click and got sick of having to check the argparse docs every time I wanted to write a CLI. I guaran…

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    Comment #21980755

    I am so glad Bitcoin Cash exists for people like you.

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    Comment #18830043

    You obviously didn't read the whole article because he explicitly covers refinancing during favorable rate changes - he has a whole section on 30yrs basically being implicit long v…

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    Comment #17919658

    Website here: http://lightningresidency.com/ Chaincode Labs will be subsidizing flights to and lodging in NYC, so this is a great opportunity to get some experience building on top…

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    Comment #15949588

    Something from a few months back that's a bit closer to Bitcoin's actual implementation but at a similar level of readability: https://github.com/jamesob/tinychain

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    Comment #15230444

    Stable according to whom? Check out all that stability in Venezeula.

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    Comment #15103211

    It's called Bitcoin.

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    Comment #14951226

    A block's timestamp is frozen in its hash, which is validated by any node receiving a block (whether during initial block download or otherwise). Bitcoin and tinychain don't accept…

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    Comment #14951172

    thanks :)

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    Comment #14951168

    I link to some of my favorite resources at the end of this section: https://github.com/jamesob/tinychain#what-is-bitcoin I also recommend subscribing to the bitcoin-core-dev mailin…

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    Comment #14950460

    Thanks! It's definitely meant for forking, hacking on, and experimentation. A few ideas: - use dns for peer discovery - implement Script language subset - implement SegWit

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    Comment #14556833

    See also: https://github.com/percolate/redset

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    Comment #14244153

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    Comment #13721561

    Actually ended up wiping my phone because this coincided with a weird set of text attachments I got from someone who didn't knowingly send them. At that point I wasn't sure that my…