SnowProblem

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by SnowProblem 8y ago
What about photo sharing and commenting?
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Yep. Just pointing this out because some in BTC want to change the PoW to make mining more decentralized.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
If anyone can be a miner, then malware can be used to do a 51% attack. Something like that happened with Monero recently [1]. [1] https://www.investopedia.com/news/sites-are-using-your-brows...
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
It's nonsensical to shutdown the discussion so quickly. This wasn't a BIP. You can hash the UXTO set and put the hash in the blockchain, or put the UXTO set in special blocks, or cross-validate the UXTO set across nodes. There are
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Because right now you can't distribute the UXTO set in a trustless way. Core developers blocked it two years ago for nonsensical reasons [1], one of the many reasons the community doesn't trust them. Work has picked up on this in
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Thanks for the correction. I was looking at the # of transactions. Still, quite small though.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
0-conf transactions are instant and work great on BCH.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
What makes you think you need to store the whole blockchain? Older blocks can be pruned. The whitepaper discussed this. The UXTO set is all that's needed for block validation, and that's quite small (currently ~50M).
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Not true. Bitcoin Cash supporters (including myself) just want on-chain scaling pursued. There's a lot you can do there (graphene, pruning, sharding) before resorting to off-chain scaling.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Can you expand on this at all? Your comment fascinated me, and I’m now very curious about what the climate was like in the Soviet Union. Any book or movie recommendations?
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Bitcoin: Update network descriptions to be more accurate(github.com)
65 points by SnowProblem 9y ago|62 comments
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
This is too complicated. I would gladly pay small txn fees to avoid having to manage payment channels.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
I agree the answer is either more ISP competition, or more regulation. The middle ground is hell. Any chance this repeal lead to more ISPs? Ajit Pai mentioned it would in interviews, but I don't know enough to say whether that had any
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
That makes a lot of sense now, thanks. I think the point about people being givers and receivers at different periods in life is a good one. Americans who are fortunate do this at the family level, but obviously many cannot.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Thank you. I can definitely understand that. It's nice that we live in a world with different systems, and can see the pros/cons and learn from each other.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Thanks your sharing your experience. That's a great point, about people being givers and receivers at different points in their life. I hadn't heard that perspective.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
> "The choices Nordic countries have made have little to do with altruism or kinship," Partanen wrote for The Atlantic in 2016. "This is what Americans fail to understand: My taxes in Finland were used to pay for top-notch
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Coinbase put withdrawal limits on how much BTC could be transferred in a day. I emailed support so many times but no response, and in the end, I couldn't get it all out.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Coinbase put limits on how much BTC could be transferred out each day, and didn't respond to support requests to increase the limits.
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by SnowProblem 9y ago
Yes. Coinbase calls BTC transfers withdrawals, and it screwed me over a lot when I found that out.
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by SnowProblem 10y ago
Ah, that's very interesting. Thanks.
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by SnowProblem 10y ago
I remember overclocking 12 years ago and upgrading the cooler and thermal paste was standard practice. Is something different this time?
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by SnowProblem 10y ago
That's what tipped it for me too. We have to fix corruption first because so much else depends on it. I just don't know when the next time we'll see an outsider get this far, and while there's plenty I disagree w/ h
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by SnowProblem 10y ago
It sort of sounds like the Chinese see an iPhone similar to how Americans see a BMW or Audi.
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by SnowProblem 11y ago
I'm surprised too. Reddit and HN are much more valuable to me than Google Reader ever was.
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by SnowProblem 12y ago
"that most engineers need to know that a hash table is O(c) lookup" O(1) is a leaky abstraction [1]. It's O(1) amortized assuming you have enough buckets and a good hashing algorithm that minimizes collisions. I think that di
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by SnowProblem 12y ago
Yep there's zero chance direct communication will "just work". But with training, it seems possible. In the future primary schools will still teach standard reading and writing, but they will also teach standard thinking as
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by SnowProblem 12y ago
Unlike a couch though, you need a place to live. Is it cheaper to continue renting until you can afford to buy outright? I thought the answer was no.
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by SnowProblem 12y ago
It's a good point. But are there always only two groups, the elite and the majority, or could we create more? It seems to me power works best for everyone when it is more distributed, less uniform, and exists on a gradient from the eli
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by SnowProblem 12y ago
As someone entirely unfamiliar with both Nightmare and PhantomJS, what is the typical use case? It isn't obvious to me from the examples or FAQs. Why prefer these over something like Selenium?

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