foley

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by foley 13y ago
I used to run a full-node on a Raspberry Pi, has the transaction volume made this unfeasible?
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by foley 13y ago
Plus indirect fees due to the exchange rate volatility.
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by foley 13y ago
The debit card is definitely the weak link, I should get into a habit of minimising its balance. The internet banking is a lot better, they do guarantee it and have two factor authentication. Good to hear you using Bitcoins for something ot
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by foley 13y ago
Most of the mining is now done in large data centres packed with ASIC miners. Ban it, seize the equipment and the government can immediately begin a 51% attack. Shut down the exchanges leaving only peer to peer exchanges, but now your loca
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by foley 13y ago
I see the term critical mass being used a lot within the Bitcoin community. What's your opinion on what would constitute critical mass?
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by foley 13y ago
I've been working on a Bitcoin card over the past twelve months so I have had a lot of time to think about the benefits and drawbacks of using Bitcoins for everyday transactions and I completely agree with you, no compelling advantage.
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by foley 13y ago
Software! Every time I poke around the code of any sufficiently complex piece of software I find myself overwhelmed with the endless levels of abstraction. One benefit of plateauing hardware performance will be the slowing of the hardware
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by foley 13y ago
http://coinjar.io/ I have had no issues with them, was about 48 hours after signing up to get my first Bitcoins. Supports 24 hour bank transfers or 1 hour cash deposits if you need them fast.
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by foley 13y ago
Absolutely, I had great fun running all kinds of custom ROMs on my Galaxy s and One X but at no point did either of them function 100%.
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by foley 13y ago
Using Apples definition of Retina 140dpi is Retina quality when viewing from approximately 60cm. That is about how far I sit from my screen, 140 would definitely be great.
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by foley 13y ago
Around Singapore surprised me as well. Reading a few reports they mostly robbing the crews valuables, I guess you wouldn't really have anywhere to take a hijacked ship in that area.
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by foley 13y ago
BitPlastic[1] is a about as close as you can get right now. I have been working for the past year on a prototype Bitcoin smart-card compatible with existing contact less terminals, I've gone this route because I am not particularly co
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by foley 13y ago
Back then almost all UI rendering was software based. The graphics card just needed a large enough frame buffer. The lack of fancy compositing and animation effects gave these high resolutions devices comparable performance to their standar
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by foley 13y ago
It is possible to project directly into the retina: http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/09/avegant-retinal-hmd/ Definitely dangerous but I see a lot of potential in the technology with the possibility of tru
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by foley 13y ago
Aim for the stars, land on the moon. It's not the comparison that's sad, letting it define your worth is. It's something I struggle with, almost 30 still struggling through my degree and working on minor projects. But persona
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NYTimes: The Information-Gathering Paradox(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by foley 13y ago|0 comments
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NYTimes: The Information-Gathering Paradox(nytimes.com)
5 points by foley 13y ago|0 comments
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by foley 13y ago
The Silk Road and similar protect the seller. There is just no way to protect the buyer, you are buying a physical product and at some point have to take physical possession of it there is no way to avoid this. Just as with buying drugs fac
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by foley 13y ago
The Silk Road has been notoriously unreliable. Constantly "Down for maintenance" and often just unresponsive for hours at a time. Besides the government it has also come under a number of malicious attacks from disgruntled users.
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by foley 13y ago
and the Galaxy S is Ice Cream Sandwich. It can run Jelly Bean but doesn't really have the RAM to run it well.
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by foley 13y ago
I think of regulation as a constant negotiation between the regulators and the regulated industry. By putting measures in place to bar those with industry experience from working at the regulators you are decreasing the information availabl
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by foley 13y ago
I wouldn't say Google desperately wants you to have one. I use three separate Google accounts and switch between them with ease. YouTube is the only one that hassles me to merge, but given the quality of YouTube comments I can understa
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by foley 13y ago
Actually you can, rather expensive though.
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by foley 13y ago
And all for nothing - none of my Android devices have ever restored my wifi passwords, it is always a mission to find and input my password on a fresh phone.
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by foley 13y ago
I'm working on an NFC card for Bitcoin for my final year engineering project. Aiming for a credit card sized final product.
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by foley 13y ago
I would think that if they did have the means to attack Tor they would not show their hand but taking down something as insignificant as Silk Road.
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by foley 13y ago
I'd consider the camera on the HTC One as one of the best mobile cameras available.
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by foley 14y ago
That is something I have never been able to understand, everyone I know who keeps chickens either has cats or their neighbours have cats. Why would the cats ignore the chickens?
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Underweb anger as Silk Road seller does a runner(m.theage.com.au)
4 points by foley 14y ago|0 comments