jamoes

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by jamoes 5y ago
Like most other readers here, my initial reaction is "Thanks, I hate it." I especially hate the assertion that they're increasing customization when in reality they've steadily been removing/hiding real customizat
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by jamoes 6y ago
> I just checked a half dozen exchanges-- none call it "Bitcoin Cash" in their interfaces Which exchanges did you check? I just checked some myself, and Coinbase, Kraken, Binance, and Gemini all use the full name "Bitcoin
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by jamoes 6y ago
Open source projects often fork. To take one such example, years ago X.org forked from XFree86. Both projects considered themselves implementations of the X Window System. Can you imagine if XFree86 supporters insisted that X.org not be all
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by jamoes 6y ago
Gold has had a widely agreed upon definition for thousands of years. Bitcoin is a ~decade old open source project with a clearly established philosophical divide between small-blockers and big-blockers. In other open source project variants
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by jamoes 6y ago
> a knock-off-name like "Bitcoin Cash" "Knock-off" is a curious word choice. Are you under the impression that someone owns the term "Bitcoin"?
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by jamoes 6y ago
I'm curious why you chose to use the term "bcash" to refer to BCH. No exchanges or mainstream projects use that term to refer to BCH. As far as I'm aware it's primarily used as a pejorative, so it seems strange that
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by jamoes 6y ago
And likewise, BTC fees are also at a local maximum[1]. Unfortunately, nothing has been done to actually scale the BTC blockchain since the last bull run. Onchain transactional capacity is the same as it was 2 years ago (limited to ~400k tx&
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by jamoes 6y ago
Also see https://superuser.com/questions/540851/go-back-to-not-select... for details on how to disable the clickSelectsAll behavior. This issue is frankly far more important than the style changes they made. It&#x
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by jamoes 7y ago
My interpretation is they're saying that Chromium's address bar code is complex deeply integrated with many other parts of the code-base (including many parts that interact with Google's search APIs). On the other hand, Firef
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by jamoes 7y ago
All I did was post a picture which provides direct evidence of the Tiananmen Square massacre. A government killing thousands of people absolutely has a bearing on reality, and nothing about it is "meme-like".
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by jamoes 7y ago
This does a a good job at showing the huge number of people protesting in Hong Kong: https://gfycat.com/relievedcornychrysomelid-timelapse
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by jamoes 7y ago
Here's some direct evidence of the atrocity that is the Tiananmen Square massacre: https://i.imgur.com/E3D9BuH.jpg . I'm sure you've seen the infamous "tank man" picture, which provides direct eviden
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by jamoes 7y ago
Ulbricht never presented a defense for the murder-for-hire charge because the charge was dropped and never went to trial. Ulbricht has been sentenced to double-life in prison for all non-violent charges.
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by jamoes 8y ago
Looking at libgcrypt's patch [1], it looks like the mitigation technique they're using is to blind the private key and message hash with a random number before performing point addition, and then unblinding the result of the point
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by jamoes 8y ago
These are the same tired arguments that have been brought many times before in the previous few years. What's the point of an article like this that contributes nothing to the discourse? > It’s the job of the SEC and other regulator
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by jamoes 8y ago
> They actively censored and silenced people who were complaining. Forget the issues with design. The active censorship by both Reddit admins and power-hungry moderators is the real issue that Reddit is facing. Reddit used to be a bastio
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by jamoes 9y ago
Yep, this is exactly the point economist Julian Simon made in his essay, "Can the Supply of Natural Resources - Especially Energy - Really Be Infinite? Yes!" [1] This exert from the conclusion sums up his argument well: > Inc
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by jamoes 9y ago
> LN tx's are actually bitcoin tx's. This is an oversimplification. LN transactions have much different properties than regular bitcoin transactions. Most notably, LN transactions require the user (or someone they trust) to be
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by jamoes 9y ago
> Bitcoin Cash is fast and as low fees but if it manages to scale to something like a Visa network number of transactions, it will be centralized This just isn't true. Today's commodity hardware can already process gigabyte blo
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by jamoes 9y ago
The exact order of trustworthiness for the Big Five is irrelevant, because it rounds down to zero for all of them. They all have an NSA backdoor through PRISM - this trumps all other privacy concerns. It seriously boggles my mind. Snowden r
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by jamoes 9y ago
As far as I'm aware, a gun can't shoot a projectile into orbit - no matter how high it shoots a ballistic, the ballistic will eventually come back to earth (unless it gets captured by another body's gravitational field). In o
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by jamoes 9y ago
Soylent hasn't had any quality struggles in the past 6 months that I'm aware of. 12-18 months ago they had multiple issues: sporadic mold under the caps, some people severely allergic to the algae-based ingredient they used, and o
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by jamoes 9y ago
I don't understand why they don't just create an API that allows extensions to modify userChrome.css. It seems like this would solve a lot of the complaints people have about the new extension framework, and it would be a way bett
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by jamoes 9y ago
> good to see justice served I believe his participation in fraud should have repercussions, but I hardly feel like caging him up for 7 years is "justice". I'm not saying I know what the perfect justice would be, but I thi
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by jamoes 9y ago
> The talk really put Karpeles in a slightly better light. I disagree wholeheartedly. Karpeles bought an insolvent exchange, and specifically chose not to invest the money necessary to bring it back to solvency. He could have simply boug
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by jamoes 9y ago
The earth rocket had a significantly larger payload than the lander. IIRC, the lander only carried a crew of ~3 people, whereas the earth rocket had to launch with a larger crew, life-support for an extended stay in space, and enough fuel t
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by jamoes 9y ago
You can always switch back to upstart if you rely on it. It's a simple process: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers
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by jamoes 10y ago
The reasoning I've heard is that back then memory and disk space were limited and they couldn't sacrifice the extra bytes. For example, if every file stores three timestamps (mtime, ctime, and atime), then that's an extra 12
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by jamoes 10y ago
On the minus side, they can install malware on your machine without your knowledge (even if your disk is encrypted).
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by jamoes 10y ago
If she's 'X', then playing in the bottom-center square will put the game on the path toward a cat's game. Perhaps the puppet is strong AI, and she's trying to teach it that in some games, the only winning move is no

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