jasonisalive

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by jasonisalive 10y ago
Both the developer guide and developer reference under https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-documentation . Deep reading but you will really understand the subject afterwards.
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
The problem of credit cards is that when you make a payment, you have to give away your private key. No amount of securitisation will take away this fundamental flaw. This is one of Bitcoin's evolutionary advantages in this space. To s
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
Great, so you're concerned about some people being more competitive than others in the free market. So what's your response? A monopolistic ostenisbly communally-controlled central power to oversee and address alleged abuses? Exce
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
And the irony is that people like yourself, chasing phantoms of unfairness in the free market, support the extension and entrenchment of coercive governments, an institution which is and always will be eminently corruptible, an institution
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
Uber offers a certain deal to potential drivers, they either like it enough to accept it or they think they can get a better match for their skills and circumstances and they keep looking. Uber has no responsibility to try and offer a deal
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
So what, some people have urgent needs, different parties in economic transactions have access to different information. Welcome to the free market. They're still choosing to work for Uber. No one is forcing them. Uber isn't forci
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
The entire economic system is built around people trying to get the best deal possible for themselves. You can try and paint that as inhumane and abusive if you're commited to emotionalising economic dynamics, but it really doesn'
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
If by illegal images you mean child pornography, there's a few key differences between CP and Bitcoin. Namely: very very few people are into CP, while practically everyone who isn't an enthusiast is violently opposed to it. Theref
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
Alternative advice from someone with an anarchistic bent: ignore the law and join the resistance against government. The more people who do it, the less power they have to stop it. People convincing themselves that they need to stay out of
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
Hello, I'm a Bitcoin community member, I can help clear this one up for you: 1) Bitcoin is claimed as a legitimate alternative to cash money insofar as: Bitcoin proponents believe that, if the world valued Bitcoin, it would function su
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
It's almost as if the government as a social institution continuously and inexorably acts to expand and reinforce its power over society, regardless of any constitutional or rational or utilitarian grounds for its expansion... as if th
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
Why would you say that? There are attempts to regulate them, but those attempts so far are mostly just succeeding in ensuring that the regulating districts become uncompetitive and virtual currency businesses leave for somewhere with better
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
The USD is a pretty lousy global currency. You can't exactly use it anywhere in any sort of transaction. I've only ever heard of a handful of places outside of the States where the local currency is terrible enough that local peop
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
FYI that vulnerability was fixed already by the time he wrote that post. He brought it to Trezor's attention, helped update the firmware, and published the article after the update was pushed.
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
What are the killer advantages of using a distributed ledger for storing contracts as opposed to centralised ledgers? Are you going to spin up an altcoin or are you planning to try and stuff your contracts into Bitcoin transactions?
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
Tried travelling in a third-world country where you don't speak the language?
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
You can't send perfectly divisible quantities of gold halfway around the world in seconds. You also can't store gold in your brain and thus move unlimited quantities of gold across national borders undetected. Furthermore, unlike
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
Try veganism, it's life on Hard Mode.
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by jasonisalive 11y ago
As usual, Gates gets the true problem completely wrong. The real issue here are the numerous and significant unpriced economic externalities associated with animal flesh production, whose impact is rendered enormous by the scale of this ind
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Money is always overvalued, because money is the technology we use to delay the completion of an economic trade. Money is where we "store" our pending transfers of value. Money is the bubble that does not burst.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
People should focus instead on something that has worsened, not improved, with scientific intervention and technological development - the enslavement, brutalisation, and mass slaughter of billions of land animals (not to mention the treatm
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
When people start writing contractual obligations in quote marks, things are getting bad.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Even if you just rebuilt banks as they exist today on top of Bitcoin, you'd still get some pretty huge advantages, potentially massively increased security, speed, reduced costs, among others. Another big one is that these banks can se
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Mmm, I hope you got some value from him when he made this pearler: "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
No, I'm talking about something which has the potential to be the world currency.
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Cool story. It's not vegan though so it's useless for me. Plus I would far prefer to buy from a company (eg Soylent) that has a vision of clean, futuristic food production, rather than a company that stupidly accepts the dirty, na
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Why don't you let people make their own decisions about what is good for them? It's none of your business "knowing better" than people. And if you think Soylent's raison d'etre is "disrupt" then you&#
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
I already did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8887167 What if Ensure had a cool name and didn't carry connotations of age and disease? What if it was sexily marketed? What if it was easy to flavour and make deli
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
Here's a fascinating concept... if you don't like the product/don't trust the company... don't buy it. Boom. Go back to buying whatever crap new vanilla melto-choc insta-coffee sachet Nestle thinks they can get a 4%
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by jasonisalive 12y ago
(That was the point)

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