jmonegro

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by jmonegro 9y ago
Pools create costs, solar removes costs
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by jmonegro 10y ago
The difference here is that you can have a stake in the protocol itself by purchasing the token whereas you couldn't do that with the web protocols. Imagine an HTTPCoin in 1995: how would it's price be affected by the constant str
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by jmonegro 10y ago
> There is no way to measure the value of protocols before Bitcoin The point is not to compare the market cap of Bitcoin or Ethereum to the market cap of previous protocols at all. The point is precisely that the previous generation of p
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by jmonegro 10y ago
100% on it also going the other way, as we've seen repeatedly whenever there is a hack at the application layer. The market cap of the protocol drops at a higher rate than the "actual loss", e.g. last week's Bitfinex hac
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by jmonegro 11y ago
Good use case for http://openbazaar.org
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by jmonegro 11y ago
WeWork might not be in the best position if most of their clients are venture-backed startups and they all go away within a few years.
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by jmonegro 12y ago
Coinbase does
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by jmonegro 12y ago
I don't like that term but I'll bite. Bitcoin's liquidity and network effects, in a nutshell. I don't think a competitor will be able to match Bitcoin on those fronts. And it's not just about the developer and techn
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by jmonegro 12y ago
You should check out deckbound.com
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by jmonegro 12y ago
Just a few for coding experiments, only a few dollars' worth.
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by jmonegro 12y ago
I'll try to drill down to specifics in the series of posts that will follow this, but I wanted to set the general stage first. To answer your question what's unsettling about this (and not in a bad way) that since so much of this
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by jmonegro 12y ago
That's where overlay networks come in: a combination of a purpose-specific overlay network (maybe something like counterparty, or maybe something like Side Chains) to make up for Bitcoin's blockchain's deficiencies while taki
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by jmonegro 12y ago
You should take a look at what these guys are doing datacoup.com
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by jmonegro 12y ago
You can open apps with Siri on iOS.
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by jmonegro 12y ago
It's actually a Canadian startup with millions in funding, but this is not their product. It's the Kik messenger, which has a built-in browser. They provide this library to make making apps for their messenger easier.
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Heartbleed and The Future of Authentication(medium.com)
2 points by jmonegro 12y ago|0 comments
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Telegram and The Future of Mobile Messaging(medium.com)
3 points by jmonegro 12y ago|0 comments
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by jmonegro 13y ago
I'm rich[1], and I have Adblock. [1] Depending on your definition of rich.
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by jmonegro 13y ago
Deflation != hyperdeflation
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by jmonegro 13y ago
That is actually /not/ very good for the economy at all. If you abruptly reduce spending to the absolute minimum, sure it sounds very idealistic, but you're grinding most economic activity to a halt, causing hundreds of milli
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by jmonegro 13y ago
I'm here to answer any questions, in between today's busy day :) (Resubmitted due to a typo in the URL)
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by jmonegro 13y ago
This is my latest project. I'm here to answer any questions :)
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by jmonegro 13y ago
I used to have diplomatic immunity as well. Getting to ignore parking tickets and other fines, police officers treating you like royalty, no security checkpoints or lines at the airport (and a very comfy ambassador's lounge), complimen
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by jmonegro 13y ago
It was actually 12 days.
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Customer versus Merchant: Two Sides to a Chargeback (chargeback.com)
1 points by jmonegro 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmonegro 13y ago
Paste the following in your address bar to remove the overlay: javascript:(function(){$("#TB_window, #TB_overlay").remove()})();
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by jmonegro 13y ago
You can quite cheaply (for around $3 depending on the registrar) opt into Whois privacy protection.
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How I attacked a fellow student(shaanan.cohney.info)
173 points by jmonegro 13y ago|46 comments
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by jmonegro 13y ago
Probably more preventing them from selling it rather than forcing them to release it.
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Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51(roadrunnersinternationale.com)
215 points by jmonegro 13y ago|34 comments

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