jobeirne

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by jobeirne 3mo ago
Or if you want to hedge against the various tail risks of third-party providers raising prices or denying you service or somehow abusing your data...
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by jobeirne 10mo ago
Someone rediscovered https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
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by jobeirne 6y ago
Nope - in free societies you should be able to refuse service on any grounds, including those things. Otherwise you're permitting the government to forcibly compel you to allocate your time and resources to ends they define. In free so
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by jobeirne 6y ago
In societies that have full respect for private property, I should be able to refuse to do business with you for any reason, including the color of your shoes, the kind of music you listen to, or your marital preferences. Whether it is wise
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by jobeirne 6y ago
> But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy. Um, think you've got this backwards. Private entities shouldn't have to take on any
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by jobeirne 6y ago
It does parse docstrings in a very basic way ( https://github.com/jamesob/clii#help-text-from-docstrings ) but if you end up hacking in something you want, PRs are welcome.
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by jobeirne 6y ago
Thanks!
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by jobeirne 6y ago
Thanks. That's a really good point - maybe it's usable on earlier versions. Can't remember why I thought otherwise, will have to test.
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by jobeirne 6y ago
Similar interface, different design goals. This lib has 6x the code, dependencies, and isn't as easy to vendor/audit.
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by jobeirne 6y ago
I recently wrote this ( https://github.com/jamesob/clii ) because I can't stand click and got sick of having to check the argparse docs every time I wanted to write a CLI. I guarantee you'll spend a tenth of th
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by jobeirne 7y ago
I am so glad Bitcoin Cash exists for people like you.
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by jobeirne 8y ago
You obviously didn't read the whole article because he explicitly covers refinancing during favorable rate changes - he has a whole section on 30yrs basically being implicit long vol trades on rates.
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by jobeirne 8y ago
Website here: http://lightningresidency.com/ Chaincode Labs will be subsidizing flights to and lodging in NYC, so this is a great opportunity to get some experience building on top of Bitcoin using the Lightning Network.
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Chaincode Labs app dev residency for Bitcoin/Lightning, stipends available(bitcoinmagazine.com)
7 points by jobeirne 8y ago|1 comments
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by jobeirne 9y ago
Something from a few months back that's a bit closer to Bitcoin's actual implementation but at a similar level of readability: https://github.com/jamesob/tinychain
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by jobeirne 9y ago
Stable according to whom? Check out all that stability in Venezeula.
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by jobeirne 9y ago
It's called Bitcoin.
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by jobeirne 9y ago
A block's timestamp is frozen in its hash, which is validated by any node receiving a block (whether during initial block download or otherwise). Bitcoin and tinychain don't accept blocks with a timestamp in the future beyond some
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by jobeirne 9y ago
thanks :)
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by jobeirne 9y ago
I link to some of my favorite resources at the end of this section: https://github.com/jamesob/tinychain#what-is-bitcoin I also recommend subscribing to the bitcoin-core-dev mailing list.
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by jobeirne 9y ago
Thanks! It's definitely meant for forking, hacking on, and experimentation. A few ideas: - use dns for peer discovery - implement Script language subset - implement SegWit
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Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin(github.com)
250 points by jobeirne 9y ago|42 comments
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by jobeirne 9y ago
See also: https://github.com/percolate/redset
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by jobeirne 9y ago
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by jobeirne 10y ago
Actually ended up wiping my phone because this coincided with a weird set of text attachments I got from someone who didn't knowingly send them. At that point I wasn't sure that my phone wasn't being keylogged, so I wiped to
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by jobeirne 10y ago
This project is reinventing a bunch of stuff that's completely orthogonal to the goal of a decentralized app platform. They've written an OS, a filesystem, a networking layer -- all in a completely new language that looks incompre
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Bitcoinocracy(bitcoinocracy.com)
4 points by jobeirne 11y ago|0 comments
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Gun violence research(facebook.com)
7 points by jobeirne 11y ago|5 comments
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by jobeirne 11y ago
Very cool project -- definitely recommend anyone interested in desk checks this out. From what I can tell, though, desk's design allows for slightly different uses: namely (because desk consolidates configuration into one directory), d
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Intrusion detection with the BRO framework [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jobeirne 11y ago|0 comments

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