pilgrim689

I think decentralized mixing is on the horizon and may become baked into bitcoin wallets down the line. I'm speculating based on the emergence of protocols like FairExchange and Xim http://forensics.umass.edu/pubs/bissias.wpes.2014.pdf

Waiting for six confirmations is enough, as it's been shown both in theory and in practice.

I was correcting the parent as saying Bitcoin loses transactions is false. The network never loses a valid unconfirmed transaction.

> - Loses accepted transactions!!! (blockchain forks, orphan blocks, etc) From a distributed database perspective the Bitcoin blockchain is broken and loses data: like a decentralized MongoDB, but slower by several orders of magnitude.

When a block is orphaned or when there is a fork, transactions are not lost, they'll always be present in the main chain. Or said another way, all miners are trying to mine the unconfirmed transactions in their mempool. If one miner ends up finding the winning block, transactions they didn't include that were included in an orphaned block are going to be mined in the next block.

What you may be referencing, though, is not "lost transactions", but rather double spends? What I said above holds true assuming no one else is trying to spend the same outputs. However, if you wait 6 confirmations (the recommended amount before you should consider a transaction "accepted"), you won't see double spends, either.

I may be wrong here but assuming you're broadcasting to both networks, your transaction is valid in both XT and Core so they'd both try to add it to a block.

The only bitcoin that become unusable in one chain are those that come from a post-fork coinbase transaction.

I'd say moving and looking for employment are two very stressful things for any individual, and for Waterloo co-ops we have to do at least one of those things every 4 months. Never-mind the "deadlines and school".

I'm a big proponent of ~3 people offices as opposed to an open floor plan. There are many ways to "opt-in" to interactions:

- lunch/dinner is done in a dining area

- I invite people out for a coffee break

- I can go hangout in a common area

- I can just walk in to someone's office just like I would walk to someone's desk in an open floor plan

- I bump into people while walking down the hall, grabbing a snack from the kitchen, etc.

There's just so many ways I interact with people at the office, that making sure I'm surrounded by people I can't look away from or mute all the time is completely unnecessary.

And I don't want to have to blast music into my ears all day and wear horse blinkers just to get some continuous hours of distraction-free creative thinking done.

Lower fees for everyone (merchant, user, CC company). Most people will gladly give away their privacy to pay less.

This is a really well article outlining how the man-on-the-side attack on Baidu is carried out. The only flaw here is the logical leap that goes from "Baidu is being hijacked" to "Baidu is being hijacked by the Chinese government"

I agree... I didn't even realize there was a videos section between the "Try it" and the "Features" section until I read your comment.

... (3) The complete street address need not be disclosed as required by paragraph (1) if the vendor utilizes a private mailbox receiving service and all of the following conditions are met: (A) the vendor satisfies the conditions described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 17538.5, (B) the vendor discloses the actual street address of the private mailbox receiving service in the manner prescribed by this subdivision for the disclosure of the vendor's actual street address, and (C) the vendor and the private mailbox receiving service comply with all of the requirements of subdivisions (c) to (f), inclusive, of Section 17538.5.

It's innocent until proven guilty isn't it?

A tool doesn't fail because it's difficult, it fails if its difficulty is not worth the results it produces. A chainsaw is more difficult than a plain old saw. You gotta make sure it's fueled up, oiled and whatnot. You might even have to read instructions the first time! But is it worth it? That's the question, and it goes completely unaddressed in this post.

"We know the Harper administration is stuck as being part and parcel of Five Eyes, and that the CESC has conducted spying for the NSA, using Canada's good name for nefarious purposes."

Is it just the CSEC or both CSEC and CSIS? Why are we not hearing more about the NSA-style violations made in Canada? I can't believe that we aren't participating in all this...

I'm not the parent but I've never had issues with Iceweasel. There was a time when the user agent string did not contain "Firefox", but it does now [1] (that might have caused you problems?). And if you're using wheezy, there are backports to the latest Firefox (iceweasel) packages. I usually see the update on the same day or the day after the official Mozilla release.

[1] since 2009 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399633

People will recommend "testing" to you but I would advise against it... My path was: stable->testing->stable, because while on testing random stuff would break (laptop wouldn't sleep when I shut the lid, UI glitches, etc.). Plus, on testing I had to frequently update packages I didn't care about updating. I use stable now and when I need a recent package I now instead: compile from source/find backports/use a vm/vagrant

It's the price I pay for a stable system. Vagrant for my dev environments makes "stable" a much easier choice.

There's this: https://talky.io/

Yes. The "total pool of bitcoins" is actually less than 21m, considering the lost ones. Does it matter, though? Whether the max is 21m or 20.1321029 ...

The numbers are being modified. In the other thread, someone posted a screenshot of the then-current results for snowden: http://i.imgur.com/jv9t4X0.png

Why three meals per day? If you're not an expert, then can you point to experts saying that eating just once or twice per day is "chronic stress" and a "bad idea"?

If you just want to save time but the Soylent thing creeps you out, try this: stop eating as often. I've been eating in a 5-hour window every day (5pm-10pm) and basically save 2 hours a day: I have no need for breakfast and have replaced lunch hour with a HIIT workout. More and more people seem to be doing this as well [1], so it might be a bit more trustworthy than some dude's magic all-in-one concoction.

[1]

http://fast-5.org/content/summary

http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting

The law applies, no doubt, but it has no affect on the sports in which the athletes compete.

Are you talking about this? "The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practising sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play" [1]

From what I've heard so far, LGBTQ athletes will not be discriminated against at the Games. The anti-"gay propaganda" laws have no affect on the sports. Needless to say the law is abhorrent, it doesn't seem like it will prevent athletes who have been training all their lives from competing.

[1] http://www.olympic.org/Documents/olympic_charter_en.pdf

I don't have any plugins for this stuff. I just do:

    nnoremap <Leader>b :buffers<CR>:buffer<Space>
    nnoremap <Leader>n :bn<CR>
    nnoremap <Leader>p :bp<CR>

My <Leader> is space. So "space+b" opens up my buffers, I type a few letters that match a file and Tab to autocomplete it, then press enter to open it. I also use ctrl+shift+6 to quickly switch between the 2 most recent buffers.

So I'd give that a shot. If that doesn't work for you, try just ":tabe <file>" for your three files, then ctrl+pageup, ctrl+pagedown (or gt, gT) to quickly switch between them.

> My point in bringing up something like the difference in character count (not counting characters in the dependencies) is that just calling the function is already more work than basic html.

To nitpick, to get your HTML, the OJ example could actually be:

> BulletList('They','create','themselves')

So no, it's not more work (41 characters).

Ah. I tried removing all trailing characters to avoid resubmitting, but alas! Sorry about that.

QNX is a huge asset to the company, raking it customers worldwide in the embedded/real-time/safety-critical software markets. Open sourcing QNX would be a major move, as in a major loss, indeed!

Wouldn't Canonical be largely helping with the GTK+ port? Otherwise, that would mean that Ubuntu will only support Qt applications, would it not?

I never heard of elementaryOS but it looks great at first glance. I have a specific question I was wondering: how will distributions using non-Unity DEs/WMs such as elementary handle the replacement of X with Mir? I'm not familiar with how child distros handle divergent dependencies in general so I'd love to hear what elementary is doing.

Have you seen the Ubuntu mobile/edge/phone videos? It's not the same UI. They have the same "feel", but the UI is definitely different when you dock the phone compared to when you're using your phone directly. I think they're aiming for a convergent piece of hardware (phone that is also your desktop), but only a pseudo-convergent UI (ie. same look & feel, but reasonable compromises to adapt to the different form factors.)

I think its killer feature is how it's an all-in-one OS. In you pocket, it's a smartphone; docked, it's a complete linux desktop environment.