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
> - 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.
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"
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(3) The complete street address need not be disclosed as required
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satisfies the conditions described in paragraph (2) of subdivision
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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.
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.
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.
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.
