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New comment by fosap in "Jair Bolsonaro: Organized Crime and Corruption 2020 Person of the Year"

fosap — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:07:45 +0000

>since they tolerate it in the leaders that align with their views.

Which one?

New comment by fosap in "Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate"

fosap — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:20:40 +0000

Please RFA.

"The reduction they saw was confined to households that did actually have access to a car"

"They discovered that tightening these laws had no detectable effects on the rate of first and second children".

Also, if i understand it correctly, you have about 50 quasi experiments, one for each state.

New comment by fosap in "I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet"

fosap — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 16:20:05 +0000

Not being depended on craftsman for small things like fixing your toilet safes you a lot of stress in my experience. Not problems with appointments, no waiting, no arguing in case if improper work, no other people in your home.

New comment by fosap in "Bitcoin Cash Skyrockets, Bitcoin Price Drops As Civil War Continues"

fosap — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:06:02 +0000

But you can't order Pizza (or drugs) with Bitcoin anymore. And I don't see much of use case of a currency that can't do that. Without adoption a fiat currency like bitcoin is not worth anything.

Even gold can do that better.

New comment by fosap in "Bitcoin Cash Skyrockets, Bitcoin Price Drops As Civil War Continues"

fosap — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 12:54:59 +0000

Inside of one coin hashpower makes the winner, because the chain with the most accumulated difficulty wins. It makes sense to transfer this to the relation of different coins. currently BTC wins, but if miners would stick to bch this might change.

New comment by fosap in "Bitcoin Cash Skyrockets, Bitcoin Price Drops As Civil War Continues"

fosap — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:03:35 +0000

It seems there is currently more hashpower behind BCH than BTC. [1] Because of the current price surge mining bch became way more profitable, but this will change with the next adjustment.

If more hashpower sticks with BCH, I would consider it to be the winner.

[1] https://fork.lol/pow/hashrate

New comment by fosap in "Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved"

fosap — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:19:54 +0000

It does not change anything substantial about the web today. It will just be a saner output format for compilers than javascript. Unless you write compilers, nothing changes.

It does not matter weather your language compiles to JS or WASM, and it does not matter what the browser executes.

New comment by fosap in "Bitcoin Cash Soars to $700, Coinbase Customers Threaten to Sue"

fosap — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:54:30 +0000

No, is not like that. Both the calf to the cow and bch (bcc ?) to btc are "intrinsic". They are the result of the nature of these things. Not gifts, not accidents, not abritrary.

And coinbase keeps the bch (as they announced), so the bird analogy does not fit at all.

New comment by fosap in "Bitcoin Cash Soars to $700, Coinbase Customers Threaten to Sue"

fosap — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:59:09 +0000

>Coinbase can do anything they want!

That's no how laws work. Not even remotely. Thankfully.

Consider you order somebody (X) to transport your pregnant cow. At the destination the cow arrives. It's not pregnant anymore and X refuses to give you the calf because... well, because he can do anything he wants.

That's theft.

New comment by fosap in "200 terabyte proof demonstrates the potential of brute force math"

fosap — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 07:42:20 +0000

Math is not about proofing something, or creating a as big as possible collection of lemmas. Math is about creating structures that can use as tools to solve problems. And problem solving is a task done by humans, so math is only useful if humans understand it and have a intuition.

New comment by fosap in "The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined"

fosap — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 07:34:14 +0000

>The real question seems to be legally whether BCH is a gift to those owning BTC or those possessing it. In

Bch is not a gift. Who should have gifted it? Who is the previous owner? How did the previous owner aquire it? It is a "fructus" of btc. And that belongs to the owner.

This right can be signed away, with life estate or usufructus. But that's a big deal. That can't be somewho implied in a sentence hidden somewhere in a long ToS.

New comment by fosap in "The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined"

fosap — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 07:25:09 +0000

>You don't own Bitcoin if you don't control the keys.

That's wrong, and obviously so. That concept is "possession" and not "ownership".

What they write in their ToS doesn't matter, it does not change fundamentals of porperty law. (Well, as every legal argument on the internet it depends on your jurisdiction and the jurisdiction of the coinbase, as coinbase resides in multiple)

New comment by fosap in "The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined"

fosap — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:17:44 +0000

Edited my comment to make it clearer.

There is a difference between ownership and possion. Technically (in the meaning "how it is realized in computer code") bcc is given to the person possessing btc. But by the law the owner is entitled to the profits of a thing. But coinbase does not own my coins, it merely posses them.

New comment by fosap in "The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined"

fosap — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:03:10 +0000

Of course. The Bitcoins are still mine, even i keep them in a coinbase wallet. (ownsership vs perssesion). Now every btc owner gets bcc. The owner is me, not coinbase. I gave the persession of by btc to coinbase to trade them eventually, not to give up ownership. And as the owner that never 1) gave away usufruct I'm entiled to all profits from them. See the share/divident analogy.

1) At last not legaly binding, that had to be there at the very least in red flashing letters, possibly even then it would have been void.

New comment by fosap in "200 terabyte proof demonstrates the potential of brute force math"

fosap — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:32:19 +0000

Maybe we can use the brute force of a "math superoptimizer" to "compress" it to something far more reasonable. If we teach said opimizer what structures are well understood by humans we might actually understand at last parts.

New comment by fosap in "The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined"

fosap — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:24:16 +0000

They can have any stand they want. But they deny me my property.

Imagine a bank anouncing they would keep all the dividends of one particular stock, because the didn't like it. That's what coinbase is doing. It plain and simply theft.

New comment by fosap in "The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined"

fosap — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:13:31 +0000

I don't understand why bitcoin is afraid of hardforks. Ethereum hard forks like there is no tomorrow, and so far the number of major block-chain-splits is equal, two. The offical implementation not forking does by no means prevent anybody else from hardforking to begin with, Bitcoin cash demonstrates.

New comment by fosap in "Why pledge(2) or, how I learned to love web application sandboxing"

fosap — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:32:27 +0000

Not even the Plan 9 People use C for web development. And the plan 9 folks _really_ like c.

Retroshare – Secure communication for everyone

fosap — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 11:31:48 +0000

Article URL: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9833206

Points: 37

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New comment by fosap in "Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace"

fosap — Wed, 27 May 2015 11:40:02 +0000

Most active noise-canceling head-phones work pretty well even if you don't listen to anything.