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New comment by jobeirne in "Prefer Boring Technology"

jobeirne — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:38:18 +0000

Someone rediscovered https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

New comment by jobeirne in "After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract"

jobeirne — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:11:40 +0000

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 societies, governments should only be able to forcibly compel people not to do things (murder, threaten, steal, etc.) - see the concept of "negative rights."

New comment by jobeirne in "After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract"

jobeirne — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:54:47 +0000

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 or rationally self-interested to do so is a different question.

New comment by jobeirne in "After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract"

jobeirne — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:48:09 +0000

> 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 anyone they don't want as customers (for whatever reason - do you have to justify who you do or don't want in your livingroom?), but publicly-funded institutions shouldn't be able to deny service on political grounds.

New comment by jobeirne in "Hypermodern Python"

jobeirne — Thu, 28 May 2020 14:57:57 +0000

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.

New comment by jobeirne in "Hypermodern Python"

jobeirne — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:58:48 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by jobeirne in "Hypermodern Python"

jobeirne — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:57:43 +0000

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.

New comment by jobeirne in "Hypermodern Python"

jobeirne — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:41:02 +0000

Similar interface, different design goals. This lib has 6x the code, dependencies, and isn't as easy to vendor/audit.

New comment by jobeirne in "Hypermodern Python"

jobeirne — Thu, 28 May 2020 12:56:16 +0000

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 the time trying to figure out how to use this thing, it has no dependencies, and is implemented in a single vendor-friendly file.

New comment by jobeirne in "The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money"

jobeirne — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:24:56 +0000

I am so glad Bitcoin Cash exists for people like you.

New comment by jobeirne in "The 30-Year Mortgage Is an Intrinsically Toxic Product"

jobeirne — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 05:16:03 +0000

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.

New comment by jobeirne in "Chaincode Labs app dev residency for Bitcoin/Lightning, stipends available"

jobeirne — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:47:18 +0000

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.

Chaincode Labs app dev residency for Bitcoin/Lightning, stipends available

jobeirne — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:35:13 +0000

Article URL: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/chaincodes-residency-program-back-time-lightning-app-classes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919519

Points: 7

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New comment by jobeirne in "Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python"

jobeirne — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 05:08:47 +0000

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

New comment by jobeirne in "JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Bitcoin is a fraud that will eventually blow up"

jobeirne — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:54:48 +0000

Stable according to whom? Check out all that stability in Venezeula.

New comment by jobeirne in "Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA"

jobeirne — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 23:56:48 +0000

It's called Bitcoin.

New comment by jobeirne in "Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin"

jobeirne — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:00:38 +0000

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 threshold (in both cases 2 hours).

New comment by jobeirne in "Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin"

jobeirne — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:54:04 +0000

thanks :)

New comment by jobeirne in "Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin"

jobeirne — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:53:35 +0000

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.

New comment by jobeirne in "Tinychain: a pocket-sized implementation of Bitcoin"

jobeirne — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 19:28:58 +0000

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