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Re:Who Smeared Richard Feynman? (2014) on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:29PM (#23420748)
'In 1998, a British newspaper reported that he paid Sri Lankan boys for sex, leading to the cancellation of plans for Prince Charles to knight him on a visit to the country.[46][47] The accusation was subsequently found to be baseless by the Sri Lankan police and was retracted by the newspaper'
Re:Bitcoin is an Energy Hog on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @05:29PM (#16018609)
Compuserve was more efficient than the internet

'Dankort' isn't global

Re:Algorithmic Solution to My Insomnia on Saturday December 23, 2017 @11:42PM (#15997977)
sounds like you are calculating & shifting your "dim light melatonin onset" (DLMO)
Re:Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @10:45PM (#15966881)
https://bitcoin.tax/blog/how-to-tax-bitcoin-cash-bch/

What if you had no interest in BCH but you owned 1,000 BTC. Do you suddenly have a $277,000 income tax bill?

Yes, as discussed by Tyson Cross, tax attorney at BitcoinTaxSolutions.com. Since you have accession to wealth then this is taxable income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Roger_Ver#Explosives_vs_f...

'As for fireworks vs explosives, the current limit on firecracker size in the US is 50mg of flash powder. The "Pest Control Report 2000" was 1000mg'

Re:Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:22PM (#15811845)
Re:Nasdaq Plans to Introduce Bitcoin Futures on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @05:15PM (#15811398)
> Bitcoin is just the same now. Nothing was solved. No progress

Not true, see Segwit recently, soon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network

edit: -3 in an hour, why?

> most of the early Bitcoiners have gone all in on Bitcoin Cash.

this is an absurdly untrue statement

> With slow transaction confirmation and high fees

This is being solved, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network

Re:Show HN: Coinmon – Check Bitcoin Prices in Terminal on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:52AM (#15740213)
> Fortunately I live in a state where suicide is legal and available by pill

for Alzheimer's?

http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2011/01/10/can-an-alzheimers-...

'There is nowhere in the U.S. someone with Alzheimer’s disease can legally commit suicide with the help of a physician or friend. (Suicide itself is not a crime.) People with Alzheimer’s are not considered competent, and the disease is generally not considered terminal because a person often does not die within six months of a diagnosis.'

Re:Build-a-Coin Cryptocurrency Creator on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:02PM (#15077681)
just needs a hash function picker...
> The wormhole library requires a "Rendezvous Server": a simple WebSocket-based relay that delivers messages from one client to another. This allows the wormhole codes to omit IP addresses and port numbers. The URL of a public server is baked into the library for use as a default, and will be freely available until volume or abuse makes it infeasible to support.

why not make use of https://docs.syncthing.net/users/strelaysrv.html ? lots of servers http://relays.syncthing.net/