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Is it just me, or has there been a huge spike in the number, stupidity, and/or loquaciousness of new users spamming insubstantial rubbish over the past few days? Or maybe they've been building up gradually and have just crossed some sort of threshold? Either way, my ignore list is growing at an alarming rate and I feel like I'm going to get RSI from reporting all these posts. And how am I supposed to keep up when I'm only allowed to report one post every 4 seconds?
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Way to completely avoid the point. There are lots of perfectly innocent reasons one might be left destitute regardless of you willful ignorance and deconstruction of an example rather than the premise itself.
Well, that's what bankruptcy's for. Just because you don't understand the results of the policies you support, doesn't mean you don't support those results.
Which policies would those be, again? I never said anything about applying criminal penalties for civil judgements. In fact, I explicitly stated that I don't support that, and will not repeat it again. "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."
-Benito Mussolini
You know the definition of fascism better than Mussolini?
I know there's no citation for that quote earlier than 2002, 57 years after Mussolini's death, and that it is inconsistent with his actual ideology. Do you have any evidence that he actually said or believed that? |
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Bytes. - Is it possible to calculate tx size from its hex ?
Yes. There are two hex digits to a byte. Count the number of hex digits, divide by two, and that's the size in bytes. Note if you have a program that is processing transactions, it already has the raw data, and hence already knows how many bytes there are. - Is there any reference implementation on calculating tx fee from size ?
Bitcoin Core. |
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I will provide a very simple example. If a person takes out a loan, then a few years later their house burns down and they lose their job, and as a result they are unable to pay their debt, is this an act of theft? There are many perfectly innocent reasons someone might default on a loan, even without intent of "theft".
There's nothing innocent about that, as there is a very simple solution: insurance. It is grossly negligent to get into debt without insuring your income and assets. If you can't afford insurance, you can't afford debt. It's that simple. What you are asking for as a result is a system where people can be judged against under civil law, and then have criminal penalties applied to them WITHOUT DUE PROCESS.
No, I'm not. Learn to read. Obviously fascists such as your self would like to see that changed. Also before you accuse me of making a personal attack, those who advocate for the merger of the corporation and the state are by definition fascists.
And learn the definition of fascism, while you're at it. |
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Default is a natural risk of lending. It's why lenders charge a huge interest rate especially for unsecured debt.
And shoplifting is a natural risk of retail. It's why retailers put magnetic anti-theft devices on their merchandise. That doesn't mean they shouldn't use the full force of the law to punish shoplifters. Why are you cheering the morphing of our government into the debt collection agency of big business?
I'm not. I'm merely cheering debt collection. It hardly matters whether that's done by the government or a private company. "Don't worry about that credit card debt college kid it's a great deal at 0%. We wont even require you to make payments until you are done with collage and get a job. What you missed your first payment sorry that 50k now has an interest rate of 26%. We get to take 25% of all your earnings forever. What you did not know what you were doing when you signed up for this at age 18? Sorry that's you problem after all not paying your debt is theft."
Ignorance is no defence. Is this the future you want a society of slaves?
I see you don't know the meaning of that word. A slave is someone who is forced to work against their will. But nothing about debt is against the debtor's will. When they signed they contract, they willingly agreed to repay the loan. They accepted the responsibility completely voluntarily.
So how is my improper choice of investment any different than a bank making a loan to an unfit party? Banks can sue debtors who default on their loans, why do banks get to imprison people as well ON TOP of the lawsuit?
I never said anything about imprisoning people. So putting someone in a cage is not loss of their rights?
With freedom comes responsibility. In particular, I expect any free person to be responsible enough to not harm or steal from other people. I see no problem with denying freedom to people who deny their responsibilities. Most civilised justice systems function on this concept. There are worse alternatives. At what point did civil matters become criminal matters?
Not sure if rhetorical question, but if not, all actions against a person or property have both a civil and criminal component. You are basically supporting a world where anyone can be sued for anything, and if you can afford it you can take anyone's freedom away via a civil suit process.
I support no such thing. The problem is he is going even a step further past wage garnishments, and saying it is right for people to be imprisoned for bad debt. As you mentioned there is a risk vs reward analysis for every act of commerce. Demanding that commerce some how be risk free for the lender is asinine and against the very fundamental principals of commerce.
I made no such demand, either. It is, however, perfectly reasonable to demand that lenders can reduce the risk by suing or prosecuting those who don't pay their debts. |
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You gonna love wooden ones even more.  For a second I thought those were chocolate. Now I'm disappointed.  |
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Technically 90% of the loans ARE created out of thin air. So for every dollar in deposit, they can loan out $9 more. You are woefully uninformed about he banking system.
I know how fractional reserve banking works. You clearly don't. For every dollar in reserve, they loan out $9 more, from a total of $10 in deposit. If I pick up an random hobo off the street and pay him to remodel my house instead of a qualified bonded contractor, is it the hobos fault or my fault for making that investment when it goes wrong?
It is your fault for making the investment, but the hobo's fault for it going wrong, and you can sue him for that. Of course, you likely won't get much, which, more than anything else, is what makes it a bad idea. It is the primary responsibility of the investing party to due due diligence upon the borrowing party.
That responsibility is to the investor himself. He has a responsibility to make a profit, and that means not making loans that are likely to go bad and lose him money. The fate of the borrower is not his responsibility at all. If I file for a loan that I shouldn't be approved for, and my bank falsifies my paperwork and gets me the loan anyway, how is that even an enforceable contract let alone something one should be imprisoned for?
Because even if a contract is invalid, it is invalid for both parties. If the borrower was never supposed to receive the loan, then the lender was never supposed to give it, which means the money loaned is the lender's property and must be returned. Keeping property that doesn't belong to you is theft. Being poor should never mean a loss of your human rights.
You cannot lose a right you never had in the first place. Nobody, poor or not, has a right to borrow money without paying it back. |
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You mean like every time they create a loan out of thin air and rob every USD holder world wide in the process?
Loans aren't created out of thin air. They are created out of deposits. Depositors are expected to know exactly what they're putting they're putting their money into. Whether that's a reasonable expectation is another matter entirely. Also, why is this not the responsibility of the lender to assure that someone they loan to is not a risk to lend to? They are extracting a profit, any time this happens there is a corresponding risk or obligation. This is an immutable law of commerce.
You have a strange idea about responsibility. A lender has no responsibility or obligation to the debtor other than to actually provide the loan itself. The lender will of course be annoyed if the loan is never repaid, which is why they don't make loans to those who are bad credit risks, but that's not the lender's responsibility. Repaying the loan is the sole responsibility and obligation of the debtor. |
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Well, my first though was to do rm -rf /, but that didn't create the desired level of breakage because the root filesystem was mounted read-only. Where's the fun in that? So I remounted it read-write, and then this happened: hda: task_out_intr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: task_out_intr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: task_out_intr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: task_out_intr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: task_out_intr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: task_out_intr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: task_out_intr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: task_out_intr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: task_out_intr: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error }
hda: task_out_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Whoops. I guess that's why it was read-only.  |
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As it should be. Borrowing something and not giving it back isn't debt, it's theft.
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The reboot command crashes the emulator. Then I got angry and tried to break it, but the disk is hardwarily write-protected. How am I supposed to get angry and break things like that? |
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Bumping to start a discussion about what kind of numbers we want to have. I want orange ones. Preferably before next year.
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TL;DR: It is possible for an attacker to cause Tor exit nodes to be banned from the Bitcoin network, forcing Bitcoin nodes running over Tor to connect using the attacker's exit node, giving the attacker complete control over that node's connections (except connections to hidden services). Though, a network split is of course impossible as long as a single hidden service has a good connection to the outside or miners relay blocks directly to at least one hidden service.
Basically, if you're running Bitcoin over Tor, you may end up relying on hidden service nodes more than you expected (which is slightly worrying given how surprisingly few hidden service nodes seem to be reachable).
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Where's the father?
In the mother's bed. What is the probability that the remaining marble from the same bag is also white?
2/3 |
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There's already a thread about this paper here. Judging by the lack of responses, nobody much cares. I suppose I should care, since my hidden service is one of the ones listed, and I'm a little concerned that there were only 38 others reachable; I figured there'd be a lot more.  But apart from that, I'm not really worried. |
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Not if it doesn't meet the other conditions, no.
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I think this is a good idea, except I'd rather make note of everyone who doesn't lie. That seems easier.
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No. There is no such service, nor would it be a good idea, as the risk of chargeback fraud is too great.
For future reference, proper forum etiquette is to wait at least 24 hours before asking why nobody is responding to your thread.
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If Armstrong was the first man on the moon, then who took the photo of him getting off the lander?  Not who, what. The photo was taken by a video camera on a stick, which was dangling off the side of the lander. But I guess this astounding level of technology is too much for most people to comprehend.  |
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What the damn Hell are you on about? What do you mean you can't download software outside of repositories? It's exactly the same process as on Windows or Mac: go to the website of the software you want, find the download page, and click on the download link for your OS. You'll either get an installer that works automagically, or a zip or tar file that contains an executable that you just extract and run. In the latter case you'll also generally get a README file that tells you exactly what else, if anything, you need to do to run the program. Unless, of course, you can't read. In which case I can't help you.
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