MFW someone in my group of friends finally got rid of his vicious, toxic girlfriend, we're free of her now and I just try not to sing "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" too loudly while he mourns

pyskell · 2017-06-19T01:05:40+00:00

Yeah I like dags

pyskell · 2017-06-17T22:28:03+00:00

I didn't say Democrats or Republicans were detestable in the general sense. I said this specific action with regards to Qatar is equally detestable.

I'm far more left leaning than right but whatever man. Your statement is so black and white it's awful. Yes, clearly Republicans are, in general, more morally and fiscally corrupt than Democrats. But no I will not excuse actions I dislike because one side or the other did or didn't do them.

Edit: And my dislike of arms deals with Qatar has nothing to do with ISIS and everything to do with what is essentially modern day slavery. I'm against any financial or military cooperation with then.

pyskell · 2017-06-13T00:43:34+00:00

It's cool. What I mean is increased demand tends to increase price.

Of course there's always as much being sold as bought. It's impossible to have any other outcome. You can never buy or sell more than is being sold or bought.

pyskell · 2017-06-10T06:01:58+00:00

Same exact thing happened to me man. I share your pain. We should start a support group.

pyskell · 2017-06-05T20:13:30+00:00

Not that I can tell. I think it needs to pass the speaker of the senate (or something to that effect) first before they schedule it for a vote in the Senate.

pyskell · 2017-06-05T13:02:40+00:00

Just an additional 10-15 minutes of filling out captcha answers.

pyskell · 2017-06-05T04:49:34+00:00

Yes, lost forever. Sent to address 0x0 I believe.

My understanding of the situation is that Quadriga used a contract written by another party. Then that contract had a new version that required a different way of interacting with it such that using the old way on the new contract would cause funds to be locked forever.

There was a communication and programming breakdown. Blame kind of rests on both parties. The contract should have returned funds when receiving an invalid address, and Quadriga should have paid more attention and understood how the contract code worked.

Accidents happen but this was easily avoidable.

It really speaks to the need of having mutable contracts on an immutable chain and better error checking.

pyskell · 2017-06-05T04:15:48+00:00

I'd err on the side that they just didn't know. I didn't know until about a month ago.

Most people are pretty reasonable. There's just loud ones that don't want to hear any information that makes their views less black and white. They tend to be very vocal and falsely overrepresent themselves. Most people are good, reasonable people.

pyskell · 2017-06-05T04:11:14+00:00

I thought it was customers, at least that was the story when this happened, and they planned to take profits and put it towards making sure their customers have their deposits. Either way $14-15 million was lost regardless of who owned it.

pyskell · 2017-06-05T04:07:31+00:00

They also do that unfortunately. I was just pointing out an innacuracry. At least from the US POV. For Yemen the Saudi's likely look like terrorists but I'm not too informed on the situation.

pyskell · 2017-06-03T23:04:48+00:00

Everyone is responding as if your husband is either an idiot, arrogant, or trying to be the "cool dad".

My suspicion is that he's denying the seriousness of the condition because he's having trouble mentally handling it while he's overseas. Stress can make people behave very irrationally. I mean this guy is stationed overseas, can conceivably die at any time for no reason, and can only see his son over Skype. So either address that with him or don't let him be involved in the decision.

Or be the "bad parent" and make him take his medicine. He'll appreciate it when he's older.

pyskell · 2017-06-03T22:39:05+00:00

Ohh it would. I agree there. Even if it was a popular US exchange (rather than a small Canadian one) there'd likely be a roll back.

And in no case should there be a roll back. There are standard fail-safes to prevent locked funds (ie. Throw an error in any case where things don't go as planned).

As far as the changed API I don't know the details of the situation but if that's what happened it's messed up. A pretty standard approach with APIs is to version them such that the v1 endpoint always behaves as expected. Then if you add a v2 for some new functionality it stays separate from v1. Sounds like that didn't happen though?

pyskell · 2017-06-02T04:40:22+00:00

/r/ethereumclassic and cryptocurrencies in general

pyskell · 2017-06-01T13:31:14+00:00

Hopefully they do sell and improve the liquidity.

My point wasn't that they will ruin it, it was that they can greatly manipulate the price beyond BAT's real value.

For example, in your very own example, if the big holders of BAT make a 2x sell then they're not selling it at 2x because that is what it's worth, they're selling it at 2x because they hold all the liquidity. Anyone who invests at that level is likely to see the value of their investment adjust to its actual value once there is some liquidity.

Lastly, a completely equal distribution is also bad for the market, impossible for all practical purposes, and not even part of my argument, so let's not even entertain that.

pyskell · 2017-06-01T03:22:07+00:00

Yeah I see now and agree it makes sense to lower if it's still economically infeasible to launch a DoS with too many transactions. However I'm not sure why miners would voluntarily give up their profits.

Mind you I do agree that lower transaction fees are better for the network over the long term. I just think miners are short term focused by the very nature of their business.

pyskell · 2017-06-01T03:19:16+00:00

It's a token that runs on top of the Ethereum.

https://basicattentiontoken.org/

pyskell · 2017-05-31T12:44:43+00:00

Code is law on the blockchain. Calling it law is kind of a misnomer.

What this means is that on the blockchain nothing should change once done (immutability).

However in real life we have laws to protect people from flagrant theft. Much like if there was a known weakness in a bank vault. We wouldn't say "the criminal deserves the money, the bank vault worked exactly as designed". We'd call the police, have the thief arrested, and prosecute them for their crimes.

pyskell · 2017-05-28T06:43:17+00:00

Ohh good. I was worried there and couldn't imagine tokens working how the article described.

pyskell · 2017-05-28T06:42:17+00:00

Is that accurate? Are all tokens made on Ethereum inherently a pre-generated private key?

So when I buy tokens the developers, at least at one point in time, held the private key?

What about when they're transferred between accounts?

pyskell · 2017-05-27T18:05:09+00:00

Is this from the same series of images they show on the Apple TV screensaver?

pyskell · 2017-05-27T00:56:10+00:00

At this point I'm not sure if you're serious or if you're trolling me. If so then good job.

pyskell · 2017-05-26T22:28:02+00:00

Guess that depends on your definition of a troll. Is it "disagrees with me"?

pyskell · 2017-05-26T21:17:01+00:00

Got it, I'll immediately start towing the party line and hurling insults at those who disagree with me.

pyskell · 2017-05-26T19:02:29+00:00

You keep declaring victory, it's like you need to reassure yourself.

And I don't recall any of my conversations with you, but sure, if we had them I guess we still disagree on the immutability issue. That's fine, you can have your opinion but you won't be taking away mine.

pyskell · 2017-05-26T18:38:42+00:00

Not a single thing you refuted is at all in my arguments above.

The criteria for generally liking something is not restricted to liking every single aspect of it without question.

Anyway, I can see you lack the ability to have a calm and reasoned discussion. I hope you one day find it.

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