AlexDanger

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by AlexDanger 13y ago
adverts fascinate me as a study of society Thats a nice perspective, I might try that. The science of advertising is also interesting - these marketers spent squillions of research dollars on figuring out the most effective technique to t
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
Perhaps not Mozart, but anything is better than a fucking jingle. I havent seen a TV commercial in years. We live in a world where we are constantly bombarded by information. Some of it stick to your brain whether you like it or not. Presum
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
I’d like to do some research into the time it takes from when blackhats find 0-days to [when] whitehats find them. I'm also interested in this question. Is there existing research on this topic? Earlier in the piece he also claims this:
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
I'm not a web guy but you might need to check out the root cause, from looking at the inspector I presume you're using google webfonts? this might be related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10953037/google-webfonts-... Regarding a win
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
Still no good. Are you doing some kind of scaling? It looks much better when I scale to 110% (Chrome and IE), but at the default 100% I get the artifacts. Tried a few different zoom settings, some are ok, some are not. On the HN site I can
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
I'm getting weird font rendering on this site: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1325900/Capture1.PNG Windows 8 x64, Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m.
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
I think you're missing the point of the article. Firstly, everyone understands the difference between healthy sleeping/eating versus sloth and gluttony. Everything in moderation right? Secondly, you confuse ego with self-importance. A poor
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
The mind boggles at this choice. Metro is extremely difficult to use over RDP. I'm convinced this must be hurting their Server 2012 sales.
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
Does anyone keep a list of Kickstarter projects that went sour?
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
I agree. My suggestion is to make a simple keyword replacement on the pledge/rewards sidebar: Pledge $10 or more Pledge $50 or more Replace it with.. Donate $10 or more Donate $50 or more That would make things less ambiguous.
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
>The Nexus line is the best smartphone bargain that has ever happened, period, and it's still outsold by the Galaxy S III. Dont forget what happened with the Nexus 4. A pure-android device with great hardware at a reasonable price. It s
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
Do you think the Phone division is working differently to the rest of the organisation? Windows Phone 7+ really wowed me. Its a great product.
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
If you consider e-cigs a harm reduction device, the carcinogenic potential of standalone nicotine dwarves that of traditional cigarettes. More research is needed but all the evidence so far points to e-cigs being safer than cigarettes for t
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
You've not heard of the Conjugal visit? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugal_visit This guy was publishing his writing to the public during his sentence. And of course you can still have pen pals using snail-mail. Its not impossible to s
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
He gets a nod from me just because he isnt one of these financial self-help gurus who primarily makes his living by selling financial self-help products/services. I'm always staggered to see how blatantly chicken-egg some of these people ta
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
I strongly disagree. Currently the bitcoin network is running around 70,000 Ghash/second. Are you aware of what kind of resources are required to perform this 'trivial' hack? If it was so trivial, why hasnt the 51% attack happened already?
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
So whats its called and where can we find it?
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
Hang on, what about consoles? AMD are doing the CPU and GPU for the PS4 and presumably the next Xbox if rumours are true. Surely this is quite a windfall? Particularly if they're pumping out the same part for ~5 years, much longer than the
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
Satoshi's story is just the tip of the iceberg. In the last few years there have been many fascinating technical developments (CPU->GPU->FPGA->ASIC mining), grand heists, price manipulation schemes and even some unexplained even
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
Regardless of the comparison with other actors, is it possible to run an analysis over Satoshi's corpus to determine if its internally consistent or likely written by multiple individuals?
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
I'm not sure if a professional forensic study has been done but check out the bitcoin wiki page linked in my post. It contains links to his crypto mailing List posts and a couple of journalists who have tried tracking him down. The original
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by AlexDanger 13y ago
Thats the million dollar question. Satoshi invented Bitcoin and worked on it for 3 years. Sometime in 2010, just as Bitcoin was gaining traction, he* withdrew from the project and no one has been heard from him since. There have been many a
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by AlexDanger 14y ago
Wikipedia says they have their own fab at Ft Meade. Or is this just a super secure division of an Intel fab?
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by AlexDanger 14y ago
Is there any evidence of nation states or three letter agencies dipping their toes into Bitcoin? Its seems like a perfect solution for the CIA when they need to move money quickly and discretely to 'difficult' regions or individuals. I know
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by AlexDanger 14y ago
Oh god yes. You want to know the best job in the IT world? Solution Architect Enterprise Architect also works. Those two magical words can mean any of the following (I've seen them all): 1.) Network infrastructure design. Varies between h
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by AlexDanger 14y ago
Please consider this extraordinary advice: If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have
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by AlexDanger 14y ago
I love language wars. It makes it very easy to identify people you dont want to work with.
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by AlexDanger 14y ago
I love /r/askhistorians because the questions are as fascinating as the answers. I wish I'd been exposed to such riveting discussions during my own history classes. I really enjoy the 'cross-cutting concerns' style questions that span histo
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by AlexDanger 14y ago
Remember EA is a business, not an offshoot of Reddit/HN. Imagine you're the SimCity product manager and the choice was between a massive refactor or provisioning a bunch of new servers. Which would you choose? I'd love to agree with you, bu
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by AlexDanger 14y ago
Thats a cool idea. Havent played either of those games but will check them out.

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