Kadin

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by Kadin 15y ago
Right, but if the salt varies per user, then you end up doing a bruteforce on each user's password; it's no longer a precomputation attack. There are no "Rainbow tables" in this case. However, if you find Hale's bcrypt page ( http://codaha
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by Kadin 15y ago
Lots of people (that I know, anyway) know what Pastebin is, and don't know of any of the other, similar sites. If they need to paste some output, they type "pastebin.com" into their address bar and that's it.
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by Kadin 15y ago
This is an issue right now because it's much easier to go long on BTC than it is to go short. Since virtually everyone in the market is long BTC, they desperately want the price to go up, rather than down. This creates an incentive to do O
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by Kadin 15y ago
> all of these smart people with smart computers are crunching numbers on a frivolous exercise and not for something productive. total deadweight loss That's true of gold mining as well, insofar as the price of gold is significantly hig
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by Kadin 15y ago
In the short term, over the next year or so, there isn't going to be a deflation problem with Bitcoins; there will be significant inflation . The BTC supply is set to increase something like 30% next year. Right now the value of BTC has b
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by Kadin 15y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Pastebin's legitimate uses. I see it get used all the time for sharing debug output and system logs (generally between systems where there isn't any other easy method of communication). The other ones may
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by Kadin 15y ago
IIRC Orson Scott Card had his own area on AOL in the mid 90s, and possibly earlier. Not sure when he moved to the big-boy Internet but the name is the same, "Hatrack River". It wasn't a 'blog' per se, more of a forum, I think ... I only dr
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by Kadin 15y ago
I don't think consumers are totally unaware of it. (Edit: Meant to be in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564228 ) I've had people (generally older, nontechnical types, but who aren't about to just trust that Amazon will
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by Kadin 15y ago
Nah, that would just be a residential plumber that you have to buy through a VAR for 100x the normal price...
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by Kadin 15y ago
When the average person who comes out of it can get themselves a living-wage job without loading up on debt for "higher education" in order to learn a marketable skill? High schools used to concentrate on teaching young adults what they nee
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by Kadin 16y ago
That's a challenge for whoever is designing the interface. It doesn't have to be that complex in terms of appearance to a casual user. The first time they encounter a site, the software could say "You haven't visited this site before. The
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by Kadin 16y ago
It's not perjury if it's not willful; the issue with what you're describing is proving that the factual errors were willful misrepresentations and not, as I'm sure the banks claim, honest mistakes that they made a good-faith effort to corre
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by Kadin 16y ago
By that token, VHS and Betamax both had the "exact same format" of magnetic tape in plastic boxes. Their similarities didn't stop one from driving the other out of the consumer market. Personally, I suspect that Apple has lots of time befo
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by Kadin 16y ago
Military GPS receivers operate on two carrier frequencies, only one of which is used by most civilian models. (And it's the shared military/civilian frequency which is adjacent to the spectrum in question.) Using two frequencies makes the
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by Kadin 16y ago
Yes, the FCC has an enforcement bureau ( http://www.fcc.gov/eb/ ). They unfortunately do not have nearly enough officers to really do anything particularly effective, but if you are really egregiously bad about your spectrum abuse, to the p
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by Kadin 16y ago
Ugh, c'mon, people. The FCC isn't planning to destroy GPS. I hate the FCC as much as the next guy on the Internet, but that's too ridiculous for consideration. What they're trying to do is balance the legitimate right that one user has to
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by Kadin 16y ago
The coffeetable doesn't strike me as practical but I could see an insect-eating lamp being useful outside. You'd probably have the same issue as most "bug zappers" do, namely that they kill more beneficial insects than harmful/annoying ones
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by Kadin 16y ago
I think you make a good point, but you still need a legal and court system in order to enforce the arbitration clauses; they build on the legal system but don't replace it. If you didn't have the underlying court system, there wouldn't be
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by Kadin 16y ago
That may be their assumption (clearly is, given the evidence), but I think it's a pretty poor one and it's certainly off-putting as a potential user. A dating site contains, practically by definition, a fair bit of personal information. It
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by Kadin 16y ago
Interesting. I wonder if it correlates strongly to (non-satellite) broadband uptake? There seems to be a pretty clear dividing line at the Mississippi, beyond what I would have guessed would have existed simply due to population density.
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by Kadin 16y ago
They could certainly do many of those things, but how would they monetize them? It's easy to compete with another service if yours is free and their costs money (which is why many casual users I know use Facebook and don't have a Flickr ac
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by Kadin 16y ago
I'm not entirely sure it was 'adaptation' that was the issue. It wasn't that Facebook adapted and MySpace didn't; it was more that Facebook started off in a totally different direction from MySpace, and it turned out that the market prefe
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by Kadin 16y ago
Ugh, disagree. I detest the online-slideshow thing, and often wish people would just take their "slides" and put them on the same page and just let me scroll. Whenever I see someone doing a slideshow-type presentation, my immediate assumpt
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by Kadin 16y ago
While not all practitioners of the Jewish religion are ethnically Jews (Ashkenazim, Sephardim, etc.) and vice versa, there's certainly a very strong correlation. That's certainly enough to produce an apparent religious-IQ linkage, if indee
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by Kadin 16y ago
That is probably part of it, but I suspect that the bigger issue is that recent immigration policy heavily favors (legal) immigrants with advanced degrees, and consequently high earning potential.
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by Kadin 16y ago
I'm not sure what they're up to these days, but I remember when they got started (by some guys from K5, IIRC). It was an alternative root, and not any more decentralized in the technical sense than "regular" DNS. More responsive to users
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by Kadin 16y ago
That's kinda like asking "why don't more toasters have coffee pots built in?" They're two separate devices, which do two separate things. (Actually, you could come up with an argument for the toaster+coffeepot thing, since they're at hear
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by Kadin 16y ago
Not to people who read HN, certainly, but just judging from behavior, it's something that's totally lost on a lot of people (even people who ought to know better). There's a weird assumption of nonexistent privacy when people use their com
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by Kadin 16y ago
Not a good move. Considering the large base of programs that expect Python 2.x, the safe thing to do would be to keep /usr/bin/python pointing at the 2.x binaries while using /usr/bin/python3 for the 3.x ones. At some point in the future
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by Kadin 16y ago
> This could possibly be achieved by ordering them to give back most of their IPv4 addresses. That would take years and cost millions of dollars, just for the lawyers. New address allocations make it clear that you're really only being

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