Meekro

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by Meekro 8y ago
You're right, and Electrum actually has a history of severe security bugs. I think there was one a while back where any website you visit could use JS to connect to Electrum's RPC interface and do things on your behalf.
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by Meekro 8y ago
This is actually super-clever, let me try to explain. Electrum is unique in that it's not a "real" bitcoin wallet. To save time and computer resources, it doesn't download the entire blockchain but rather connects to an
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Kim Dotcom Extradition Battle May Have Years to Run(torrentfreak.com)
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by Meekro 8y ago
There's definitely something to this. We HN readers see the occasional article about the crisis of reproducibility in science, which leads to some thoughtful discussion about the trustworthiness of the phrase "studies have shown,&
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by Meekro 8y ago
I notice your organization (reclaimtherecords.org from your profile) uses Cloudflare, which also serves Gab. Are you going to threaten to leave them, too?
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by Meekro 8y ago
Most companies have something in their ToS to the effect of "we can do whatever we want" -- that doesn't mean they're all the same. For example, Stripe and PayPal both have essentially the same ToS. But only PayPal has s
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by Meekro 8y ago
Europe should do this for their cookie law, too. Instead of every website having its own UI for it, we should force browsers to give the user some reasonable options like "accept all cookies", "reject all cookies", and &
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by Meekro 8y ago
Do you know any examples of people being fired from their jobs for criticizing the Iraq war in 2004? There are many examples of people getting fired for questioning the tenets of social justice, including some fired for relatively minor vio
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by Meekro 8y ago
It was a hard lesson for me to learn in the past: if you care wildly more than the people around you -- so much that you work late into the night while your grandmother is dying and your coworkers are pounding drinks with their counterparts
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by Meekro 8y ago
Countless companies every year hire security auditors, and get back a 100-page report in 8 point font filled with vulnerabilities, many of them marked "severe" or "critical." Forcing companies to then publicize those rep
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by Meekro 8y ago
I agree with what you're saying, but I want to nitpick your data: that site doesn't take age into account when ranking cities by gender ratio. For example, the reason El Paso, TX tops their chart is because lots of older women liv
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by Meekro 8y ago
It's a zero-sum game, and the gender ratio guarantees that the majority of those trying to follow your advice will still fail. I agree with you that adversity can lead to personal growth, but failing too many times can cause some peopl
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by Meekro 8y ago
Isn't that kind of unfair? Lots of us non-billionaires love to muse about interesting questions outside of our narrow specialties -- we do it every day here on HN. But when it's time to get some work done, we return to our special
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by Meekro 8y ago
Very true, but the risk of using them should be weighed against the risk of not using them. Don't forget that pretty much all other registrars were much more eager than Cloudflare to shut down Daily Stormer, and expose you to Zoho-
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by Meekro 8y ago
You're right that games are a market where consumers have lots of choice. If you watch the choices people make, though, you'll see that they don't care about whether a product is buggy and slow. The top game on Steam for many
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by Meekro 8y ago
I do. The government originally instituted the taxi medallion system to protect riders from predatory taxis, but it ended up granting a monopoly to the predatory taxis and locking out potential competition. The free market has worked out mu
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by Meekro 8y ago
SFMTA was busy drafting regulations because Bird first broke the rules in Santa Monica and introduced the world to this kind of scooter rental concept. If they'd asked for permission before anyone had heard of the idea of a scooter com
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by Meekro 8y ago
If I'd started a scooter company before scooter companies were a thing, went to any city and asked for permission, they would have said "wtf? no." (assuming they answered my petition at all) and that would have been the end o
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by Meekro 8y ago
I've been in situations where I'm waiting to make a tricky left turn safely while people behind me literally yell at me to go faster. Now those same people have to contend with cars that can't be intimidated into making risky
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by Meekro 8y ago
If Bitcoin is a failure, I wish some of my projects would fail like that.
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by Meekro 8y ago
Large cars are safer. The IIHS publishes a stat they call "driver deaths per million registered vehicle years." Check it out: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/on-the-road-again-... Notice a
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by Meekro 8y ago
I started my company, ArkServers.io[1], in late 2016 and built mostly in PHP. I'm familiar with Python and Ruby, and have done projects in both, but still strongly prefer PHP. I'm not sure what the standard for "good software
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by Meekro 8y ago
Clark Kent was legally adopted by citizens as an infant, and is therefore legal.
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by Meekro 8y ago
It would be great to see the Supreme Court take up one of the more egregious cases involving huge cash seizures from people with no criminal record, and where there is no evidence that a crime took place. Unfortunately, most of those are ev
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by Meekro 8y ago
If you run a SaaS company, you're affected too. You probably live in California (which doesn't consider SaaS sales-taxable), but other states do[1] so you'll have to start collecting taxes. [1] https://blog.taxjar.
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by Meekro 8y ago
It sounds like he acquired a business that wasn't actually sending out the products that they were charging customers for. What surprises me is that he only discovered this after the chargebacks started coming in. If my company stopped
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by Meekro 8y ago
I started my first business while I was in college, and kept it going on the side while working the real job. After a year at the real job, I decided to leave and focus on the business. What happened to your company from college-- did you s
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by Meekro 8y ago
I left my "real job" for entrepreneurship about 8 years ago (at age 23) and haven't looked back. I've run several small companies since then, with a game server host[1] being the most recent. I'm pretty happy with h
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by Meekro 8y ago
"We economists may not know much, but we know one thing very well, and that's how to create shortages and surpluses. Just tell us which you want! If you want a shortage, all we have to do is to set a price that's below the ma
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by Meekro 8y ago
A massive bitcoin mining virus wouldn't help. Let's say there are 2 billion PCs in the world, as this random site estimates[1]. Let's say each of them has a high-end graphics card.. say, a GTX 1060 that can do 20 MH/s. L

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