Phlarp

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721.
by Phlarp 13y ago
All completely overpowered by the skeuomorphic image background buttons.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
I hate to be the one who has to say it; but how can we be sure this isn't a test by the NSA to infiltrate the HN opinion network.
723.
by Phlarp 13y ago
Part of me wonders if the same type of strong arming will start to happen with bitcoin.
724.
by Phlarp 13y ago
Just because the specific regulations imposed by a mostly corrupt government led to failure and a subsequent bailout does not mean all regulations are inherently flawed.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
Coinbase certainly appears to be a more reputable player, but I would still like to see them embrace transparency by helping to create and use the inherent properties of the blockchain to prove (preferably continuously) that they have not b
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by Phlarp 13y ago
I'm interested to see if the communities around various other exchanges will jump up to demand more accountability from those in charge or if the chaos of the crowd will continue to prove how valuable governmental regulation can actual
727.
by Phlarp 13y ago
This feels too convenient. And maybe just a little bit ironic given the subject matter?
728.
by Phlarp 13y ago
This article is likely set to "officially" release in the March edition of Time. Just a fragment of old media leaking onto the internet.
729.
by Phlarp 13y ago
Jobs. This factory has the potential to bring a large number of jobs to whichever state it ends up getting built in.
730.
by Phlarp 13y ago
Back in the old SR days you could hire FBI agents posing as hitmen for pretty reasonable amounts, especially compared to 750kBTC
731.
by Phlarp 13y ago
You're beating the right path. Don't let anybody take wind out of your sails for any reason.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
The problem isn't individual rigs in private dwellings; it's that entire data centers are being built purely to mine crypto currencies. At that scale heat dissipation itself becomes an energy expending task.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
For something so "not controversial" that it doesn't require citations, your comment is pretty faded.
734.
by Phlarp 13y ago
What's stopping the market from bidding up the compensation of a small subset of programmers who have been coding since 12 the same way a small subset of lawyers have in corporate law and lobbying? As someone who has been coding since
735.
by Phlarp 13y ago
If the market has 10 openings and 9 engineers the companies should fight over the 9 by increasing overall compensation, soon another intelligent hard working individual will be sufficiently incentivised to join the industry workforce.
736.
by Phlarp 13y ago
How infiltrated is HackerNews? I'll wager on a scale from zero to one: 1.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
In a less idealistic implementation of this; you end up with the TSA. And to a lesser extent the modern day "professional" military. Massive jobs program hammers, begging for nails.
738.
by Phlarp 13y ago
The website, it's all about selling drugs and then mailing them across international borders. I imagine there is something considered criminal in there.
739.
by Phlarp 13y ago
I've played many games of Starcraft on a Verizon LTE connection. Many (most?) online games have 250ms of latency "built in" to even the playing field for users with ping times below 250ms. LTE latency is usually closer to 50m
740.
by Phlarp 13y ago
Speaking from personal experience; I was driven to learn a lot about crypto and information security in general because of bitcoin. As a developer I think the correct mindset towards security is important to have day in and day out; Perhaps
741.
by Phlarp 13y ago
Because of the massive (and justified) collapse of confidence in everyone building web servies for this space. It shouldn't surprise anyone that after months (years!) of BTC services absconding with millions of dollars worth of users m
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by Phlarp 13y ago
>There is probably even a team at the NSA whose sole purpose is parallel construction! There is, this was covered in the initial release regarding Parallel construction. It's always interesting to me that while American tech compani
743.
by Phlarp 13y ago
In this particular case "they" equals congress, not the administration. Obama is not legally able to hold highway funding hostage to get states to implement his doomed healthcare act; He could direct congress to do the above, but
744.
by Phlarp 13y ago
They used the interstate funding threat to get all 50 states to toe the line on 21 year drinking age.
745.
by Phlarp 13y ago
Your comments tell me more about you than they do Gentoo users.
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by Phlarp 13y ago
The problem was the service being susceptible to injection in the first place. This wasn't a mistake; just a hilariously successful penetration test!
747.
by Phlarp 13y ago
Because large groups of people can always be prejudged by which technologies they deploy!
748.
by Phlarp 13y ago
I thought the largest take away from all these leaks was that various branches of government, even within the military and intelligence communities, routinely deploy solutions that are known to be insecure?
749.
by Phlarp 13y ago
>There is an interesting cryptography problem/question which looks at the cost of mining new BitCoins in comparison to the cost of attempting to guess BitCoin wallet keys. http://directory.io/1
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by Phlarp 13y ago
It's worth noting that a very large percentage of these donations are coming from a very small number of parties. Notably over $10,000 each from https://blockchain.info/address/1F8UFEeVJGXUzR9TWfBMkyqbipjM... and

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