Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Indeed. It seems like we ought to be able to do encryption in hardware at arbitrary speeds without a lot of cost by this point. (No?)
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Does anyone know if the data flowing across cables like these is typically encrypted? Does the infrastructure itself provide any defense against a submarine hacking into a cable and installing a device that can monitor traffic? I would hope
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I thought you were being hyperbolic about Tether tokens being worthless. Turns out you're completely right: https://tether.to/legal/ > Tethers are not money and are not monetary instruments. They are also not
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I read some of the articles on that site, such as the case study linked below. There are some interesting points and ideas there, but I'm not sure the methodology by which they argue that wealth is being destroyed is sound. https:&#x2
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I suspect that music like an orchestra requires vastly greater precision than is required from plays. For example, if the orchestra is going to become rapidly silent, or loud, in a dramatic way, then it's important that all of the inst
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Indeed. What is the incentive for any common stockholder to sign what they will be asked to sign? I could imagine someone holding back purely out of spite. Though I suppose, perhaps, if those common stockholders are employees who want to
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
According to commits in this HN thread, including the one you're replying to (which I have not independently verified), that Reddit post is factually mistaken about crucial points. There is no reason to be alarmed, to worry about the c
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
> It's like a currency in that respect, it's only worth what people think it is with no underlying fundamental. This is my biggest concern with Bitcoin right now. There doesn't seem to be any rational way to justify or exp
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Is this actually insider trading? Why? According to SEC.gov: > Illegal insider trading refers generally to buying or selling a security, in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationship of trust and confidence, while in possession of
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Essentially, my understanding is that all the shares are held by a common trusted corporation, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), or something like it. In this way, transfers in ownership are as fast as updates to their
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Based on recent statements and enforcement actions from the SEC, I would highly recommend against considering "ICOs" as a way to "raise money". ICOs for the purpose of raising money are likely to an investment contract
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
You're assuming that Patreon will issue all of those charges at once. However, they talk about that problem in the article. What if a Patreon supporter pledges/makes a subscription on Day 1, then another on Day 2, and a third on D
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
You can disable the hotspot and use your own DNS servers if you want. The ability to disable the hotspot is documented in the public FAQ (Google: "XFINITY WiFi Home Hotspots FAQs"). I've used my own DNS servers before. I have
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Glacier would cost about $30 per month to store 8 terabytes, according to the price calculator (calculator.s3.amazonaws.com). S3 infrequent access storage would cost $100 per month. These amounts seem pretty cheap for storing 8 terabytes on
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
If you want to support HTTP too, that's fine. But why redirect people who use HTTPS URLs back to the HTTP page? In any case, modern software toolchains have no trouble with HTTPS. I can interact with it from the command line pretty eas
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
You know what's ironic? Tim Draper, the first investor in Theranos, is also an investor in Tezos (according to the article).
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
What's wrong with inviting people who wish to observe the input provided by others, and subsequent discussion?
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
The charities that Gates tends to invest in don't just distribute goods to needy people. His charities try to tackle core societal problems like fighting malaria in Africa: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do&#x2
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Or draw a different conclusion from the situation: parents are clearly willing to pay a premium for the daycare to stay open later. So raise the price for that service high enough that it's worthwhile for the daycare (including hiring
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Loans absolutely can fuel wealth creation by providing the capital to make purchases that increase productivity sooner than a person could afford otherwise. Imagine that you're a farmer and you work your land by hand, or with the assis
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Maybe, maybe not. NSA hacking tools can't necessarily be kept privately within their network, because they have to be used to attack targets across the Internet -- they have to be deployed. By comparison, the data that the NSA collects
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Ex post facto laws are anathema.
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
The article is about using and optimizing VMs and containers at runtime, not at development time. Whether Docker provides development benefits compared to other approaches is orthogonal to the runtime performance concerns being discussed in
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Thanks for the details.
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
You can build tall buildings in earthquake-prone regions. Building height does not need to be limited because of earthquakes. Building codes can accommodate their likelihood. It makes the buildings more expensive, but there are standard way
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Why are computer models not forecasts? Why would it be a terrible state of affairs not to have human forecasters? More specifically, what role do humans play in digesting the output of the computer model and producing the forecast? What a
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
It unfortunately seems like video game development, and entertainment generally, are very deadline-motivated. You want to release your game at a particular time, so it doesn't coincide with another game's release, or to finish by
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Yes ... and this is a major drain on EU companies that make them less competitive than companies with "at will" employment. They can't fire low-performers easily, and they can't afford to take a gamble on people since fi
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Imagine I do the following: I contract a third party company to obtain a license of SAS, and use that license to produce a language specification. Producing a language specification surely is not reverse engineering on its own. I could equa
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Well, it's not like they need to ship the list of email addresses across the company in a truck.

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