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by badgar 14y ago
I never thought much about the effect of permanent loss on Bitcoin. Unlike cash, encrypted wallets and the block chain make theft harder than just destruction of the money. A virus which deletes wallets instead of trying to exfiltrate BTC s
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Physicists create world’s first multiverse of universes in the lab(extremetech.com)
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by badgar 14y ago
Servers weren't responding for me for about an hour, but it's back up now.
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by badgar 14y ago
So we have DDG as a better solution when you're e-mailing links to google searches. That doesn't add up to hours a week.
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by badgar 14y ago
What happened to merit?
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by badgar 14y ago
> There is no reason to pay the development tax of C for everything else. Not when you can build it in Perl, get it working, and then find the hotspots and convert those to C. Certainly not with fewer than 20 million req/day.
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by badgar 14y ago
> within reasonable latency bounds Have you used DDG? Requests take over 500-600ms regularly for me. Compare to Google's instant search and excellent latency for non-instant queries... which handle orders of magnitude more traffic.
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by badgar 14y ago
And KDC has shown he doesn't spend much on security. Definitely not enough to entice someone who is outright depressed over his current state of security.
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by badgar 14y ago
For users who truly care about their data, the review should have been done before launch . But Mega isn't a site for governments or enterprises, it's for day-to-day users and file sharers. So I can't be too upset they decided to half-ass
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by badgar 14y ago
What would the short- to medium-term impact on the poor and elderly be if all Pfizer inventories suddenly weren't available? Are you sure it's worth it?
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by badgar 14y ago
Why would this guy want to work for KDC?
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by badgar 14y ago
Nobody used 28ks in 1998 unless their phone lines didn't support 56k.
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by badgar 14y ago
> Since the blink format contains no metadata, the recipient must have the schema with which the message was written. If schema migrations must be supported, this requires prefixing each batch of messages with the (encoded) schema. This
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by badgar 14y ago
I always thought school zone laws existed not for deterrence but to provide for stronger punishments, and that the signs are there to help law-abiding citizens carrying weapons from unintentionally breaking the law.
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by badgar 14y ago
And exactly why on Earth would any company ever created publish such detailed information?
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by badgar 14y ago
Bitcoin bank developers commonly "do it wrong."
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by badgar 14y ago
Many other companies are able to implement web services without the reliability issues GitHub has experienced. As your parent poster explained, some unreliability is always tolerable, but GitHub is starting to cross that threshold. Your lis
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by badgar 14y ago
I've been annoyed by GitHub bots and enjoyed their contributions. IMO, GitHub could/should have taken this opportunity to solve a problem and (once again!) change how people code for the better through collaboration. Perhaps now that they'v
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by badgar 14y ago
It's on-topic because you're presenting yourself as an authority on Cloudflare's reliability then dropping small numbers to back it up. 150 Mbps isn't really interesting as a data point on speed/reliability either. What you've described so
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by badgar 14y ago
1 million req/day is 11 qps; a few million req/day isn't enough to knock over a Pentium III.
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by badgar 14y ago
> The problem with this site is that user accounts do not have emails attached ... as a much more effective method for making most users behave according to guidelines would be to send them a warning. Most sites have a capability where
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by badgar 14y ago
You've been slowbanned. A moderator didn't like something you said and wants you to leave HN, but didn't feel that hellbanning you was appropriate. Instead, they want you to get frustrated with the slowness and give up.