biot

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by biot 9y ago
Wikipedia says he mined “at genesis and for 10 days afterwards”. Regardless of 10 or 139 (perhaps “genesis” includes several years of development), it doesn’t change the point.
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by biot 9y ago
At least one link still shows the outdated title. See second paragraph under “Grouping” in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/quantum-qr-expressi...
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by biot 9y ago
The part I’ve never liked is that Satoshi Nakamoto only mined for 10 days and got ~1M bitcoins. Today, if I mine for 10 days I’ll probably get 0.001 bitcoins. Even if you adjust for increased computing power, why are my hash calculations va
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by biot 9y ago
"At the end, all verbs are."
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by biot 9y ago
"Nakamoto is believed to own up to roughly one million bitcoins..." "As the sole, predominant early miner the inventor was awarded bitcoin at genesis and for 10 days afterwards." Source: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by biot 9y ago
If Bitcoin hits $1M per coin, then Satoshi Nakamoto will be the world’s first trillionaire. Not a bad return for 10 days of mining.
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by biot 9y ago
Yep... the way I see it is that the blockchain is like Linux. Lots of utility and value which will continue to grow as more people explore the applications of a technology which is free for anybody to use. However, Bitcoin as a currency is
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by biot 9y ago
Did you misunderstand the question, or do you have an interesting take on "test-driven living"?
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by biot 9y ago
How much are you personally willing to pay in tax for your refrigerator/freezer, your dishwashing machine, and your laundry machines?
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by biot 9y ago
At one point, DigitalOcean didn't scrub VM drives when reassigning to other customers unless you explicitly requested it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983097 for info). Using at-rest encryption would mean
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by biot 9y ago
That's just end-to-end with key escrow. Little different than a backdoor at that point.
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by biot 9y ago
I'm not a fan of "obligatory xkcd" references but this one is directly relevant and hits the nail on the head: https://www.xkcd.com/915/
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by biot 9y ago
Clickable links: [1] http://github.com/coreos/dex [2] https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy
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by biot 9y ago
The "creepy analytics" remark is obviously a response to "They need to buy Tesla and put Musk in charge of Apple". Apple has a very good privacy track record. Tesla is the one with creepy analytics, witnessed by how the
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by biot 9y ago
I'm thinking of explicitly non-static sites, enabling SaaS offerings. I'd like to see the ease of use and functionality for static sites extended across the full stack.
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by biot 9y ago
Anything on the roadmap for supporting server-side (api, db, etc.) in the same way?
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by biot 9y ago
I admit that my reasoning is overly simplistic but, for those who struggle with whether or not global warming is scientifically sound, focusing on the basics will often result in them arriving at similar conclusions as to how to act (eg: us
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by biot 9y ago
Can you agree that air which is less polluted is a good thing? Or that rich soil which has a variety plant growth is better than a lifeless desert? Or that clean water is better than polluted water? And so on. Much of this boils down to &qu
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by biot 9y ago
Not having an http site doesn't help in a MITM scenario as the attacker will happily serve up an http site even if you don't.
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by biot 9y ago
The computer would certainly help convey the speech and writing to the remote team.
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by biot 9y ago
Referenced in the top comment of the Gambler's Fallacy discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14805939
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by biot 9y ago
The problem isn't what an attacker can do with Teller credentials. The problem is what an attacker can do with the banking credentials you ask users for. The risk profile is similar here to a breach in an online password manager -- if
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by biot 9y ago
Leaning on incremental compile via a modern IDE is leaning on the compiler. The principle is the same, even if the implementation slightly differs.
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by biot 9y ago
A counterpoint is that "normal" people should not be doing any of that at all. While I'm 100% in favor of making things easier for developers, you have to know what you're doing otherwise the easiest interface in the wor
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by biot 9y ago
I've had this on my mind in various forms for almost a decade. It's only recently been crystallized from something abstract into much more concrete thanks largely in part to Bret Victor's talks. If you haven't already se
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by biot 9y ago
Exactly.
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by biot 9y ago
Oh, I'm not saying that I live under a nihilist viewpoint. Even if free will is little more than an illusion masked by seemingly infinite complexity, I happily buy into the illusion and (for the most part) operate as if I have unlimite
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by biot 9y ago
Eventually the last "why" you get to has the answer: "The biological machinery that comprises my body receives incoming stimuli and the laws of physics causes a cascading chain reaction which changes my internal state. Thus,
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by biot 9y ago
As a counterpoint, here are Zendesk's icons with no text: http://imgur.com/a/wzCO0 -- can you guess what those do? Of course, this is about the worst example of iconography I've ever seen so here's the s
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by biot 9y ago
If you use deep learning, the missing parts will be filled with something based on whatever you trained the model on. In other words, the training data won't be dinosaur DNA as we don't have that. At best, during training you can

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