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U.S. Charges Alleged Chinese Government Spy with Stealing U.S. Trade Secrets(npr.org)
2 points by briatx 8y ago|0 comments
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Blockchain Is a Semantic Wasteland(medium.com)
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SpaceX has a launch Sunday night, and it may make some noise(arstechnica.com)
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by briatx 8y ago
Pedantry aside, it is the reasoning behind building their own OS distro that is relevant here: > In 2009, a report presented to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission stated that the purpose of Kylin is to make Chinese comp
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by briatx 8y ago
It's not at all hard to imagine, especially from a country who is so paranoid about backdoors from other country's operating systems that they have written their own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(opera
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Onward: How a College Dropout Built One of the Best VR Shooters (2017)(uploadvr.com)
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Bitcoin: 10 Years of Smoke and Mirrors(medium.com)
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by briatx 8y ago
I had the exact same thought. Probably a lot of ego and hubris was involved.
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by briatx 8y ago
> * Cheaper than credit cards (who take 1-3% fees). Not always. It would be more expensive than a 3% credit card charge on anything < $20 at current levels (0.62 USD). And if if the network actually gets busy, like it would if bitco
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Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds(wsj.com)
297 points by briatx 8y ago|202 comments
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by briatx 8y ago
Tesla made it easy for them. From the SEC filing: > 13. On November 5, 2013, Tesla publicly filed a Form 8-K with the Commission stating that it intended to use Musk’s Twitter account as a means of announcing material information to the
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by briatx 8y ago
Lawsuit secured.
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by briatx 8y ago
This reads to me like Bitmain wants to cash out while it can. Not a great indicator for the blockchain space.
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by briatx 8y ago
Maybe you should try watching the video I already cited, specifically this part: https://youtu.be/YxmXIgLEAIE?t=1404 You might learn something.
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by briatx 8y ago
And of course the best protocol for a real time, latency sensitive application is... using a blockchain? Bitcoin has a throughput of about 3 tx per second. Ethereum a little better at 7 tx per second. Confirmations are on the order of min
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by briatx 8y ago
But code isn't law. You would have to rewrite parts of the legal system to support blockchain tokens as representing actual ownership, and there's strong reasons why you would never want to, such as loss of private keys, forgetti
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by briatx 8y ago
Using an ergonomic split keyboard will do far more to reduce RSI than any particular keyboard layout.
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Where a Sore Throat Becomes a Death Sentence(nytimes.com)
1 points by briatx 8y ago|0 comments
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by briatx 8y ago
It doesn't sound abusive to me at all. "Criticize privately, praise publicly" is a well known management trope.
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by briatx 8y ago
I have a Freestyle Edge and I love it. Although I'm intrigued by the integrated pointer options, I don't think I'll make the switch due to the pricetag and 60% form factor.
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by briatx 8y ago
> highways in non-severe weather are already pretty much solved And yet all the automated driving driver fatalities have been on the highway, with the Mountain View crash in particular having been caused by weathered / confusing roa
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by briatx 8y ago
Generalized self driving cars seems like such a hard problem, laced with a huge amount of hard to handle edge cases and a huge amount of hard to enumerate possible scenarios. I think it will still happen, but they need to simplify the probl
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by briatx 8y ago
Lifting to optimize hypertrophy usually involves medium-heavy weights at significantly higher volumes. More along the lines of 5x12s instead of 5x5s.
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by briatx 8y ago
Yes. The lesson of 2008-9 is that TBTF and bailouts will be applied in case of any financial crisis. Not much has been done to rein in moral hazard and so institutions will continue to offload risk to the public when they can. This works a
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by briatx 8y ago
> Repeat after me: It's effectively centralised. It's effectively centralised. So is bitcoin. Only 3 or 4 companies own the majority of mining. Companies on the internet are centralized, but not the internet itself.
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by briatx 8y ago
Repeat after me: The Internet is already decentralized. The web is already decentralized. Blockchains do not have a monopoly on decentralization. People who assert this are trying to redefine the term to mean some kind of extreme P2P mode
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by briatx 8y ago
Yes, you shouldn't change the terms of a contract after the fact, so you only need to think of all possible use cases of the smart contract in advance, test for all edge cases, and then write flawless code in a minefield infested langu
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by briatx 8y ago
>Why are websockets ... not present in a 'kitchen-sink' web framework? They are. Django Channels: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2016/sep/09/channels-ad...
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by briatx 8y ago
It has been clear for a while now that Bitcoin is an inferior payment system for the consumer: * The fees are higher. * The risk to the consumer is higher. * The difficulty of use is higher. * It is accepted at an extremely low amount of ve
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by briatx 8y ago
Augur is down to < 50 users. https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/08/20/dapps-userbase-dr...

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