codexon

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by codexon 9y ago
Filling cheap/temp jobs doesn't mean demand isn't weak. If companies were truly desperate for people they would offer higher prices or even pay to train people to their standards. I remember in the 90s, someone telling me tha
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by codexon 9y ago
The problem is, the plebians would not be able to get a job to pay for the goods/services no matter how cheap they may become. If you had robots making everything you could possibly want, why would you bother selling any of it to peopl
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by codexon 9y ago
Ripple can hardly be called an altcoin. The currency was all premined and seems to only be used by some banks as an alternative to ACH. You need to choose which nodes to trust, which can be a small set of easily compromised nodes. So once a
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by codexon 9y ago
> Once many of these channels are established you can start to establish a connection. For instance if I have 12 bitcoins in my own wallet I might keep ~1 BTC locked up to a connection to coinbase. This is old news and all you are doing
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by codexon 9y ago
What you say doesn't really disprove my point. Yes you can change to a different algorithm. But the underlying principal is the same. You require participants to spend X time in a problem with no shortcuts. Changing the problem does no
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by codexon 9y ago
> For a merchant a CC transaction can take up to 30 days. A customer can initiate a charge back any time between when they txed and when they pay their bill. Customers don't care how long a transaction takes for the merchant. Have y
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by codexon 9y ago
All crypto will eventually be broken. SHA-1 seemed bulletproof a few years ago, and now people are trying to phase it out. If it becomes worth it to break bitcoin, these vulnerabilities will be used, discovered faster, and likely won't
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by codexon 9y ago
"rapid clearing" as well. Takes a while to wait for the recommended number of confirms.
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by codexon 10y ago
I'm trying to think about how one can profit from this bubble popping through the stock market but I just don't see it really popping. You can't really default on student loans and the government can garnish your wages.
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by codexon 10y ago
> Like for some reason AI won't reduce construction costs to near 0. Ok and how will you pay the guy who owns the lumber if you have nothing he wants? And the guy who owns the construction bots? And the owner of the land?
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by codexon 10y ago
What neutron boy said. If you don't wait 5-6 confirmations, it could be a fake transaction. And I can spend money I get from Paypal as soon as I get it. I don't have to wait 1 hour.
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by codexon 10y ago
Regarding bitcoin, the main problem is that a lot of people have large amounts of bitcoin horded from early days and they tend to be biased and start spamming forums about how great it is as it will make them very rich if the adoption incre
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by codexon 10y ago
As someone who has looked into deploying a DNS based CDN, I have frequently found ISPs ignoring TTL. Routers handle bgp updates much faster. Anycast routing is much more superior to geolocation which gives a completely incorrect location as
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by codexon 10y ago
I never said you can't use dns on top of anycast.
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by codexon 10y ago
If anycast TCP didn't work, then cloudflare wouldn't exist. DNS is not sufficient. It takes forever to handle downtime because ISPs don't respect TTL.
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by codexon 10y ago
Building your own CDN these days requires you to own a large ip block and ASN, and colo at several locations so the DC will actually bother routing to you, in order to deploy anycast. Certainly too expensive for a small deployment which is
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by codexon 10y ago
The solution is really simple, don't host images through a CDN. Though it might not be as fast, it will be way cheaper. I'm really suprised they didn't look at all the stories of people before trying to start image or video h
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by codexon 10y ago
It doesn't amaze me at all. Before tooling was very poor with no autocomplete so using a typed language meant you had to type maybe 20% more (and cluttering the code) on top of having to add everything to a struct in exchange for catch
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by codexon 10y ago
I find that the people that are best at research (and thus most likely to get tenure) are usually very poor teachers. Usually they are so good at their subject that they tend to skip steps in their explanations and forget how difficult a ce
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by codexon 10y ago
Saying there are 2 million apps for iOS doesn't mean it is popular for app buyers. It just means it is popular for app developers.
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by codexon 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_gu... > I posted it on Reddit, Digg, and a couple forums that I frequent at the same time. Imgur was never a reddit exclusive thing. It was j
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by codexon 10y ago
I have used universal syntax highlighting and when it highlights stuff that shouldn't be highlighted, it is very annoying and confusing.
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by codexon 10y ago
Not if you use a language where it isn't a keyword.
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by codexon 10y ago
It looks like it highlights random keywords like wchar_t. Hardly for "any programming language".
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by codexon 10y ago
I don't understand, what other evidence do you need that these websites are being used for ddos attacks? Cloudflare is not an official government entity. As a business you have the right to refuse service to anyone. Refusing these webs
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by codexon 10y ago
Well he probably won't. But just one person avoiding it isn't going to make a difference. You have to let everyone else know it is a bad idea.
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by codexon 11y ago
The ability to appear as offline or at least away. It is a feature present in almost every modern chat application.
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by codexon 11y ago
I would say Discord is missing 2 crucial features that prevent it from replacing old software like IRC for large chat communities. 1) offline mode 2) different names for each server
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by codexon 11y ago
Bitbucket is really far behind. You can't search the code inside a repository, and the back and forward buttons on the browser don't even work correctly. Can't view a single file history either and it is probably missing a lo
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by codexon 11y ago
guarentee != guarentee or your money back otherwise why would people bother stating the "or your money back" part?

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