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by deftnerd 9y ago
I think it's very relevant. The article points out that store employees have tried to bring it up to the new Amazon Management team who was unaware of the problem and that everything looks good on paper, but the view "from the tre
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I can't take any criticisms against Bitcoin Cash seriously when the authors knowingly refer to it as BCash. It's not just a shortening of the name, it's part of a concerted effort by detractors to distance the chain from the
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Firefox keeps acting like they desperately need money, but there are clear paths to monetization with a freemium model. The simplest method is to limit the browser sync capabilities (bookmarks, passwords, settings, etc) and charge a small f
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I agree. If they're going to be doing this, why not also use the Cloudflare apps framework to insert a warning overlay on the page content saying that the domain has been reported for phishing. If that's too slippery slope, then s
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I don't think the NSA is/was the threat. If there is ever a singularity moment and an AI comes to emerge, it'll need funds to build it's power. What better way than finding the identity of Satoshi and getting his private
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by deftnerd 9y ago
This statement confuses me since Blockstream has positioned itself to be the central authority. They seem to be attempting to remove power from users, businesses, and miners in order to centralize and consolidate power so they are the only
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by deftnerd 9y ago
If you take the oral version (as opposed to the patch version) you can get it from India (where the patents have expired). A site I've used in the past that's reliable is AllDayChemist. Search for Selegiline and you can get it for
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Excellent points that most people overlook. As impractical as it seems at first glance, the best post-apocalypse vehicles (barring an EMP scenario) would be electric since scavenged solar panels could provide the energy source for generatio
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by deftnerd 9y ago
My main workstation is powerful enough to play Steam games, and a Steam Link would allow me to stream them to my living room TV. Where that fails is when I have work to do on my desktop and my kids want to play games. To solve that, I had t
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Synergy, the app that allows a computer to share its mouse and keyboard over the network to other computers, did a more aggressive move a few years ago. It's still technically GPL because you can compile it yourself, but they charge $2
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Problem with that is that most airlines like to keep their planes in use as much as possible. With a airplane configured for just sleeping it's only useful for a third of the day. There are also problems with getting the FAA to approve
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I'm certainly not a fan of nazis or "white power" groups, but this can easily turn into the kind of behavior that turns into hunts for communists or socialists. Most of the HN crowd, including myself, are big fans of a lot of
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Giving away hardware that hackers would love to play with is very different from giving away CD's that can only be alternatively used as drink coasters and for art projects. Remember CueCat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by deftnerd 9y ago
The only way the Steam model would work for media is if content owners would agree that if someone on the platform purchased a digital copy of something that the ownership couldn't be rescinded. Nobody will purchase, for instance, all
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by deftnerd 9y ago
According to that blog entry, it just makes that data hidden on the front-end and from the API, but it still resides on your servers. Has that policy changed? Soft-deletes, which the blog indicates that you are doing, is very different from
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Maybe Twillio isn't big enough by themselves, but if you add in Google Voice, Plivo, all the internet VoIP providers, and all the Cable Company VoIP services, you are big enough. Is there a VoIP trade association they are all members o
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Not just preserve our history, but spread it. Assuming these neigh-invulnerable wonders can survive the g-forces, we could mass-manufacture containers to store tardigrades and launch them blindly into space with railguns. The containers wou
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by deftnerd 9y ago
> The company has told me they do not have the budget to hire me full-time or extend my internship Were you told this AFTER these apparently unfounded accusations?
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Money & being the sole income earner in the house (wife and 3 kids) and doing it by freelancing. Like most Americans, we live payment-by-payment. The other problem I have is anxiety, procrastination, and similar issues. If you're a
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by deftnerd 9y ago
The majority of Bitcoin mining is located in just a few geographic regions that happen to have inexpensive power. China, The Republic of Georgia (special backroom deal with the president and BitFury), North-East Canada, and parts of North-W
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I'm more interested in the nuances of tunneling, like how they'll handle water seepage and flooding. Flooding is actually a huge problem with climate change causing larger and more frequent major weather events. After Hurricane Sa
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by deftnerd 9y ago
That isn't the IP address of the HackerNews server, that's a Cloudflare IP address. Cloudflare is a forwarding proxy service that helps HN manage large loads or DDoS attacks while protecting the origin server IP address from disco
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by deftnerd 9y ago
Are you the same as "twowo" who posted this, but using a different username?
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by deftnerd 9y ago
The terminology made me think that they just had a VHF receiver up there and were listening to AIS traffic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_syste... It's similar to the ADS-B systems that air
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I worry what this means for the future of deep-learning based audio analysis tools to automatically generate subtitles (for the hard of hearing). Does this mean that YouTube's audio-recognition powered automatic subtitles are illegal i
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by deftnerd 9y ago
I would be interested in something that made it so when I donated, an additional plugin was created in the download that outputted my support of caddy in the header or as some kind of call to be included in web pages. Something similar to h
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by deftnerd 10y ago
* Location: Ithaca, NY * Remote: Yes * Willing to relocate: No * Technologies: Bitcoin/Ethereum, Linux administration, Javascript, Laravel, PHP, MySQL, VueJs * Resume/CV: resumonk.com/deftnerd & linkedin.com/in/
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Thanks for keeping it for free. I use mailtrap.io and haven't ever hit their limits, but having it as a free service to the community is appreciated.
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Yes! the little-known 710-NCS-GETS phone number. It's the only phone number in the 710 area code. If you dial that number and then enter in your special 12 digit security code, you can make an outbound call to any other number. All the
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Laser light has very little mass but it does have some. The problem is the immense amounts of energy created to generate the laser beam. The idea behind using a laser to push a probe is interesting because the power generation required can

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