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by deftnerd 10y ago
This seems to be a better link anyway: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-judge-approved-irs-coinbase-...
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When you go to add your payment card, there is a barely noticeable dropdown box to select your plan, which defaults to the medium tier plan. I just wanted to add the card and then go to another page to sign up for the very small $4 a month
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Wind makes sense in a big way too. If you have a building that's heated on the inside, and the air is still outside, it won't lose as much heat to the environment as it would if the wind was blowing at 30mph. Much like how solar i
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Indeed it can! "rapid deglaciation promotes earthquakes ... rebound stress that is available to trigger earthquakes today is of the order of 1 MPa. This stress level is not large enough to rupture intact rocks but is large enough to re
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Time for extrapolation, brain storming, and irrational views of the future. I remember some years ago reading that many of those social media quizes like "Which [random TV show] character are you" or "if you were a color, wha
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Sleeping on your stomach often helps problems with sleep apnea, which is often something that isn't something patients know they have. If you stop breathing in your sleep, it can make your body enter a "flight or fight" state
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My favorite "SciFi-Like" power storage concept is a PowerLoop [1] Someone could take the old Superconducting Supercollider tunnel in Texas, put in the theoretical PowerLoop infrastructure for about $500m and then it would be able
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One useful tactic that I use to give something "the smell test" is to reverse the targets. There have been cases where police acted improperly or illegally, so if this company was using cellphone data and aggregated social media d
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Most IoT devices wouldn't produce any significant revenues from Bitcoin Mining because they don't have anywhere near the computational power of dedicated Bitcoin mining devices. A DVR might have a chance to make an impact if it ha
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I personally think it makes sense for SpaceX to offer to take over Tiangong I, the Chinese space station that's going to be deorbited soon. It's older and not suitable for safe habitation anymore. If SpaceX could use their launch
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I assume a group within the city unilaterally decided to confiscate and destroy the tiny houses. They seem to think that if you make being homeless more uncomfortable, then the homeless people will just eventually give up "slacking&quo
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Several other people have commented on their solutions, but my favorite solution is tvmaze.com/calendar It's easy to create an account and mark your favorite shows so you get a custom calendar, or you can view a calendar with the
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I was in prison when I had just turned 18, back in the late 90's. Inmates just made their own weights using a few layers of trash bags filled with water. Prisons are full of very clever hacks borne by necessity.
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by deftnerd 10y ago
It's gotten to the point where I only feel totally comfortable using machines I've hardened myself. My hardened laptop is an older Thinkpad laptop with LibreBoot to replace the BIOS, microphone and speakers and camera disconnected
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I'm not sure about computational, but their optics and the part of the brain that processes it is well used to low light conditions and navigating in space where there isn't just an X and Y axis, but also a Z axis. Octopus are fam
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I've seen multiple databases that have the results of asking the user to enter the "last 4 of your SSN" If you have those last 4 digits, and you can guess the first 5 digits with nearly 50% accuracy, then you have a very good
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To be fair, to a lot of prisoners, 10k wouldn't result them in being richer than regular people when they get out because they'll immediately have to spend thousands on renting a place, getting a used car, buying some furniture, e
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by deftnerd 10y ago
You're correct in both regards. As for the first point, that was just an auto correct mistake. My apologies. On the second point, you're correct that my theories are entirely unsubstantiated. I'm just trying to guess why Lino
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My theory is either a ruthless competitor has been trying to destroy linode for years, this is a distraction to cover a different attack on them, or at some point in the past someone attacked and blackmailed them and Linode paid to make it
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When you use the phrase "distinct lens flare", it actually makes me wonder if the lens flare is truely distinct in the manner that each telescope has a different lens flare "signature". I wonder if it possible to identif
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Cloudflare gets a lot of hate for the core concept of their business model, but I still just don't see it as nefarious or even weak in terms of security if you set it up correctly. I always configure my Nginx instances to only respond
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I recently came back from a year in Puerto Rico with a similar situation. The utility company didn't do proper maintenance and the electrical system uptime was about 93% every month. With the grid mostly being up, but not being reliabl
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Why do you place solar with peak-load technologies like gas? The point of peak load plants, and why they charge a premium, is that they can ramp up output when there is sudden demand. Solar does not have that ability, just like coal and win
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SecurityHeaders.io has been doing this well for years, and without pretending to be more than header analysis.
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For eggs right out of the chicken, that is correct. However, in the US almost all eggs sold commercially have been washed with a detergent solution to clean them and make them more uniform and appealing. This washing process removes a natur
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Personally, I use MailGun. They have a generous free tier (10,000 messages a month) that I've never exceeded for my personal use.
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Receiving email is easy. Sending it is much harder. One of the things that is the most frustrating is that if you end up on a blacklist, or a large provider decides independently not to trust you, it's often completely silent when it b
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by deftnerd 10y ago
How is the original Ethereum blockchain a monstrosity compared to the forked version that was forked to protect failed investments?
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It might have an earth-like planet in terms of orbit and composition, but I highly doubt that it would have life on it. Proxima Centauri is a flare-type star, meaning that it it unpredictably brightens across its entire spectrum from infrar
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If proper due diligence is expensive, let the merchant pay the fee for it.

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