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by finnw 14y ago
bcrypt is actually a cipher, like standard blowfish but with a much more expensive key expansion function. When you call the bcrypt "hash function", what it is really doing is performing this key expansion then using the resulting key to en
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by finnw 14y ago
fortran = perl. Not because of their domains (which are very different) but because nobody notices that they are evolving, and people still rant about how ugly they are (because it was true of versions that are now 20 years old.)
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by finnw 14y ago
> Am I feeding a troll? You just disproved Betteridge's law
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by finnw 14y ago
> this literally makes my blood boil Unlikely unless you're the Human Torch.
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Barcode co-inventor Norman Joseph Woodland dies aged 91(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by finnw 14y ago|0 comments
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by finnw 14y ago
> An exploding Saturn V was calculated to have the power of a small nuclear bomb So all you need is a lead-lined refrigerator
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by finnw 14y ago
Another job for siphash? https://131002.net/siphash/
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by finnw 14y ago
That's why advocates of bitcoin (and tor) encourage everyone to use them for mundane things.
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by finnw 14y ago
> Especially since you can just buy a bunch of very generic hardware with stolen money and mine pure money. I think that would require buying electricity with bitcoin. Is that possible yet?
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by finnw 14y ago
> nothing can travel faster than light That is a tautology (because the inverse is a paradox: If you prove something has travelled faster than light, that would invalidate the current definition of "faster.")
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by finnw 14y ago
What is the intended purpose of the "see quote in context" button? For me it always opens a message box saying "NOPE" but nothing else.
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Elance is down(elance.com)
1 points by finnw 14y ago|0 comments
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by finnw 14y ago
> non-plumbers don’t care about the aesthetics of plumbing Of course they do. Nobody wants crooked pipes in their house, or pipes visible where they need not be.
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by finnw 14y ago
> probably money laundering. If you want to launder money, it's extremely stupid to use a form of digital cash in which all transactions are public and any amateur data miner can have a go at tracing the transactions.
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by finnw 14y ago
If the government is forcing you to hand over your possessions (or provide services) it does not matter what currencies they can or cannot print. There is no limit to the strategies available to them... Example 1 "We're buying your house
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by finnw 14y ago
It is not necessary for the government to have your key; They can impersonate your site (using their own key) if they have the cooperation of the CA.
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by finnw 14y ago
What good would that do? The scammer would just "return" a broken phone, or a piece of roof tile, claim that was what they received, and the victim has now paid for shipping twice.
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by finnw 14y ago
I guess that's how you spot the tourists. (I carried an umbrella the one time I visited Seattle, but never needed it.)
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by finnw 14y ago
Way to make politicians even less sympathetic towards Tor. It's now a "hackers' tool" as well as a "kiddy fiddlers' tool" BTW plenty of IRC-based botnets already do something similar, though usually without proper encryption.
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by finnw 14y ago
I think a combination of the two would be a better analogy: A complete stranger knocks on your door and asks you if it's ok for FedEx to deliver an unmarked parcel of DVDs to your house, and he will collect them from you later. You do not k
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by finnw 14y ago
> I expect the difficulty to halve. Why would it? Those who have invested in dedicated mining hardware aren't going to switch it off just because the reward has halved. At least not until mining fails to pay for the electricity that
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by finnw 14y ago
> the embassy in London (which is US territory etc)? It is not. http://integrity-legal.com/legal-blog/miscellaneous/laws-and...
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by finnw 14y ago
You mean IRV does not satisfy the Condorcet criterion. IRV is not the only preferential voting system. There are others, e.g. ranked pairs[1] which do. Under ranked pairs, each pair of candidates is considered individually, largest majo
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by finnw 14y ago
Quote from your site: > If you're outside the US, we're sorting out a system for international payouts, and have to ask you to be patient while we get that put in place.
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by finnw 14y ago
You can get sued for firing someone, but I'm pretty sure you can't get sued for declining to invest in a company (that would be very scary indeed.)
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by finnw 14y ago
...but only you live in the USA
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by finnw 14y ago
> I resent the idea that an architect must be some neckbeard who spends his days conjecturing and drafting and doesn't contribute That does match my experience of working with an "architect." At a relatively small company (just under
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by finnw 14y ago
Because at the time it was installed, that was the cheapest option.
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by finnw 14y ago
If the FBI were following a trail involving my wallet, I would also want to avoid being linked to the tumbling services.
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by finnw 14y ago
Related HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762303 An early version of the joke email (suggesting they actually took about 11 years): http://lists.sucs.org/pipermail/jokes/2001-November/001176.h...

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