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idonotknowwhy
9y ago
Yeah. Officially it's to avoid centralization. The idea is that anyone can mine the coins, not just rich people with ASIC mining farms. They also wanted to avoid GPUs originally, and some new altcoins (also known as shitcoins) try to d
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idonotknowwhy
9y ago
But in the end, we got scrypt ASIC miners anyway. And then a coin called Vertcoin (VTC) came along and replaced scrypt with X11, to fight ASICs
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idonotknowwhy
9y ago
I have seen my online password for Australia's biggest Telco, in plaintext on a computer screen in the shop while buying a new phone...
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idonotknowwhy
9y ago
I found a bug in wickr where I can re-read "deleted" messages. I submitted it, answered their teams questions about reproducing it. A couple of weeks later, they said they can't fix it and didn't pay me :( I got all my w
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idonotknowwhy
9y ago
Nah, let's not jeopardize the fungibility of bitcoins please. Besides, with anon-coins like zcash, what you're proposing would not be possible.
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10y ago
You need to give 0ad a try: https://play0ad.com It's very much alive and well, and the AI gets better with every release. I'll be able to beat it on the hardest difficulty, and then the next release comes out and I hav
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idonotknowwhy
10y ago
For some reason, my gf picked up 'right bumper', 'left trigger', etc from the Xbox 360 much more easily than "R1/L2" from the PS2.
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idonotknowwhy
10y ago
I don't know why they reverted to the 4 same-sized buttons on the Wii classic pro controller and the WiiU controllers. If I had to guess, I'd say that on the Wii, the wiimote + nunchuck were the primary focus and the 'pro
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10y ago
#1 The Nokia N9 (specifically the alarm clock) When trying to find a clone for Android, I found this guy's blog post which explains why it's perfect: http://www.nition.co/2014/08/the-nokia-n9-alarm-clock&
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10y ago
Amazon AWS uses .net core to provide c# as a language in AWS Lambda http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-dotnet-co... Looks pretty ready to me.