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by jpatokal 9y ago
Nothing, if it's a small app? https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usage-limits#... Disclaimer: I work at GCP.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Korea has tight exchange controls and it's very difficult to register on the local exchanges unless you're a local resident. This blog post has more detail: https://medium.com/cryptonight/investigating-the-gr
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Err, Ethereum hit an all-time high yesterday (~$1250) and at time of writing is up for the day: https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/ethereum/usd Don't get me wrong, I'm also expecting the bubb
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by jpatokal 9y ago
If you invest in something called "SpankCoin", I think getting occasionally spooked by titles is going to be the least of your worries...
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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350 can both seat up to ~350 passengers, which is not hugely different from the 350-450 on a longhaul 747, but is much more efficient since they're twin-engine instead of quad. (And yes, you c
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Answering your questions about “Meltdown” and “Spectre”(blog.google)
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Seems like a lot of work to get a supposed 10% agent efficiency gain, and the article is silent on whether this translates to improved customer satisfaction. If anything, it seems like this would further exacerbate the tendency of high-vol
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Known not to be the case if they actually worked in real life, that is. We're still waiting for a solid demonstration of quantum supremacy to prove that though.
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And I would expect the Feds to target banks first, particularly the one showcased in the NYT like this: A division of the credit union, Safe Harbor Private Banking, provides checking accounts expressly for the marijuana industry, in clear
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The title is focused on the author's point is that it's a viable career path even for people who didn't think it would be one, including herself.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
If you're curious about the mentioned path of happy accidents, you can glean most of it from the author's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-adams-644b4451/ TL;DR: Arts degree with a CS minor (?)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The mitigations don't involve disabling speculative execution entirely, only adding safeguards to how it's done.
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There are 3 attacks, two of which AMD claims to be immune/virtually immune to, and one which they do admit to being applicable.
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No. This was all scheduled to be released on January 9th, but the release was sped up after people started connecting dots. We are posting before an originally coordinated disclosure date of January 9, 2018 because of existing public repo
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Sure, but sharing right of way with cars is slow, dangerous and generally avoided whenever feasible.
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Classic trams and modern light rail are different beasts. Trams were popular worldwide back in the days where automobiles were far too expensive for most people and buses hadn't taken off yet, and since they were the only practical m
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Putin considers ‘cryptorouble’ as Moscow seeks to evade sanctions(ft.com)
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Written in 1939 by an author who died 26 years ago, yet still not in the public domain, so you need to fork over $11 if you want to actually read the damn letters. Thank you, Sonny Bono and Disney.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
We're using different definitions of "reputation" here. Coinbase has a good reputation in that, unlike Mt Gox, it appears to be run by adults and is highly unlikely to get massively pwned or do a runner with your money overn
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The previous poster may be confused by the fact that App Engine Flex does not have a free tier. For the record, here are the Standard Edition free tier quotas: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usag
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by jpatokal 9y ago
If those content reviewers are subcontracted out to vendors in the Philippines or India, they'll be earning a lot less than $50k/year. The average call center agent in Manila earns under US$4k.
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Actually, the friendly article doesn't even mention radiation: their designs are built around internal pressure, thermal differences and micrometeorite protection.
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Qantas will be retiring all its 747s in the next few years as their replacements, a mix of A380s and 787s, come in.
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The difference between heavy and super heavy spacing is only 30-60 seconds (depending on airport), which is a lot less than an additional arrival/departure slot (which come in pairs for obvious reasons).
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+1, there's really no good reason for insisting on a private key instead of just a signed message. If you do indulge, you'll want to move your BTC balance into another wallet, making the old one (and its keys) worthless, before yo
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Some time ago, I wrote a little parable about airdrops and how bizarre they are in real world terms: https://gyrovague.com/2017/08/09/the-rich-get-richer-loonie-...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
You can find basically all of that on eBay. The trust problem remains though.
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The initial assessment is quite accurate, since the mobile phone hardware market is brutal . The list of companies that were once great but stumbled and were unable to recover is lengthy: Motorola, Palm, Blackberry, Nokia, HTC...
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Online retail in China has a 25% share of all sales, around 2.5x higher than the US, and still growing rapidly, and this in a country with 3x the population of the US.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
This article seems to be insinuating pretty hard that ignoring sugar is an active conspiracy between Nestle and Malaysian nutritionists, but it seems more likely that they're just behind the curve. Transitioning the identity of the Gre

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