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by kbaker 9y ago
This page on the Yocto wiki https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/System_Update provides an overview of many of the current offerings for software update systems.
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by kbaker 9y ago
This is exactly the market for 5G cellular, btw. You will have your pick of carriers in a couple years that can provide you with this service...
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by kbaker 9y ago
Highly recommended talk - About the convergence of Li-ion batteries, electric vehicles, self-driving cars, and solar energy over the next decade; and the impact it will have on the future of the electric grid, big oil, and the car industry
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by kbaker 9y ago
The Thirty Thousand project aims to fix the problem gradually by scaling the number of representatives to the population: > As shown above, in 1804 each Representative represented approximately 40 thousand people. Today, the average popu
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by kbaker 9y ago
This is a pretty cool idea. Reminds me of the fapiao system in China for preventing tax evasion - convert the tax receipts into lottery tickets. https://www.beijing-kids.com/blog/2012/01/09/scratch-that-f
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by kbaker 9y ago
Curious, where do you see that youtube is running Django? Python, maybe, but I don't think they run Django?
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by kbaker 9y ago
Geez man, at least mine some cryptocurrency. Then your hot lunch will buy you another hot lunch down the road!
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by kbaker 9y ago
That is technically true, but the Core group has been stewarding Satoshi's original client since the genesis block. So a switch to another code base (even if it is a semi-recent code fork) is still a major event in Bitcoin's histo
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by kbaker 9y ago
https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-con...
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by kbaker 9y ago
Just for some balance, the Hong Kong Agreement (which is absent from the article) is really important in this timeline - in Feb 2016, an agreement was reached with miners and signed by a few Core devs (however, possibly under duress?) to wo
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by kbaker 9y ago
SegWit was an upgrade though, this is more like a coup. SegWit2x is basically the mining faction stealing the network away from the Core development group, forcing everyone in Bitcoin to switch software if they still want their transactions
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by kbaker 9y ago
The other question is, if LTC ever becomes as relevant as BTC is in the marketplace (BTC has 30x marketcap), could Charlie still retain enough power to continue to be the guiding hand? Gavin Andresen was that force in Bitcoin for years, as
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by kbaker 9y ago
(Offtopic) If you click on the comment, there is a [vouch] link to bring certain comments back from the dead. I find that this is a good balance to keep the well-written comments that add to the discussion and deserve a second chance.
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by kbaker 9y ago
Yeah, I don't think those are really HSMs. Just a very secure USB stick. The whole idea behind an actual HSM is that you never trust any computer it is plugged into, it is designed to be impossible to retrieve the key stored in the dev
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by kbaker 9y ago
That's true, and I agree that the openness and controlling your own data is important in a general case. Though I can pretty much guarantee these devices are not directly posting transactions on a blockchain, the cost in CPU power and
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by kbaker 9y ago
They didn't do some basic error-checking in their PDF. Should redirect to: www.thebitpost.com not bitpost.com. Maybe using NB-IoT and a GPS, it could be plausible? Not at $6 now, but maybe $20, and assuming NB-IoT networks exist where
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by kbaker 9y ago
Also note that openntpd just ignores that leap seconds exist, and just assumes the local time is 1 second wrong when it happens.
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by kbaker 9y ago
See this discussion also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15258166
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by kbaker 9y ago
Ah, I probably should have used a TL;DR tag - my original comment is just a really condensed summary of the awesome but super detailed article, which even shows and explains the Struts code in question, example requests and responses, stack
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by kbaker 9y ago
Wow, article is from March 2017. Summary: Attacker sends a malformed Content-Type header on file upload, which throws an exception due to the Content-Type being unknown. But, in the exception text is the direct, unsanitized user input from
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by kbaker 9y ago
Wow, yeah, this article should be higher up. Choice quotes, from the same guy, regarding taking down ISIS sites: Speaking with IBTimes UK, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, Matthew Prince, said that his company would not be blocking its ser
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by kbaker 9y ago
As a comparison to the counterfeits, I took some pictures of my 'real' Soluna glasses, which I ordered a couple weeks ago from Amazon (and didn't get an email.) Also they pass the manufacturer's tests for verifying real
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by kbaker 9y ago
I've seen these before! This is what they use in the HAL 9000. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c8N72t7aScY/maxresdefault.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8N72t7aScY
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by kbaker 9y ago
But if you go 100% ETH, make sure you watch Rootstock very closely http://www.rsk.co/ . Executing the Ethereum VM and smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain...
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by kbaker 9y ago
There are scrypt ASICs for Litecoin as well. Anything that can be computed, will be centralized and moved to the place with the cheapest power and the loosest regulations...
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by kbaker 9y ago
http://www.americansealantsinc.com/388-electronic-grade-sili...
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by kbaker 9y ago
I mean, you already can. I have purchased things from Newegg and Steam, used it with Expedia to book hotels and flights... You can treat Bitcoin the same way you treat USD, there are a lot of places that accept BTC directly. Phone apps make
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by kbaker 9y ago
Venture Research Inc. | Software Engineer | Plano, TX (Dallas, TX, DFW) | Onsite Only | http://www.ventureresearch.com Interested in RFID? In improving inventory and replenishment processes in hospitals, labs, and clinics? In au
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by kbaker 9y ago
I don't know... demand can drop instantly, maybe permanently, if the price crashes. Not the best long-term strategy...
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by kbaker 9y ago
Yes, if you want to sell your device you will need to go through Part 15 testing. I think the limit is in something like low-digit kHz.

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