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by kgo 15y ago
FAIL #1: If you like bitcoin, then you must think the gold standard was a good idea. Complete and total straw man if there ever was one. FAIL #3: The whole technological basis is flawed. Followed shortly by: "First of all, I admit, I don't
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by kgo 15y ago
Yeah, if 'regular use' is more than once a week for a year, that's a lot of LSD. Psychosis might not be the causal element there, a shitload of lsd might be the causal element.
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by kgo 15y ago
Thank you for pointing out the history! The names inject, collect, select, and reject drive me crazy for some reason. Maybe it's because they rhyme. But every time I saw them, I wondered why Matz made these up instead of using map/filter
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by kgo 15y ago
Hashing your passphrase a million times just most other decryption keys.
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by kgo 15y ago
Too bad Iranians aren't Arabs.
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by kgo 15y ago
That was just one simple example to illustrate X goofiness. I wasn't complaining about updating in particular, I was complaining about the UI when I perform a common operation. I just want reliable feedback to say that my operation is runn
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by kgo 15y ago
I personally find X to really annoying due to it's architecture, no matter how pretty Gnome and KDE get. Just one example that happens all the time for me on linux. 1. Taskbar yells that I have updates. 2. I click the notification icon. 3
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by kgo 15y ago
You probably want to ditch the official client join a mining pool to get anything, but sadly without a GPU you won't get much. I just started goofing around this weekend and earned like 0.07 BTC from three computers over at http://btcmine
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by kgo 15y ago
FWIW, unlike Pogs or Beanie Babies or Cabbage Patch Kids, does have built-in scarcity. If they do become some crazy fad, the manufacturer can't ramp up production which ultimately only servers to devalue all BitCoins. But yeah, for now I'd
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by kgo 15y ago
By "they", I meant the nodes. Apologies for anthropomorphizing. As dekz clarified, it's more of a self-regulating system than actually releasing coins at exactly 6:10:00.00, 6:20:00.00, etc. I was just giving the simple explanation.
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by kgo 15y ago
They only release the next 50 coins every ten minutes so that's constant. And then they adjust the work factor based on recent history so it's always reasonably hard.
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by kgo 15y ago
Which TLD? All of them. Or at least several TLDs and registrars that all have different legal jurisdictions. (online-hunting.ly, online-hunting.ch, online-hunting.cn) Where would I host it? Everywhere. Or at least in multiple physical
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by kgo 15y ago
I think corporations are just as worried about employee X willingly giving account info to employee Y, as they are about a malicious attack. Of course the real fix for both scenarios is two-factor authentication. Not something that practic
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by kgo 15y ago
Lower than a totally random password. Higher than a readable password without leetspeak.
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by kgo 15y ago
He's talking about founders, not employees. Made up numbers, but say you get 500,000 from investors. And the going rate for engineers is 100,000. Two founders can take a salary and hire two, maybe three, employees. If they can afford not
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by kgo 15y ago
I don't think that teachers are telling students recursion is hard. I think that through observations, good teachers who have taught for many years have seen that many, many students will just never get recursion. And that's the basis of
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by kgo 15y ago
Why are you even interviewing if you can't afford to hire someone who asks for a reasonable salary comparable to your existing developers?
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by kgo 16y ago
I hate to pull a [CITATION NEEDED] but FedEx packages go through customs too. On what basis are they still allowed to seize drugs, money, counterfeit goods, weapons, but not an (alleged) terrorist's computer and cellphones? EDIT: I used t
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by kgo 16y ago
Or at least submit it as an entirely different AskHN...
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by kgo 16y ago
Can you provide reasons why you think this is a good idea? How it would make your life easier? Or what is broken with the current protocols? I think a stronger argument would be for moving from MIME to XML, I can envision some advantages
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by kgo 16y ago
Yep. I used to work for big oil, and they would have 100-200 million dollar projects. Not software projects, actually building plants. Similar to software development, these were basically prototypes. Yes a lot of the technology was know
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by kgo 16y ago
There's one problem that's similar to reddit. Although there are guidelines (or reddiquite) you need to go out of your way to find them. Sure, clicking a link isn't that tough, but it's not automatic either. I wonder what would happen the
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by kgo 16y ago
The GNU Privacy Handbook does a pretty good job of blending both the how and why of everything. http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html The biggest thing to worry about is that you only want the private key on systems you trust. If you p
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by kgo 16y ago
Well if you actually chose not to work at Google or Facebook, there were obviously other motivating factors than a decent salary. None of these other factors are listed here. So it's impossible to say. Of course many people here will imme
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by kgo 16y ago
Well I guess roaming charges are getting a bit passe these days, but I could still see someone arguing they were never in Niagara Falls, or that they were on the American Side (normal rate) and not the Canadian Side (crazy rate.) But in pri
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by kgo 16y ago
You can get a pay-go phone, sometimes with cheaper unlimited rates than AT&T and Verizon, although they won't subsidize the purchase of a nice smart phone. (And I'm not too happy with the data transfer speed on Boost.) This obviously w
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by kgo 16y ago
I imagine it would make sense to keep records for a few billing cycles. It wouldn't be unreasonable to have to deal with a customer dispute 3-6 months in the future. But I imagine it's also just plain easier to truncate the logs every six
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by kgo 16y ago
That article tends to re-enforce my line of thinking, that Surgeon General's advice of less-fat, more-carbs, and more exercise isn't cargo cult science. Some of the conclusions from that article: + [H]ealth experts have warned that dietary
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by kgo 16y ago
I'm asking this sincerely, but don't people from traditionally healthy Asian countries eat a hell of a lot of rice? That's my first thought every time someone mentions how bad carbs are. But I have trouble finding any non-antecdotal data.
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by kgo 16y ago
This open source: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Open_source_i... Not this open source: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Open_source

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