kornbattery

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by kornbattery 6y ago
Each satellite is said to have ~20 gbit/s usable bandwidth, and they're launching tens of thousands of them. The answer should be "a lot"
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by kornbattery 6y ago
They're definitely on the theater side of security. I've got locked out of my account multiple times for no reason. Furious the second time, I sent a crafted image of an invalid ID to check if they actually even care. It seems the
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by kornbattery 6y ago
That doesen't seem like some fundamental restriction, but rather a compromise we're always willing to make. 30ms is not noticeable, so we don't try to lower it and sacrifice something else. Even the super slow ones like on ki
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by kornbattery 6y ago
The worry is that something in a link will cause the program to behave in unpredictable manner. At best it would crash, but it could do much more damage if given the chance. I don't know Golang, so I can't definitely confirm or de
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by kornbattery 6y ago
The message >NOTE: MAKE SURE THAT YOUR LINKS ENDS WITH .IMAGE_FORMAT AND DOESN'T HAVE ANY & CHARS AFTER BECAUSE THIS SYMBOL IS RESERVED BY GOLANG Makes me a bit uncomfortable with it. Shouldn't input sanitization be one of
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by kornbattery 6y ago
In addition of being quite bad in latency, a single block also cannot hold a lot of transactions. You'll always have to store the mass of transactions somewhere else, which takes away from the purpose of blockchain in the first place.
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by kornbattery 6y ago
I think the title is quite misleading. The article says >the City regulator the FSA is concerned that crypto investment firms could be overstating potential payouts or understating the risks from investing in bitcoin and products related
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by kornbattery 6y ago
If you have to trust everyones routing to be correct to have a working internet, it doesen't seem trustless
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by kornbattery 6y ago
I'd say it's bad design to have everything important in the open just because it's behind a firewall; it's got a huge blast radius when something goes wrong. Securing your services regardless of where they are in the net