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by lololomg 11y ago
> I am sure promoting dog ownership over cats is frowned upon by /r/cats readers, too You are wrong, nobody on /r/cats have gotten their comment removed or been banned for talking about dogs or any other pet on /
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by lololomg 11y ago
Not true at all. I'm not sure where people get this idea but if you read Satoshi's original paper you'll see that this is just false.
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by lololomg 11y ago
The miners get the Block Reward without including transactions but they earn extra Transaction Fees for each fee-bearing transaction they include in the block too.
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by lololomg 11y ago
Yea this is really not a big problem. Currently people are using Bitcoin to move around amounts as small as a tiny fraction of a cent. That's just a waste of blockchain space. We all know there needs to be a transaction fee to stop the
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by lololomg 11y ago
They can't outsource ALL of their brain but the higher-level thinking is not that sensitive to a bit of latency.
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by lololomg 11y ago
"In the near future - corporate networks reach out to the stars. Electrons and light flow throughout the universe. The advance of computerisation, however, has not yet wiped out nations and ethnic groups."
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by lololomg 11y ago
... and they've shut down. How predictable.
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by lololomg 11y ago
On my X Box I don't care if the image resolution is low cause it doesn't matter that much for games or video. But for work I need lots of pixels. It's going to be a few years before that will fit in VR goggles.
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by lololomg 11y ago
Memtest86 writes patterns to memory and reads them back almost immediately. To do the test properly you need to write a known pattern to memory, wait 24 hours, and THEN read it all back and check for flipped bits. If you do not have ECC in
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by lololomg 11y ago
> It's not in anything that's been leaked This is just false. It's literally the main reason Snowden went public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
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by lololomg 11y ago
Apple is not required by any country to have a backdoor and I am not aware of any agreement from Apple to install such a back door for anyone
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by lololomg 11y ago
The Secure Enclave enforces time delays between attempts.
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by lololomg 11y ago
The SE doesn't erase-on-update, but you can't update it without unlocking the phone first.
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by lololomg 11y ago
You can't update the firmware on the SE without unlocking the device first.
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by lololomg 11y ago
You need to unlock the phone before you can update the firmware on the secure enclave.
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by lololomg 11y ago
Touch ID can't be used if - The phone was turned rebooted - It's been more than 48 hours since the last time the passcode was entered - The user didn't set up a touch ID fingerprint
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by lololomg 11y ago
If the phone is rebooted or if 48 hours have passed since the last passcode was entered, the touch ID can't be used to unlock the phone.
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by lololomg 11y ago
Solar panels are only about 20% efficient though, you're still losing out.
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by lololomg 11y ago
> There are teams of pickers who come around just before council pickups and take away anything of value That's illegal too, someone was recently prosecuted for this. Councils own anything put out for council cleanup. They make mone
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by lololomg 11y ago
You're not gonna quit, you're just going to take a break. Pretty soon you'll be ready to go again. Just take a breather.
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by lololomg 11y ago
You reminded me of another niche industry I discovered recently: If a terminally ill person has a life insurance policy, they may want to use some of that money before they die. So there are companies that will purchase your life insurance
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by lololomg 11y ago
That averages out over the timespan involved in gravitational wave detection. The waves detected by LIGO are on the order of 100 Hz while molecular vibrations are many orders of magnitude higher.
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by lololomg 11y ago
Some people are just never happy about anything
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by lololomg 11y ago
I don't like showering with a watch because you end up with that spot on your wrist that just won't dry when you towel down.
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by lololomg 11y ago
Obviously I don't really know the answer but maybe this is partly due to the 'no such thing as bad publicity' phenomenon.
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by lololomg 11y ago
If you sell a device that monitors heart rates, and that device doesn't properly monitor heart rates... then you need to fix it or stop making it. I don't see why that is unfair? If I buy a desk lamp and it doesn't work relia
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by lololomg 11y ago
If you buy a heart-rate monitoring device to monitor your heart rate, and it fails to properly monitor your heart rate... why does it matter how you use that data?
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by lololomg 11y ago
Yes, there are numerous studies.
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by lololomg 11y ago
The most obvious hypothesis to me is that the (missing) inside parts of the brain is much less important than the (remaining) outer structures
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by lololomg 11y ago
Nothing you could possibly find on the moon would be worth the cost of retrieving it from there. Even if there was bars of pure gold just lying on the moon it would be more expensive than just mining it on earth.

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