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by lubos 15y ago
Not really, if Greece defaults, bonds will still hold certain value (like half of the original price or so). So not really a lottery ticket. Also 98% chance seems pretty high especially when Germany and France are going to do everything to
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by lubos 15y ago
Not really. Don't think of badges & karma too literally. They are just tools to provide gratification. It wouldn't be effective for Wikipedia since only the feeling that you are contributing to the most popular encyclopedia in the world
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by lubos 15y ago
you can start here (read the comments too for more references): http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/is-amazons-mechanic...
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by lubos 15y ago
Nothing (except for badges/karma which are intangible and cannot be translated to $$). Once you start offering anything tangible to me, I start thinking about how does it translate to my hourly rate and this is where you will fail. So much
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by lubos 15y ago
you see, majority of bitcoin forum audience are traders themselves. they are in for money and they are jealous.
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by lubos 15y ago
he claims that $1,000 daily limit at MtGox is broken and you are able to withdraw as many times as you want as long as each withdrawal is under $1,000. the most interesting part I think is that he was actually able to withdraw 643.27 bitcoi
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by lubos 15y ago
you can recognize salted hashes from unsalted ones just by looking at them? open the file and search for 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99, at least 1,600 passwords in that list are unsalted. (those without $1$)
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by lubos 15y ago
open that file and search for the most famous MD5 hash - 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
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by lubos 15y ago
this is the only way to fight incompetence of some websites. those passwords are (most likely) unsalted vanilla MD5 hashes. just entered a few of them into google from that file and yes, many of them are present in rainbow tables. damn. mak
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by lubos 15y ago
there is daily limit though. you can only withdraw up to 80 BTC a day.
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by lubos 15y ago
which makes me think mtgox got very lucky. I mean the hacker could overcome $1000 limit a day (roughly 80 bitcoins) by creating thousands of bogus accounts, putting on the market bid orders at $0.01 in all accounts, drive the market to the
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by lubos 15y ago
mtgox acts like a central authority. basically all these trades were happening in mysql database within the exchange between internal accounts, there were no actual bitcoin transactions.
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by lubos 15y ago
he had only 25k stolen.
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by lubos 15y ago
unless you are US government trying to destroy alternative currency. right?
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by lubos 15y ago
If this was legitimate "dump" (by someone who obviously didn't care about the money), it was certainly the fastest crash of any known market ever.
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by lubos 15y ago
C# app for Mac? Is it through Mono framework or something else?
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by lubos 15y ago
this made me sad. anyone still got illusion that google left china because of human rights?
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by lubos 16y ago
looks like "about.me", how is yours better?
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by lubos 16y ago
I use dropbox on multiple computers. one of the computers is running jungledisk to backup whole dropbox content. The problem is both services work on top of amazon cloud but I will eventually resolve this issue too.
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by lubos 16y ago
this is true. I have more than 100 domains through them across various accounts. The service works, the only complaint I have is that to change something in DNS record, it takes at least 30 clicks to get through all their crap. However if I
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by lubos 16y ago
docraptor.com looks like a paid version of wkhtmltopdf which is free
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by lubos 16y ago
Is this the most pointless jquery plugin ever created?
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by lubos 16y ago
oh common, I thought it was freaking awesome until you ruined it for me
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by lubos 16y ago
who are these people? Marcel Broodthaers and Edward Said appeared incredibly smart in those chat logs. And Ronald Reagan? would it be politically incorrect to say that he sounded like a close-minded, conservative, ignorant prick? how this g
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by lubos 16y ago
it's interesting thought. perhaps we shouldn't take internet for granted as we do now. imagine internet would be run by telecom companies, they would charge for "overseas connections" and skype would never happen.
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by lubos 16y ago
my favorite number is 4 but I entered 7 because I wanted something higher and this was the highest prime number within that range :)
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by lubos 16y ago
this is true. definition of hacker is being always hungry for challenge. nothing to do with being cool... damn, we are freaking introverts, right?
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by lubos 16y ago
does it mean facebook doesn't want to be a walled-garden anymore? interesting...
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by lubos 16y ago
it actually works. not sure about the mechanism but well done guys. what I like most about this startup is that they provide file sharing service without actually incurring any storage costs.
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by lubos 16y ago
let me guess, you're 30 years old :)

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