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by martinko 11y ago
Yeah, the compression is visible. In my experience, it looks a bit worse than blu ray at full hd.
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by martinko 11y ago
That makes no sense, unless you are looking at your tv thru a camera and 'zooming in'
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by martinko 11y ago
Netflix, Youtube.
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by martinko 11y ago
You're also less hungry when you restrict carbs (bread, pasta, sweets, etc.).
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by martinko 11y ago
> Usually after finishing the bowl he jumps up from his chair and screams "I LOVE IT!!!" Cocaine has a similar effect on me, so its probably healthy, since I love it.
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by martinko 11y ago
I have other people in my phone contacts that Ive never communicated with on facebook and I have never been suggested to be friends with them. So Im doubtful.
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by martinko 11y ago
> Does anyone know whether Facebook also tracks you into and out of WhatsApp, by the way? It most certainly does. I have contacts in WhatsApp that I have no other contact with (nor do they with me, dont know my name etc.), yet after the
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by martinko 12y ago
Do you have a blog by any chance?
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by martinko 12y ago
>you'd need a method that can compress a random file with at least 2% ($100/5000) probability No, you'd need to be able to create a custom algo for that file with that probability. Quite a difference.
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by martinko 12y ago
> to be fair probably wouldn't go down well anywhere Humor me, in which non-middle eastern country would one go to jail for this?
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by martinko 12y ago
'Do you have anything to hide?'
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by martinko 12y ago
If we're lucky, this might make it into node by 2020!
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by martinko 12y ago
> Very bad idea to sign everything that comes your way, kind of like `eval` on text input. Nowhere did he suggest this.
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by martinko 12y ago
So what is current the most viable alternative?
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by martinko 12y ago
A pretty arbitrary distinction, if you ask me.
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by martinko 12y ago
Shouldnt the url have used httpS:// ?
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by martinko 12y ago
Hm, now the link in the article (www.discoverpresentsonline.com/david-brain/report.html) just redirects to the real discover magazine.
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by martinko 12y ago
True, but this is not his trial.
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by martinko 12y ago
What is a sha256 SUM?
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by martinko 12y ago
Consensus about the timeline and validity of transactions. What does what you said have to do with anything?
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by martinko 12y ago
The merge between the current 0.10.35 branch and the 0.12 branch is almost done ( https://github.com/joyent/node/milestones/0.11.15 ), we can expect version 0.11.15 within then next few days. 0.11.15 will be a
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by martinko 12y ago
Those are all (vast majority) client funds. 5 million is coming out of their pocket.
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by martinko 12y ago
It is probably much higher. If we take a conservative estimate of 10k btc traded per day, on average, and a trade commission of 0.008% (0.004 two ways), we get to $5.6m in little over half a year. Now yes, the have some operational costs et
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by martinko 12y ago
It can be just a popular service (hence the high number of transactions) with a standard wallet implementation, ie. one transaction per withdrawal. Yes this is inefficient, but I dont see a reason why to automatically assume that this is an
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by martinko 12y ago
>Otherwise they have no idea what the surcharge ought to be. Nonsense. The surcharge is the difference between the spot rate and the futures rate with which they hedge. They can easily predict (to a reasonable degree) the volume they nee
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by martinko 12y ago
>cracking a SHA256 hash function given to them dependent on the rate at which mining is currently being done. The only known method to accomplish this is to randomly test different prime number pairs in brute force fashion. Bruteforcing
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by martinko 12y ago
The A-380 costs about 414 million usd and can carry ~500 people. A flight from Europe to Sydney takes north of 22 hours (not counting stop-overs). Off the top of my head, this new plane seems like a pretty good deal, doing Europe to Sydney
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by martinko 12y ago
Nope, flagkilled. Honestly this is starting to look absurd. HN readers consider this event interesting and worth discussing (as evidenced by this thread). There is an obvious effort to either censor or manipulate the system in order for the
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by martinko 12y ago
Addresses that have been sent from will be vulnerable because their public key will be displayed in the outgoing transaction. One-use addresses will not be vulnerable, as their public keys are indeed stored only as hashes in the blockchain,
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by martinko 12y ago
> here we have to assume that the black hole is not rotating very fast From the article: "The black hole needs to be spinning very fast"

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