mburns

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by mburns 9y ago
> Once the power plant is reopened (expected to be completed within 12 months), it will offer wholesale or "pre-grid" power prices to blockchain companies Doesn't seem like nonsense.
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by mburns 9y ago
>I wonder if that was the most expensive car commercial in history? Surely it was the cheapest, no? Tesla spent ~$0 for a huge amount of global advertising. SpaceX was already going to spend the money for the launch and the media has giv
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by mburns 9y ago
Sense8 was comparably expensive but has since been canceled.
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by mburns 9y ago
Brave is based on Chromium, not Firefox.
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by mburns 9y ago
Similarly, https://d.tube/ uses IPFS network to retrieve videos.
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by mburns 9y ago
https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs/issues/66#issuecomment-273...
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by mburns 9y ago
I'll bite. Apple's cash on hand in Q3 was $261.5B. Company Market Cap ($/Billion) ------- ---------------------- Twitter 12.6 Tesla 57 Netflix 76.5 Foursquare 0.7 Nokia 34 Time W
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by mburns 9y ago
Sounds like CERT (Community Emergency Response Team). https://www.ready.gov/community-emergency-response-team
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by mburns 9y ago
>But TCP numbers their packets and so I would expect them to continue sending new packets while waiting for ACKs of old packets, and my reading of Wikipedia agrees. TCP keeps a sliding congestion window that relies on RTT. https:/&
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by mburns 9y ago
>Because you need a lot more than three or four amendments, each of which might not be ratified. They would be separate battles, sure, but I think 3 or 4 amendments would solve a majority of the underlying structural problems we face. A
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by mburns 9y ago
A better question is why we have artificially capped our House of Representatives at 435 members. It has skewed the proportion of representation (and by extension, the electoral college) for decades. Even the UK has 650 members in their low
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by mburns 9y ago
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. How is starting from scratch preferable to passing 3 or 4 amendments in the current system to address the largest issues we've struggled to fix over the decades?
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by mburns 9y ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-10/china-warns-washing... Taken with a grain of salt: China might not actually be 'there' yet, but they are progressing toward that goal.
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by mburns 9y ago
This is a poorly written rehash of a BBC article (which itself isn't very good) with a clickbait headline.
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by mburns 9y ago
IPFS doesn't host content you access, it uses a manual, opt-in policy.
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by mburns 10y ago
Some clients will intercept multi-line messages and let you POST the content to a pastebin. That way, supported clients show pretty-printed code and unsupported client just see a URL. Ex: https://blog.irccloud.com/pastebins&
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by mburns 10y ago
>A 2005 study Jennings co-authored counted 17 babies born to female astronauts after they had been in space. https://phys.org/news/2011-01-sex-space-houston-problem.html
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by mburns 10y ago
That blog doesn't ring true. They've had the program in place for years (~2012) and it is opt-in. Author didn't seem to contact Disqus to see if this was a mistake or intentional, and doesn't mention if the domain had th
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by mburns 10y ago
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Uplift_rules
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by mburns 10y ago
[duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13009796 ]
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by mburns 10y ago
>They should also sell those tokens as a means of generating revenue. I'd buy some and hand them down. That is the point. http://memory-of-mankind.com/giftshop
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by mburns 10y ago
>Which is also why a regular consumer should never use IPFS and why prosumer should immediately disable caching and seeding upon install. Unless they changed policy, seeding is strictly a manual, opt-in process. >Perhaps so, but if yo
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by mburns 10y ago
Because mirroring content on IPFS is trivial and transparent to the consumer. All it takes is a single user (or an arbitrary number) outside of US jurisdiction and the content is more or less DMCA-immune. The equivalent is not practical in
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by mburns 10y ago
>Which makes it about as resilient as regular content hosting, which is not very. It is decidedly more resilient than regular hosting in that situation.
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by mburns 10y ago
https://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/ ?
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by mburns 10y ago
>or wait a thousand years and send humans to Mars in a different kind of space ship. Pardon the pun, but why on Earth should we wait 1000 years (or whatever it actually takes) for something when we don't have to? Our fragile human f
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by mburns 10y ago
>The Social Security Trust Fund is a sovereign wealth fund it's not called like that due to historic convention, but it does operate like one. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the SS Trust Fund has to exclusively buy Treasury bonds
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by mburns 10y ago
> We believe we made the session IDs sufficiently hard to guess... Couldn't you say that about most any secret? (I believe my ssh key is sufficiently hard to guess...)
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by mburns 10y ago
Things like IPFS[0] address this problem. [0] https://ipfs.io/
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by mburns 11y ago
>We call these extensions "high availability" because this approach means that re-indexing a production system can happen much faster, reducing downtime for our users. Agree with their use of the term or not, they give you thei

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