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421.
by mef 14y ago
Why was this submitted? The article says it was a false alarm.
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by mef 14y ago
Democratic Reddit, where votes can be bought for 20-for-$1 https://coinbase.com/checkouts/35297a275c385a75d231fd4a6edd5...
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Transporting the A-12(roadrunnersinternationale.com)
6 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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by mef 14y ago
What would happen if all the miners got together and demanded a code change that benefited miners, like perhaps increase the mining reward? Assuming the devs disagreed with the change, would the BTC community have any way to prevent this al
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Unique Hardware and Software IDs in Linux(0pointer.de)
6 points by mef 14y ago|2 comments
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Using HBase and Hadoop to manage 100 Million Users(slideshare.net)
2 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
427.
by mef 14y ago
In your 5 years running a remote team, nobody has ever taken a bathroom break or a lunch break of more than 1 minute?
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How LINE Manages 100 million Users(translate.google.com)
1 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
429.
by mef 14y ago
By "real currency" I assume the author means a viable long term currency substitute -- he can't mean a medium of monetary exchange, as Bitcoin is already being used in that manner. While there are some points worth a look in this article, h
430.
by mef 14y ago
I think part of the reason for the optimism of those speculating bullishly on BTC is that the inherent properties of a decentralized finite online currency will result in their utility will only increase with time.
431.
by mef 14y ago
Thanks for the link. This is mind-blowing: The software was written by The Rand Corporation and the System Development Corporation (SDC) and employed about 20% of the world’s programmers at the peak of the project.
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The largest computer ever built(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
122 points by mef 14y ago|30 comments
433.
by mef 14y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5328993
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by mef 14y ago
Perhaps they were running the client that got rolled back and got screwed on a big double spend. Pure speculation but that did happen recently.
435.
by mef 14y ago
Seems a bit early in the dating process to assert it's a 300 million year old machined piece of metal.
436.
by mef 14y ago
Previous submissions and discussions https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=ch...
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Search Engines for Grownups(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
2 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson(nytimes.com)
271 points by mef 14y ago|83 comments
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Greed is Groupon(mobile.theverge.com)
2 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
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by mef 14y ago
I like the implication in the hack that the pink umbrella and handbag now belong to Mario. Two hits against gender stereotypes!
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The enigma of the Ford paradox(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
80 points by mef 14y ago|35 comments
442.
by mef 14y ago
Great hack. Another way to get text quickly to your phone, if you have an iPhone, is to send yourself a message on Messages.
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InnoDB + replication gotcha(blog.9minutesnooze.com)
2 points by mef 14y ago|0 comments
444.
by mef 14y ago
For #4, wouldn't the only change when someone leaves the organization be to remove their key from authorized_keys for the shared account? Why would anyone else have to be updated?
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by mef 14y ago
Couldn't a wiretap order compel a VPN company (even one with a reputation for anonymity) to transparently begin logging any data having to do with the target of the wiretap? The VPN company does have the capability to log, after all. Could
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by mef 14y ago
So you're saying you want them to say the same thing but reword it since you're enterprise? If they don't know the root cause, they don't know the root cause.
447.
by mef 14y ago
Quackwatch page on Dr. Dwight Lundell http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html
448.
by mef 14y ago
I appreciate the input, but on the contrary, I don't think an author's history and interests should be ignored when evaluating their argument. The world is full of people who excel at making compelling arguments for whichever side of an iss
449.
by mef 14y ago
The author asserts that the new policy is based on "flimsy foundations". How does he know if the foundations are flimsy or not? Does he have inside knowledge of the productivity of remote vs. local employees at Yahoo? Is he assuming it's th
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by mef 14y ago
If it was, at it occurred after the vulnerabilities were made public, they probably wouldn't say so as it would look pretty bad given the amount of advance warning they had.

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