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by moe 14y ago
even if we generously assume that it would take $100 million of ASICs You always conveniently ignore the fact that legitimate mining is at the verge of shifting to ASICs, too. Perhaps your $100mio figure is accurate today , but it won't
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by moe 14y ago
Abstraction is the keyword here, I really don't agree with yours. Bitcoin and USD are not the same abstraction. USD is a currency and Bitcoin is an entire monetary system. One that's different enough that initial friction is entirely unsurp
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by moe 14y ago
Makes no sense. At the least you'd have to compare today's dollar with bitcoin in 217 years (when both are mature - if they still exist). Since that's not possible dollar-comparisons are probably best avoided.
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by moe 14y ago
In the last 50 years, at what point has the US dollar swung... Bitcoin is only 4 years old. If you want to compare it to the US dollar then you should compare it to the dollar from 217 years ago, not the dollar from 50 years ago.
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by moe 14y ago
The original argument was about governments making bitcoin de facto illegal. That's quite different from a deliberate attack. As said, I agree that bitcoin may be heading for trouble, I just disagree it will happen through legislation. An
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by moe 14y ago
And how exactly would that work? Do you expect all governments of the world to collectively agree on a ban of digital currencies? When was the last time all governments of the world agreed on anything ? Bitcoin's future is certainly uncert
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by moe 14y ago
Rich countries don't lift other countries out of altruism. They do it because it's in their own strategic interest. Take a look at what's going on in Europe for a few clues about what happens when too many of your neighbors go too far out o
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by moe 14y ago
He does have a point though (the NK reference is hilarious because it's actually not completely off-base, albeit a little over the top). I looked at Ember again the other day after a long abstinence and to me it has become frighteningly opa
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by moe 14y ago
My latest irritation is manager types getting too obsessed with Unit testing, it reminds of XML and the way it was abused. It's a bit of a tangent but I've also observed this. So much that I've started calling it the "cucumber-complex". O
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by moe 14y ago
Hm. Until now I thought dyno-presence is your issue, but now I realize you're talking about the actual "leastconn" part, i.e. the requests queueing up on the dynos itself? If that's what you actually mean then I'd ask: Can't the dynos rejec
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by moe 14y ago
Your arrogant tone doesn't really jive with the lack of substance in your comment. Since you're apparently a professional cryptographer who would have designed a flawless Bitcoin right off the bat; Why don't you share some of your wisdom an
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by moe 14y ago
You'll end up with every loadbalancer needing a near-instantaneous perception of every server's queue But that's not true. Only the loadbalancers concerned with a given application need to share that state amongst one another. And the num
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by moe 14y ago
most of our customers tell us that they're not willing to trade lower availability and higher latency per request What's the constraint that prevents you from having your dynos register with the loadbalancer cluster and then having the la
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by moe 14y ago
Do you have a reference in which pg version this got fixed? We still pg_xlog_replay_pause() our slaves, it would be nice to drop that.
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by moe 14y ago
which duplicates all of bitcoin's functionality and essentially inflates away bitcoin's value You mean like the Euro "inflates away" the USD, and vice versa? Your idea doesn't make any sense.
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by moe 14y ago
Collapsing in the sense that prices have been in free fall for a while. Akamai sees their market shrink from both ends. At the top-end companies like Netflix start building their own networks because they want more control, less reliance on
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by moe 14y ago
Actually Akamai is very much pushing their DDoS protection and "Antivirus" snake oil ever since the CDN market started collapsing. Remember Akamai is the Oracle of the CDN world. They're in a bit of a shuffle right now as their competitors
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by moe 14y ago
You are right, I guess, but that's nitpicking. The gist was that I don't believe the government bothers with banning knife-ads while semi-automatic rifles (under whichever label) are sold freely.
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by moe 14y ago
Turning down paying customers because of some moral objection to pointy objects Are you suggesting the US government asked google to stop runnings ads for knives ? In the same country where I can pick up a semi automatic assault rifle at
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by moe 14y ago
Sadly this still leaves you with a rather crippled subset of the real thing. I.e. "copy mode" instead of proper scrolling, no native text selection, and very noticeable latency and glitches. It's the price you pay for emulating a 35 years o
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by moe 14y ago
Sometimes I look at my bicycle and feel small and insignificant.
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by moe 14y ago
Bullshit.
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by moe 14y ago
Wouldn't it be more effective to deploy a small parachute?
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by moe 14y ago
"RSS industry"? Everything to spin a drama, I guess...
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by moe 14y ago
I use a dedicated e-mail for every account I create anywhere (servicename-foo@domain.com). I don't recall the reasons for all of the accounts, but I often create quick one-offs e.g. when to share photos from a mobile/tablet without linking
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by moe 14y ago
Okay, after some research this might be aftermath from a breach that happened last year: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/dropbox-hires-outsid... Though I wonder why I start receiving spam now (almost a year later). And I wonder
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Tell HN: Dropbox e-mail database hacked (again?)
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by moe 14y ago
It's especially offending when, as in this case, the bragging code-snippet omits half of the code that is needed to actually run the demo. Ember is far from the only project guilty of this. If you want to brag to me then make sure I can cop
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by moe 14y ago
Pfff. Try harder linode. # grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo cpu MHz : 3922519.116 cpu MHz : 3922519.116 cpu MHz : 3922519.116 cpu MHz : 3922519.116 That's on a rackspace small instance. 4000 GHz, baby!
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by moe 14y ago
Well, Godwin's Law is about "someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis" (see Wikipedia). If mentioning WWI/WWII does not qualify for you then we must have quite a different interpretation. The argument in this thread was

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