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   Electromigration(en.wikipedia.org)

   1 points by mrb 15y ago|0 comments
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   NSA Data Center Construction in Utah(cryptome.org)

   1 points by mrb 15y ago|0 comments
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   by mrb 15y ago

   I agree. And publishing openly is precisely what this researcher is doing, which is why I submitted it to HN. His paper: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/nets2012/pdf/3051.pdf Other researchers who, on the contrary, keep secrets drive me
4. 3184.▲
   by mrb 15y ago

   You are blindly calling it a scam without even looking into what has changed in the last 23 years... For the first time since 1989, we now have more and more accounts of reliable experiments producing anomalous heat. This is why research
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   Univ. of Illinois Researcher to Present 350W/kg Cold Fusion Device on March 23(ecatnews.com)

   9 points by mrb 15y ago|5 comments
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   by mrb 15y ago

   Read https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5228 The vulnerability discoverer tried to explain the dangerousness of the bug multiple times... but he was ignored despite attempts to show benign ways to exploit it. So he did the right thing
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   Linode Attack Enabled Theft of $220k (So Far)(blog.zorinaq.com)

   2 points by mrb 15y ago|1 comments
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   Tracking the Dilution of the 10k BTC Pizza(bitcoin.stackexchange.com)

   1 points by mrb 15y ago|0 comments
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   by mrb 15y ago

   > “This decision is a result of our strategy to protect the premium nature of our brand by preserving the appropriate pricing and packaging of our exclusive and highly valuable content,” Starz said last September. And the movie industry
10. 3190.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    This latency is not a pb inherent to Bitcoin. It happens whenever you hold currency X and need currency Y, for any value of X != Y. You are going to waste time exchanging one for the other. This is one of the reason why I expect Bitcoin's a
11. 3191.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    Yes you can, but not in 24h. (Hopefully buying a $20k car is not an impulse buy you make in a day, ahem...) Sell the BTC on MtGox and withdraw the USD via Dwolla directly to your bank account. No need to use Paypal! MtGox's withdrawal limit
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    by mrb 15y ago

    You were gullible and invested at the peak of the bubble at $30/BTC (now worth $5/BTC). Any bubble would have crushed you, eg the dotcom stock market frenzy. Your fault. Bitcoin is up 400% over the last year (from $1 to $5/BTC), which has m
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    by mrb 15y ago

    Is there any study comparing the downtime of the different cloud platforms over, say, the past few years? EC2, Azure, Google Apps, etc. That would be the ultimate tool to shame substandard cloud vendors...
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    by mrb 15y ago

    This is not an irony that you messed it up. You provide the perfect example why these bugs happen: not only you didn't know the exact rules (divisibility by 400), but you also thought it would be fine to implement them yourself, when you
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    $1M for First Successful 1kW+ LENR Demonstration(dicksmith.internetage.com)

    1 points by mrb 15y ago|0 comments
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    by mrb 15y ago

    I imply nothing negative. I am simply saying it is a significant endorsement of the concept of Bitcoin, when Larry and Sergei look at it and think "maybe we should do something similar".
17. 3197.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    I do understand that the transfers were peer-to-peer. I could hand you eCash in an offline way, from my device to yours, as if I was handing you a bill, without going through a bank/clearing house network to authorize and validate the trans
18. 3198.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    ecash was not truly peer-to-peer. On the contrary, the concept relied crucially on centralization as ecash would have been withdrawn from existing banks & credit card companies: http://web.archive.org/web/19970111163957/http://www.digi
19. 3199.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    I edited my post to clarify: first digital p2p currency.
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    by mrb 15y ago

    > The idea was to implement a "peer-to-peer money" system. Wow. I wonder if it literally means they were thinking of duplicating the (world's first) digital peer-to-peer currency: http://www.bitcoin.org Or is Schmidt using the term "p
21. 3201.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    If you report it as soon as possible, I am sure it will be fine. You will be correcting a situation before they even have time to start evaluating John's application... Also, announcing that you already have plans to submit your own applica
22. 3202.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    Contact the incubator, tell them this: "I was told my name was put on an application. If this is the case, this is a misunderstanding. I, in fact, intend to apply in the near future for a different startup. Please remove me from the current
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    Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral [video](ted.com)

    1 points by mrb 15y ago|0 comments
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    Race for cold fusion: Nasa, MIT, Darpa and Cern peer through the keyhole(wired.co.uk)

    2 points by mrb 15y ago|0 comments
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    by mrb 15y ago

    I read both Jobs and Buffett's biographies (Steve Jobs & The Snowball). I understand these guys' mindsets reasonably well. The article says that, ironically, Buffett himself never bought Apple stock. The reason is simple. Buffett is an
26. 3206.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    Re 64-bit: you are correct. But this still proves my point that Microsoft sometimes deliberately breaks backward compatibility. Re bugs across different OS versions: your initial comment implied that, because Microsoft puts so much effort i
27. 3207.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    I don't think you understand what fragmentation is. Windows is fragmented both at the software layer, with all the different versions of it: 2008 R2, 7, 2008, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, Me, 98, NT4, etc. And it is fragmented at the hardware lay
28. 3208.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    You say "Google is increasingly unable to get new features to market in a timely fashion" but one post above yours, someone says effectively that "Google releases new APIs/features way too quickly". This is exactly what I am talking about.
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    by mrb 15y ago

    Actually you are wrong. VisiCalc does not run on Vista and up as Microsoft dropped 16-bit compatibility. Nonetheless, I agree with your general point that Microsoft puts a lot of effort in backward compatibility. But so does Google with An
30. 3210.▲
    by mrb 15y ago

    You are talking about a different issue (the OS having to support different hardware platforms). I was talking about developers claiming fragmentation makes it hard to write programs for the OS running on different hardware platforms. My po