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by mrb 5y ago
It appears not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28582695
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by mrb 5y ago
I think Scafell Pike (highest mountain in England) might be the most ideal point to see the Republic of Ireland, as it's close to the West coast, and has a westward view not obstructed by mountainous Wales. From what I can see, you&#x2
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by mrb 5y ago
Here is an easy way to confirm if it's truly Ireland: this is a site that I absolutely LOVE: it has a 3D model of the earth's surface, can simulate the horizon visible from any point on the planet, and can automatically identify t
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by mrb 5y ago
Agreed, this 1.3 MB JSON data file is perfectly reasonable: it compresses to only 191 kB in the HTTP response with standard gzip compression that all browsers have been supporting in the last 20 years (I just checked with Chrome's dev
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by mrb 5y ago
I wonder if there is a way to game your system. For example instead of buying a 1/4 fraction, someone could set up two LLCs each owning two 1/8 shares. With the way you rotate the priority order from year to year, the person would
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by mrb 5y ago
Well, as evidenced by this thread, candidates are frustrated by the interviewing process at Google, in particular by poor/generic/boring questions that test a narrow/irrelevant topic. So, yes, I took pride in selecting questi
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by mrb 5y ago
As an ex-Googler who interviewed 100+ candidates (mix of phone & onsite interviews) I can tell you that there is a great variance across the company groups in the quality of questions we ask. And the reason is simple: it's up to th
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by mrb 5y ago
Well, PoS is 4 years behind schedule. That's the reason the bomb has been pushed back for 4 years.
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by mrb 5y ago
The difficulty bomb was supposed to first activate 4 years ago. It has been pushed back numerous times, about 6 times IIRC. I wouldn't be surprised if come December they push it back one more time.
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by mrb 5y ago
Maybe not in your country(?) In the US there are quite a few commercial systems built on Thread: Apple HomePod mini, Google Nest security system, etc. Don't get me wrong: we are still very early in real-world deployments. It was just 2
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by mrb 5y ago
Actually Thread is alive and kicking! It has a lot of momentum at the moment. But if it gets displaced, IMHO it's going to be by WiFi Ha-Low or successors.
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by mrb 5y ago
The system-on-chip is the MGM210L which needed to be powerful enough to run multiple wireless protocols (Zigbee, Thread, Bluetooth), so the lamp can be controlled by any of these. These are very complex protocols. The Thread spec for exampl
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by mrb 5y ago
I think that the domain name the easiest to say is abc.xyz which is owned by Google: https://abc.xyz/ @abc.xyz is arguably even easier to communicate than @gmail.com or @yahoo.com because it's possible some people may
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by mrb 5y ago
Money.
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by mrb 5y ago
Heuristics. Marketers do cross-device correlation only when seeing a small number of devices (ie. look like they could be part of the same household). If they see hundreds of devices behind the same IP it's probably a larger entity (ie
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by mrb 5y ago
We angels love to exploit what VCs won't touch with a ten-foot pole ;-) If you are a founder—any industry—hit me up and hopefully I'll fund you! Email m@zorinaq.com I don't care if I don't know an industry. I look mostly
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by mrb 5y ago
Nvidia did not say it will be a hardware limitation. In fact, they will almost certainly implement it in software. For example a "Lite Hash Rate" card will probably have a bit permanently set to 1 in the firmware/eeprom. The
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by mrb 5y ago
c) is nonsense. There are no downsides to a temporary boost in Nvidia's profits, even if it means profits eventually falling back to normal levels when ETH drops in value. Also, LHR (gaming) GPUs and CMP (mining) GPUs share the exact s
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by mrb 5y ago
The "most efficient" cryptocurrencies on this list are the least secure, ie. the ones where double-spend attacks are the least expensive to conduct.
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by mrb 5y ago
« Last I heard, there was a physical limit to the number of transactions in a block (and no intent of increasing that number). » There is no limit when transactions happen in L2 (or off-chain) « You also seem to be fully ignoring that the m
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by mrb 5y ago
Tesla contributes to misinformation. Bitcoin transactions do not, in and of themselves, consume mining energy. A Bitcoin block is validated by miners who use the same amount of energy, regardless if there are 1 or 1000 transactions in the b
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by mrb 5y ago
Tech side: according to https://aws.amazon.com/iot-core/features/ the physical network seems to be implemented using LoRa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa which has a range of up to 10 km i
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by mrb 5y ago
« there is also a number I can call » Unfortunately that's a number a hacker can call to social engineer the employee and steal your account. Same method as in SIM swapping attacks.
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by mrb 5y ago
« This is peak absurdism » Pros of making this whole thing an NFT: • Capitalizes on a craze to save lives. Consequently, this will almost assuredly be more successful at raising money than if this had been organized as a traditional campaig
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by mrb 5y ago
Any technology can be used to facilitate illegal activities. Vehicles, weapons, phones, computers... Nothing new here. Cryptocurrency is no different.
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by mrb 5y ago
« It has so far produced nothing » Censorship resistance. Digital money that does not require constant "authorizations" from incompetent, flaky, slow, or even sometimes corrupt payment processors or other financial entities. Money
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by mrb 5y ago
On this National Geographics page, in the inspector just select the <body> and in the CSS pane remove the "position: fixed" and "overflow: hidden". This allows scrolling.
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by mrb 6y ago
Err, you are right.
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by mrb 6y ago
His ship has been sitting still for so long that you can see it on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D... Edit: a few more story details here: https://www.theguardi
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by mrb 6y ago
« Coinbase is in a race to the bottom » 90%+ of industries are. It's what capitalism is all about. It's not unique to Coinbase. « Grandma ain't making a Coinbase checking account » She already did. They have 56 million verifi

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