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by mrb 7y ago
You may need an exchange once to acquire crypto (and even then, not really, you could buy crypto from an individual, or mine it, or just take a payment in crypto...) but once you're "in the system" so to speak, you can pay an
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by mrb 7y ago
Miners don't have middlemen powers. They can't censor your transactions like a true middleman could. Even if 9 out of 10 miners colluded to censor you, all you need is 1 out of the 10 to be honest, and your transactions would stil
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by mrb 7y ago
It's possible to do what you describe with existing open-source/open-hardware U2F security keys, as they let you define the master secret from which the per-site private elliptic keys are generated. I haven't personally tried
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by mrb 7y ago
« why not cut out the middlemen and be the only parasite in the loop? » Observation: this is precisely what cryptocurrencies do. No middleman. Users transact directly with each other.
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by mrb 7y ago
I never understood why specifically HDD manufacturers are criticized when in fact all vendors and all types of hardware (expect RAM) follow the same convention of using decimal prefixes: http://blog.zorinaq.com/decimal-
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by mrb 7y ago
Fabric-wise, PCIe 4.0 offers 16 Gbit/s per lane, so a single PCIe x16 device would have 256 Gbit/s of bandwidth available (in each direction), and a single server could reach 1 Tbit/s with four NVMe devices on four PCIe slots
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by mrb 7y ago
Someone needs to commercialize unique artificial fingertips. Use them to register with your Yubikey or phone :)
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by mrb 7y ago
I'm not predicting the future. cwkoss is (by assuming Bitcoin will never surpass $20k)
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by mrb 7y ago
You missed k__'s point which is that no matter what peak price you think was the best time to sell out, it has always been followed 2-3 years later by an even greater peak. You have hindsight in the past but you are still lacking fores
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by mrb 7y ago
In what surreal world do you live where all stores open at the same time? You need to either memorize or look up opening hours online anyway.
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by mrb 7y ago
Off topic: this is the first time I see Latin Modern Roman used on a web page. Doesn't look that great on low-DPI screens (13" at 2560x1440) but looks good on high-DPI (530 DPI Pixel 4 XL).
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by mrb 7y ago
You guys are much too naive :) To me it seems obvious the site is just humorous and not serious. Of course the passwords have not been typed by a toddler but are simply generated randomly. I guess the author wanted his site to have mild edu
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by mrb 7y ago
« the time is the same, but the schedules are different » I fail to see how this would be worse than China having multiple timezones. A single timezone still makes many things much easier such as alleviating the mental load and software com
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3425 Bytes: Tiniest Smallest App APK Ever(play.google.com)
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Bot finds “7k” is the last available 2-letter CA license plate available(twitter.com)
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by mrb 7y ago
Speaking from experience, sshuttle is way easier and more robust than using OpenSSH's built-in SOCKS proxy.
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by mrb 7y ago
The source appears to be this report by Quantis: https://quantis-intl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/measurin... Specifically page 18: « Together the apparel and footwear industries generated between 5 a
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by mrb 7y ago
Widevine L1 has been cracked. Pirates gain code execution in the ARM TrustZone¹ and peek into the decryption keys of the widevine module. That's how 4k WEB-DL Netflix content gets pirated. ¹ For example: http://bits-please.b
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by mrb 7y ago
« I don't get this position: my (Android) phone can already record my voice, so how does having a Google Home materially increase the privacy risk? » Indeed. Maybe people don't realize that a smartphone is a much bigger privacy ri
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by mrb 7y ago
« isn't widely used anywhere » Bitcoin processes 10 million transactions a month (300k/day) and it's generally been growing over the years: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactions.ht...
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by mrb 7y ago
" inordinate amount of energy " It's comparable to what a single hydro dam like the Three Gorges Dam can produce. Don't fall prey to the scary comparisons BECI employs to mislead its readers. Global warming is critical,
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by mrb 7y ago
It's incredible that people on HN, a technical readership, still don't understand why the energetic or computational "waste" of proof-of-work is needed. There is simply no other known way of implementing a decentralized,
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by mrb 7y ago
No, it only works for everything else: in-store checkout, returns, pharmacies... For the digital card to work for gas, Costco would have to install QR code scanners on gas pumps.
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by mrb 7y ago
Sort of related: I recently found a way to clone Costco's digital membership card - http://blog.zorinaq.com/reverse-engineering-costco-digital-m...
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by mrb 7y ago
« a lost password or a hacked computer could permanently eat away your money » If it happens less than 0.5% of the time, then you are losing more money in fees with your forex broker. Also don't forget the massive cashflow advantage of
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by mrb 7y ago
"Best" security model ≠ "Perfect" model. In fact, no model is perfect.
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by mrb 7y ago
« To be fair, banks do an OK job of that » Are you kidding? Banks do a terrible job. Just one data point: «Losses from [bank] account takeovers hit $5.1 billion last year, a 120 percent increase over 2016» https://www.aarp.org&#x
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by mrb 7y ago
« how are NICs such a bottleneck » Simple: when the packet data does not need to be processed by the CPU. For example a router forwarding network packets at 10 Tbit/s. The data can stay in the NIC cache as it is being forwarded. No P
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by mrb 7y ago
You can find 120V LED lighting that is flicker-free, eg. anything sold under the Philips brand (in my experience).
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by mrb 7y ago
Direct link to the study (published Sep 2018): HTML: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6141690/ PDF: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6141690/pdf/fch

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