nutellaandgo

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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
Well.. yeah. Hiring somebody who failed the interview is pretty dumb, obviously. Although the author made one point that I think is inaccurate: He said it's wrong to hire a front-end engineer to do backend work. In my experience, most
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
What does this have to do with hacking?
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
Even worse is being 1 year into the gig and still having no idea...
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
5% of Windows PCs. FTFY.
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
He'll likely just pay them a few million for the licencing rights. I'm sure the folks at Mastadon would be more than happy to accept this deal.
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
That's not gonna happen. But there are services out there that are vastly more private such as ProtonMail, Telegram, Signal, etc. If you want privacy, quit Facebook and Gmail. News flash: they're NOT gonna stop spying on you. You
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
I'm wasting my time here.
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
I never said anything about a load balancer. "Availability" means being able to access the blockchain/system/network and get the data you want, when you want it. The way most blockchain systems find out which nodes are o
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
Look up DNS poisoning, spoofing, ISP manipulation, etc. There have been quite a few attacks on it. Maybe "flaky" is a bit too strong of a term. It generally works I guess. The main advantage blockchain offers is not really within
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
Connect to multiple nodes and this won't be such a problem. Obviously if a single node has a disk failure or OS crashes, and you are connected to that node, the blockchain is down for you and everybody else connected to that node .
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
One "killer feature" of blockchain is availability. For example, the bitcoin network has something like 99.99999% uptime since it was invented. I think is was down for something like half a day back in 2009 due to a bug, but since
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
It's here to stay.
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by nutellaandgo 5y ago
One of the actual useful things it can do is DNS. The current DNS system is about 40 years old and very flaky. Blockchain can do DNS better than the current system. Blockchain based DNS allows people to actually own their domain, instead of
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Exploiting Arbitrage Opportunities in Betting Markets(computersciencealgorithms.wordpress.com)
3 points by nutellaandgo 6y ago|0 comments
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Anomalies in Vote Counts and Their Effects on Election 2020(votepatternanalysis.substack.com)
4 points by nutellaandgo 6y ago|0 comments
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by nutellaandgo 6y ago
"However cryptocurrency does not provide any technical answers to the inefficiencies since its entire existence is purely predicated on the appeal as a speculative investment first and not on its efficacy to transmit value." Pure