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by olegkikin 9y ago
Does it really matter? Most of the important data is already encrypted (and even the unimportant stuff like youtube video streams are served over HTTPS, not even sure why). The real problem is them cutting or blowing up these cables.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Most people think he is unreliable as a source of market prediction, because he has been absolutely horrible at it, which is somehow his main occupation.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Send the BTC to an exchange. Perform the trade into fiat. Call the bank, warn them a large sum is incoming. Withdraw. Pay taxes. A few million dollars is not a big deal in the bitcoin world these days. GDAX BTC-USD volume is $466 million in
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Every single lightfield device hides the specs till the launch date. And then it turns out that even if the resolution of the underlying display/camera is 10-20 megapixels, you have to divide it by 9 or 16 to get the actual resolution,
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by olegkikin 9y ago
I looks like the plane is making a left turn, and yet the object is dead center in the screen with barely any shake. And it's definitely not stabilized, because all the lines on the display are still. So maybe the pilot has some crazy
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by olegkikin 9y ago
It's hard to objectively compare lossy encoders. Yes, there are various metrics, but you will get very different results depending on which metric is chosen.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
I have a mini benchmark of lossless PNG compressors, in case anyone finds it useful. https://www.olegkikin.com/png_optimizers/
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Looks like it's happening: "Modified blood stem cells reverse type 1 diabetes in mice" https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2017/nov/modified-blood-stem... And type 2 got cured by an extreme diet in
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Considering there are no qualifications required, it's $12.5/hr, which is 66% more than the minimum wage of $7.25.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Expensive, not impossible.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
It's a lot cheaper to build huge solar farms in deserts. Probably a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Doesn't Netflix pay for its bandwidth?
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by olegkikin 9y ago
It's not "a" job though, it was a partner position.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
You're mad to turn down $600K, unless the job really sucked. Even if you project to make millions with your startup, multiply that by the risk of ~90% failure, you wouldn't do much better than $600K/year. Still, very sorry ab
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Just get one of those cases that block GPS signal, or even the one that blocks all signals (but you won't be able to receive calls). They are only a few bucks.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
What's your CPU of choice and how do you know it doesn't have backdoors?
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by olegkikin 9y ago
It's definitely not the processing power, modern phones are beasts, they can compete with 10-year old PCs.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Related: Node.js templating engine benchmarks: https://github.com/marko-js/templating-benchmarks Framework SSR benchmark (Vue, React, Preact, Rax, Marko): https://hackernoon.com/server-side-rendering-sh
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by olegkikin 9y ago
The issue is other solutions give you ~10X more page loads per unit of time at the same price.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
They should really accept multiple cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is too slow now with the blocks full. At least Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash should be considered.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Shroud is the real high-roller. He regularly gets $100, $200, $500 tips. I think the highest single tip he's got was like $5000.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
IE is not a major browser anymore http://gs.statcounter.com/ Look at your Google Analytics, it's really not that important anymore.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
You need to realize that pretty much all electronics is manufactured in China / Hong Kong these days. You can get quality things, you can get cheap crap.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
What we really need are private keys, stored in hardware, like secure enclave. Whenever someone wants a proof of your identity, they ask you to sign a certain message with a timestamp.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Isn't it cheaper to buy the server with that much RAM and colocate? This one is under $2K: https://www.ebay.com/itm/172727384582
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by olegkikin 9y ago
So it's nothing new. Ethereum and Peercoin and Nxt do proof of stake.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
I doubt software written in Rust has no bugs.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Ethereum works fine as a currency too (~15 sec per block, quite nice). It also works fine with simple contracts, it's the humans who aren't good enough (yet) to write bug-free code. Bugs in software of various kinds cause billions
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by olegkikin 9y ago
Not ethereum, but one of the contracts written on top of it had a bug that some newbie triggered by mistake and locked something like $160M worth of moneys.
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by olegkikin 9y ago
A few altcoins immediately went +20% up - NEO, IOTA, Omnise, Lisk, Waves, Ark. But not the ones I expected - like Ethereum.

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