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by patrickk 10y ago
Not the GP, but the password manager's database is likely setup as a Dropbox app. So when you login to your password manager, it retrieves the latest copy of the database. I do this with KeeWeb (cross platform PW manager compatible wit
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by patrickk 10y ago
Anecdotally, I never click ads (they're all blocked with years) but I do respond to "deals" site in my local market. If it's something I vaguely though I'd like, seeing it recommended on a deal site is sometimes eno
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by patrickk 10y ago
I'd be curious to hear HN's thoughts on what messaging apps they use/trust. I've tried in the past to get friends to switch over to Telegram, but there are issues since they rolled their own encyption protocol. I've
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by patrickk 10y ago
> In fact, I'd be surprised if they hadn't granted themselves some special capabilities with regards to the content of the communications. Touting their end-to-end encryption has enticed many people to trust the product, somet
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by patrickk 10y ago
Plex is based on Kodi (formerly XBMC) which is FOSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_(software)
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by patrickk 10y ago
I also wanted to invest in ETH longer term. What I did was buy ETH on Coinbase (they have both BTC and ETH), you can even get $10 with this referral link when you buy $100 BTC or more ;) https://www.coinbase.com/join/55
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by patrickk 10y ago
> I don't follow bitcoin very closely. Could you please tell me more about escaping yuan/bolivar? Likely means using Bitcoin to evade currency controls, which they have in China and some South American countries e.g. Argentina[
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by patrickk 10y ago
https://github.com/dboyd13/DSVR
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by patrickk 10y ago
A friend travelling in China was shocked to discover that the government there apparently shares your identification documents with private businesses. Her passport scan was on the screen in some random shop (IIRC she saw it on a screen beh
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by patrickk 10y ago
You can even buy 'aged' Reddit accounts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxNvUWN3vYk
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by patrickk 10y ago
If you build your own PC, does this apply? If so, which PC component does the fee apply to? The hard drive, the motherboard, the CPU...? What if you want to build a PC and install a flavour of Linux, without a proprietary OS? Do you need a
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by patrickk 10y ago
Any idea why wind is up or down on a particular time? I would've thought it's extremely random.
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by patrickk 10y ago
> Seems like with a solar farm you basically need a guy with a truck and a leaf blower. You don't even need that! Automated, water-free robots can already clean panels, even in dusty desert areas: https://www.revolvesolar
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by patrickk 10y ago
There's also the political issues to consider. You'd have to really, really trust the other countries you're relying on for the supply of electricity not to do something to mess with your economy. I could imagine it working p
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by patrickk 10y ago
Not to mention, the only reason those castles are still standing was because they were (almost) the only buildings of their era that were solidly constructed. 99% of the population lived in hovels that no longer exist today.
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by patrickk 10y ago
It might not work for the military specifically, but for browser based forms, Lastpass has a form fill feature: https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/fill-form-basics/ I'm sure it's possible to hack together an AHK s
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by patrickk 10y ago
Thanks! I noticed it's "$1k/mo" so I suppose it's difficult to chalk this up to the google algorithm ;)
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by patrickk 10y ago
> A front page item on HN a few days ago asked what people would pay $1000 per month for Somewhat meta, but I cannot find this item on https://hn.algolia.com or using a Google search ("site: news.ycombinator.com $1000 fo
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by patrickk 10y ago
The bottle deposit is called "pfand" here you can see a machine in operation in a supermarket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLKmr0uVhWo Some more details on the program: https://www.reddit.com/r
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by patrickk 10y ago
Patrick mentioned in a tweet that they met with a bank in Ireland, and they essentially laughed him out of the room (can't find the link, it was a few years back). He elaborates further on his blog: >I’m sometimes asked whether Stri
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Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming (2014) [video](ted.com)
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by patrickk 10y ago
His offhand remark about knowing people's interests showed a real lack of judgement as well (even if he was 100% not serious the reaction from the interviewer is telling): https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comme
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by patrickk 10y ago
For anyone based in Germany/Europe, mydealz.de lists offers, you can sort by "hot" to see the most popular ones. (not affiliated)
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Central Banks Consider Bitcoin’s Technology, If Not Bitcoin(nytimes.com)
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> Yes, but centralized databases are a solved problem. It doesn't take 3-5 days for Amazon to process an order, or for github to process a pull request. The problem is here: With the current state of the art[1], it takes several day
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by patrickk 10y ago
It's because they don't fully trust each other, after all, in a single transaction you could be talking hundreds of millions, or billions of dollars changing hands. With a blockchain, the transaction is virtually impossible to f
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by patrickk 10y ago
> Doing that in ethereum and all the other similar currencies is as easy as pressing a button. The rollback was (and still is) very controversial. It required the agreement of the large mining pools to support the fork, which they eventu
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by patrickk 10y ago
>Without the incentives, distributed computing power, and public participation in a blockchain like Bitcoin, what does a private blockchain actually do? Proof of Work, public networks make most sense for low trust scenarios where you wis
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by patrickk 10y ago
> This is also a serious problem if it is possible for the voter's copy of the identifier to recover their vote after they have left the voting booth. That would enable vote buying or coercing votes. How is this issue currently deal
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by patrickk 10y ago
> It only seems to introduce unnecessary costs, such as mining Who says you need mining? There's different ways to achieve blockchain consensus, such as proof of stake or proof of existence, you don't need proof of work like Bi

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