polemic

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Lost in Translation: Epic Goes to Denmark(politico.com)
1 points by polemic 7y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 7y ago
Add more zoning restrictions then?
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by polemic 7y ago
Heh, well my personal anecdata in NZ where fibre is becoming ubiquitous disagrees. Fibre has been a game changer for many people and businesses.
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by polemic 7y ago
Any way to verify the existence of the prize?
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GPS uses 10 bits to store weeks, and it rolls over April 6, 2019(theregister.co.uk)
4 points by polemic 8y ago|0 comments
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Levers(eastman.net.nz)
1 points by polemic 8y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 8y ago
Note the Author is Dr Peter Gutmann, maintainer of Cryptlib. Highly recommend you go to one of his talks if you ever get the chance,
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by polemic 8y ago
To be pedantic, 'well known' things are not usually specified in advance :D
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by polemic 8y ago
There's a huge range between monolith and microservice approach, and even a monolith will have dependent services. A simple web stack these days might include nginx, a database, a caching layer, some sort of task broker and then the
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by polemic 8y ago
> they have more incentive to lie than Bloomberg does The other way around. Apple and Amazon have very strong incentives to tell the truth. This has significant implications for their business (i.e. stock price) and if there is one thi
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by polemic 8y ago
Car makers support safety regulation because it further entrenches their position and increases barriers to entry. That does not mean that safety regulations are wrong, or that they need to be rolled back in the name of innovation. The mant
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Short RSA key in RevokedKeys causing lockouts after openssh-server upgrade(bugzilla.mindrot.org)
1 points by polemic 8y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 8y ago
Heh, yeah even in Takedown you end up rooting for Mitnik. And why so much detail about food!?
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by polemic 9y ago
> COCs are virtue signaling at best Well, it's virtue signalling at _worst_. Which is to say, the worst case is you're signalling virtues with no intention of upholding those values. Secondly, virtue signalling is, you know, u
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by polemic 9y ago
Oh wow. If I could get this as an Electron app I'd be a happy (nostalgic) user.
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by polemic 9y ago
Sure you can't avoid any theoretical ground-based observation -- my point is there are plenty of places on Earth that don't actually have them -- or don't have any available to amateurs or organisations without access to
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by polemic 9y ago
Well, there are plenty of places on the globe out of sight from any private ground based observation (or, any ground based observation at all, I'd bet). Applying delta while flying over the pacific ocean would do the job.
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by polemic 9y ago
What would be the motivation though. I presume that nation states with an interest in the mission would have Ways and Means of verifying that it's operational (or not) -- whether by their own space-based observations or other methods.
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by polemic 9y ago
whynotboth.gif Seriously though, the existence of nocturnal animals kinda puts that argument to bed. While there might be selection pressure to specialise within day or night cycles, it's simply not plausible that no animal, in the
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Manchester’s hilarious attempt at reinventing London’s Oyster Card(medium.com)
43 points by polemic 9y ago|7 comments
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by polemic 9y ago
> "One of the fundamentals of markets is that value needs to go to work." Indeed. And since there is little real (read: economically useful) work that Bitcoin can actually do, speculators pile them into other types of coin that
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by polemic 9y ago
> This is just like when you go to an electronics store and they put the super expensive tv (almost) nobody buys right next to the still very expensive but comparably more modest model. You are more likely to buy that second tv even if c
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by polemic 9y ago
Fun fact: the Square Kilometre Array (SKA telescope) will gather roughly 3 TB/s when it's up an running.
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by polemic 9y ago
TIL Areography! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/areography > "The scientific study of the planet Mars' geographical features;" Wait, theres that word again... Also Topography refers to physical feature
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by polemic 9y ago
No. Not when there are fascists marching in the street. And what extreme left are you talking about anyway? What domestic ideology on the left, exactly, are you referring to? Where are they marching down the street to restrict the rights
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by polemic 9y ago
Utter rubbish. Even at it's most absurdly promising, it's a relatively minor change in how we move and transport people and goods. Maybe fewer people required, maybe cheaper. To compare that to "the internet" -- a techno
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by polemic 9y ago
DO you mean like they said on July 28th? > Customers who wish to access both bitcoin (BTC) and bitcoin cash (BCC) need to withdraw bitcoin stored on Coinbase before 11.59 pm PT July 31, 2017. If you do not wish to access bitcoin cash (BC
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by polemic 9y ago
They don't have to claim it. Purely by controlling the addresses that held BTC at the time of the fork, Coinbase controls the BCH that magicked into existence. The issue is that BCH belongs to the original owner of the BTC it was forke
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by polemic 9y ago
This also explains where the "missing" (negative) value actually exists: in non-tradable BCC. This is pretty funny though - it turns out that you don't need to control 50% of the mining pool to mess with it - you only need
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by polemic 9y ago
Well if I read those charts correctly you could've sold ETH at about $20 and bought at $12. It then stabilised around $15. And ETC was able to be sold for what, $1? Seems like selling and buying ETH would've been a good move. Of c

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