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by pseudonym 13y ago
Better yet, don't tie your social accounts to your real name unless you're going to be professional on them. Think of it like the difference between chilling on the beach with shorts and talking shit over beer vs. chilling a the beach in yo
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by pseudonym 13y ago
The thing with small BTC transactions is that it's more likely to be someone trying to prop up the market, not someone trying to DDOS it. Every time the price starts to go down you start to see a lot of very small buy transactions at a roun
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by pseudonym 13y ago
I think there's a lot of people who bought in during the last week or two that really want it to turn out to be an "attack". I haven't seen any actual stats or indication that that's actually the case, though. Likewise, Mt. Gox made mention
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by pseudonym 13y ago
I'm going to vote on the side of "people hitting bitcoin related sites to figure out why the price is dropping so fast", as opposed to an "actual" DDOS. The result, however, amounts to the same thing.
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by pseudonym 14y ago
That was the case in 2004, yes, but now people look forward to getting their games on Steam. The value added by the Steam client is enough to get people to choose games on the Steam platform, as opposed to direct downloads from Amazon o
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by pseudonym 14y ago
It's actually a fairly dated reference[1]. The "original thread" referenced is from 2011, but I don't want to work through 500 pages of posts to find the initial instantiation of it. [1] http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?thre
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by pseudonym 14y ago
>And it'll have to be worse than a website getting hacked or a hardfork, which were the kinds of things that caused crashes years ago when the market was younger. Actually, despite the market being older, there's still only one major ex
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by pseudonym 14y ago
The thing is that for a national currency, multiple sources have to agree that "yes, this money is not in this account anymore" for money to actually move from point A to point B. If I write a check, I can send it to person B. I can then go
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by pseudonym 14y ago
It doesn't give you the same piece every time. If it did, you could finish a line just by lining each S-shaped piece on it's long end. I managed to pull off a 4-line score: 20C2 AAAA AAAA 8CAA AAAA AAAA AEAA AAAA A5EA AAAA AD5A A2AA 0000 AA
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by pseudonym 14y ago
I used to rag on the whole "patches on release day" thing, but you have to compare that to the idea that getting a "final" build through 1st parties like Microsoft and Sony is a long process that can go for weeks (or much longer, if you'r
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by pseudonym 14y ago
I think you might be waiting in vain. Unlike most other franchises, The Sims in particular seem to have an extraordinarily long half-life when it comes to DLC cost. I'd be rather surprised if Sim City was any different, given how well it's
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by pseudonym 14y ago
I have very little sympathy: "Reached Thursday, a VirWox representative said that the exchange has had multi-factor authentication since September 2012. “Bitinstant was not using it (they learned and do now),” the representative said in an
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by pseudonym 14y ago
I think that while the concept of "working remotely" isn't necessarily ingrained, the concept of communicating efficiently with people via methods that aren't physically face-to-face is extremely embedded in pretty much everyone under the a
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by pseudonym 14y ago
I actually do this on my personal server because more than one public wifi (and one of my previous jobs, at a public high school) disallowed outbound 22 connections.
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Because cheaper designers and developers are the ones that underrate themselves, usually because they're newer to the business and think it's pretty cool that they can get anything for what they're doing. Which means they're less likely to
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Except that's still traceable. It makes it a pain in the ass, sure, but any point where you need to deal with an exchange to get money out is a point where you lose your anonymity. So it's fair to say "Bitcoin can be anonymous IF you have a
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Except that Bitcoin isn't actually anonymous. If you have a wallet address, you can trace the blockchain, and most (if not all) exchanges that transfer BTC to dollars, or vice versa, require a lot of personal information that can be tied to
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by pseudonym 14y ago
By that logic, why bother paying for a shiny domain name? Why not just post the IP address on HackerNews and have people go to it directly? The value that Diaspora would have is in getting people to use it, not in the actual software; and
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by pseudonym 14y ago
The same reason Hans Reiser's court case kept popping up on and off. The fact that they're in the tech industry brings the odd sense of connection to them, for better or worse, that makes people be interested-- or, at least, makes media out
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Don't you think that "no buyer protection" is just heading too far in the opposite direction? Especially with callmeed's post[1] above... [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4730281
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by pseudonym 14y ago
I think I have a couple files affected, but I can't tell for sure--thankfully, none of them are critical, and may just be generated as temp files. That said, I'm definitely writing a script to do nightly backups of the contents of my dropbo
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by pseudonym 14y ago
If you did it to me I'd have the same reaction, but I'm not most people-- I log onto Facebook something like once a month, and use the magic of RSS feeds instead of fan pages. For people who don't use RSS, or want a consolidated feed of "al
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by pseudonym 14y ago
This is close to what I have, except less complex. A single line in /etc/hosts that redirects sites to 127.0.0.1, which gets commented or uncommented. The fact that I have to go through the hassle of sudoing up and removing the comment mean
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by pseudonym 14y ago
If I had 5 cents for every time I've read an article on someone going after the person reporting the hole in their software...I'd probably have at least enough to go get a soda from the company vending machine. The sad state of affairs is t
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Someone actually did a paper on why every one of these scams seems to come from Nigeria[1]. If you're not at least suspicious when something like this comes "from Nigeria" at this point, there's probably no helping you. [1] http://research.
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by pseudonym 14y ago
The person reporting the error, of course.
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by pseudonym 14y ago
This is an old post so I don't know if anyone will see it, but I'm betting that this is used at least in part to crack down on private servers, thus the inclusion of Server IP.
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by pseudonym 14y ago
If you don't consider 150 euro headphones to be high end, I'm scared to think where on the scale my $40 ones fall.
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Without a doubt, 1.0.0 stable came out (I think) before 10.7. That said, it's my preferred functionality, so I'll gladly take it if it means it doesn't consume my second monitor like some sort of vermicious knid.
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by pseudonym 14y ago
It actually seems like there's a way around this on an app level-- I downgraded iTerm2 from the current 1.0.2.whatever to the 1.0.0 stable, and Full Screen properly takes up one screen on 10.8 instead of filling my other monitor with felt.

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