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by qot 6y ago
No, a 51% attack only allows the attackers to double-spend and block future transactions while they have control over the network. Re-writing historical transactions from before the 51% attack is impossible, unless he can somehow re-write t
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by qot 6y ago
We should also add a sour grapes label for people who missed out on Bitcoin despite being the "tech wizard" of their family and resent it.
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by qot 6y ago
Not quite. You can restore your entire wallet and all the bitcoin with your 12 to 24 word backup phrase.
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by qot 6y ago
You can say that about gold. The metallurgical / industrial value is no where near $1,800/oz. It's a speculative bubble that's bound to burst sooner or later. Maybe after another 5000 years.
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by qot 6y ago
Thank you Dang, your levelheaded moderation makes this place great.
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by qot 6y ago
Going forward, what changes will you make so that people don't have to make Hackernews posts to get support?
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by qot 6y ago
Hey Daniel, I'm really interested in the solution you made because I've been thinking of a similar architecture. What's the best way to contact you? I can't find your email on your website or Github.
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by qot 6y ago
You may be able to store 1 TB in S3 deep glacier for $1 per month, but it will cost you $90 in bandwidth to do a restore. I recently had a RAID array rebuild fail and had to restore 10 TB from cloud backups. That would've cost me $900
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by qot 6y ago
Note: the article is a premium members-only post preview and cuts off just after getting into a competitor's valuation. You can't read the whole thing and I regret starting to read it, only to be left mid-thought.
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by qot 7y ago
https://youtu.be/YdpxrgXldsY?t=4186
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by qot 7y ago
The John Goodman looking guy said it here in today's briefing: https://youtu.be/YdpxrgXldsY?t=4186
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by qot 7y ago
Worth mentioning the pricing [0]: $30 / month $10,000 / lifetime [0]: https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1214855473876201472
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by qot 7y ago
> Cons: no sync with a mobile device How do you access your notes on your phone? How do you edit?
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by qot 7y ago
WebDAV sync would be great. There are plenty of options like NextCloud, which is self-hostable. Sync it to plain text files.
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by qot 7y ago
> The answers are provided as MD5 checksums of the lower-cased answers which allows you to compare a users response with the answers without explicitally [sic] knowing the answer yourself. Why bother? All the hashes I tried were able to
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by qot 7y ago
What were some of your pain points in handling the tech? I've been toying with the idea of starting a cannabis software company to help people like you.
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by qot 7y ago
Hey grumpy - awesome site, but I thought "Cancel Subscription? - YES / CANCEL" was the title of the post and spent sometime wondering why it had nothing to do with subscriptions: https://pic.t0.vc/ZYIU.png
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by qot 7y ago
I suspect it's because the farther down the rule list you go, the more complicated the rules get. Password cracking often uses rule lists to modify known passwords lists in some way (adding 123 to the end, for example). These get more
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by qot 7y ago
Use an MFA app that supports exporting an encrypted backup, like Aegis.
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by qot 7y ago
Aside: why is it so difficult to upload talks to YouTube with good audio? The audio in this video was constantly clipping which forced me to turn my speakers way down. We live in a time where we can buy off-the-shelf hardware to do machine
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by qot 8y ago
Delta.chat supports E2E with other Delta users and Autocrypt email clients, so the point stands.
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by qot 8y ago
Do you have a link where I can read more? I'm only finding info on a 2014 block to stop coup protests and a request in 2017 for Facebook to delete 309 items they claimed were illegal. Nothing about the Thai people DDoSing government we