samplonius

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by samplonius 12y ago
The smart money always leaves before the price goes down. The dumb money always leaves after the prices has gone down. If you don't know who the dumb one is, it is you.
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by samplonius 12y ago
Oddities: 1. The keywords <meta> tag is missing a closing bracket on most if not all pages. 2. The main edit page has <link> tags located after the final </html> tag.
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by samplonius 12y ago
And while the number of deaths varies each season, the CDC estimates that the flu kills a minimum of 3,000 people in the US each year. Just to put this Ebola thing in perspective.
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by samplonius 12y ago
"For example, people might get so scared of Ebola in the affected countries ... and throw them out on the street to die." That might make it worse. In Africa, the distance between the gutter and the water supply isn't very f
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by samplonius 12y ago
So if the airmen wore shirts and were less sexy, you'd feel the whole situation was more safe? Or, do you need to take a time out and have a cold shower? Because it kinda of sounds like you are one Tom of Finland book away from hyper
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by samplonius 12y ago
Hey, this is Hackernews, not Reddit. You can't just completely make shit up here.
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by samplonius 12y ago
Don't schools teach reading comprehension these days? "... the solid state disk in the active routing engine failed on one of our core switches. This triggered a failover to the backup routing engine..."
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by samplonius 12y ago
The gov't announced months ago that unclaimed assets seized from Silk Road would be auctioned. The waiting period has now expired. And why shouldn't it be fast? There is a single person who holds over $1B USD of Bitcoin, so big
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by samplonius 12y ago
You are assuming that you'd recognize innovation as innovation as innovation, if you saw it. Would you? Because self-driving cars are a huge deal. It would eliminate the range issue of electrics, because you could send your car to a
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by samplonius 12y ago
Nothing. As they've stated, Google X isn't even working on space elevators. It was just an off-handed comment that someone made, that the Reddit crowd now fixates on.
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by samplonius 12y ago
No, like actual the actual moonshot. No one really knows that Google X is working on, and this is the first media visit to the lab, so it is hardly just PR stunts.
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by samplonius 12y ago
I read this whole thing, but they left out a description of the NSA planted back doors. As everyone knows, the NSA has compromised all crypto systems. Since the audit did not reveal the NSA back door or doors, what else is missing? More l
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by samplonius 13y ago
Why is not having a FB account "disdain"? I realize that you have some sort of anti-FB ax to grind and does most of HN. I haven't logged into FB for 6 months, but it is because of apathy, not disdain. Why would John be any
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by samplonius 13y ago
Because on-premise solutions are even more vulnerable to DDoS. A large data centre will have large amounts of connectivity, giving you a lot of head room for most types of attacks. But in this case 20Gbps of extra traffic was too much too
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by samplonius 13y ago
Yes you do. Because DDoS, so like the service is down for users and attackers. I'm surprised that on a technical forum there is still this complete misconception of what a DoS is.
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by samplonius 13y ago
Based on what? The Otto Group is battling unions in Hermes, like Amazon is battling unions in their warehouses. Is there any difference at all? I know Europe like to view US as a big monster to scare kids: you better behave or big mean U
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by samplonius 13y ago
How? I'm corrupt, and their are scavengers rummaging through the alley that runs behind the office. How do I leverage this poverty to make some sweet green? I've watched them dig through the trash, and they don't have anyt
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by samplonius 13y ago
This is just cargo cult thinking: Java is bad. GC is bad. C++ is not Java, so it is good. The only thing to do, is get on your coconut radio and wait for the planes to bring you some cargo. While you are waiting, Kafka is a useful MQ fo
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by samplonius 13y ago
Inside Facebook, the top 1000 daily photos is known as the "Buddha List", because viewing them is a transcendent experience, after which your waking life is little more than crude construct of colorless shapes. And then you get fi
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by samplonius 13y ago
Because at the military level, all encryption is assumed to be compromised. Plus, it is assumed the phone may contain data of national value, so it assumed an adversary would spend unlimited resources to crack the encryption. For example,
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by samplonius 13y ago
The fact is "trusted proxies" are a real thing right now. Plenty of private networks require that you trust one or more private CA roots and all SSL are intercepted and filtered. It is sort of a pain to do. You have to use some
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by samplonius 13y ago
But you rapidly reach a point beyond which most users can get to. Three steps: (1) open console, (2) copy, (3) paste is about the limit on what an average computer user can do these days.
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by samplonius 13y ago
So downloading a 100KB extension for a browser which you use for downloading stuff all the time is a "huge barrier"? Wow, talk about a 1st world problem. And "when I teach ruby", "well ok, now download xcode".
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by samplonius 13y ago
I don't get it. The Shuttle project included a lot of things that had never been done before. So things didn't quite go to plan and some people died? But in the mean time, it performed useful tasks. Predicting failure is easy,
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by samplonius 13y ago
Except that record companies were never created for anyone's benefit except their own. But also this article was written in 2006. It is now 2014, and hiphop has not been killed. In fact, this particular issue became a big nothing. Re
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by samplonius 13y ago
Facebook has dozens of sysadmins working 24x7, but they also have 200,000 servers. While diagnosing issues may require logins, you aren't going to be fix anything on 200,000 servers without automation. At large scale, all problems bec
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by samplonius 13y ago
I think the poster meant IP not port. Most proxy servers can be configured bind to a specific IP. So if your proxy server has an external IP and an internal IP, configure the proxy server to bind to the external IP. And then use IPTables
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by samplonius 13y ago
There is also a touch of irony. Buffet has always been about rational investment. Nothing explains his approach better, than "Always take advantage of market folly". If you don't know who the mark is, then it is you. Its
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by samplonius 13y ago
Taxes. Lottery winnings may be taxed depending on state taxes. Though it is not clear if this is a lottery or gambling. Gambling winnings are not normally taxed in the US.
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by samplonius 13y ago
Or maybe that is irrational, and your tendency towards Loss Aversion is lying to you. After getting your first cheque for $25M, your biggest worry shouldn't be about losses due to inflation on the remainder of the $1B sitting in trust

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