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by spuz 7y ago
The OP didn't misuse the term "coin". In Bitcoin it refers to the value of a single input or an output. When the OP says "Plunking this much value into a single coin seems like an odd strategy at best" they mean &qu
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by spuz 7y ago
But surely it's more efficient to mine crypto than the 0 BTC you are mining by generating SHA-256 hashes and then throwing them away. You could do exactly the same computational work, but use it to generate a tiny bit of income.
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by spuz 7y ago
For what it's worth, I think Ryanair successfully markets itself as both cheap and poor quality. Whenever for example they announce they are considering charging passengers to use the loo, or in fact charging people to carry on a bag,
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by spuz 7y ago
The question you should ask is "how much does it work?". What percentage point gain did it give Trump, what percentage gain did it give Clinton and what was the net gain?
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by spuz 7y ago
I'm definitely missing something here. The standard size of both Ethereum and Bitcoin private keys is a 256bit secp256k1 key. If a 256bit key is guessable within 20 mins then the entire Blockchain is also broken.
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by spuz 7y ago
But what if the definition of 55 changes? You'll be glad to have your table of constants then.
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by spuz 7y ago
Sorry but how is iMessage being a walled garden not a problem for those outside that wall?
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by spuz 7y ago
> According to Yablonovitch, this finding builds on work that he and students published in 2011, which found that the key to boosting solar cell efficiency was not by absorbing more photons (light) but emitting them. By adding a highly r
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by spuz 7y ago
Because often it doesn't take someone to complete their sentence for their point to be made. If you pay close attention next time you are in a conversation with people you know well, you will often know what someone is going to say bef
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by spuz 7y ago
What is this and why might it be interesting to HN readers?
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by spuz 7y ago
Probably because the average Japanese person experiences a lot more earthquakes than the average American even those in the highest risk areas. It's much harder to get a feeling for a value on a particular earthquake scale if you only
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by spuz 7y ago
If you are billed only for the days you are abroad that makes sense but how does the user know whether or not the insurance is active?
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by spuz 7y ago
How do you know the insurance wasn't activated? Why does the insurance activate based on location rather than date?
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by spuz 7y ago
Way back in the dial-up days, I wrote a program to measure the periods of time that a user was online and the corresponding phone call charges which varied depending on the time of day. This meant I had to know to the second whether or not
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by spuz 7y ago
Can anyone give some suggestions of how the security features of this chip might be used?
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by spuz 7y ago
Seeing as the article doesn't specifically say anything negative about Airbus and it's an extract from a book released this month, I would find that incredibly unlikely.
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by spuz 7y ago
What do you mean by this?
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by spuz 8y ago
Hi Bernard. Can you shed some light on why Rivest's prediction that this puzzle would take 35 years of computation was so wildly off? In the paper he predicts that clock speeds would reach 10Ghz by 2012, he also predicts another 5 fold
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by spuz 8y ago
Actually, most of those dots are galaxies. The dots that make up the large structures are stars in the LMC which is a collection of star clusters, but everything else that is not part of some larger structure must be a galaxy.
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by spuz 8y ago
I honestly can't tell whether or not this is satire. He is right that nature isn't sacred, but he's wrong that environmentalists believe that is is. I have never heard an environmentalist say that we should wipe out the human
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by spuz 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474280
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by spuz 8y ago
The article has exactly this scenario as an example of where pure CSS can replace JS.
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by spuz 8y ago
How does that compare with the US?
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by spuz 8y ago
Why would you want to disable the CSS?
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by spuz 8y ago
Yes. What I can't understand is why this extra diagnostic information is not available with a keyboard shortcut, rather than with a change to the registry. If you get a blue screen on boot, you typically have no way to alter the regist
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by spuz 8y ago
There's a great Applied Science video on the various light absorption properties for various materials here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsHRrDYu5o
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by spuz 8y ago
As I understand, Spotify podcasts still contain ads. It's not clear from the article that they intend to provide ad free podcasts for a monthly subscription either.
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by spuz 8y ago
How long have you been doing this though? I started to listen to more podcasts in 2014 when Serial was first released. At that time I did not have unlimited data (I still don't) and I suspect very few people did. I think for the vast m
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by spuz 8y ago
I am surprised that higher capacity storage on phones was not mentioned as a driver of podcast listenership. For me, when I upgraded to a phone that had 32GB of storage around 2014 I was finally able to store mp3s that would download automa
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by spuz 8y ago
> Plus, the whole idea What idea are you referring to? The article I read talks about why podcasts are becoming more popular but doesn't present any new idea around advertising (unless I missed it).

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