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by ssl232 4y ago
> At the end of the day, it's a very simple calculation for them: electricity costs in, Bitcoin value out. No matter where their Bitcoin reward comes from, they will not (for long anyway) spend more on BTC then they are rewarded. Tr
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by ssl232 4y ago
An attempt to rewrite the ledger with a 51% attack would be detected almost immediately. The Bitcoin in the rewritten ledger would quickly become worthless, including that belonging to the keys owned by the attacker. All that mining gear us
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by ssl232 4y ago
Correct, I rarely bother to start debates on topics I know will be controversial here any more. This one being an exception I now slightly regret. HN used to be able to debate without emotion but in the past few years it's more or less
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by ssl232 4y ago
Interesting points. I think I agree with your last one. However, a NATO member has not actually been attacked so it's "merely" the spirit of the alliance that's been tarnished. And at the same time the Russian army has b
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by ssl232 4y ago
Those are good points to that I hadn't considered. As a Finn (?), what are your feelings with regards to your historical neutrality being broken by joining NATO? Surely many Finnish politicians past and present will have fought hard fo
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by ssl232 4y ago
> My take is that they should just have stayed out of the Russia US power game completely. I think so too. The West would tolerate invasion by Russia of Finland even less than it is doing for Ukraine, with or without NATO membership (not
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by ssl232 4y ago
> I think you should go and tell Ukrainian people that their country is a buffer zone meant to act as a burnt ground, and they are not allowed to work towards joining the alliances and economic systems that they want to join in order to
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by ssl232 4y ago
Usual caveats that I'm not a diplomat, don't have all the facts, etc etc., but this doesn't seem like a rational move for Finland or NATO. The UK just yesterday agreed to protect Finland in the event of an attack, and the UK&
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by ssl232 4y ago
I imagine it will be useful to be able to embed Jupyter widgets to provide the viewer with interactive graphics. Is this possible?
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by ssl232 4y ago
I'd be interested to know too. The hackers purportedly demanded release of the Nvidia drivers as open source: > The LAPSUS$ hacking group, which has taken credit for the breach, had an unusually populist demand: it stated that it wa
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by ssl232 4y ago
When I hosted my own mail I did all of that except (e). I had trouble, as seems to be typical, with deliverability to Microsoft-hosted addresses. I wonder if (e) would have helped (doubt it).
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by ssl232 4y ago
I dabbled in web-based mapping a couple years ago and found the tech stack to be really quite polished. Starting from a database of features from e.g. OpenStreetMap hosted in a Postgres-based PostGIS map server, and geographical boundaries
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by ssl232 4y ago
> I wrote a short mail to the admin contact and got told I had to host a web page with contact information on the same IP. Interesting. Was that just to prove to that particular provider that you, the emailer, own the domain? Or is it so
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by ssl232 4y ago
Cool! Do you plan on making this available on F-Droid?
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The Physics of Gluttony (2004)(muller.lbl.gov)
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by ssl232 4y ago
Enable showdead. It points to https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7oe8l btw.
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by ssl232 4y ago
Yes. If that happens, you shouldn't give that website your business.
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by ssl232 4y ago
It's not trying to solve the problem of assessing whether rules were broken, it's attempting to add friction to bad behaviour. If you get banned and lose your deposit, it's going to cost you another $N to try again. Right now
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by ssl232 4y ago
You should ask Michael Saylor to be sure how he proposes this will all work, but he did mention his company (MicroStrategy) spends $1M/year on DDOS mitigation. I expect if Lightning ends up as cheap and fast as he and others are saying
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by ssl232 4y ago
The site. They stake their reputation on being fair. Unfair sites will lose users. This is basically what happens already with moderation, it's just adding a small monetary penalty to bad actors to discourage them.
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by ssl232 4y ago
It's not $10 per site, it's $10 one off. You would get the money back almost immediately if your request is not abusive. I'd be interested to know how many twitter users couldn't scrape together a once off $10.
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by ssl232 4y ago
It's not linked to your identity. You can make a new wallet any time, but it'll cost another $10. In that sense it makes a pretty awful social credit system.
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by ssl232 4y ago
Michael Saylor had an idea he discussed on a recent Lex Fridman podcast. People should be able to post $10 collatoral via the Bitcoin Lightning network for safe passage on the web. This can be done by your browser via HTTP. Bad behaviour (s
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by ssl232 4y ago
Turns out F-Droid inclusion is pending [1]. I was surprised not to see it there. [1] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/10909
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by ssl232 4y ago
Do Facebook and Google literally have repos with everything they write in there available to everyone that works there (modulo privileged stuff)?
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by ssl232 4y ago
KDE allows this, but I don't enable it not because of its (unnoticeable) detriment to performance, but because the extra visual stimulus is distracting.
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by ssl232 5y ago
Guido van Rossum openly admits the move from 2 to 3 was a bit of a disaster. I think some of the decisions made since then have been more conservative in a bid to avoid such damage again. And talk of a Python 4 is for the most part academic
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by ssl232 5y ago
The A/B system upgrade idea is intriguing. And kinda painfully obvious, in hindsight. Why don't the distros that have merged /usr do that already?
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by ssl232 5y ago
How much of Python's success is down to the BDFL(-delegate) approach of governance? It seems a lot of projects have adopted it and Python's PEP system for managing new features. I wonder if Debian could use a similar sort of elect
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by ssl232 5y ago
> Code as CAD as an idea I believe is flawed. I find it more intuitive as a paradigm, but I think the real reason for lack of code interfaces in professional packages is probably because CAD models are built incrementally, and a lot of c

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