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by tfha 9y ago
I can understand why they do it, having someone incompetent in an important position is way more dangerous for the company than having someone competent stuck in a lower position. But it's still a risk to lose good employees, talent is
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by tfha 9y ago
ASICs are only costly from an R&D perspective. Which means once someone has all the R&D, they can be a monopoly and get really cheap hashrate, and since they are an incumbent monopoly it's much harder for another company to ste
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by tfha 9y ago
How about the combination of species that created the atmosphere at all? Gave it oxygen? Enriched the soil?
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by tfha 9y ago
Across almost all kingdoms of life, death is a common denominator. It is how a species is able to evolve over time and keep up with a dynamic landscape. Death is very healthy at the species level.
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by tfha 9y ago
I did, thanks
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by tfha 9y ago
There's a general class of crypto for solving this problem called a VRF. Algorand also has a very clever way to solve the randomness problem, including a method to foil an attacker that is even able to get lucky repeatedly.
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by tfha 9y ago
Going to need internationally enforced regulation to make a difference. Penalties heavy enough to kill companies that dump, and enforcement policies for other countries that have real teeth to them. People will always consume as many resour
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by tfha 9y ago
Uh, unless you've got some way to make a decentralized blockchain function at 2.5 GiB every 10 minutes, it's effectively not a spectrum. At 8mb block size we'd still have the same problem. Except instead of happening at 5 mil
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by tfha 9y ago
A large percentage of the units shipped in January had clearly been in use for a while prior to shipping. So to answer your question... they do mine their own hardware, and a lot of it.
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by tfha 9y ago
Crazy how fast the markets moved on this news. The price crashed and bounced halfway back before I even found the article, and I was actively searching for the source of the panic. But, perhaps that's because in the grand scheme, SK is
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by tfha 9y ago
What they are really saying is "It's not just Intel processors. AMD, ARM, and others are just as vulnerable."
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by tfha 9y ago
Well, you could prove it by digging up texts and commentaries from the time that mention these devices. Diary entries, etc. It's unlikely that so many masters would use this technique without leaving some evidence of it behind. So, in
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by tfha 9y ago
Filecoin raised $205m, not $257m. And at $205m it's not record breaking either, as the standard record was $230m when the Filecoin sale started.
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by tfha 9y ago
Healthcare in the US is so bogged down by regulation, standards, certification, etc, that there's really no room for competition. You have to buy the X-ray machine that's 40x overpriced. You have to use the software that's 20
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by tfha 9y ago
There's definitely a massive amount of dunning-krueger happening in cryptocurrency. I see a lot of that in these threads. But I think the real reason the threads are low quality is a lot more disappointing. There are a lot of people wh
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by tfha 9y ago
I'd be worried about them doing to RISC-V what they did to Android: buy it, make it popular, add proprietary opcodes that substantially improve performance, get all major RISC-V chips in production using those opcodes, slowly change th
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by tfha 9y ago
We've happily changed >$500k per day 10 days in a row (all sales) with no slippage - we were doing market orders for all of them. Had no issues.
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by tfha 9y ago
Hack the full nodes to modify their database. Or cut a business deal with the biggest full nodes (Coinbase, Bitmain, Shapeshift, But go, etc.) and decide to implement a rule much of the network opposes, like raising the block size (which co
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by tfha 9y ago
What's hard is distribution without allowing redistribution, which is what traditional companies consider a mandatory prerequisite for distribution
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by tfha 9y ago
Private trackers leverage the power of exclusivity and status to get volunteers to work hard. I worked probably 1000 hours on about 30 movies to get access to some of the exclusive perks reserved for only the most skilled encoders. To this
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by tfha 9y ago
> the cost to get enough shared ledgers to agree that user x has 0$ (previously had $5M) is less than or equal to the amount of money that could be divided amongst the thieves That's the trick. In some cases, you'd be correct a
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by tfha 9y ago
The end is not nigh until she tells you she invested your inheritance into it.
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by tfha 9y ago
How can we fight against these patterns? Amendments? Force bills to be broken up? Only allow a bill to be submitted once a decade? Our system is definitely broken, but I have no idea what type of changes might prevent these abuses
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by tfha 9y ago
I've been waiting for the MagicLeap ICO.
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by tfha 9y ago
LP = low power = not performance
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by tfha 9y ago
Yeah. It's hard to tell how much we are seeing these reviews because people want to see Intel get passed vs. because Intel is actually getting passed. Are there any rest that chips released, actual chips, where the different foundries
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by tfha 9y ago
Not just ubuntu. We tell our engineers to remove their swap partitions because sometimes the test suite will consume all remaining memory and push into swap. If that happens, pretty much the only thing you can do is a hard poweroff. If you&
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by tfha 9y ago
We had a fire alarm going off due to low battery once. We searched the house for 3 hours trying to find it. Gave up, slept through the beeping. Next day, enraged, we tried again. Eventually we found it in the bathroom trash can.
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by tfha 9y ago
There not much the individual can do about it. It's not feasible for me as a consumer to do proper research into the backgrounds behind my products and companies that I use. It's barely feasible for me to even be confident I'
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by tfha 9y ago
For what it's worth, MD5 is perfectly safe for use as a proof of work algorithm. You just don't want to use it for authentication / data integrity

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