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   by toxic_ 8y ago

   Stripe's fraud detection heuristics are neither sophisticated nor particularly effective. Judicious use of DNSBLs, port scanning and latency measurements, three measures which shouldn't take a competent technician more than a few
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   by toxic_ 9y ago

   I developed narcolepsy in my teens and I can absolutely relate to how you feel. Everyone just thought I was lazy, malingering or, in the case of my general physician, depressed. It took years before I could even see a neurologist, after whi
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   by toxic_ 9y ago

   Using PoW `Medallions' on top of a PoW blockchain to prevent Sybil attacks seems redundant. Why not just require Ether commitments from bandwidth providers? Users can then set a configurable threshold for commitment lengths/amount