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by tristanj 9y ago
It's worth mentioning there's no need for 51+% control of hashrate to execute this double spend attack. It's very possible to execute one with minority control however success is not guaranteed. With 20% control of hashrate a
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by tristanj 9y ago
> he didn't steal from the Silk Road wallet The authors are simplifying, at the time he stole the coins they belonged to the Silk Road. Later the U.S. seized all bitcoins belonging to the Silk Road. Bridges lied about the coins and
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by tristanj 9y ago
This isn't newsworthy, the incident happened in 2013 and he was already caught, sentenced, and sent to jail in 2015. He received 71 months in prison. His partner in crime (Carl Force) received six years in prison (HN discussion: htt
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15603371
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$10bn estimate from 2015 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2015-06-16/chi...
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by tristanj 9y ago
It's news because China runs by far the largest overseas propaganda campaign, spending over $10bn per year on it. They spend 15x more than the US does on overseas propaganda. What's worrisome is not the fact that they do it, but t
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by tristanj 9y ago
The oil crisis was real though. If it wasn't for the growth in supply from unconventional oil in the past 10 years, today's oil price would be over $150/barrel.
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by tristanj 9y ago
It's more dishonest to cover this kind of information up.
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by tristanj 9y ago
If you read the SEC filing it says they only overstated their quarterly MAUs by 0.6%. If they wanted to make their company look bigger, why would they inflate with such a tiny number? I doubt this was intentional.
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by tristanj 9y ago
Your point being? It's well known that China spends billions on overseas propaganda. The $10bn on propaganda has been reported in multiple outlets. Does the Nikkei Times article on it somehow make the figure untrue? Also, your entire c
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by tristanj 9y ago
Whataboutism doesn't disprove the fact that China spends an unprecedented amount on overseas propaganda, more than any other country. The US, in comparison, spends about $666m per year on foreign public diplomacy. Why is China spending
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by tristanj 9y ago
The $10bn figure is from 2 years ago, it's likely higher today https://www.ft.com/content/324d82c4-2d60-11e6-a18d-a96ab29e3...
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by tristanj 9y ago
China's central propaganda department spends $10bn+ per year on overseas propaganda, it's no surprise that money is going somewhere.
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by tristanj 9y ago
Seems like Tesla has been eying this move for over a year. Bloomberg [0] broke this story last year (June 2016) saying Tesla planned to invest $9 billion in Shanghai, according to a 'person with knowledge of the matter'. However,
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by tristanj 9y ago
Edit: The parent comment was orignally asking about linking to non-paywalled secondary sources. In the HN guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please submit the original source. If a post repor
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by tristanj 9y ago
Supersonic flight doesn't have to be as noisy as the Concorde was. Remember, Concorde was designed in the mid 1960s (over 50 years ago) with minimal use of computer modeling. We've had decades of advances in computer modeling and
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by tristanj 9y ago
The chart is very misleading as it doesn't take into account the size of economy. The US is a much larger country than it was in 1945 and is spending much smaller portion on military today. During WW2, US defense spending was over 40%
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by tristanj 9y ago
Only if they stop giving it back to their shareholders. Since they started their buyback program in 2012 Apple has 'returned' over $222 billion to shareholders [0]. Presently they are issuing debt to finance the buybacks & div
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by tristanj 9y ago
It's also worth reading the leaked 2009 US diplomatic cables about Xi published by Wikileaks. They're cited by the BBC story and give a lot of background. The source is from a former close friend of Xi who is currently a professor
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by tristanj 9y ago
There's always https://simple.wikipedia.org I suspect most of these wikipedia articles end up fairly technical because they're written by bored graduate students.
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by tristanj 9y ago
Better article with plausible explanation of how he was tracked: https://torrentfreak.com/purevpn-logs-helped-fbi-net-alleged... > PureVPN's Privacy Policy: We do NOT keep any logs that can identify or help in monit
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by tristanj 9y ago
> Uber passengers were paying only 41% of the actual cost of their trips ... That means your $25 trip into Manhattan from Brooklyn should actually cost around $60. Investors in the private company are currently footing the other $35 (mos
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by tristanj 9y ago
Grandparent poster is suggesting that sending this energy out to space is a waste. It's not, if there were no reflectors, the energy will end up in space anyway. The reflectors emit about 40 watts per square meter. In comparison, the e
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by tristanj 9y ago
http://sites.gsu.edu/geog1112/files/2012/10/Energy_Balance.p... The earth already emits massive amounts of energy back into space. Nearly all the energy received from the sun is reemitted back into space
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by tristanj 9y ago
I don't think North Korea has the electrical capacity to mine cryptocurrencies. They don't have enough electricity to keep their cities lit at night.
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by tristanj 9y ago
The issues raised in the article may explain why Apple just added the ability to passcode-lock your device by pressing the power button 5 times. Though people have been raising similar issues about biometric identification for years. See th
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by tristanj 9y ago
Nearly all [Edit: not all, see replies] electric cars use induction motors, not permanent magnet motors. Induction motors only need steel, iron, and copper so they don't contain any neodymium.
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by tristanj 9y ago
This document was written in 1984 and was publically released in 2008. Meaning it was written during the Cold War in an entirely different political climate. It's not stated in the article anywhere, it really needs to be mentioned some
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by tristanj 9y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15208565
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Amazon hit with class-action suit over fake eclipse glasses(nypost.com)
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