unknownsavage

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by unknownsavage 7y ago
It doesn't use mining, so requires negligible power to run.
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by unknownsavage 7y ago
I didn't report it as stolen. But they did forward the charges. But yeah, I've just finished closing my credit card completely. It's unreasonable that I've been disputing the same charge from AWS for almost a year, and n
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by unknownsavage 7y ago
> They forwarded from one card to another? AWS charged a closed card and the bank forwarded it? Yup. > By the way, if you can't authenticate with Amazon as the rightful owner of that account, it sounds unreasonable for them to co
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Ask HN: AWS refuses to stop billing me for a compromised account
32 points by unknownsavage 7y ago|20 comments
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by unknownsavage 7y ago
This only really works if you have an ad-blocker, or at least know to ignore the ads. Otherwise google will frequently end up frequently serving ads for a malicious product (most commonly seen for crypto products)
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by unknownsavage 7y ago
For people who haven't read the article this is extremely misleading: > The ends with him agreeing how the film sucks and maybe the prosecutor was right! He says that, only as a joke that it's so bad it should've been ille
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Ask HN: AWS continues to charge me even though a hacker uses my account
8 points by unknownsavage 7y ago|8 comments
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by unknownsavage 8y ago
I think the real damning thing is: > When Bell customers sign up in advance for unlimited Canada-U.S. texting, they pay only $12 a month. which I think shows charging $2k for a few weeks worth of texts is pretty unconscionable
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by unknownsavage 8y ago
I recently upgraded from the 2015 to the current gen. 2015 pros: * Better battery life * Way better keyboard * More robust * More useful port selection * Trackpad is a more reasonable size 2018 pros: * Way better speakers * Slightly better
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by unknownsavage 8y ago
One thing I found to make the touchbar less annoying is go keyboard -> Touchbar shows "Expanded Control Strip". At least then you get a full strip of useful buttons that aren't constantly switching with the application. T
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by unknownsavage 9y ago
They're basing on that if someone was sending a stupidly aggressive fee (400 satoshis per byte). Anything above that is just obviously an error. You can get an idea of what fees should be with estimatefee.com
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by unknownsavage 9y ago
There are plenty of opportunities for things to be stollen from checked in luggage at the arriving airport. This actually happened to me on a flight into the US, with an expensive set of german kitchen knives in checked-in. In the US my sui
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by unknownsavage 9y ago
Google already pushes animated ads through adsense, but not yet on their own pages.
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by unknownsavage 9y ago
I don't understand how negative power prices can exist? Why wouldn't everyone just dump the power into the ground and make a profit? Surely 0 has to be a floor.
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by unknownsavage 9y ago
I think you're confused. I bought a Macbook in New Zealand, and had it's motherboard replaced for free in the US. Then later bought a new Macbook in the US and it serviced in Germany.
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by unknownsavage 9y ago
Please review the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
The lisp quickstart is indeed one of the key advantages of lsip: $ time sbcl --script hello.lisp Hello World! real 0m0.026s user 0m0.009s sys 0m0.013s Compared with languages with a much bigger starting curve:
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
Great news. I tried spideroak and liked the product, but the inability for me to pay using anonymous payment methods has lead me to use sync.com instead. I had trouble with a prepaid debit card, and they unfortunately don't take bitcoi
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
The grandstanding is corny at best. Take the first example: > Despite continued assaults on the credibility of her contributions to modern computer science as the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace coded. Yet in reality she
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
One issue with buying two keys is they internally have different keys, so you need to connect both to each new account which is a pain in the ass and stops you just keeping one somewhere very safe (i.e. safety deposit box, or a safe at a fr
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
The trezor only lets you backup the key during the initialization stage. After that the key can never be recovered. Also you can set a password so it's encrypted as well, so even if someone finds your paper backup it's not particu
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
This is really awful, for it to work well you would need to buy multiple keys and each time use them all to register (which precludes the option of storing the backup key somewhere safe). Straight from the yubico website: "It is recomm
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
> If you want encryption, don't use email. That's total nonsense. > Search isn't possible It absolutely is, in both theory and practice. The server stores an encrypted index, and the client walks it (requesting parts as
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
I've always been interesting in doing this in Japan, this is without a doubt the best resource I've ever seen on the matter. Well done to the author, thanks for writing this up.
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
Actually their view point is perfectly consistent. They criticized _bitcoin_ not the blockchain. While a blockchain could support some of the regulatory required undo stuff (by appending a record that it's been undone), bitcoin itself
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
Yeah, this is my impression too. This is the first mention of it I think I've heard in the last year, and I'm in the web development scene. Meanwhile I seemingly can't get away from rust mentions, which seems to have people r
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
Nope. There really isn't, or if there is, it's niche dependent. To diversify away from Google, I've tried other ad providers and struggled to make 20% as much...
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
I really don't think this is a big deal. I run a medium size website with well over 2000 uniques users per day and also require the referer header to use the website. So far, I've yet to receive a single complaint or find a browse
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
One thing most people don't think about. The kelly criterion isn't particularly useful for investors, as you need to be able to quantify the expected outcomes. It's not particularly useful for gamblers (rarely do they have qu
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by unknownsavage 10y ago
I think it's against Amazon's policy because it's against reddit's. Either way, I hold Amazon 100% fault. When you go to an affiliate link, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/KONG-Cozie-Marvin-Moose-Medium/

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