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by yason 13y ago
I basically know how it works, that was just my interpretation of the scheme and I stick to it. But I think I used the term mining in an unorthodox way. What I meant by mining is getting reward coins from doing the number-crunching required
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by yason 13y ago
There isn't much to back the price of fiat currencies either: Bitcoin is valued by demand which is effectively the case with other currencies too. If there's demand for bitcoins and trust in the platform, that's all the back
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by yason 13y ago
Since the difficulty is periodically changed based on the hashing rate, it makes an interesting case. Everybody would generally be better off to throttle the rate because the difficulty would tone down as well and you could still make the s
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by yason 13y ago
Anecdotal observation: I just checked my monthly consumption since the beginning of this year and it averaged to 154kWh per month. I'm in Finland, I live in a flat and we have an electrically heated sauna that we use on a regular basis
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by yason 13y ago
What did they say about making a system that is idiot proof...
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by yason 13y ago
It's not about Google. It's because each OEM would have to obtain, merge and release a new Android image for each of their old phones that have the specs to run the new Android. And the images originate from chip makers (because A
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by yason 13y ago
The Unix filenames provide a mechanism. That doesn't need to be changed. The policy can be different, based on the userbase and the tools being used, but limiting the mechanism to disallow bad policies is wrong. While you can create a
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by yason 13y ago
Creating new algorithms based on the key doesn't change the fact that the input for the encryption function is the key (and in this case apparently the plaintext). You can reduce all this algorithm generation back into essentially one
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by yason 13y ago
I could bet a whole lot of money that shoes are outselling both bikes and cars in every European country.
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by yason 13y ago
Success is not about finding what you think you want to have but realizing of how much you already have.
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Torrenting still preferred over streaming for free(torrentfreak.com)
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by yason 13y ago
Same here but I don't really consider it a problem. I work on personal projects a few days or weeks at a time and then after solving the first set of big problems I generally let it slip and lose interest. The source code lives on my h
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by yason 13y ago
Maybe they should keep looking for explosives and sharp items instead of listening to people's jokes. The point of security is to ensure that nothing physically harmful enters the secure side with the passengers regardless of whether t
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by yason 13y ago
Don't ask around these questions because nobody knows you have them . If only you get rid of the printouts you're safe because nobody can prove anything so basically you're free to do what you feel is right . After the prin
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by yason 13y ago
Frameworks happen when you've written your nontrivially big program, you've successfully abstracted out all of the mechanisms in effect in that program, and actually rebuilt your original spaghetti mess on top of those abstraction
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by yason 13y ago
Speaking of pipes, what would be a good way to branch pipes for some work and then join them back again in order? Running: ls | pee "./cruncher" "./muncher" will produce output from both ./cruncher
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by yason 13y ago
If you're already going to jail for a potentially longer period of time, what does it matter?
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by yason 13y ago
By the same token car makers should have the legal right to dictate which roads you can drive on, hardware makers should have the legal right to dictate what operating system you can run on the hardware you bought yourself, and I think at t
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by yason 13y ago
This is interesting as a more generic case: before criminals had to stash their money in a hide in case they got caught and into prison. Now they can convert the money into bitcoins and simply arrange that they can't unlock the wallet.
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by yason 13y ago
This isn't a Facebook app. This isn't using Facebook API. It's effectively as if he had written a custom browser that displays the Facebook page in a way he likes: a script like that is basically a functional rather than visu
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by yason 13y ago
While flying is efficient, on the other hand you don't drive the same distances that you would fly. The more you stay where you live, the less emissions. If you choose a walkable town, you don't need to drive except occasionally.
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by yason 13y ago
Not living there, what's the Silicon Valley crime like in reality ?
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by yason 13y ago
I wonder if that just raises the bar and everything becomes the same again: - everyone gets at least X for basic income - for some people it makes more sense to not take low-paid shitty jobs because deducting commuting and lunch expenses fr
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by yason 13y ago
I actually have such a 720p screen on my phone. It's hard to compare because I look at the phone at a much closer distance than the laptop screen. I usually read using my laptop because the phone can't fit as much text on the smal
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by yason 13y ago
This sounds like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist in reality. You basically only ever actually need navigation when driving/riding in a foreign city that you don't know yet. If you're on a cycle, using headph
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by yason 13y ago
It's funny how your opinion contrasts against mine. For what I've seen, displays have become a commodity and that's a good thing. I can go buy any kind of display, choose a size and I'm probably fitted with more pixels t
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by yason 13y ago
Does that imply you can actually use any custom window manager with Gnome 3 these days?
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by yason 13y ago
Piracy only kills music that people are willing to bargain for, i.e. where the cost matters and not so much the music. That translates to a lot of mediocre crap generated and promoted by the record industry themselves. However, the reason p
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by yason 13y ago
It makes sense if you get enough money out of it. You can do that for some time. If you don't get paid enough in correspondence to the shit they throw at you, then you must remember that nobody forces you to be there and you can just l
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by yason 13y ago
School sucks in Finland too, it just might suck a bit less than in some countries. - A finn

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