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by zik 12y ago
It's really a huge issue for industrial and embedded applications. The lack of any provision for a locking mechanism basically means you have to rig some kind of awkward glue or stop bolt arrangement to stop usb connectors from falling
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by zik 13y ago
I implemented this once in my C interpreter picoc. Users hated it because it also prevented them from doing some crazy C memory access tricks, so I ended up taking it out.
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by zik 13y ago
You do realise that the current value of bitcoin is 5x what it was a year ago? "Burned" is not the correct word for that. But that's not why bitcoin is important. bitcoin uses cryptography and peer to peer technologies in a v
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by zik 13y ago
They probably already read YC so when they read this and see all the potential avenues you have against them they're going to come running with some kind of settlement I'd say.
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by zik 13y ago
Unlike the US, the EU has strong legislation against deceptive advertising. Saying that a game is "free" when it's designed for profit is intentionally deceptive. It's really as simple as that.
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by zik 13y ago
ARM designs the "IP core" of the processor but doesn't fab anything themselves. AMD brings their own SOC design and fab process.
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by zik 13y ago
They haven't actually been selling much. They patent-trolled google over some smartphone patents and won. Now they include the billions in revenue as "Windows Phone revenue". AFAIK they make more out of this patent trolling t
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by zik 13y ago
ITT: people who haven't looked up the definition of "intrinsic value". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_value_%28finance%29
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by zik 13y ago
I swam at the pictured beach - Gracetown beach in WA - only two days ago. Fortunately there were no sharks that day, although it does have the highest shark death rate of any beach in the country.
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by zik 13y ago
Yes, and he makes no mention of the disappointingly low angular resolution. Even the "improved" resolution on the consumer version is approximately equivalent to using a 1980s IBM PC with a 320x200 CGA display. You get a much wide
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by zik 13y ago
Yes, it is traceable. That's why when you buy bitcoin at an exchange the government requires that you prove your identity. Then it's just a matter of following the money through bitcoin's permanent public ledger. It's pr
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by zik 13y ago
Miners are paid in two ways - from creating new bitcoins and from transaction fees. The transaction fees are small but add up to enough to make it worth mining.
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by zik 13y ago
I imagine he'll wait until thing die down a little and then quietly give the NSA his approval without risking the public's ire.
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by zik 13y ago
Thanks. That was really interesting.
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by zik 13y ago
This is only really true in America. I've bought bitcoins two different ways in Australia. It wasn't that hard.
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by zik 13y ago
Not at all. Bitcoin's value will continue to increase while the new technology is adopted using the old rule of supply and demand. Then it'll stabilise. No new rules are needed.
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by zik 13y ago
This article rephrased: "Bitcoin doesn't fit with my limited world view so I reject it wholeheartedly".
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by zik 13y ago
Great work by those researchers. They linked Satoshi Nakamoto to Silk Road. Except it wasn't Satoshi, it was someone else. And it wasn't Silk Road, it was MtGox. I think their methods could use some improvement.
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by zik 13y ago
The nothing backing bitcoin is exactly the same nothing backing every currency in the world today. Hooray for fiat currencies.
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by zik 13y ago
It'd be nice to see some description of which compiler, version and flags are used in each case.
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by zik 13y ago
> It is neither inherently immoral nor illegal. Whether it's moral surely depends on whether you think people have a right to private communication. If you think it's immoral for someone to monitor your personal communications,
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by zik 13y ago
The big question is how long they can retain the charge. Supercapacitors generally have a much higher self-discharge rate than batteries.
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by zik 13y ago
TL;DR anyone?
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by zik 13y ago
It's basically a magnetometer aka a digital compass. It's particularly useful when orienting your map the right way.
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by zik 13y ago
Not to mention the impracticality of web browsing on a small screen. My Galaxy S3's screen is still smaller than I'd like for web browsing, but it's usable which is a hell of a lot better than my iPhone.
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by zik 13y ago
It's already a bigger economy than some small countries. That's a pretty decent size in my book. Add to that the fact that it's increasing in size exponentially at the moment and it's looking like it's going to be a
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by zik 13y ago
This is one of the smallest transponders on the market. It still weighs much more than a textbook and requires an even larger power supply. http://www.garrecht.com/index.php/en/mode-s/vt-01-uav
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by zik 13y ago
What they're proposing is illegal in Australia too. There's really strong regulation about what you can and can't do with a drone and this falls strongly into the "can't" category. I know this because I've
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by zik 13y ago
According to Wikipedia: > The original FAT file system (or FAT structure, as it was called initially) was designed and coded by Marc McDonald,[9] based on a series of discussions between McDonald and Bill Gates.
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by zik 13y ago
> ...it turns out that hosting email for the criminal class carries real risks and isn't terribly lucrative. That's quite an assertion. I had an email account on lavabit. From what you're saying apparently that means I&#x2

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