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by _coldfire 9y ago
It's actually the temperature cycling that's far worse for them. Plenty of available reading on cryptocurrency mining forums.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
>I'm legitimately worried about the long term future of my hobby (PC gaming) The equipment required for gaming loses value very quickly. Old 7970's released in 2012 command amazing resale prices in 2018. Everything else in a ri
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Highly recommend Four Fish by Paul Greenberg, does a good job showing all sides of the fishing industry and the projected future if we keep going the same way. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7347759-four-fish
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by _coldfire 9y ago
To bypass paywall, no facebook account needed, drop into console or a bookmark (HN formatting weird, zerobin text there anyway): javascript:window.location=" https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u="+encodeURIComponent(windo
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by _coldfire 9y ago
A huge amount of hashpower was behind the desire for bitcoin cash, and that didn't work out. Think some underestimate firstmover advantage and end-user inertia.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
And how much computational power will that need?
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by _coldfire 9y ago
From the article: Taught that in case of a real attack the US would have gone on an all-out offensive, Petrov told his bosses the alarm must have been caused by a system malfunction.
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Ask HN: What is the best test for statistical randomness?
13 points by _coldfire 9y ago|4 comments
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by _coldfire 9y ago
The only proven countermeasure so far is delegated proof of stake, which has "trusted" parties doing the staking. But this goes against the idea of decentralisation. Some people wonder if pure proof-of-stake is even possible. Ethe
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by _coldfire 9y ago
There's huge energy oversupply in Sichuan province, you can't just keep storing hydropower infinitely, it has to be released to protect the dams. All this outrage is misguided, the market incentives mean miners go to where the che
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Most garbage collection in Australia has a camera to inspect bin contents and catch people abusing the recycling system. It's been in place for a decade now. https://www.news-mail.com.au/news/waste-truck-watching-y
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Multi-gpu systems are why graphics cards are scarce.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
To download all books at once: https://gist.github.com/graymouser/a33fbb75f94f08af7e36 Improved *nix version further down the thread Change "MOBI" to "PDF"/"EPUB" if desired
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Shhh, plenty of humble books are easily found, but they do good work and provide quality content.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
If some of these projects go on to produce open source software of worth it won't all be for nothing. Associating the ERC-20 protocol with the current mania and nonsense of cryptocurrencies doesn't seem fair. It's simply a me
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Care to elaborate how China has banned it? Last time i was there I had no problem using VPN, and a dozen or so services that utilise encryption, PGP didn't magically stop working the moment i touched down. Customs were far more concern
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ChaosKey to Production(youtube.com)
1 points by _coldfire 9y ago|0 comments
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Done by a government with proper legal oversight it certainly has its place and easily will be a net positive for society. Though lawmakers seem to be oblivious to tech advances moving far quicker than they can, don't hold much hope th
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Nameless resumes are a good way to counter the inefficiencies of a system not based on merit.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
>compared to the use of finite stores of value Ethereum has no cap on supply. Bitcoin is capped at 21m coins.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
As long as all the entry/exit points are regulated and in line with the government, Bitcoin is perfect for a country obsessed with capital controls. Far easier to monitor than cash.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
dont all early adopters usually win out? except of course for the multitudes that fail.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
By what means? If you can send and receive tcp packets you can be on the bitcoin network. I'd be intrigued how you think a government is going to shutdown a FOSS project with no leadership? Last I looked turning off the internet isn&#x
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Most companies don't issues millions of new shares everyday
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by _coldfire 9y ago
You would assume that it was kept quiet to protect the other coins out there using cryptonote.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Metal on metal also has a fraction of the rolling resistance.
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Signal-jacking and gps spoofing is the only cost-efficient and scalable way to bring these things down. The word gun really mangles the reality of counter-drone solutions
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Bitcoin mining has congregated around cheap sources of energy, In China at least, many are using surplus energy from the grid in cutprice deals with provincial govts. Undoubtedly there is huge amounts of energy being pumped into Bitcoin dai
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by _coldfire 9y ago
It wasn't overlooked though. Issue was raised in Sept 2016 https://github.com/bitmaintech/bmminer/issues/7
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by _coldfire 9y ago
Why is this on HN?

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