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by kindfellow92 9y ago
There are millions of millionaires in China alone that are very concerned about the future security and mobility of their money. Now consider India, Russia, Iran. This isn’t fiction.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Millions, yes it is... the world is a lot bigger place than you think it is.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
What kind of relationship do you think the person in question has with the current federal intelligence community?
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
How about the ability to move large sums of money around the world without having to trust or be limited by any government or bank?
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
So adding an ex-government official to the board automatically means Dropbox is surveilling you? How does that logic work?
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Do you think the only thing that makes cryptocurrencies valuable is transaction rate?
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
You’re right. I meant, if anything Bitcoin is Google, but it’s not even that.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
If you can’t see how Bitcoin provides millions of others a valuable service, you have a poor imagination.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
> Not trying to be pessimistic but genuinely curious why so many people make the analogy to the dot com period. Because most people are not creative nor critical thinkers and the extent of their brilliance is superficial pattern matching
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
On average it’s likely they don’t given they are using his product.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Something is off if you think he’s an asshole and his users in India don’t.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
> He wasn't. He was just giving them an error message after they Tweeted what he wanted. Did you read the entire post? His service is available to India right now. Their tweets helped make that possible. It’s strange to me that you
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Whoa there. Calm down buddy. Before you bust out the pitchforks, he just asked them to post tweets. The cost to them is zero in money, and virtually zero in time. Couple that with the fact that he was providing them with a free service and
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
How is he a prick? What harm has he caused to anyone?
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
You’re the one showing a lack of humanity by judging him based on a single blog post.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
This is a cool page about creating chladni patterns in code https://thelig.ht/chladni
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Creating Digital Chladni Patterns(thelig.ht)
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
No KPTI does not address variant 1.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
This post seems to indicate that there is no kernel-level workaround for variant 1, that contradicts AMD’s statement: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution LWN seems right on this one, that makes
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Syscall performance would suffer but otherwise this could work.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
> The concept of Fork was not designed to "spawn new programs", it was created to allow parallelism on a single program with several processes collaborating on the same task. It's even in the name (i.e. you fork the progra
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Nothing is wrong with it, it’s just subjective. Being subjective is usually not the domain of journalism (outside of op-eds).
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
“Weird” Actually niche online communities aren’t weird. Just because a topic isn’t repeated over and over again on big media doesn’t mean it’s weird. Big media doesn’t dictate what is normal.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
This trick doesn’t avoid the storage of this data into RAM. A single context switch is enough.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Yeah on context switch the SSE registers are stored in memory, so this doesn’t help for security.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
In the style of this article, Most probably not.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
I think you’re missing the point. This is only useful if there is actually a measureable benefit.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
Transfers aren’t synchronous operations.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
I did a wire on 12/13 and 12/16 without issue. This is likely user error.
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by kindfellow92 9y ago
You probably accidentally did an ACH transfer instead of a wire transfer. Coinbase does not support ACH.

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