kirian

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by kirian 6y ago
it won't have door handles.
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by kirian 6y ago
that's what Calico is for ;)
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by kirian 9y ago
I find this ironic this offering - "Bitcoin payments have been disabled for the Humble Book Bundle"
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by kirian 9y ago
When I heard about this previously I wondered if it's a way of developing tunnel boring technology and expertise that would ultimately be useful on Mars. Underground tunnels and spaces are likely to be useful for a Mars colony and Musk
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by kirian 10y ago
"No diaspora of English nobility, many of whom left rather than become subject to Normans" - do you have any other links or more information about this comment, i.e. which nobles and where did they go? I'm curious to find out
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by kirian 10y ago
This the the acronym Seagate uses for solid state hybrid drives - http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/solutions/solid-state-hybrid/ I don't think Backblaze uses any of these so likely they've just pul
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by kirian 11y ago
A recent article in the Washington Post (Wonkblog) making the case for "Why daylight saving time isn’t as terrible as people think". US centric. The argument uses the data of number of days with "reasonable" sunrise and
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by kirian 11y ago
The Seagate drives do seem to be improving in reliability though. The higher capacity Seagate drives which I presume are newer models have better failure rate numbers than the lower capacity drives. The 4 and 6TB drives seem to have reasona
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How Seagate Tests Its Hard Drives(tomshardware.com)
2 points by kirian 11y ago|0 comments
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by kirian 11y ago
It's talking about Market Cap.
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by kirian 12y ago
Pinky and the Brain reference. "Pinky: Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight? Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mPrhwpZ-8 Pinky and
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by kirian 12y ago
How about a Tardigrade - not exactly a complex lifeform but a few steps up from a bacterium. I wonder if these creatures could survive this type of event? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade "Tardigrades can s
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by kirian 12y ago
The article suggests there was a worldwide climate shift: "The scientists noted that, at about the same time that Hunshandake dried out, a major climatic shift was occurring worldwide that caused extraordinary droughts on all of the co
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by kirian 12y ago
Reminds me of this article on the price of Rolex watches and how they have increased as Rolex watches have evolved from a professional tool to a luxury item. http://www.ablogtowatch.com/rolex-prices-past-60-years-revea...
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by kirian 13y ago
Yes, $5,700 seems a bargain to uncover a flaw like this. Shows an interesting potential use of bitcoin, can act as a warning system to identify bugs or insecure systems, like a honeypot. If the bitcoins are taken you know there is a weaknes
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by kirian 13y ago
I donated. It's possible to enter the amount you want to donate, unclick "Be an EFF Member", skip all the "Donor Information" fields, click "donate to EFF" and you are presented with a bitcoin payment address. I wish they would just list a
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by kirian 13y ago
My point is that fiat money systems have costs associated with them. I'm not arguing that the costs change if there is Quantitative easing or not.
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by kirian 13y ago
Central banks and central bankers don't work for free. How much is spent on normal banking infrastructure, cash security vans, fraud protection etc.
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by kirian 13y ago
What are the already-known polynomial time attacks on the protocol? do you have any links? thanks
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by kirian 13y ago
A slightly related article I read recently about how should we evaluate the claims of people much smarter than ourselves. i.e. in this specific article the example is if Krugman makes some claim about economics should we just accept them as
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by kirian 13y ago
from http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/1/4154500/mt-gox-barons-of-bi... "Karpeles bought the site in 2011 from its founder, Jed McCaleb, also known for developing the infamous video-sharing site eDonkey. McCaleb originally started Mt. Gox as
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by kirian 14y ago
Well that sucks. One of my most used/visited apps/sites. Maybe Yahoo should build a reader. Could be a good fit for them.
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by kirian 14y ago
Maybe bitinstant.com
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by kirian 14y ago
On BitPay site: https://bitpay.com/amazon
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BitPay Integrates Bitcoin with Fulfillment by Amazon(marketwatch.com)
85 points by kirian 14y ago|37 comments
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by kirian 14y ago
Or maybe something like this drone delivery network: http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21567193-...
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by kirian 14y ago
See this StackExchange answer for an answer to this question: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5617/why-are-bitc... Some issues with "useful" computational work is that it needs to be computationally easy to verify the result (a
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by kirian 14y ago
Reports of it going live: http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2013/01/the-first-bitcoin-as...
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by kirian 14y ago
Yeah, according to http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ the 30 day monthly volume of Vircurex was just over $200 http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/vcxUSD.html
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by kirian 14y ago
I have to agree, I was trying to work out how the odds are calculated and it makes no sense. Why not copy what Betfair or Intrade or something like that do.

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