srfilipek

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by srfilipek 4y ago
Yes, in practice mining mostly follows price, but it's still not quite that cut and dry. Miners also need to sell bitcoin to recoup operational costs. They influence the value of bitcoin by being an active trader and setting limits to
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by srfilipek 4y ago
Well, theoretically the value of Bitcoin would be a function of energy costs and mining difficulty, but that hasn’t happened in practice, and would still be volatile anyway.
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by srfilipek 4y ago
They are legally required to report it that way. The quarterly shareholder reports include revenue with and without Bitcoin.
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by srfilipek 5y ago
It's an okay-ish alternative to a password, but if we're going to use cryptographic secrets for auth, I'd hope to see more of a handshake and challenge-response involved. As it stands, anyone who has access to a private key m
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by srfilipek 5y ago
> Heartbleed (and all the other serious memory exploits) required a great deal of skill and a lot of luck to exploit, and in return you either don't get a remote execution, or you get a very tiny chance of a remote execution. Heartb
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by srfilipek 5y ago
Any good implementation has fingerprint information stored locally, encrypted, and never transmitted off device.
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by srfilipek 6y ago
> This software is maintained by Todd Miller, the well known OpenBSD developer Ironic that OpenBSD dropped sudo in favor of a much simpler utility.
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by srfilipek 6y ago
The article discusses interoperability issues; it isn't an attack or vulnerability. The issue is that implementations will reject valid signatures.
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by srfilipek 6y ago
> charge as Spotify or netflix 30% That only occurs if Apple facilitates/manages the subscription. AFAIK, they are both generally outside of the "Apple Tax" at this time by redirecting subscription signups to a browser.
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by srfilipek 6y ago
It provides some indication that it may have been transferred to USB at some point . That point could be directly from the server, or from the hacker's computer to a USB drive, or from a USB drive to another computer. It says nothing
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by srfilipek 7y ago
It depends. Many techniques are very risky, but some are safe and useful, and can have significantly less financial risk than owning stock directly. E.g. basic call options: https://www.optiontradingtips.com/options101/
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by srfilipek 7y ago
That's a really weird and selective comparison. Tesla has sold 1.6x the number of Model 3's in the past 2 years than Nissan has sold Leaf's... ever. Sources (US): * 136K Leafs: http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-s
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by srfilipek 7y ago
Just curious, do you have stats on your watts per mile efficiency you can share? How it compares to the EPA estimates?
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by srfilipek 7y ago
If I drove my manual better, I could probably achieve that, but spirited driving made me replace everything twice over in 100k miles, with a third needed soon. :(
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by srfilipek 7y ago
Depends on where you live. In West Virginia? No, it's almost all coal based. In Vermont? Yes, their grid is 100% renewable. Source: https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.html
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by srfilipek 7y ago
Tesla's brake pads for the Model 3 are scheduled for replacement after 250,000 miles of use (according to tesla rep. I spoke to). No, I did not mistype that.
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by srfilipek 7y ago
> high accelerations Acceleration does not waste energy (other than speed related things like wind resistance). This is a myth that is perpetuated without merit, but probably because it's typically associated with overall aggressive
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by srfilipek 7y ago
I agree with your first points, but... > Yeah, learning algorithms is a chore and a hassle > If the interviewer can see that you're able to make yourself do that for the interview, it's a good sign you'll have the disci
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by srfilipek 7y ago
> Whats better? [...lots of straw-men...] To start: Not removing jurors simply because they're knowledgeable or have critical thinking skills.
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by srfilipek 7y ago
> a jury of random people is probably the most qualified way to determine the question "would average people see these two things as substantially the same." A jury of random people can be confused and then convinced by lawyer
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by srfilipek 7y ago
A peer of the defendant? Because the defendant was a musician in this case.
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by srfilipek 7y ago
Tesla's page in question is quite clear about their methodology, and I can't really see the fault in it: > The Vehicle Safety Score represents the “relative risk of injury with respect to a baseline of 15%,” according to NHTSA.
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by srfilipek 7y ago
It works in every single app that I'm running. Did you remap that key combo?
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by srfilipek 7y ago
Yes.
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by srfilipek 7y ago
I use FreeNAS (FreeBSD NAS with ZFS). The ZFS snapshotting feature effectively gives me protections from this type of issue. My home computers push backups regularly throughout the day, and every day I create snapshots of each volume (how l
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by srfilipek 7y ago
> (so your commits would reflect the time of rebase onto master, not the time you first committed to your topic branch) That's not the case with git. By default it preserves the original commit time.
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by srfilipek 7y ago
> 9. Say please I actually don't like this. Maybe it's just me, but I always read these as being condescending, written by someone who thinks that I won't take a suggestion without unnecessary pleasantries and/or begg
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by srfilipek 7y ago
> science of science is epistemology That would be the Philosophy of Science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
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by srfilipek 7y ago
Wouldn't this break the functionality of "system restore points"? Because those have saved me so many times in the past.
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by srfilipek 7y ago
> Apple's proprietary language While it is heavily funded and used by Apple, I would never call it "proprietary". It's open source. https://swift.org/about/#swiftorg-and-open-source

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