userpass

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by userpass 9y ago
They could have made it opt out.
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by userpass 9y ago
I would be interested in that elusive language in which nothing is repeated twice.
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by userpass 9y ago
This sounds to me like most retarded idea I've ever heard. If smartphone SoCs were viable server platforms then you would buy them directly from the manufacturer instead of scavenging them from a landfill. The entire idea is based arou
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by userpass 9y ago
I would lie if I said this isn't fun which is probably the reason why people do it in the first place even though their explanations might make it worse than just reading this: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/b
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by userpass 9y ago
A phone battery only has around 10 watthours. That's less than 1 cent worth of electricity if you wait hours until it's mined empty. It's more effective to just donate a single cent than to let them mine on your phone.
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by userpass 9y ago
Right now the fed is trying to solve this issue by giving more money to the people with the caves.
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by userpass 9y ago
So you're telling me... it's a distributed database? Global consistency is nothing new.
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by userpass 9y ago
http://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.html >"Unforgeable" means that only the owner of a feed can update that feed, as enforced by digital signing (see Security properties). https:&#
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by userpass 9y ago
I don't really get it. Sure it's fine if one p2P app uses 3GB (1GB for the append only log, 2GB for a database with indices that can actually be queried) of data. What if you have several apps? Let's say 10. Then you need 30G
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by userpass 9y ago
>Will I be able to communicate from my Librem 5 to other phones? >Yes, you will be able to make regular unencrypted phone calls to any phone number. You will also be able to communicate securely by using the phone dialing application
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by userpass 9y ago
>Jesus Christ, HN and the creators of this (ugly, toy-like)phone seem to never get basic, rudimentary supply and demand in action that anybody running a business should already understand. >People buy fast, sexy, bleeding edge smartph
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by userpass 9y ago
>If you've ever heard of the ORM/Relational impedance mismatch, it's got nothing on the set of impedance mismatches between the way servers like to work, the HTTP protocol (and its still very page-based orientation in a wo
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by userpass 9y ago
Is the purpose of those video games to compell you to commit violence in real life? Games and ads have completely different goals.
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by userpass 9y ago
You can do that already. It's windows only though. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj891058.aspx
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by userpass 9y ago
It's surprising to me that everyone who is against PWAs doesn't even know what a PWA is.
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by userpass 9y ago
And this is how we get incredibly inefficient programs like atom.
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by userpass 9y ago
The important aspect is competition. If you have multiple central planners that compete with each other then maybe it could work out as well.