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lmlsna | 2 years ago | on: Meta outage

google oauth probably be getting slammed by people trying to use for facebook login

lmlsna | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Using Tor implies guilt?

If the offending IP was a tor exit node, and dude was using tor at home during the same time period, that would almost certainly be appropriately admitted as circumstantial evidence.

He would of course be permitted to make an argument as to why that circumstantial evidence is weak and should not be given any weight.

lmlsna | 8 years ago | on: Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting

Given that all guns, and a large number of non-gun objects (such as vehicles or big rocks) can be effectively utilized to kill nontrivial numbers of people in a soft target situation: is it possible that a more effective intervention may be found somewhere in the fact that several dozen young American men/boys feel compelled to murder as many strangers as possible before commiting suicide each year?

This also seems to me, at the very least, to be a less intractable/objectionable avenue. Less media coverage would probably do more to ease this problem than the banning of some subset of firearm.

lmlsna | 8 years ago | on: What if a bulk of Bitcoin owners all try to cashout today?

You can't sell a Bitcoin without a buyer, that's how exchanges work. If there is large sell demand, the price gets pushed down.

It would behoove a larger holder not to sell all at once as this would certainly send the price downward. But at the moment, there is pretty clearly sufficient demand for even the largest holder to dump everything over the course of a week without setting off a panic. Normal average volume is 100-500k BTC/day.

But to answer your question, the price would plummet, and new entrants would eagerly buy, that's where the money would come from.

lmlsna | 8 years ago

"North Carolina County actually bothered to do backups."
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