soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Ethereum Is Green
Which makes it only further centralized.
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soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Ethereum Is Green
I remember when they were talking about launching PoS back in 2018. At this point it’s performing better than NASA’s SLS rocket but still significantly delayed
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Google I/O 2021 and Uncomfortable Questions
It’s even weirder that Google’s security engineers would sign off on such a design. I am astounded
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”
Despair over not talking about politics on work channels? Are they absolutely consumed with politics that they can’t focus on actual work tasks? I have worked with someone who insists on inserting a political topic or headline into every meeting and it’s distracting and exhausting
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: ‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500k
Would someone explain an NFT to me, as an adult (not ELI5)? I keep reading stories like this and don’t understand why it would be valued at 500k
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
It's plausible. The moon's width is 2,158.8 miles, and I could imagine an explorer being >3000 miles from another human
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
> The would not know at that point whether the CM pilot had his spacesuit helmet on or not, so they wouldn't know until they opened the hatch whether they had just killed him.
There were windows on the command module to look in, and if they weren't sure if he was responsive/unresponsive, they could tap iron onto the command module to let Collins know they were there and spacewalking.
It's an interesting thought process though, and I would appreciate the source if you can find it
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: *.ycombinator.com Terms of Use
Strange that it mentions CCPA but not GDPR. Is HackerNews GDPR compliant? What are they tracking/storing?
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Snowden Dunks on 'The Get-Rich-Quick Real Estate Investing Conference
It was actually worth the full read to me
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
The following quotes are fairly interesting and ironic:
> Larry Page and Sergey Brin were originally pretty negative about search engines that sold ads. Appendix A in their original paper says:
>> "we expect that advertising-funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers"
> and that
>> "we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm"
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle
You don’t. You work with the leadership & security team. Any employee that clicks your phishing email gets an extra dose of security training. Those that forward the email to [email protected] get a nice compliment
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Solar and wind can meet world energy demand 100 times over
Could they be renovated to serve lower power items like street lamps?
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Dark Ops Undercovered: Episode II
> The following 16 URLs have been used to clone legit media sites, back-date articles and later file fake DMCA complains to Google
What are the consequences for abusing DMCA? Should they be stiffened?
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army
It’s likely true that defectors (by reason they defected) have legitimate stories to tell and they are both paid & given a platform to tell their stories by governments. Giving someone a megaphone doesn’t make their story less true does it?
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Auth0 Has been down for almost 4 hours now
you must mean “The IC” or DOJ not the US military? The DoD doesn’t have jurisdiction
soarfourmore | 4 years ago | on: Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
> Having to pay >60% of monthly salary
I moved to a MCOL city where my mortgage is <20%. my salary
soarfourmore | 5 years ago | on: A potato battery can light up a room for over a month (2013)
Iwish the article described the cost, size, and rarity of the two metals, but instead it focused only on the potato
soarfourmore | 5 years ago | on: SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in hot seat
> Risks in Microsoft’s foreign dealings also came into relief when the Biden administration imposed sanctions Thursday on a half-dozen Russian IT companies it said support Kremlin hacking. Most prominent was Positive Technologies, which was among more than 80 companies that Microsoft has supplied with early access to data on vulnerabilities detected in its products. Following the sanctions announcement, Microsoft said Positive Tech was no longer in the program and removed its name from a list of participants on its website.
What?! Microsoft gave vulnerability data to a Russian company that hacked the USA? Why was that company even in this program to begin with?
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