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Re:Protesting Trump's taxes by not paying yours? on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:27PM (#13532845)
lol
Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World on Sunday January 22, 2017 @09:02PM (#13459118)
Herbs have pharmacological properties. Many medications are potentiated versions of their herbal counterparts. Some are just as efficacious.

- Hypericum Perforatum [1]

- Ashwhaganda [2]

Please discern the difference. You are a "doctor programmer" in your profile. This is disturbing.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18843608

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573577/

Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:25AM (#13454258)
Educate yourself on what exactly is holistic medicine.
Re:How to Avoid a Post-Antibiotic World on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:01AM (#13454205)
Herbal medicine is not homeopathy.
I would recommend doing more research on credit cards in general.
How do you have perfect credit if you're not paying your balances in full?
How many times has this been posted?
God forbid that these are suburban areas where public transit effectively makes no sense for the loosely-packed population- you might as well be blowing away $ building parking spaces half a mile away.

Places which (b) happen already have (a) and vice-versa.

Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:13PM (#12933913)
The point is to not convince, but to make the playing ground such that the act of discrimination provides negative value towards the actor.
Re:Show HN: Airbnb but without code on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:49PM (#12226821)
Good luck.
Re:Ask HN: Quitting from a small startup? on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:04PM (#12223112)
- Help onboard another developer?
I've met with a few folks. Both companies are becoming more open with their platform.
If BitGo was compromised, 1 of the 2 remaining keys still must be used to sign the transaction. BitGo has no access without either of the 2 keys that Bitfinex controls.
Commentary from my part:

Bitfinex uses BitGo for multi-signature (MultiSig) transactions. 2-of-3 signatures must be present for user funds to be released.

Keys present:

- Offline key held by Bitfinex

- Online key held by Bitfinex to initiate user withdrawals

- Online key held by BitGo to confirm user withdrawals are within constrained limits in a set timeframe

zanetackett, Product Development of Bitfinex, confirmed that Bitfinex's offline key was not compromised. The attack was also not internal [1]. Another set of comments also suggested that BitGo limits were set in place by Bitfinex [2-3].

The automatic limits are designed to constrain BitGo from signing any transaction from Bitfinex that are irregular in volume or exceed a set amount in any rolling timeframe. Somehow they were bypassed. What we have currently suggests that the limits were too large or that BitGo was not enforcing the limits. BitGo and Bitfinex are also separate established entities, so that both of them being compromised for this attack is unlikely. An improper setup between Bitfinex and BitGo is more likely.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vtuxo/bitfinex_se...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vupa6/p2shinfo_sh...

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4vtuxo/bitfinex_se...

Oops, I didn't know the behavior persists.
For those of you complaining about the title being all caps, it was done so for aesthetic purposes. Which means somehow the submitter went through the time to uppercase each character of the HN title before submitting.

    text-transform: uppercase;
Re:Ask HN: Best general Biology book? on Sunday July 17, 2016 @07:31PM (#12112430)
Campbell biology
This is not big of an issue you make it out to be.
Re:CloudFlare, We Have a Problem on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:35AM (#12105486)
CloudFlare passes your origin.
In these cases it's extremely easy to get a gist of the research behind a certain topic by searching PubMed.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22257640