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Re:YouTube Down on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:57PM (#25066271)
Okay, but why was Youtube down?
Re:Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:11PM (#24487791)
The finest example of a human. Definitely a better person than I could ever be. I would definitely flaunt and spend fabulous sums on dumb shit.
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Re:No One Goes There Anymore on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:23PM (#23208956)
Not really, just don't get sick or terminally ill or you're $%#!ed
Re:No One Goes There Anymore on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:23PM (#23208951)
yeah we already have that, it's called "lobbying"
I will never ever ever work with PHP again. It's dead.
Ohhhhh, this would be super cool. One intuitive UI design system, my body is so ready.
Huh, might finally get around to Apple garbage. Closing your users to one internal system with internal hardware works for speed and maintenance issues([with users] look at early Windows with it's struggles and blue screens despite it's prevalent use across various hardware systems. But it doesn't work with devs. Dude if I can't code your stuff or for your platform on my shitty little linux, I have zero interest in working on your platform or utilizing your tech stack.
Big giant company that has been undisputed and can use it's power and money to politically influence for positive legislation in it's case == monopoly
Everyone, breathe a sigh of relief.
What's the difference then between a thoughtless hello and by HTTP send vs a UDP send? Wouldn't UDP still be faster?

Earth has a new moon – About the size of a car

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235427-earth-has-acquired-a-brand-new-moon-thats-about-the-size-of-a-car/On 19 February, astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spotted a dim object moving quickly across the sky. Over the next few days, researchers at six more observatories around the world watched the object, designated 2020 CD3, and calculated its orbit, confirming that it has...

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Yeah I got jipped at AT&T with a bunch of add-ons which were not explained and ended up with like three lines. Flat rates are the way to go but something has to be done about issues like employees conspiring.
Re:A new model and dataset for long-range memory on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:09PM (#22295098)
So the simple of it, is that it links parts of memory together? Just like human memory? Trying to keep the most valid parts of it together.
I had a small cryptocurrency take off with just a few thousand people clamoring and begging me for more. Going from a basement nerd to a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny unknown internet celeb got to my head and as soon as I started getting negative comments, "FUD" and the like and my picture was being shown around I had a nervous breakdown (amongst other stressors). I would say, do what Ferris has said and ignore all comments, negative and positive or try and take criticism abstractly.
Re:Simple, solar-powered water desalination on Saturday February 08, 2020 @03:56AM (#22274800)
How much space would this thing take up for say, a remote oil rig?
Re:Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders on Saturday February 01, 2020 @03:19AM (#22209415)
Careful, you might get censored.
Re:Blake3 is 10 times faster than SHA-2 on Saturday January 11, 2020 @03:41PM (#22022156)
Uhhh, I have an idea how sha-256 works but not blake3. Is blake3 better for storing passwords? If not, what is the go-to recommended hash for password storage of say, a simple front-facing app for consumers.
>>The only set people with a financial incentive to “shill” are bitcoin/cryptocurrency supporters. More Shilling == higher prices == more lambos for those on the top of the pyramid.

Strawman. I won't answer it.

>>To think there is some dark force out there shilling for big banks to scare us from adopting a technology that supports a few transactions a second and requires more energy than several small nations combined.... pretty naive.

But central banks, bankers, big time capitalists and the federal government would never do anything outside of public interests?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/shark-tanks-kevin-oleary-bitc...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-12/jpmorgan-...

https://www.coindesk.com/former-fed-chair-janet-yellen-is-no...

https://www.coindesk.com/us-president-donald-trump-says-hes-...

For the record I don't own any cryptocurrency and never will because I don't believe in it's merits like you, but I am not so naive to think that private interests wouldn't collude against a digital asset highly risky to their profitable margins.

The trust issue is far overblown. Blockchain is much more about digital ownership of assets. You own your Facebook, your Google search results, etc, etc. You may not physically host it, but own the data that is generated from it and can decide to co-opt it into a larger tray for money if you wish or to remain private. It's much more about freedom on a conceptual level if we zoom out then about simple immutable ledgers; which are just shared key-value pair databases across many nodes, nothing special.
Who pays you guys to say this?

https://miro.medium.com/max/888/1*WPnv_6sG9k4oG3S1A09MDA.jpe...

Cap-theorem. Blockchain allows for far greater partitions not available to any other database model. In terms of consistency, while I disagree with everything many crypto companies are doing, when it comes to consistency, blockchain allows far larger scabability in terms of consistency over a larger partition than traditional corporate servers running Hadoop or Spark. The availability is surprisingly quick as well. If we're talking maximum scale of big data and their operating methodology, we're going to be talking about blockchain and how to partition the the data between different clusters and how to achieve consensus between nodes. Financial data belongs on the blockchain, outside of corporatocracy control and central bank control.

Re:The Big Bitcoin Heist on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:10AM (#21613218)
You can easily look at up to 15 years. And there's a thing called MMS, mandatory minimum sentencing, which means REGARDLESS of evidence, the Judge's opinion or the facts, if you are convicted guilty of a charge, you MUST receive a minimum sentence and no less, which tend to be very strict. Drug charges, particularly dealing fall under this category.
Re:The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:08AM (#21613207)
CS + Something medical, at least in the US
Re:The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:07AM (#21613204)
Never went to college but I can agree with everything you said. I would add to actually go out and build something. A portfolio is immense and has opened doors for me otherwise that never would be.
Re:Revving Up For Edge Computing on Sunday November 10, 2019 @06:10PM (#21500792)
So every edge device run it's own Docker container and the fog or the nodes act as a swarm manager before depositing the relevant information into the cloud? I've always thought that we would see drone-based air traffic controllers to manage and handle air traffic, especially as we can gain flying vehicles in the future.
Re:The Big Bitcoin Heist on Sunday November 10, 2019 @04:24PM (#21500289)
I apologize. Years.
So is it a hash function they use for quick and easy value retrieval. New to SQL, not sure what cockroach db does.
Re:Targeted ads are one of the world's most destructive trends on Saturday November 09, 2019 @05:14PM (#21494786)
Advertising is the rot of late-stage capitalism.

Here's a question? Why am I not being paid to witness or watch your advertisements? Why don't I get a portion of the profits, regardless of the platform? I'm actually all for targeted ads; I shouldn't be getting alzheimer medication ads at 27 or diabetic medication ads when I'm not at risk. But hey, a new video game or movie ad? Sign me up.

I think blockchain will be the revolution to this nauseating ad-nonsensical world we live in. Already the Brave browser is trying to implement this (with admitted failure so far, but they're trying) and I see future platforms adopting this. The number of ads in Youtube have skyrocketed and I know most of the profits do not go to the content makers. I'm all for advertising but I want a fairer share of the pie for content makers, myself and more targeted information.

Where and how this data should reside, this digital fingerprint should reside is problematic. I don't trust any corporate or financial database as the experian hack has shown. Still, we should be asking these questions and continuing this dialogue. No more nonsensical ads, a fairer partition of the pie distributed and less ads, but more quality ads.

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