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Re:PayPal blocked Flipper Zero account with $1.3M on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @07:47PM (#32744633)
Venmo is owned by PayPal and will freeze your account just like PayPal.
1) you need an archive node to get historical events which is the only way to do lots of things. E.g. scrape all NFTs

2) Erigon has horrible bugs and is missing data. I filled a ticket against one such issue and they "fixed" it by making the exception go away and returning null. Their lack of attention to detail made me abandon the project.

If you know someone in the project I can produce MANY examples and would be willing to do so because running an archive geth node sucks.

Name a main stream one that is easy? I run archive nodes for SOL, ETH, Polygon, others.
Have you tried storing the list lately? I don't think you have a 10TB plus flash drive.

https://etherscan.io/chartsync/chainarchive

Crypto is more and more centralised because the hardware to run your own node is now thousands of dollars. That is without even getting into miners...It is kinda failing.

Ahhh, yea did that as a kid too. Although, I tipped it on its side. The trick was to make toast then microwave the cheese :)

But seriously, my mom was furious. No YouTube required.

Re:10 Years of Meteor on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:03AM (#31916364)
I still maintain a product with a few $100K/year revenue written in meteor. We long ago ditched the backed/DB layer but the frontend has aged fairly well. It is still fast and responsive. I will never create another product in meteor but I don't regret using meteor for that product. Coffee script on the other hand.... :P
Re:About Last Week’s Announcement on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:01PM (#31856169)
My account was effected. I contacted support and they said it would remain open. Today I got an email saying it will be closed. I transferred my 10K cash balance out. I still don't know if my account will remain open. I used to recommend Brex heavily but their communication has been horrible.

Also, A one month notice to change all payments is insane. Brex should not be trusted.

But, see, your analysis doesn't inspire confidence in the economy which is bad for the economy. We need a different explanation. Ya know like "transitory inflation". Dam, used that, I guess Ukraine.
You sure you were not just out of the loop? Engineers are often not included because they would object. You were only there a few years so I doubt you were privy to much of the politics.
Re:Performance Evaluation of IPFS in Private Networks on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:44AM (#30801462)
2nd this. I saw lots of packet loss on my gig connection when scraping a few TBs over IPFS. Turned off garbage collection which just deletes the whole cache when you go over a threshold?
Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @10:35AM (#30778852)
Yep, exactly. Opensea hosts most of their minted NFTs on HTTP.
Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @10:30AM (#30778798)
Open seas contract code is not open AFAIK (binary is obviously available but I have not seen source other than decompile) Many contracts can be updated by leveraging proxy contracts. They can delete your nft if you mint with their contact.
Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @02:38AM (#30775641)
Fyi, about 36% of NFTs use IPFS on eth and another 9% are entirely on chain. See yournfts.org
Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @02:34AM (#30775620)
> They don't even have an on-chain hash of the digital asset

Yea... 45% of NFTs have their hash on chain https://yournfts.org/#stats. It isn't great but it isn't none.

Re:Web3 is centralized and inefficient on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @02:30AM (#30775604)
It is about 9% on ETH. yournfts.org
It proves they are based out of the US and lost a court case. If I owned the company I would do the same if nothing else but to preserve capital.
RIP torguard
Re:Man given genetically modified pig heart dies on Saturday March 12, 2022 @09:12PM (#30657212)
You got a cholesterol test and only a cholesterol test? That was what the parent comment is about. Tests vary a lot by test. LabCorp states their prices very clearly.

Walgreens also has cholesterol tests for ~30$ https://news.walgreens.com/press-center/news/walgreens-intro...

Re:Can Minecraft be played without giving MS a Phone#? on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:56PM (#30619829)
You can buy a prepaid SIM card with SMS support for 5$ that are good for a month. I have a stack on my desk for stuff like this.
Re:Man given genetically modified pig heart dies on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:49PM (#30619758)
A test in the US < $50 and is easy to schedule without having a doctor involved at LabCore or similar. Is that an option in CA?
I have done this with my laptop for years traveling internationally. If you don't press the right key at the right time you are greeted by windows.
Re:Newegg has a bit of a scandal on its hands on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:52AM (#30359902)
Charging back on your Amazon prime account will quickly get it closed. Any gift balance you have goes with it. You can probably keep access to your digital purchases if you complain enough.
Re:Set up a practically free CDN on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:07PM (#29949205)
In my experience their gateway is not great and serves captchas occasionally if you're requesting rare content they don't have cached. I ended up just running my own node at a provider supporting bandwidth alliance and putting cloud flare in front of that.
Re:Everything I've seen on optimizing Postgres on ZFS on Thursday December 23, 2021 @12:49AM (#29659042)
Thanks will do! Also, your post would have saved me a bunch of time a few years back. Gj.
Re:Everything I've seen on optimizing Postgres on ZFS on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:19AM (#29651313)
Yea, I have run postgres/citus on zfs with petabytes of data. His analysis on record size is lacking. E.g there is a trade-off between compression vs record size. More compression means more effective iops
I have ran a node for years. I gave up running exit nodes because of mentioned abuse. It is very easy to run non exit nodes.
You can't self host? Piping server data to a remote untrusted server doesn't seem appealing. Unless I am missed something?
I didn't do it for tax reasons but for quality of life reasons. Be careful moving to "cash out". Do your research.
Much of my professional network moved during covid. I keep an address in the bay area to keep up appearances with clients. I fly into town when nessary. Life is cheaper and better.
Re:Why Are Fast Food Workers Signing Noncompetes? on Thursday September 30, 2021 @06:48PM (#28712259)
The point is they don't have to be successful to have teeth. A fast food worker probably can't afford a single day in court.

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