unknownsavage

7 yıl öncediscuss

It doesn't use mining, so requires negligible power to run.

7 yıl öncediscuss

I didn't report it as stolen. But they did forward the charges. But yeah, I've just finished closing my credit card completely. It's unreasonable that I've been disputing the same charge from AWS for almost a year, and now they have decided to side with Amazon.

unknownsavage

7 yıl öncediscuss

> They forwarded from one card to another? AWS charged a closed card and the bank forwarded it?

Yup.

> By the way, if you can't authenticate with Amazon as the rightful owner of that account, it sounds unreasonable for them to comply to a stranger asking them to simply remove a credit card number of some account.

I disagree. If I can provide a full credit card number, they should be able to remove it from all accounts. Either the card is compromised, or I'm telling the truth.

unknownsavage

7 yıl öncediscuss

This only really works if you have an ad-blocker, or at least know to ignore the ads. Otherwise google will frequently end up frequently serving ads for a malicious product (most commonly seen for crypto products)

unknownsavage

7 yıl öncediscuss

For people who haven't read the article this is extremely misleading:

> The ends with him agreeing how the film sucks and maybe the prosecutor was right!

He says that, only as a joke that it's so bad it should've been illegal. While in reality a great mis-justice was done to the man, and he was railroaded into accepting a plea-deal due to the gravity of the unfair charges.

unknownsavage

7 yıl öncediscuss

I think the real damning thing is: > When Bell customers sign up in advance for unlimited Canada-U.S. texting, they pay only $12 a month.

which I think shows charging $2k for a few weeks worth of texts is pretty unconscionable

unknownsavage

8 yıl öncediscuss

I recently upgraded from the 2015 to the current gen.

2015 pros: * Better battery life * Way better keyboard * More robust * More useful port selection * Trackpad is a more reasonable size

2018 pros: * Way better speakers * Slightly better screen * Lighter * Faster * Trackpad is not mechanical * Finger print login is useful

I'd really love a proper "pro" macbook pro, that sacrificed a bit of the thin-and-lightness for an actual professional level of stuff (better cooling, more ports, bigger battery, no touchbar)

unknownsavage

8 yıl öncediscuss

One thing I found to make the touchbar less annoying is go keyboard -> Touchbar shows "Expanded Control Strip". At least then you get a full strip of useful buttons that aren't constantly switching with the application.

The main issue though is with "Expanded Control Strip" the touchbar locks up (while holding a key down) about 2 or 3 times a week (which can only be fixed by a restart or: "sudo pkill TouchBarServer")

The whole thing is pretty inexcusable for such an expensive machine, but I like the macos ecosystem.

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

They're basing on that if someone was sending a stupidly aggressive fee (400 satoshis per byte). Anything above that is just obviously an error.

You can get an idea of what fees should be with estimatefee.com

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

There are plenty of opportunities for things to be stollen from checked in luggage at the arriving airport.

This actually happened to me on a flight into the US, with an expensive set of german kitchen knives in checked-in. In the US my suitcase was taken out of the normal line for extra checking (I guess because the knives showed up in an xray?).

They then later gave me my suitcase, but the entire knife set was missing. No documentation that it was taken. No one even cared. No recourse. And nothing came of it.

If I have something valuable that I couldn't take in my carryon again, I'd rather just DHL than trust the TSA to not steal it.

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

Google already pushes animated ads through adsense, but not yet on their own pages.

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

I don't understand how negative power prices can exist? Why wouldn't everyone just dump the power into the ground and make a profit? Surely 0 has to be a floor.

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

I think you're confused. I bought a Macbook in New Zealand, and had it's motherboard replaced for free in the US. Then later bought a new Macbook in the US and it serviced in Germany.

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

Please review the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

The lisp quickstart is indeed one of the key advantages of lsip:

    $ time sbcl --script hello.lisp 
    Hello World!

    real	0m0.026s
    user	0m0.009s
    sys	0m0.013s

Compared with languages with a much bigger starting curve:

    $ time node hello.js 
    Hello World!
  
    real	0m0.113s
    user	0m0.052s
    sys	0m0.022s

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

Great news.

I tried spideroak and liked the product, but the inability for me to pay using anonymous payment methods has lead me to use sync.com instead.

I had trouble with a prepaid debit card, and they unfortunately don't take bitcoin either.

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

The grandstanding is corny at best. Take the first example:

> Despite continued assaults on the credibility of her contributions to modern computer science as the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace coded.

Yet in reality she was very much respected in her day, and despite her challenges received widespread support. The first "assaults" on her scope of her contributions came over 100 after her death, and not some sexism she had to fight and overcome.

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

One issue with buying two keys is they internally have different keys, so you need to connect both to each new account which is a pain in the ass and stops you just keeping one somewhere very safe (i.e. safety deposit box, or a safe at a friends house)

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

The trezor only lets you backup the key during the initialization stage. After that the key can never be recovered. Also you can set a password so it's encrypted as well, so even if someone finds your paper backup it's not particularly useful.

unknownsavage

9 yıl öncediscuss

This is really awful, for it to work well you would need to buy multiple keys and each time use them all to register (which precludes the option of storing the backup key somewhere safe).

Straight from the yubico website: "It is recommended that users register at least two U2F devices with every service provider should a U2F device be misplaced"

That's just a plain usability nightmare, and not to mention expensive.

The trezor one works a lot more sanely for u2f, you get a recovery key when you first set it up (it uses the screen to output it, so even if your computer has malware it can't be compromised) and can leave it in a safe at your friends place.

unknownsavage

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