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9ac345a5509a

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About 9ac345a5509a

  import hashlib
  assert hashlib.sha384(name).hexdigest()[-12:] == '9ac345a5509a'

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    Comment #17503972

    Why? It sounds incredibly pretentious. I think most people would appreciate Plain English [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_English

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    Comment #9865697

    The number of such mazes is also on OEIS under A007341: http://oeis.org/A007341

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    Comment #7492818

    It's a looped gif: http://kyle.bike/bike.gif

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    Comment #7412481

    Once upon a time dialup was all some of us had, 24/7. Somehow we coped.

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    Comment #6292385

    One such system is Hashcash [0], there is an extension for Thunderbird [1] which uses it. The only thing is that legitimate mass emails (think mailing lists) will be delayed as wel…

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    Comment #6283795

    "For an even more useless, albeit fun Easter Egg, try querying for the CH record for whois.cloudflare against one of our name servers." $ dig ch whois.cloudflare @emma.ns.cloudflar…

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    Comment #6224650

    Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073162

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    Comment #6160349

    (Fully) Homomorphic Encryption is necessary for this. One of the paper's authors (Craig Gentry) is also the creator of FHE. To quote the paper: >Using indistinguishability obfuscat…

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    Comment #6160285

    Very nice observation, and yes, natural numbers only. I believe it could be modified to allow for negative numbers.

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    Comment #6150806

    There is no evidence that this is a Senator or anyone in a position of power. It is more likely that it is just a bored intern.

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    Comment #6147361

    According to this calculator [0], in one month, you can expect to earn $20,724.53 dollars (ignoring price changes, difficulty changes, and operating costs). This seems too good to …

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    Comment #6147147

    There is a transcript at explainxkcd (explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190:_Time#Transcript). Perhaps somebody could clean it up and then use it to estimate how long each fram…

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