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There are millions of millionaires in China alone that are very concerned about the future security and mobility of their money. Now consider India, Russia, Iran. This isn’t fictio…

Millions, yes it is... the world is a lot bigger place than you think it is.

What kind of relationship do you think the person in question has with the current federal intelligence community?

How about the ability to move large sums of money around the world without having to trust or be limited by any government or bank?

So adding an ex-government official to the board automatically means Dropbox is surveilling you? How does that logic work?

Do you think the only thing that makes cryptocurrencies valuable is transaction rate?

You’re right. I meant, if anything Bitcoin is Google, but it’s not even that.

If you can’t see how Bitcoin provides millions of others a valuable service, you have a poor imagination.

> Not trying to be pessimistic but genuinely curious why so many people make the analogy to the dot com period. Because most people are not creative nor critical thinkers and the e…

On average it’s likely they don’t given they are using his product.

Something is off if you think he’s an asshole and his users in India don’t.

> He wasn't. He was just giving them an error message after they Tweeted what he wanted. Did you read the entire post? His service is available to India right now. Their tweets hel…

Whoa there. Calm down buddy. Before you bust out the pitchforks, he just asked them to post tweets. The cost to them is zero in money, and virtually zero in time. Couple that with …

How is he a prick? What harm has he caused to anyone?

You’re the one showing a lack of humanity by judging him based on a single blog post.

This is a cool page about creating chladni patterns in code https://thelig.ht/chladni

No KPTI does not address variant 1.

This post seems to indicate that there is no kernel-level workaround for variant 1, that contradicts AMD’s statement: https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution LWN see…

Syscall performance would suffer but otherwise this could work.

> The concept of Fork was not designed to "spawn new programs", it was created to allow parallelism on a single program with several processes collaborating on the same task. It's …

Nothing is wrong with it, it’s just subjective. Being subjective is usually not the domain of journalism (outside of op-eds).

“Weird” Actually niche online communities aren’t weird. Just because a topic isn’t repeated over and over again on big media doesn’t mean it’s weird. Big media doesn’t dictate what…

This trick doesn’t avoid the storage of this data into RAM. A single context switch is enough.