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Ok, check this out - Linux at 2.15% on the desktop vs. other services that have it lower: https://truemarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share?op... I have a theory: - Bots do…

I'm not sure about methodology differences, but this service tells a different story: https://truemarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share?op... Clear the 'Desktop/Laptop' fil…

I know. I'm pointing out that seemingly profitable arbitrage opportunities carry very significant risks besides market risk.

Historically, exchanges that are failing have significant spreads from stable exchanges (Mt. Gox comes to mind). So, there is risk with this strategy. One of the exchanges could fa…

My primary issue with Ethereum is the Turing-completeness. The more capabilities a language has, the more likely it will be compromised. Complex contracts will continue to be explo…

I sold my bitcoins to take a vacation when it was around 300. Mt. Gox had imploded and I was guessing it would take longer than this to rebound. Wrong!

What's the deal with stats delayed over 24 hours? Man, I hate that.

Yeah, we figured this out (at least for Google) years ago. I ran a SAAS company that advertised heavily on Google for years. As time went on, the ROI dropped to almost zero. We rea…

Speaking of defaults, if you install Mongo on EC2 using a default instance of Ubuntu using the default engine, Wired Tiger, you will get ceaseless server crashes. Wired Tiger is NO…

btw there if you are not totally comfortable with certbot, there is a free monitoring service at https://letsmonitor.org

All web traffic that is not encrypted is vulnerable to having its contents altered enroute. This is a type of man in the middle vulnerability that allows for javascript, posts, etc…

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/576

Steve Gibson will go into levels of detail that amaze me. The podcast on Rowhammer is a perfect example - down to the minute details of how VMs store memory pages... Its also can b…

The Twit network has some very detailed podcasts about Wosign's sliminess: https://twit.tv/search/wosign This is a CA death penalty situation as far as I'm concerned.

I tried to sell Bitcoin on eBay and every single buyer attempted to commit fraud.

We have a hard rule that you do not commit code that doesn't pass unit tests. This leads to bad coders not being able to commit as frequently as good coders. However, this seems li…

polymer-project link is not working

It is worth studying common weaknesses in code: https://cwe.mitre.org/

A treatment for PTSD, called EMDR, involves trying to enhance the right/left communication in the brain. This is done by eye tracking back and forth from left to right. I personall…

And of course, nothing stops an employer from harassing you legally. I was working on a personal project once and it seemed to make sense to join it with another product from anoth…

The event starts at 1pm Eastern.

I've quit using TOR. It seems to have been targeted by law enforcement and now this.