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

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 …

> 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 th…

Around about a year ago, I had my AWS account get fully taken over by a successful social-engineering attack. Prior to a full-take over, the screw-ups by their customer-support wer…

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 c…

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 jo…

Around 8 months ago I lost control of my AWS account after a prolonged social-engineering campaign against my account. Although it was a nightmare, thanks to a robust offsite backu…

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…

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 reasona…

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 con…

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 sh…

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 …

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

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.

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 Germa…

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 m…

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 …

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 prepa…

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 com…