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Yeah, kinda crazy. I didn't even remember ICQ had numbers until I read the first comment in this thread posting theirs and most of the number immediately popped into my head, 10238…

My C Instructor assigned us this in college in 2005, during a brief period where the dotcom bubble was still felt and the social network hadn't come out yet. At the time, there was…

And QQQ rose 47% this year. This does not seem surprising at all. The entire market went up in 2023.

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The most plausible theory I've heard is that the attackers used a BTC tumbler that was a honeypot controlled by feds. But who knows, maybe the FBI has a quantum computer we don't k…

"Self-replicating probes could exhaustively explore a galaxy the size of the Milky Way in as little as a million years" - Wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox ] …

Is this actually a serious question? Do you think there is no point to PayPal, or do you think your GitHub repo is an equivalent replacement? Is forwarding an email to a bunch of p…

You could do a similar style of hacking in Dark Forces 2, which had "cog files" that were controlled client side and let you change the projectile of any weapon. At first it was fu…

I don't know why people call Madoff's scheme or Enron bubbles. People acted quite rationally given they believed these companies were not completely fabricating their accounting. O…

The first nine months bitcoin was at a $10k and below level. They are making considerably more money since the boom took off after that. I don't know if it will be 20x higher eithe…

Not sure what the operating costs look like for Coinbase, but here's some napkin math based on just the Coinbase Pro exchange . They get roughly $200 per bitcoin trade. That's on b…

There is no moral obligation for them to do so and yes they can choose not to enforce US IP law if they don't want to. The US can also choose to place massive tariffs on any goods …

One of the points of the E2E security model used here is so that you don't have to trust Cisco.

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Don't forget the MPAA and RIAA.

And the Bill and Melinda Gates building @ UT Austin. I'm guessing there are even more?

I think he's implying that they awarded it to blue LEDs in order to promote low power consumption/green tech.

A crosswalk that is parallel to you (i.e., pedestrians traveling in the same direction across the intersection as the drivers) will have a "walk" signal that is synched with the tr…

Not trying to sound cute, but The Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan and Plaugher (1974). Just read this last week during a day of plane travel. It's all PLI and Fortran, w…

Just FYI, Cisco doesn't own Linksys anymore. They sold it to Belkin in January 2013.

It seems like a lot of flame wars could be prevented without a pending comment feature, or at least a watered down one. If a comment is particularly offensive/offtopic, it is alrea…

Basic cable runs over clear QAM and can't be blocked per FCC rules. It gets broadcast over the line unfiltered if you have Internet. So if you are paying for it, stop.

As a start, you could read this article (or the book, I guess), exploring elite athletes (like Usain Bolt) and comparing their stories to what Malcolm Gladwell suggests in Outliers…