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wyck

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    Comment #48851892

    Same in Canada. lol

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    Comment #48587670

    How much is a scan going to cost? The video motions petabyte per scan? These types are scans (medical images) are extremely dense and large in size, storing short or long term imag…

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    Comment #47006669

    You mean llia Polosukhin, who is recognized as an AI founder and co‑authored the landmark 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need" while at Google Research? /s ?

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    Comment #46682835

    It's become a national issue, I think China will be at the forefront with the USA, and ASML/Europe will certainly stay in the mix. I'm no expert, but Russia is lagging in this indu…

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    Comment #46681535

    They are funding alternatives to ASML. ASML has hit a wall and it co-insides with a new innovation based policy, to bring America back to a tech leadership role. This is a critical…

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    Comment #46197212

    Correct, but these fees are trending up and not down, its not uncommon in this space to see payment fees hitting 15%. Removing the primitives of payment requirements, rails which a…

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    Comment #46194718

    Imagine you have a home on Airbnb , your guest sends you a payment, but its not directly to you, the payment goes through the payment rails stipulated and controlled by airbnb. Thi…

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    Comment #43765177

    Agree, also the logging is very limited across the board,, database functions are impossible to debug without good logging, I think a lot of people don't realize its not a direct c…

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    Comment #43765119

    99.9% of app on app store connect to the network for a multitude of reason, do you really think only browsers connect to the internet? Do you not have an app on your phone?

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    Comment #43740920

    This isn't obvious, 99% of apps make multiple calls to multiple services, and these SDK's are embedded into the app. How can you tell whats legit outbound/inbound? Doing a fingerpr…

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    Comment #43740897

    Install a network monitor or go even deeper and sniff packets.

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    Comment #42965186

    That's what cold storage is. And more than likely cold storage they requires multiple signatures, to prevent any single entity from being compromised.

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    Comment #42926032

    It's likely in cold storage , but the tracker is using the wallet address. For example, about 1 hour ago they bought 1m in BTC: https://bitcoin.gob.sv/tx/83ddfe67485d322e9c017d8ba6…

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    Comment #42926002

    I pasted the wrong link, corrected the above with .gov.sv domain .

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    Comment #42925369

    They have made just over 300 Million off the initial BTC purchase, and as of 15 minutes ago, continue to buy BTC everyday. They even have their own tracker, https://bitcoin.gob.sv/…

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    Comment #41312727

    Some machine porn I found about the the biggest(?) press in the world in L.A. by Weber metals, I think it's 60k tons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOe8KYZXGeg

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    Comment #41291510

    The shop didn't last long and only published 2 book, it's now an dentists shop. More info here about the shop and other Page strangeness, including the shop's logo. https://ledzepn…

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    Comment #40740303

    What Certik did will be a case study in how to not disclose bugs, this was so poorly done it's been handed over to the authorities for possible illegal activity. https://x.com/c7fi…

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    Comment #40648517

    The comparison to George Orwell's "thoughtcrime" is apt, but zooming out, I think Canada is paving the way to "Brazil", the Gilliam movie which was originally called 1984½. The dys…

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    Comment #40170696

    The CDC was formed at an actual cow slaughterhouse. Know your history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

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    Comment #39210591

    I build a blog in IPFS, its basically reliant on several centralized services to actually work in browsers (DNS , GitHub, Fleek, etc). I wrote about how I build it here, the expera…

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    Comment #38643938

    You can see a technical analysis here https://twitter.com/Neodyme/status/1735337711555285261 , this is a JS repo for app integrations for Ledger and really has nothing specifically…

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    Comment #38584548

    The newsworthy item here is that this is an intentional backdoor. The wikipedia pages list the specific uses per country and department. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_T…

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    Comment #33634694

    The reason was actually marketing and he was the first to admit it. During the invite only Chicago money trade show he explicitly said he spending all his money on brand awareness …

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    Comment #33481817

    Really, really bad idea to use force using microphone. Unreal.