kindfellow92

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 fiction.

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 extent of their brilliance is superficial pattern matching. To most people the dot-com bubble seems to fit all the patterns so by their logic it must have the same outcome. If you think critically about the differences of the crypto craze and the dot-com era, you’ll see how irrational it is to make a strong comparison.

Bitcoin is not Pets.com. Bitcoin is Google.

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 helped make that possible. It’s strange to me that you hate someone who provides a valuable service to people.

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 the fact that he was providing them with a free service and I only see a morally net positive contribution from him.

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 seems right on this one, that makes me question AMD’s honesty and knowledge of the issue.

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 even in the name (i.e. you fork the program in two, not spawn a new process).

I really doubt this. Is there an instance of a program with 1st edition lineage that use processes to achieve concurrency? There were pipes, sure, but that could be achieved with a spawn-like call.

I don’t see processes being used for concurrency in UNIX history until BSD sockets and forking servers emerged.

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 is normal.

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

Yeah on context switch the SSE registers are stored in memory, so this doesn’t help for security.

In the style of this article, Most probably not.

I think you’re missing the point. This is only useful if there is actually a measureable benefit.

Transfers aren’t synchronous operations.

I did a wire on 12/13 and 12/16 without issue. This is likely user error.

You probably accidentally did an ACH transfer instead of a wire transfer. Coinbase does not support ACH.

No