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This reminds me of something I recently saw on Netflix. In the documentary about physicist Abdus Salam, he sent Wolfgang Pauli a paper on parity violations. Pauli replied saying something like "find something better to do".

Later, two Chinese physicist went on to get the Nobel Prize for that same theory. Pauli later apologised.

https://www.sps.ch/en/articles/milestones-in-physics/the-fal...

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81191195

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Reading the comments, is anyone else bothered by this reply from a Blackblaze representative:

"Right now, Backblaze has only one datacenter, so the short answer is "no". :-)

The longer answer is that for online backup, there is one copy of your data on your laptop, and another copy in the Backblaze datacenter in Sacramento. If a meteor hits our datacenter in Sacramento pulverizing it into atoms, you STILL would not lose one single file, not one - because your laptop is still running just fine where ever you are with your copy of the data. In the case that occurs, we will alert our users they should make another backup of their data."

There are a million one things other than a comet strike that can go wrong in a data centre. I would not trust a backup provider that does not replicate my data across at least two data centers.

First off, to get a SIM card as a foreigner in India, you need to have a copy of your passport and visa, a passport sized photo, and a local to act as a reference

Except the local reference part, you go through a similar procedure in Saudi Arabia... in fact.. you need to supply your Iqama (work permit) or passport number over the phone every time you need to topup your SIM. All this in the name of curbing "terrorism"

I think thats an interesting perspective. Just as gold is a finite quantity so will Bitcoin be a finite quantity when it reaches 21Mil coins.

I can imagine that in future Bitcoins can be used as a "reserve" currency that backs another currency

[dead] 13 years ago

My instinct exactly! I have seen something similar before.

I concur! Claiming that Java is not "as memory intensive as thought" means to me that they compared the memory usage profile of java applications with similar applications developed in other languages.