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by 21 8y ago
You should never trust journalists with your data. If you don't want to reveal how you look, don't meet them in person or cover yourself up.
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by 21 8y ago
Except this guy had proof that he contacted law enforcement multiple times and provided them with data (which they mostly ignored).
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by 21 8y ago
Related, from another article I've read recently: > Jazz clubs didn’t have “no talking” rules back when jazz was a black popular music. (Charles Mingus and Nina Simone complained bitterly and often about people talking during their
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by 21 8y ago
I wonder how long it will take until people understand why nobody is "their own bank" with their cash. Getting hacked is one worry, I would worry even more about someone with a wrench in my apartment.
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by 21 8y ago
Even better, the fake link looks more legit than the legit link. FAKE link: hxxxs://github.com/electrum-wallet LEGIT link: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum
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by 21 8y ago
What about Mario clones? (platformers) Doom clones? (first person shooters) Warcraft clones? (real time strategy) ...
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by 21 8y ago
I didn't say pension funds are scams, but that pension funds make their profits from trading against non-knowledgeable people (like GP implied bitcoin traders do)
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by 21 8y ago
You mean, like pension funds trading the stock market?
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by 21 8y ago
There was a time when the Bitcoin price was zero, yet people spent computer time mining it. So the answer to your question is never, a Bitcoin death spiral can not occur.
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by 21 8y ago
Maybe, but according to the article until they are 12 it's not legal. In some countries, you need to drive you kid to school until they are 14.
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by 21 8y ago
The Western imperialistic view of the world is not the only correct one. We should have a multi-polar world, where China and Russia also get to impose their views and values.
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by 21 8y ago
Why not take from Germany? > People in Germany essentially got paid to use electricity on Christmas. Electricity prices in the country went negative for many customers - as in, below zero - on Sunday and Monday, because the country&#x27
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by 21 8y ago
> Science is about hypothesis, iteration, and testing Maybe in the past. Today science is about getting grants, publishing as much as possible even if the paper is trivial or you p-hacked your way to heaven. It's also about findin
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by 21 8y ago
> Plenty of places have friendly policies and are taken advantage of by a few, but they keep the policy because people like it. It's changing: > Every time shoppers return purchases to Best Buy Co. BBY -2.65% , they are tracke
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by 21 8y ago
Sometimes I still browse Digg (it's different now). Since the last Firefox update from a week ago which disabled Symantec certificates the site doesn't work anymore. I bet the day Chrome disables Symantec certificates they will im
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by 21 8y ago
> As opposed to broadcast and cable? Which is why nobody bothers checking out broadcast/cable shows anymore. They have become synonyms with crap. Netflix is playing a dangerous game here by letting content quality slip. And I don&
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by 21 8y ago
On Netflix most of their own series are low production value crap. I don't even bother checking them anymore even if the subject sounds interesting, unless I hear about them in the media first. This can't be good for them in the l
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by 21 8y ago
He's testing on a 7 year old 8-core server CPU. As irrelevant as possible for your average laptop Firefox user.
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by 21 8y ago
JavaScript code has access to SQLite. So any webpage where the attacker controls/can inject JavaScript is vulnerable.
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by 21 8y ago
> many alternatives to electron do in fact offer markup language like GUI creation and css/html like styling including Qt with its QML offshoot, or JavafX. > Not to mention that I don't see any obvious reason why HTML wou
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by 21 8y ago
> At least but not at last Electron apps are so slow to start and so hardware-hungry I actually doubt it is going to become a truly mainstream platform for desktop applications Nobody is going to write a Photoshop or a music production
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by 21 8y ago
> I can say it involves a serious amount of of non-intuitive hand-coding and feels annoyingly hard and slow as compared to WinForms and WPF. It is most probably going to get easier and faster with experience No, it won't get easie
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by 21 8y ago
That's exactly the point. It's called humble-brag.
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by 21 8y ago
and now you are defining you whole class inside that return {}. Do you honestly find this more readable?
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by 21 8y ago
Why not use the private/public keywords like in TypeScript? Was this # thing voted by the community or something?
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by 21 8y ago
It doesn't scale. If a significant portion of the user-base starts doing this, what will happen is that security issues will be discovered 7/14/X days after they are introduced, not immediately. Because the fundamental proble
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by 21 8y ago
Laws should have an expiration date. Otherwise in 100 years there will be 1 million laws.
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by 21 8y ago
I have a very-very good Haskell programming friend, and quite a few times I caught him start speaking in technobabble to impress a couple of blubers. I also have a few Scala friends, and I can see the obvious Haskell envy they have, they fe
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by 21 8y ago
When bitcoin loses 50% of it's value, people say that's the proof it was an obvious scam and people woke up. When Nvidia does that, it's just markets...
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by 21 8y ago
> the registry still existing You know that GNOME also has a registry, right? https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/dconf

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