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by ArchD 6y ago
When people run out of good arguments, they give you tons of weak arguments. What you see and describe is a bullish sign for the thing they are trying to argue against. It's somewhat pointless to argue with random strangers on the Inte
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by ArchD 6y ago
Missing the point. Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency to grab attention and normalize the idea of public permissionless public blockchains in the public's and government's mind. Upon this foundation laid by bitcoin, other coins t
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by ArchD 6y ago
Does it have to be that way? Everything is electronic and stocks can move at the speed of the network whereas lumber cannot. There could be some archaic processes that are not electronic but are there inherent good reasons why they cannot b
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by ArchD 6y ago
I think Robinhood sends them the retail order flow. I don't know about ownership. The conflict of interest is the same.
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by ArchD 6y ago
Justice for thee but not justice for me. - Some US politician, probably
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by ArchD 6y ago
A large distillery might be happy that small competitors suffer death by regulation and thus do nothing to oppose this regulatory action.
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by ArchD 6y ago
Until there is a credible way to push back (strong disincentive to politicians and the copyright cartel in the form of political or financial loss when they attempt the bullshit and fail), they will keep trying their luck at tightening the
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by ArchD 6y ago
Nextcloud and owncloud are written in PHP like so are many other web server apps, especially wiki servers. I've always had misgivings about the security of using and running PHP. Does PHP software still tend to be insecure as in the pa
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by ArchD 6y ago
IDK who will still buy a patent for the trading algorithm knowing that it's publicly available and probably not so competitive anymore.
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by ArchD 6y ago
Maybe or maybe not. You may need to build up your trading infrastructure first, which entails among other things low-latency connectivity to different venues, negotiate good deals with brokers to get low trading fees etc. If it were that si
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by ArchD 6y ago
IPFS is not censorship resistant. If people start using it to subvert tyranny, politically neutral things like Nix's use of IPFS can get collaterally damaged in its infancy by state power.
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by ArchD 6y ago
If you have war criminal suspects not being prosecuted but only Assange, your 'democracy' has a bigger (fairness) problem. If your citizens are so easily swayed by Russian manipulation that you have to make it such a big deal, you
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by ArchD 6y ago
What's your point? Is the report false? I see similar reports elsewhere. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/09/amazon-adds-former-nsa-direc... I suppose you just meant to warn against other content there that
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by ArchD 6y ago
"even though the goal is to eventually have as much IP released under a BSD-like open source license" What do people mean _exactly_ by 'IP' in contexts like this related to computing boards such as SBCs and FPGAs? The on
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by ArchD 6y ago
No, the symmetry matters only in the relationship between the two countries, not in them mirroring each other in their domestic practices. The patriarch of a neighboring family does not welcome members of your family into their home, so why
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by ArchD 6y ago
Are you saying that CPC gets to ban Google, Facebook, Twitter & a ton of other non-Chinese online companies but the US government does not get to ban Chinese online companies, even in the name of fairness both in terms of trade and info
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by ArchD 6y ago
What storage do you use for the web services, given that SD cards are unreliable? Do you have one disk per node or let them share one disk over the network or something like that?
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by ArchD 6y ago
What's the actual use case for rpi clusters like this? If the goal is to learn docker or k8s using a realistic setup involving multiple machines, can't it be achieved by using multiple VMs on one physical desktop instead of using
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by ArchD 6y ago
Maybe if you introduce the concept of a mathematically-principled empty set, you can do away the unprincipled concept of NULL. Empty set equals empty set.
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by ArchD 6y ago
I wonder if these bottles can get past a TSA airport security check without breaking them open.
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by ArchD 6y ago
Lenses are used so the feature size on the mask is larger than the feature size on the wafer. https://www.nikon.com/about/technology/product/semiconductor...
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by ArchD 6y ago
All reasonable points. But except in an ideal world, I don't see how people who shape and enforce the laws are incentivized to realize them. That intellectual property is "out of control" is perhaps but part of a bigger pictu
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by ArchD 6y ago
And what's the mechanism for them to want to collude?
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by ArchD 6y ago
Please elaborate on this nonsensical-sounding statement that perhaps is just easy to misunderstand. 'Miners' is not one person or organization with special authority, so what do you even mean by censorship? Anyone can be a miner a
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by ArchD 6y ago
> For example a lot of libraries use Lens. I want to understand Lens? It is not simple: check out the diagram on https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens . You're making it seem harder that it really is. Yes, it
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by ArchD 6y ago
Did you personally have unfriendly arguments with Haskellers? I personally find them quite helpful and friendly on the freenode #haskell channel. Although there have been heated public disagreements, I haven't seen the people trying to
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by ArchD 6y ago
What a dose of reality for anyone yearning for Linux desktop to succeed. I use Linux at work and at home because of the configurability and security and because our servers run Linux but I absolutely do not enjoy tinkering around when thing
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by ArchD 6y ago
Perhaps for some of these websites, this annoying design is helping improve monetization? Perhaps the users being inconvenience by this design is only a small minority and what they perceive of as a flaw could be the result of A/B test
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by ArchD 6y ago
If you want to use a 'dynamic' script, why not pipe from stdin instead?
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by ArchD 6y ago
Even when allowing incremental reading of the script, it would be safer to use inotify to detect changes to the script being executed and fail when changes are detected. Also, flock() could be used to signal to other processes that the scri

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