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by Barrera 5y ago
This article goes off the rails for me with this statement: > Their starting point was the observation that Ethereum "smart contract" execution is order-dependent within a block, unlike transaction execution in Bitcoin and simi
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by Barrera 5y ago
What kind of evidence would convince you?
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by Barrera 5y ago
True, privacy in Bitcoin takes diligence. But that association between pseudonyms and identities is not part of Bitcoin but rather some of the things that happen around Bitcoin. Understanding the risks is key. I'm not saying it's
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by Barrera 5y ago
Everyone can look at the ledger. This is of course the whole point. But it means nothing by itself. Privacy is eroded by linking ledger pseudonyms with other identities. It's especially bad when a record of that link is made in a dat
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by Barrera 5y ago
It's hard to see Bitcoin's value proposition when you live a life of financial privilege. Bitcoin's value proposition is this: censorship-resistant money. If you don't care about being censored, you won't see the va
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by Barrera 5y ago
> When we’re having The Same Fight, positive intent, or chalking up any harm caused as accidental, can be just as much of a trust killer as more overtly harmful actions. It doesn’t matter whether we are intentionally refusing to cooperat
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by Barrera 5y ago
It's in the video embedded at the bottom. What appears to be a representative of Honda says the following about the then-concept car (0:40): "It's got kind of a wash-and-wear interior. You can kind of completely hose out the
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by Barrera 5y ago
When the opportunity presents itself few who think that now will want to or even be able to act. It turns out that buying a house when house prices are going down isn't much fun. In fact, it's downright terrifying. Worse, most of
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by Barrera 5y ago
> Real worker earnings fell by another 0.8% during the month as the cost of living outpaced otherwise strong pay gains. Most post-WWII recessions were preceded by or coincident with a spike in CPI (and not coincidentally by record-low un
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by Barrera 5y ago
> Although the design above is perfectly valid in terms of OOP, neither of these classes are actually unit-testable. Because LocationProvider depends on its own instance of HttpClient and SolarCalculator in turn depends on LocationProvid
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by Barrera 5y ago
> Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But start
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by Barrera 5y ago
> Russian gas accounted for 55% of Germany's gas imports in 2021 and 40% of its gas imports in the first quarter of 2022, Reuters reported. The country has pledged to end the use of Russian gas by 2024, the Habeck said in a March 25
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by Barrera 5y ago
> ... When I went through a divorce in my early 30's, I called my mom to break the news and she responded by screaming at the top of her lungs at me. She would later tell me that she was trying to scare me into making sure that I ha
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Watson: A wonderful CLI to track your time(tailordev.github.io)
3 points by Barrera 5y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 5y ago
> I think I'd love for where I live to outlaw ownership of small-unit-count buildings by someone who doesn't live in the building. Economics will ultimately do this for you. As the economy deteriorates, the rate of return on re
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by Barrera 5y ago
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_events_in_the_U... 2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/12/31/2019s-yie...
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by Barrera 5y ago
Freakonomics ran a recent episode on unions [1]. A pair of interesting stats were presented near the start: the approval rating for unions stands at 70% in the US (even higher among the young) at the same time that union membership stands a
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2-year Treasury yield tops 10-year rate, a signal for possible future recession(cnbc.com)
2 points by Barrera 5y ago|0 comments
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by Barrera 5y ago
That part about "a social networking bubble of imitations and tag alongs" is ironic, given Google's numerous failed attempts to tag along on the social networking bubble.
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by Barrera 5y ago
I think a lot of the negative reaction to this article comes from the title, which does sound condescending and at least a little odd. Here are some alternative titles that might not get clicks but also won't prompt a visceral reaction
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by Barrera 5y ago
This is the kind of pain that comes from trusting scammers and nincompoops about unworkable blockchain "scalability" fixes. Here's the sequence. Those dumb enough to ignore it are doomed to repeat the pattern. I'm probab
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by Barrera 5y ago
That last Venn diagram is a little alarming. Startup founders are just one quality away from being serial killers, dictators, or postal cases.
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by Barrera 5y ago
The main reason this didn't work is that the founder didn't identify a customer willing to spend money . A lot of startups fail because they never identify a customer. Or even a problem. This one failed because before writing a
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Nuclear War Simulator(nuclearwarsimulator.com)
4 points by Barrera 5y ago|1 comments
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Pentagon Kills Russian Nuclear Strike Plan (2008)(wired.com)
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Russia is open to selling natural gas for Bitcoin(bitcoinmagazine.com)
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by Barrera 5y ago
Check out this response to get an idea of where the data set comes from and the credentials of the author: https://github.com/davidteter/OPEN-RISOP/issues/1
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by Barrera 5y ago
One insect secretion or another, it's basically the same thing.
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by Barrera 5y ago
> "I have decided to implement ... a series of measures to switch payments — we'll start with that — for our natural gas supplies to so-called unfriendly countries into Russian rubles," Putin said in a televised government
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U.S. Citizens Could Seize Airplanes and Other Russian Property Under House Bill(flyingmag.com)
3 points by Barrera 5y ago|0 comments

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