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by Benmcdonald__ 5y ago
It's back! "Thank you for reaching out to us. We have found your item to be compliant with all our policies. So, we have approved your latest submission. It will be available in the Chrome Web Store shortly."
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My 7 year old Chrome extension arbitrarily deleted for linking to chat support
5 points by Benmcdonald__ 5y ago|2 comments
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Most of these projects are token sales and yes you can discount them as the technology is irrelevant to the scheme Winners in an ICO utility token sale (a gift card sale, not equity/money only marketed as such). Coin FOUNDERS that get
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
But many times it's justified name calling. Because it's not the conspiracy in the theory that is the issue but the lack of evidence in proportion to the strength of their beliefs. And in place of evidence their is paranoia. The p
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi Yes and it works well
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
They are the ideal tool for communist China or North Korea. I doubt they see that kind of control over every citizen money as bad
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
That's not how the technology networks. That naive implementation would leave you wide open for sybil attack
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Same as health care. Without regulations the industry would be full of snake oil. And yet the regulation kill innovation in the industry. Money all devolutes to scam. Look at digital money. Not even HN community can spot the "crypto&qu
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Even the rich lifestyles are greener than in America Manufacturing is dirty but then the whole world consumes these goods so that's not only a China problem
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
China has a modern infrastructure with electric transportation and investing in green energy. Their emissions per capital are low The real problem is the US. High per capital emissions and weak commitments to reduce emissions
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Many good features. I cannot switch unless a keyboard has east asian languages and a fast way to change the lang
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
There is around 4,000 scam token sales going on right now. Sorry I mean 4,000 innovations and technical experiments in pump and dumps. and 1,984 dead scam coins https://deadcoins.com/
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
They don't even have sound theory to how the network will work. I think bad code is the last of their problems
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Agree on all point. Especially with Ethereums great innovations in marketing. Sadly their technical innovations are lacking beyond smoke and mirrors
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
You are simply raising the fundamental difficulty with blockchains. How do you know what is the true chain in an adversary environment (the internet)? You gave us the question and no answer
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Impressive graphics. This would go well with webVR
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Take out the fact no companies pay for their CO2 pollution and the world is in the red
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
The law you are confusing this with was a different extradited law where the communist party wanting to extradite Hong Kong residence to mainland China where torture and slavery for political enemies of the Chinese Communist Party are compl
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
It's a law against questioning the absolute rule of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong. It has nothing to do with extradition
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Not for a family. For a single person it's a replacement
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Thanks! See GitHub link in the footer for source code and data
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Show HN: Visualisation of temperatures of 321 cities of the world 1995 to 2020(todaystrends.app)
9 points by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago|3 comments
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Also this. The Chinese communist party can't censor TLS 1.3 and ESNI. Update your website https://twitter.com/mrkoot/status/1292358618004828160?s=20 Also promote bitcoin in China. CCP survives on the money it
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
How does this work for usb typec? When I plug in my power cable will my computer shutdown?
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
"Lightning network was supposed to increase the transaction rate, where is it now?" Lightning network is deployed and increasing the transaction rate. Did someone say otherwise?
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
That quote on the header is fake from what I understand
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Pity it's all vaporwear and hype used to pump a token
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
Why do those numbers seem off. To get those stats you have to include even uneffect children getting it. A disproportionate about of 20 year olds are infected. If you are in you 30s/40s you are still in danger. In the well tested korea
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
How do you even sync the key between multiple devices? If you send the private key to the server that undoes any protection from the encryption
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by Benmcdonald__ 6y ago
There is no easy way to implement client side encryption. You will have a private key or long password the you will keep safe. You lose that all your data in gone. Plus it's difficult to securely move that password to a new platform

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