DougN7

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by DougN7 9y ago
Office 2016 really sucks compares to 2013. It feels like a browser app. Is it UWP?
902.
by DougN7 9y ago
It seems to me that some view the blockchain as free and permanent digital storage. That’s a problem.
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by DougN7 9y ago
My father always taught me you earn money with your back (unskilled labor), your mind (skills) or your money (investments). Everyone can do unskilled labor so supply and demand dictates it will pay less and obviously be more physically dem
904.
by DougN7 9y ago
I totally disagree. I personally don’t like cities, congestion and apartments. I would pay more to stay in my home with a yard. Most home owners aren’t in homes because of lower costs - this meets our living style priorities best.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I'm not familiar with threads in javascript, but the expression could be true (though mighty hard to bring it about) in many multi-threaded languages.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I don't mean to be rude, but you need to get out of your bubble and see how the rest of the world lives. I hope you're living your dream, but everyone has different dreams, constraints, etc and they're not all inferior becau
907.
by DougN7 9y ago
It doesn't matter that I don't like it. Every addition to the blockchain imposes costs in storage, backup and transmission - forever. Nothing gets removed, so it just keeps growing. For property records that's a cost worth
908.
by DougN7 9y ago
IMHO, this reflects all that is bad about blockchains. So many systems around the world having to forever track nonsense like who owns a fake kitty. This is bloat. Throw it in a database that is owned by a virtual-kitty-selling company.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I might believe that stance if you can think of any human scenario where there is value and nobody tries to take advantage of it. We can’t have nice things/utipia as long as some people are evil.
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Ask HN: If Bitcoin is a store of value, what is Ethereum?
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by DougN7 9y ago
That's a really great insight. The fact that such good intentions often lead to bigger problems is what concerns me about UBI - it will surely have huge second-order effects. I'm not sure what they will be, but rent control in a
912.
by DougN7 9y ago
See Dr Seuss and Sneetches - he's spot on.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I doubt the bulk of pen and paper is used for playing tic-tac-toe. I find the OP's concern to be valid more or less.
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by DougN7 9y ago
Many SEO tips, like using H1 tags, make the site more usable IMO. I imagine removing the top million leaves you with some pretty ugly sites. I’d like to remove just the top 10K or 100K.
915.
by DougN7 9y ago
Is it really cheating? What they are doing is well known and published, with one side effect that didn’t get rolled back (which seems more like a bug). At least that’s what I’ve understood from what I’ve read.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I don’t understand the Intel hate. It’s not like their engineers are dumb or lazy. This exploit is very hard to imagine before now. And it’s there because chip makers were trying to wring out more performance. It’s unfortunate if anythi
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by DougN7 9y ago
Which essentially means you node is now a web server with all the responsibilities that entails (keep backups, always connected, etc). It feels fragile - I can't imagine pinning everything I ever read (or think might possibly be impor
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by DougN7 9y ago
Thank you for that perspective - that makes sense. I hope there is an easy way to pin an entire site and not page-by-page so, for example, a full documentation set could be kept.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I'm having a hard time imagining this at scale. I have a few thousand web pages on my site, blog posts, etc. Most of it won't be seen in any given day. So I have to pin it as it's realistically unlikely anyone else will. N
920.
by DougN7 9y ago
Great explanation - thank you. One thing I don’t understand is how this can be exploited from javascript. Does it have timing primitives so fine it can tell the difference between a memory lookup served from memory va from cache?
921.
by DougN7 9y ago
Unfortunately, the top earners are the ones with lobbyists, influence and power. They're very good and not getting themselves taxed. Everyone else could make it happen if they could focus and pay attention, but they're too easil
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by DougN7 9y ago
There might be enough milk and cereal to go around. I don't think there is enough housing, medical service and transportation (in the US). So those things will all go up in price. However, everyone should be able to afford those nec
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by DougN7 9y ago
And you've just taken the first step towards where we are now. There will of course need to be a "basic physical health" package, and a "basic financial health" package, and a "basic housing package"...
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by DougN7 9y ago
Was thinking the same thing. What about (rampant!) misdeeds from manufacturing company email addresses!
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by DougN7 9y ago
I read that Electrum recommended you move your coins (both BTC and BCC) to a new wallet after getting your forked BCC.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I’ve been using wget on Windows for years, though it’s not built in.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I don’t know. But 1000’s of people drawing pictures, saving their documents, uploading photos, trading files - that’s the problem. A few people doing a proof of concept isn’t a big deal.
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by DougN7 9y ago
I agree completely. A shared ledger is a great idea, but not when anyone can write almost anything into it. Then it starts turning into some sort of massive torrent that has to be synced around the world.
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by DougN7 9y ago
There are a lot of exchanges. But YOU (or any person in particular) trying to cash out at any point in time will need to move your coins to that exchange (and create an account, etc), and then try to sell. There aren't a lot of buyer
930.
by DougN7 9y ago
Stop losses don't protect you if the fall is rapid enough and there are no buyers. Your order simply won't get executed (at least not where you want it). That's what I think will happen if the Bitcoin bubble bursts. Being

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