FatalLogic

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by FatalLogic 2y ago
>I’m pretty sure in the grand scheme of things the Forbes family is still perfectly OK with the association The writers, editors and other business partners who built their reputation by contributing to Forbes previous good reputation ar
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
>It's a really good example of why one should not name your company after your surname. That relationship can work in the opposite way sometimes. John McAfee seemed to be getting a gleeful kick out of embarrassing the security compa
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
>Take World of Goo. Very popular game. Released in 2008; got a sequel in 2024. Why so long for a sequel? In part, because when they experimented with a DRM-free release, they had a piracy rate of over 90%. Can you prove that's lost
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
It's ironic that a person writing about poor communication paradigms didn't explain what "toast" means here. It's the most important word on their page, and it's obvious that some people, even technically-minde
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by FatalLogic 3y ago
It's a pity the title is that bad, because the article is good
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by FatalLogic 3y ago
>I am genuinely interested on hearing the point of people who still don't believe that decentralized blockchain networks are the future of payments Decentralization is either a very attractive feature or a dangerous threat. It depen
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by FatalLogic 3y ago
Honestly, I'm not trying to be "sneaky". I didn't mean to imply that Bitcoin has suffered from disastrous smart contract bugs like Ethereum has, or that the core Bitcoin or core Ethereum systems had ever been hacked sinc
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by FatalLogic 3y ago
>Can you see the difference? Yes, I do see some differences. It's true that the situations were not identical. Thanks for your interesting reply. One important difference is that the amount of money lost in the DAO was MUCH larger t
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by FatalLogic 3y ago
I don't know why you're replying to my comment, because I wasn't talking about any of those other issues you've said here. I did not confirm or deny them. I quoted the single issue that I was disputing. I wrote as clearl
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by FatalLogic 3y ago
>"has this chain ever broken it's own rules and rolled back transactions at the behest of its benevolent dictator?" Bitcoin has also done this. You're referring to the $50m DAO smart contract bug (or "hack")
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by FatalLogic 3y ago
Looks like one reason is Codecrafters is a learning site which uses Github to store users code, instead of hosting it themselves. This post is about one project which is at Codecrafters They should explain why though
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by FatalLogic 3y ago
The Nagasaki bomb may not have been necessary. As well a simple attack on Japan, the Nagasaki atomic bombing was also a cold-blooded test of the implosion bomb technology, and a demonstration for the rest of the world, particularly for the
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by FatalLogic 3y ago
I also don't watch WWF for the same reason, that it obviously is completely fake. As a dramatic performance, it's terrible acting as well. It's worse than a daytime soap But you could appreciate it as a skilled live stunt act
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
Yes. For example- The Wall Street Journal "Cantor Fitzgerald helps manage $39 billion Treasury portfolio that makes up lion’s share of stablecoin’s reserves" https://archive.md/HL307 ( https://www.wsj.co
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
There's a capable sub-$100 USB tester that has USB-A and USB-C connector versions, which has been rebranded or cloned or ripped off in various names, such as Shizuku/Yanke and Avhzy. I think Shizuku and Yanke may be the original d
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I have to think like a criminal: how I became a burglar for hire(theguardian.com)
4 points by FatalLogic 4y ago|0 comments
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
There's other reports about this: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/bank-america-says-customer... The latest on #Zelle on Twitter is quite the firestorm of outrage right now, too: https://twitter.c
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Is Bank of America Experiencing Zelle Glitch?(newsweek.com)
2 points by FatalLogic 4y ago|1 comments
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
The timing of his claimed loss is suspiciously convenient in regard to a supposed tax writeoff scam, assuming that is possible, but he is a deeply eccentric man. A discussion earlier on HN [1] mentions many examples of his (alleged) activit
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
That's all true, but: a gifted coder is ordered to make a change he feels is wrong, he refuses, and he also writes ingeniously obfuscated code which nobody else can alter? We don't know his motives, or if the clever 'hack&#x2
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
>If this analysis can cast a shadow on the myth of Mel Kaye ... it stems from the obvious lack of real value that the hack added to the program. It's very unlikely that a standard loop would have degraded the program's perform
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
As an interim solution, the property owner might be able to install large batteries (for example Powerwall) that renters could use to charge their vehicles. The batteries could be charged continuously, without overloading the old electrical
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
Can MAME[1] emulate Vectrex games on a normal screen now? I searched for a few minutes, but the results seem to be about using MAME to control an original Vectrex vector display, (such as: https://trmm.net/Vectrex/ ), n
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
From (2007) and the linked PDF contains more details A news story about the incident: https://web.archive.org/web/20120415222940/http://maritimeac...
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Entry to enclosed space on emergency rescue vessel Viking Islay kills 3 (2007)(gov.uk)
5 points by FatalLogic 4y ago|2 comments
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
Apart from the tracking and soft paywall issues that you and some comments mention, there's another problem with sites like Medium and Substack (and Linkedin and others, too) Publishing on those sites requires minimal effort. As the us
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
You're not losing your mind - there was a similar riff on the title of the same article: 'The Atlantic's articles shatter the myth of respected media.' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33047137
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
> "only loans from his network allowed it survive" You're saying this as if networking and convincing acquaintances to offer financial assistance is cheating, rather than a normal part of starting up a company Anyway, how
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
>Came to ask the same question It IS an interesting question. But you should simply upvote it, if you have nothing at all to add.
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by FatalLogic 4y ago
"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect" - Teller (of Penn and Teller)

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