Hermel

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by Hermel 5y ago
What's wrong with brigading? That's also a form of engagement.
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by Hermel 5y ago
In sectors where products can have infinite variety (like fashion), monopolies don't seem to happen because the small creative producers can create new market niches faster than the monopolies can enter them.
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by Hermel 5y ago
The additional transaction fees that using ERC-777 would cost in the Ethereum network are probably much higher than someone losing half a million every now and then. So economically, adopting ERC-777 would be a step backwards.
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by Hermel 5y ago
Yes, this is the reason I resorted to bing a few times in the past week. Google seems to penalize certain news sources to such an extent that vaguely remembering the content of the article does not suffice any more to find it again, whereas
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by Hermel 5y ago
Simple: if in the whole sample, the same x always comes with the same y, then y is a function of x. Example: x1 = 1, y1 = 2 x2 = 1.1, y2 = 2 Here, y is a function of x, because if we know that x = 1, the we also know that y = 2. However, x
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by Hermel 5y ago
I don't think the virus could ever be stopped with today's vaccines, even if everyone was vaccinated. Data from fully or almost fully vaccinated countries clearly show that this doesn't eliminate the virus. It of course helps
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by Hermel 5y ago
People like power, in particular politicians. The have a bias towards any measure that makes them feel powerful and in control.
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by Hermel 5y ago
I don't care about whether this article is misogynistic. I care about whether it is true. Also, Hacker News should be more concerned with the latter than the former.
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by Hermel 5y ago
Year-on-year inflation for producer prices currently stands at 14.2% in Germany. So it is actually already quite high. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Preise/Erzeuger...
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by Hermel 5y ago
What a surprise: if you disable a feature, the abuse of that feature is reduced... For a balanced assessment, you also need to take the destroyed value of disabling the feature into account.
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by Hermel 5y ago
And it might end up being the global reserve currency.
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by Hermel 5y ago
If you think the article provides evidence for any of what you are saying, you should read it again. Do you really believe the 1000 top holders of Bitcoin that control together about 15% of the supply somehow conspired together to manipulat
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by Hermel 5y ago
The top 1000 investors hold 15% of the supply? That’s not “highly centralized” if you compare to the stock market. For Tesla, one single shareholder holds 17% of the whole company.
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by Hermel 5y ago
The average politician also has reports and diners prepared by lobbyists and others that want to influence his or her judgement. Not sure if that is a net gain for objectivity.
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by Hermel 5y ago
Why do you assume that the average politician is better informed than the average citizen?
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by Hermel 5y ago
The truth is: all these leaks didn't unearth as much dirt on high-profile politicians as the journalists hoped for. Also, the "Swiss bank accounts" seem to have become a Hollywoood clichée that do not have much practical rele
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by Hermel 5y ago
Blockchain wallets are an interesting case. I would argue that for example an Ethereum wallet that generates an address for you in the Ethereum system is not required to provide a way to delete that account again. Similarly, the Chrome ap
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by Hermel 5y ago
Earning 273 billion per year is much more valuable than owning 273 billion.
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by Hermel 5y ago
That's why I prefer testing code comprehension skills over testing code writing skills in interviews. In my experience, the former is much more indicative of job performance than the latter. I don't understand why code comprehensi
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by Hermel 5y ago
Just a few days ago, I made the mistake of telling the police how much cash I had with me after they stopped the taxi I was sitting in (a few hundred euros). This happened in the middle of the night in a foreign country (France), so I didn&
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by Hermel 5y ago
By having hard money, the system has one less moving part and is a little less complex and less erratic.
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by Hermel 5y ago
Maybe you should have applied with smaller companies that don’t have bureaucratic hiring processes yet?
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by Hermel 5y ago
I quickly skimmed their q&a and it seems to me they mean custodial wallets only. But I didn’t find the relevant section in the regulation yet as Chrome mobile has no function find words within PDFs. Did anyone find it yet?
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by Hermel 5y ago
By default, all expenses reduce your profits. Unless there is a specific exception, ransom is just another expense and should therefore be deductible.
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by Hermel 5y ago
Ideally, the code is structured such that one can navigate it at different levels of detail, with the lower level functionality encapsulated into separate units that can be ignored if one is not interested in the details.
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by Hermel 5y ago
> But then it quickly mention, without any further analysis, that both their GDP actually grew at a similar pace. So the entire EU economy grew at the same speed than the US one but not its 500 bigger companies. So all else being equals
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by Hermel 5y ago
My preferred format is simply what & why, which is the second piece of information in the list in the article. For example: Cannot serve website. (What?) Reason: could not connect to database. (Why?) Most of the time, it is very easy to
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by Hermel 5y ago
The essence of OOP is not inheritance, that’s a nice to have. The essence of OOP is to encapsulate the data and the functions that operate on that data into an object and hide the internal state of the object from the rest of the program.
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by Hermel 5y ago
I agree with the minimum tax rate. But I think the criterion for taxing profits should not be where the products are sold (for that, we have the sales tax or the VAT). The right criterion is where the value is created, which is usually the
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by Hermel 5y ago
What’s next? Using anti-terror laws for copyright enforcement?

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