Igelau

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by Igelau 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're trying to dismiss the parent comment, or if this is a damning observation on "thought" regarding bitcoin. Probably some of both, right?
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by Igelau 6y ago
I think of passwords in 3 tiers: 1) the Netflix tier where my wife and in-laws are going to be sending it around insecurely and I don't really care what happens 2) the Random Bullshit tier where I really can't be bothered to remem
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by Igelau 6y ago
How do you know they're a white guy?
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by Igelau 6y ago
I would have expected that professional journalism is a den of vipers, but this is just a complete infestation of evil. Change the names and issues and you could just as easily be talking about the GOP at this level of bull-headed corruptio
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by Igelau 6y ago
If you don't understand, you're not paying attention. There's a big difference between saying a word and using a word. He was answering a question about someone else's use of the word and trying to clarify. What he e
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by Igelau 6y ago
> Also, the irony of you talking about "meandering writing" is just breathtaking. Ever heard of a period? Petty. No one in a HN comment is claiming to be a journalist.
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by Igelau 6y ago
Well, in order to satisfactorily answer that, we'd have to agree on what constitutes a good reason... (describes a notation for propositional logic) Oh. I see what you did there.
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by Igelau 6y ago
That wasn't the point of the article. I think you skipped to the punchline and missed the joke. More "useful" are examples are linked at the bottom, so I'm not sure what you're griping about unless you just don&#x27
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by Igelau 6y ago
> Clojure It's been a while since I've messed with Clojure, but I thought Clojure had a function specifically for tail calls. I think it was recur?
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by Igelau 6y ago
Oh yeah. At least at some point in the Tulip Mania, someone was actually trying to sell someone else a tulip bulb - even if by contract for a tulip at a later time. I don't even know what this is. The most prominent NFT seems to be NBA
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by Igelau 6y ago
You seem to know a lot about NBA Top Shot, so I'm hopeful that you can clarify some things for me that I couldn't quite understand from the documentation on the web or from reading the smart contracts on GitHub. If I own a Moment,
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by Igelau 6y ago
Oh man, it's even structured like a penny auction where the majority tile holder 'owns' the "final creation". I'm willing to grant that it's slightly slightly interesting to consider what some works woul
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by Igelau 6y ago
There is also bottomless pit poo on my windshield.
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by Igelau 6y ago
I really hate and distrust Medium. You get garbage like this gussied up like it's coming from a trustworthy and informed source. I'm not sure why it seems that way in a way that, say, LiveJournal didn't, but it does. The &quo
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by Igelau 6y ago
The DRM comparison is one I was dying to see. This NFT stuff feels like the returning nemesis of open culture from previous web sub-eras. I hardly want to own a work. Take it, build on it, sing it somewhere with someone else who likes it.
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by Igelau 6y ago
Unfortunately git is the easy one, but you're right about the accessibility. I headed a transition from svn to git once, and even though I think git is conceptually simpler overall, it quickly became apparent who paid attention to the
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by Igelau 6y ago
> the overwhelming majority of users You might be right about current users, but this kind of thing matters a lot if you're going to convince potential future users. Someone who isn't already using Firefox isn't going to h
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by Igelau 6y ago
Does Firefox not deserve good and contemporary design? Do designers not deserve to be compensated? This is such a lazy gripe.
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by Igelau 6y ago
> I wonder if they're even still using pokedexes in the series. The pokedex itself is a pokemon now. It hosts a Rotom.
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by Igelau 6y ago
> it's going to take a full Ars Technica teardown before we're completely convinced. Read: please send us a free one
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by Igelau 6y ago
Subtle play of the classic HN "but does it scale?" joke. As if someone is concerned about how well martian parachute assembly processes scale :D
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by Igelau 6y ago
Most places that do custom printing for Mars-ready parachutes give you a nice 10% off coupon if you sign up for e-mails, or they might have snagged a Black Friday deal.
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by Igelau 6y ago
I don't understand NFT. Why would I care that there's an entry in a blockchain that says "$USER owns the thing at $TOKEN_URI, here's its $HASH" I could say "I have dibs on Lake Louise" and make a blockchai
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by Igelau 6y ago
I think you're being called a troll because you're proposing incarceration as a solution, and that's a fundamentally antiscientific position. Inconsistency + agression usually passes the duck test for a troll.
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by Igelau 6y ago
Proof of waste.
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by Igelau 6y ago
> You are assuming the worst intentions I'm not assuming anyone's intentions. > singling out the worst actors I might be doing this unknowingly. I only have my own perceptions to draw on. Those perceptions, as you rightly ob
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by Igelau 6y ago
Social media might be an amplifier, but the vehemence with which proponents of crypto defend its legitimacy reminds me of the people who defend MLMs. If you say "hey, isn't this a pyramid scheme?" to folks who have managed to
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by Igelau 6y ago
See, I could probably get on board with being passively opposed to about half the stuff on that triangle. The other half is either outright bs or stuff I've never heard of.
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by Igelau 6y ago
> Amusing and mildly racist use of the name Raj Interesting. My gut reaction was that they must have initially published his name and silently redacted it. Your gut reaction is that HN is seething with many racist commenters who use R__
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by Igelau 6y ago
Ars Technica must have redacted the name. It just says "subcontractor" now.

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