LittlePeter

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by LittlePeter 6y ago
Why is the chart on page 8 so blurry?
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Julia: A Post-Mortem(chrisvoncsefalvay.com)
107 points by LittlePeter 6y ago|252 comments
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
Potential evil use case: scrape the online status of users, get top 5%, figure out where they work, blackmail them threatening to reveal their online history to the boss.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
And I hope an Oracle database is part of their recommended solution.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
If by more you mean one then I agree: proof of work and proof of stake. The other ones are too fringe.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
I am browsing docs at https://docs.doppler.com and I noticed that in all your examples you do not authenticate even though this is needed when interacting with doppler. In most examples the required authentication is not even on
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
In my opinion, let num = 10 is not bullshit free, num = 10 is.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
Or another one: sushi swap. Perhaps this should be a measure of a bubble too: when you ran out of names and you start using food to name financial contracts.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
Is anyone else bothered by "The Definitive Answer" in the title? It implies the author presents irrefutable argument and if you don't agree then you're wrong, by definition.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
Isn't suffering? That person had to stand in the elevator between steel plates and plywood!
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
Your argument is not even an argument, it's just: "In my opinion Bitcoin has value and porn does not". For the same reason Bitcoin has value, you could argue porn has value. At the very basic level, if someone is paying for i
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
IOTA arguably is not decentralized at the moment and has questionable history: https://www.coindesk.com/iota-being-shut-off-is-the-latest-c...
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25981373
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
I had to Google, and I think this is what is meant with "Torvald's C++ response": http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
I thought `pip freeze > requirements.txt` would give you a list of all dependecies, even indirect ones. Am I missing something?
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
> I think the hedge funds, clearing houses, and DTC executed a coordinated effort to put Game Stop out of business by conspiring to create a gargantuan number of counterfeit shares of GME, possibly 100-200% or more of the shares original
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
It's something at least. You have to give SEC some time to investigate.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
robbingood
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
I find AOC actually refreshingly principled.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
in fact, I'd like a cronjob for that. we can't be reviewing only after something major happens.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
There are 67.5m GME shares outstanding. So yeah, 300m+ people competing to own single share would drive GME up.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
The matching of orders for a single asset happens on one machine, call it matching engine. Matching is done based on price-time priority. Price is set by the trader, the time is set to the time the order was received by one of the order gat
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
What is exactly better? I am using FF and browse Google websites, but never noticed anything.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25699967
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
> Since we are inevitable heading over to a climate catastrophe it's really the time to advocate against bitcoin. I would advocate for renewable energy. It's not like miners demand electricity to be from fossil fuels. The elect
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
Was 9 years really needed to come to the conclusion that > But in the end, it was just a fundamentally flawed idea. Satellites don't pop and fall out of the sky. Balloons do, frequently.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
I think when you have so many FSB agents it is hard to maintain the quality. See for example here, where a bunch of FSB agent graduates decided to celebrate in the open: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/11/worl
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
I on the other hand passionately hate Notion because of the terrible UX.
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
The GPT-3 result were jaw-dropping, until you realize that they have mostly been cherry picked out of multiple series of generated garbage. But even if GPT-3 is good at text generation, what are practical applications of it except generatin
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by LittlePeter 6y ago
> Why on Earth would $100 billion worth of Tether rushing for a conversion into anything else drag _down_ the price of BTC? Or any other coin for that matter? Price in which terms? USD? USDT? Suppose it turns out tether is a fraud. What

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