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by Mahn 12y ago
Because he didn't distribute it as such. Do you think the image would have become half as popular if he had posted it as "here's a face I drew in mspaint, I intend to change royalties for its use if it get catches on, enjoy&q
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by Mahn 12y ago
It's a pitty we are not digging in the underground of the planet yet; imagine the amount of fossils and history one could find if the planet had been habitated before.
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by Mahn 12y ago
There isn't much you can do if the "cheating" happens client side, because the cheater has complete control there. At most you can obfuscate it by e.g. rendering the button in a canvas element and/or including a checksum
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by Mahn 12y ago
Much like toolbars back in the day. I still think that browsers should just let extensions be fully disabled by default so only the power users who know what they are doing can enable them poking in settings.
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by Mahn 12y ago
Seconded, if you are going to annotate source code please go for this format.
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by Mahn 12y ago
I think the easiest option would be more transparency. If HN had a system in by which its users could see how things get to the front page (e.g. with graphs and data), rather than simply having to trust a magic points and time algorithm,
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by Mahn 12y ago
But those are two things. You can move to HHVM and not use Hack.
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by Mahn 12y ago
> South America, Africa, a few Asian markets, yeah quite likely. Today? Isn't the demand in those markets for bitcoin even lower than what it is in the US? I understand it is speculated bitcoin has a better chance of penetrating tho
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by Mahn 12y ago
Only tangentially related, but, provided the founders know what they are doing, is there any kind of bitcoin startup that can eventually become cash flow positive on its own today? Because I've been thinking a lot about bitcoin startup
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by Mahn 12y ago
I second this, but as for what went wrong: > With the dip in bitcoin interest among Silicon Valley investors, we weren't able to generate enough venture capital interest to continue funding Buttercoin. It sounds like they didn'
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by Mahn 12y ago
For the record, your first example can be written in this manner with short tags on: <a href="<?=$some_url?>">Some link</a> Which is effectively pretty close to a templating pseudo-syntax.
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by Mahn 12y ago
> That is sufficient for the Fermi paradox. Is it? How do we know it is?
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by Mahn 12y ago
Another argument against the great filter, and one I'm surprised it's not considered more often, is the relativity of the space and time. We assume, long story short, that the colonization explosion is rare because we can't s
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by Mahn 12y ago
> When you use a templating engine, you can change the backend entirely without messing with the template. You can also compile/optimize the display of data in the template more easily. To be fair, all that you can do with a templat
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by Mahn 12y ago
And then you realize you could actually take it a step further and before you know it you are hunting for documentation on the amount of cycles each intruction and data access takes and other obscure clocking info, nevermind there are a tho
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by Mahn 12y ago
The most important question, though, is not "why haven't regular consumers realized the benefits of bitcoin yet", but rather, "what are the benefits of bitcoin that will make regular consumers adopt it". And I just
587.
by Mahn 12y ago
I still don't understand how does Bitcoin present opportunity and potential when average consumers do not want it. It excels for things like buying drugs, so for that use case alone it will stay, but other than that, even with companie
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by Mahn 12y ago
> I don’t currently and haven’t previously used the Imported Contact feature But perhaps the others did? If 'Steve Jacobs' imported his contacts and you exchanged emails with him, LinkedIn apparently becomes aware of that rel
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Dyson sphere(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Mahn 12y ago
If only.
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by Mahn 12y ago
It's definitively an interesting demo, but not the kind of thing one looks forward to when trying to scroll on a page with the purpose of reading it.
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by Mahn 12y ago
Well it's working out for Bitcoin.
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by Mahn 12y ago
It's too bad Vivaldi tracks all of its users with no opt out possibility, could have been interesting.
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by Mahn 12y ago
> objectively worth Is there such a thing? At the end of the day a company is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for, which is always subjective.
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by Mahn 12y ago
But that's exactly his point, non-earth life that behaves like life on earth can be predicted easily, but anything beyond that, who knows? You can only assume non-earth life depends on things like Nitrogen if you believe that's
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by Mahn 12y ago
This idea of "uploading" the mind shows up every now and then and it is interesting, but I think that ultimately we need a much deeper understanding in what consciousness is and how it works, because as it stands right now, it sou
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by Mahn 12y ago
http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ Still spot on today :)
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by Mahn 12y ago
> As an aside, what is the point of taking a serious nootropic for software development? Typically, a coder's problem isn't failure to get into a groove once they have uninterrupted time. The typical problem is not having unint
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by Mahn 12y ago
For those of you who do take them: Aren't you concerned by side effects and/or long term health effects? Not judging, just genuinely curious; I've looked into them but it seems the general consensus is that their effects, bot
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by Mahn 12y ago
Just clicked "view source" on this page out of curiosity. I feel like I just traveled back in time to 1996.

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