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12991.
by api 11y ago
A few inline instructions vs a library call.
12992.
by api 11y ago
Is it possible to transmit energy as information, and if so at what efficiency? I can imagine some crazy sci-fi possibilities there... like Dyson Swarm type solar power satellites that beam power anywhere as a data stream.
12993.
by api 11y ago
IMHO today cryptography and security are far more important and relevant than physical arms. This sort of thing is why "I have nothing to hide" is not a legitimate justification for mass surveillance. Think of the abuse potential
12994.
by api 11y ago
Laziness is useful here. Lazy developers are among the most inventive, since invention generally involves wanting to automate something that you formerly had to do manually.
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by api 11y ago
You can live on basic income and/or welfare, but not all that well. You'll be poor. You'll be living in a bad neighborhood or a crummy tiny apartment and won't be able to buy very much. Most ambitious people -- the peopl
12996.
by api 11y ago
So far I haven't personally seen this problem in the field. I know it exists to some extent but is it really that common? How many promising startups are killed by lawsuits?
12997.
by api 11y ago
Find a problem. What would you pay to have solved? Now out of that list, what do you have the skills and experience to address?
12998.
by api 11y ago
That's already happened: Chinese controlled mining pools control >50% of the hash rate and could do serious damage to Bitcoin (or even fork it) if they really wanted to and were willing to take a short-term loss for a long-term powe
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by api 11y ago
What makes weev or anyone else think the uber-powerful want to quash Bitcoin? If they did, step one would be to stop investing hundreds of millions of dollars in it through top VC funds led by Bilderberg fellows. I mean that would be a st
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by api 11y ago
Must have missed that important point somehow. Will take another look. Edit: oh, that. Not much of an explanation. I was asking if there is a deeper underlying reason.
13001.
by api 11y ago
(1) Get another more centralized pool to control 26%. (Or a cabal of them.) (2) Take both pools offline. (3) Profit.
13002.
by api 11y ago
It seems like powerful people in the ecosystem (Chinese miners?) really do not want the block size increased. Why would this be? Are they hoping for increasing transaction fees and therefore increasing mining profits? In any case increasi
13003.
by api 11y ago
It would allow them to add a criminal charge of possessing an illegal cell phone to people who have encrypted cell phones, then possibly force them to decrypt it through intimidation.
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by api 11y ago
Trump's opponents don't get it. His supporters are eating this stuff up. Every time he does something ridiculous or outrageous his numbers go up. The thing that's fueling him is (on the right) analogous to what's fueling
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by api 11y ago
I don't understand 'one process per container,' and as near as I can tell it is not enforced. It's just a guideline. I always thought 'one task per container' or 'one service per container' made sense
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by api 11y ago
I have code to 'curl' Twilio to notify me of certain things that need attention. It works and it's really cheap.
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by api 11y ago
I've been convinced for quite some time that the 60-80 hour work week thing is mostly fictitious bragging and a culture of workaholic bravado. I think people actually lie about how much they work to appear more important or more '
13008.
by api 11y ago
Run away unless you want to experience the business equivalent of being uhh... touched inappropriately.
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by api 11y ago
If you're concerned about MS privacy, you should be absolutely outraged about Google, Facebook, etc. You also shouldn't consider Apple to be that different. The Win10 privacy thing isn't much different from what Apple now doe
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by api 11y ago
1. The company is not growing and has no plans to grow. This is huge and probably swamps all the others. 2. The job is to maintain something old, and you get a sense there are no new plans for this product. 3. Is the software "enterpri
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by api 11y ago
Lots of cheap hydro electricity up there.
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Ask HN: Modern web sites that deviate from the standard “bootstrap” template
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by api 11y ago
Life is not mysterious. It is merely carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, ...
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by api 11y ago
Too bad transportation infrastructure is completely verboten in America. New York has it grandfathered in (was built before the car era) and New York does not have this problem. The simple reality is that cars don't scale beyond a cert
13015.
by api 11y ago
... which means if you use something like React and do not inject HTML or use innerHTML or other eval-type junk then you don't actually need to worry much about allowing inline CSS or inline JavaScript. Some of CSP's protections a
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by api 11y ago
This is worthless without a comparison to other engineering fields or other comparable industries like finance, management, politics, business, etc. (Not saying it isn't happening, just questioning whether our industry is worse than...
13017.
by api 11y ago
Fine for single-purpose app deployments, but on a grander scale you've just pushed all the security problems back to the APIs and interfaces of your cloud provider and/or virtualization engine. Now an AWS access token constitutes
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by api 11y ago
The problem is that endpoint OSes are horribly insecure. It's hard to well nigh impossible to build a third party "endpoint security solution" for that, since this amounts to creating an aftermarket patch to plug a leaky dike
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by api 11y ago
Addiction is a symptom of other underlying psychological or neurological problems, not a cause. Healthy people do not become addicts any more than healthy people run high fevers or vomit uncontrollably. The underlying causes of addiction ar
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by api 11y ago
It's "enterprise"!

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