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by apo 8y ago
National data on the paycheck-to-paycheck experience is flimsy, but a recent report from the Federal Reserve spotlights the prevalence of extra-tight budgets: Four in 10 adults say they couldn’t produce $400 in an emergency without sliding
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by apo 8y ago
Summary from the article: Pending home sales ... counts how many contracts were signed rather than how many sales actually closed that month. ... This morning, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its Pending Home Sales Inde
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The article makes it very difficult to follow up because no direct link to the scientific paper is given. This lapse is unfortunately way too common and puts the author as well as the publisher in an unprofessional light. Presumably, this i
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The quest for the most diminutive munitions program(cypherspace.org)
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I would rephrase the title: "It runs on the user's platform or it is wrong." The example discussed throughout the article is Clujure vs. ClojureScript. The author takes issue with the difference in compile time (6.5 seconds v
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By now the Ethereum bloat is so bad that cheaply running an individual node is practically impossible for a lay person. This is an important yet under-appreciated point. It's now extremely difficult to sync an Ethereum node from scra
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It's interesting to apply these findings and conclusions to other areas. For example, Bitcoin is a lot like the interstate highway system in that it's prone to traffic jams. The Great Bitcoin Scaling Debate of 2016 and 2017 attemp
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One simplification that might be tempting is to replace the "if !condition" with "if condition". For example, line 463 shows: if !found { // handle missing } else { // handle found }
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by apo 8y ago
I can think of two approaches: 1. Get a better idea of the tools already at your disposal (HTML5, CSS3). I can recommend Dive into HTML5 http://diveinto.html5doctor.com 2. Start building. Literally, start with the barebones Hell
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The 4,500-Year Old Royal Game of Ur, History and Playthrough [video](youtube.com)
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I’m not even kidding, this is how I still make websites: I open a text editor, and stub this out (by hand, it only takes like 30 seconds — I’ll even do it as I write this post to be authentic — except stinkin’ tab doesn’t work here):
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Meanwhile, Deno (alternative server-side JS built from scratch by the creator of Node) keeps chugging along: https://github.com/denoland/deno It will be interesting to see which happens first: developers migrate to Den
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Nobody wants to sit down with Stalin twice. Probably the best observation in the whole article.
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The biggest misconception to get over is that REST has nothing to do with HTTP. You can implement REST over any transport protocol. Clean URLs, status codes, and methods are irrelevant. Everything revolves around media types. Your service p
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Trump Discusses Firing Fed's Powell After Latest Rate Hike, Sources Say(bloomberg.com)
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If increasing the savings rate were actually a priority, then it can be achieved easily. Raise interest rates. The Fed and its nearly decade long war on savers gave those with money to save essentially negative return on their investment. I
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by apo 8y ago
Maybe it is. On the other hand, I'm seeing way too many people calling "bubble." My n=2 experience with the late 1990s stock bubble and the early 2000s real estate bubble have taught me something: When there's a real bub
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The 4th proposal is EIP 1234, Constantinople Difficulty Bomb Delay and Block Reward Adjustment, Championed by Afri Schoedon. EIP 1234 is the proposal that has been garnering the most attention. The approved proposal has to do with delaying
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The Max Planck Digital Library has already set in place mechanisms to address the content needs of its researchers when Elsevier shuts off access at the beginning of January. What is it? Sci-Hub?
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Six years later, the DEA embraced the secrecy, going so far to keep it out of the DEA’s equivalent of its internal police reports, DEA Form 6, referred to as “6s” in the email below. ... While these tactics were not enough to keep the exis
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Correlating the Bitcoin price and the obituary frequency(blockchaincenter.net)
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FedEx’s ‘Jarring’ Cut to Forecasts Hints at Worsening Global Woes(bloomberg.com)
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Blythe Masters Steps Down in Surprise Departure from Digital Asset Holdings(fortune.com)
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You're right in that VISA volume will dwarf Lightning Network volume for a long time. However, you made the provably false statement that Lightning "wasn't happening." That train has left the station, leaving a surprisin
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Assuming you mean order book (=buy/sell curve), how do you arrive at 80% market manipulation numerically?
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Is there data on what percentage of cryptocurrency transactions are "Real, actual, humans buying and selling real, actual, things or compensating each other for their ideas and thoughts" and what percentage consists of "trad
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Lightning is never going to happen. It's happening right now: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/progress-report-lightni...
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This article was published November 28 of this year. From mid-November to now, cryptocurrency exchange rates have fallen by about 50% across the board, with some much higher. This move took many speculators, including Novogratz, by surprise
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The Bitcoin hype cycle is driven by the mass media. Like this article, they pile on when BTC/USD exchange rate falls through the floor. During the period of stability that follows, they're nowhere to be found. After things have al
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The interview cites this passage from the 2007 book Insurance and Its Secrets: Everyone remembers Jeanne Calment, who has officially died at age 122 on August 4, 1997. It was said at the time that this lady had benefited from having a life

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