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by apo 7y ago
Coinbase is not a bank. It acts like one. It spies on its customers on behalf of federal regulators like one. But it most definitely is not a bank. The author has to eat the loss, as per the user agreement.
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by apo 7y ago
That line of thinking is part of the problem. It's terrible that the author lost his money, but misconceptions only ensure this will happen over and over. Coinbase != bank. The banking system has a safety net for recovery of stolen fun
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by apo 7y ago
> Do not leave funds idle on exchanges or fiat on-ramps. This warning has been publicly repeated hundreds of times since 2010, yet people still insist on ignoring it. The author didn't lose anything. He gave Coinbase his bitcoin i
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by apo 7y ago
Perfection is an interesting one. It states: > “A perfect interface is one which is impossible to use incorrectly, even by accident.” It illustrates the point by showing how a non-expert can build a complex model from well-designed par
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by apo 7y ago
Context is important. The qualifier at the beginning of the sentence is important: > In some important ways, my generation has failed you in this regard [being too cautious]. We spent too much time debating. We've been too focused
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Writing an OS in Rust (Second Edition)(os.phil-opp.com)
40 points by apo 7y ago|3 comments
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And here it is anyway: https://web.archive.org/web/20190518135724/http://www.nitvcv... Looks like a link collection and a video (which doesn't play). That video may hold the key to the judge's
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Writing WebAssembly by Hand(blog.scottlogic.com)
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by apo 7y ago
> The Magic Link’s slogan — “It Clears Your Desk, It Clears Your Mind” — perfectly encapsulates the irony of hindsight. Reminds me of that quote from Fredrick Pohl: "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the aut
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How a cheap, brutally efficient grocery chain is upending America's supermarkets(cnn.com)
32 points by apo 7y ago|23 comments
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by apo 7y ago
> A growing number of colleges, in response to criticism of standardized tests, have made it optional for applicants to submit scores from the SAT or the ACT. Admissions officers have also tried for years to find ways to gauge the hardsh
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by apo 7y ago
> From that point, I slowly began to understand that people in consumption-based societies assemble their identities via stuff, and become very emotional when those identities – and that stuff- is discarded in ways that don’t match their
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by apo 7y ago
> Rust+WASM went from an experiment to a usable product, making rustc the first compiler with focus on supporting WASM This may be the most interesting use case of them all. WebAssembly is fast, but it's also not fun to write. There
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by apo 7y ago
> You now have a larger pool of great developers you can add to your team but, on the downside, this has drastically increased the number of applications you have to sort through in order to find the right candidate. Could you imagine si
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Exxon: CO2 “Greenhouse Effect” (1982) [pdf](insideclimatenews.org)
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by apo 7y ago
You have a group of people in Washington tasked with doling out money for research. By its very nature this federal funding has politicized science for a long time. Ask anyone who has been through a scientific PhD program whether or not the
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by apo 7y ago
Unfortunately, that page says nothing about the corrections to the data that are required for the close proximity to active volcanoes. Again, it's a very obvious question that's simply brushed aside by most sources. I'd be in
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by apo 7y ago
> And in 2019, when you hear people complaining about Bitcoin and warning about it, what you are hearing are the voices of people in 1637 saying: you shouldn’t be involved in this trade. You’re the wrong person, you don’t know enough. On
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by apo 7y ago
It's not really clear from the article, but the prize here doesn't appear to be forcing Apple to pay hundreds of millions of dollars of penalties. (The court didn't even award penalties, but merely cleared the way for end-use
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by apo 7y ago
>For the first time in human history — not recorded history, but since humans have existed on Earth — carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 415 parts per million, reaching 415.26 parts per million, according to sensors at the Mauna
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by apo 7y ago
Design Patterns by Gamma et al. would be an example from software architecture. It catalogs a couple of dozen patterns that recur in projects regardless of their specific domains. Open Source Software Licensing by Rosen is another. It i
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by apo 7y ago
> I haven’t made any predictions for awhile (seeing as my Bear Case for Crypto is playing out more or less exactly as described), but I will sound a warning today. The bear case article the author links to spends 2/3 of its effort r
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Friday Night PowerPoint Hour(eastbayexpress.com)
1 points by apo 7y ago|0 comments
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Very well written piece. The most thought-provoking part is how the author links the ham-fisted behavior of the school administrator with the path her son followed. The truth of the charge isn't the problem. The problem is how due proc
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by apo 7y ago
> Mortgage lenders are reporting similar strains. According to Knight Black's latest Mortgage Monitor, a typical first quarter sees the national delinquency rate decline by 15 percent as borrowers use tax refund proceeds to catch up
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by apo 7y ago
> She told the professor in front of the class that if things ever get bad, the Chinese government will step in and take care of everyone. That's also the view in the US (government will step in to make losers whole), which explains
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The Many Kinds of Code Reuse in Rust(cglab.ca)
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> There was the time he visited the Easton Town Center location to buy a laptop for his 11-year-old daughter and spent almost 20 minutes getting an employee to accept his credit card. In January, Smith was buying a monitor and kept askin
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by apo 7y ago
> The state of the trade talks were cast into doubt after Trump’s surprise announcement over Twitter on Sunday that he planned to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 percent from 10 percent because talks were moving too
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by apo 7y ago
Organic feedstocks (non-fuel), although smaller isn't exactly a tiny market. Depending on how much control you have over the fixation process you might be able to tap into some high-value alcohol markets. That's the main reason I

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