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by askmike 8y ago
I agree with the points you make, but not the overall sentiment of your comment: Bitcoin does provide a level of privacy and self sovereignty that hasn't really existed since cash. So i agree with your: > (although perhaps different
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> If the "20% volume" is from these necessary activities, it's not so concerning, and (for example) forcing them to use someone else's market for these activities would be silly. I don't agree, if they need to he
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by askmike 8y ago
So what do you trust? Google?
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by askmike 8y ago
Everyone who operates a website with users that can be the phishing targets. Plain certs (DV) only tell you that you are talking to a server that that has been validated to belong to a domain (and the taking is done encrypted). For example:
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by askmike 8y ago
LE is great for a lot of things. But it doesn't offer the wide range of SSL certs everyone requires, such as OV and EV certs.
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by askmike 8y ago
> I trust my AdBlocker more than any consent options/frameworks. There should be more layers of defense for your privacy. ad blockers only really target third party trackers. While this method also helps for webapps that track you d
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by askmike 8y ago
Doesn't this 100% on your personal develop workflow? I for one have been forced to use typescript in the past, and am personally very happy that I don't have to anymore.
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by askmike 8y ago
Browsers implement the HTML spec, which allows for this behavior.
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by askmike 8y ago
As an (European) outsider who visited the US a number of times: In academic circles you are right, but college and university are so expensive that your experience only applies to the elite (who are called all the bad words from the article
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by askmike 8y ago
You should visit South Korea (or Japan), where people running big business are considered leaders by everyone in the country. Not just SV people who browse HN. I'm not from the US, but I'm pretty sure that the average person in mo
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by askmike 8y ago
I very much disagree. If you look at most politicians in a high enough positions in a lot of European countries, you won't find any movie stars (Reagan, Eastwood, Schwarzenegger) nor reality TV stars like Trump. The Prime minister of m
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by askmike 8y ago
That's exactly what the article talks about: > Despite the rise of Silicon Valley and its technoelites, the Revenge of the Nerds in the South Bay has managed to line stock portfolios without moving the needle on America’s cultural v
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by askmike 8y ago
Not in the Netherlands, see the article ;)
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> My site is a web application that stores all user data in their browser. Their data does not come back to the server. If you weren't using HTTPS a very simple MitM attack would send all of that data straight to any server. HTTPS d
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by askmike 8y ago
Except when it's not, for example ETH vs ETC.
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by askmike 8y ago
I might be stretching the definition of legal: After a big project (the DAO) was hacked a group of governing people ruled in something similar to a court ruling that the money should go back to the people who put it in. Enforcement was done
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by askmike 8y ago
I think you are right, though in my experience in these situations is that defining the exact behavior is very hard. In not many cases was the messy code written messy from the start, it's usually an accumulation of changes (to behavio
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by askmike 8y ago
The article states that this problem actually came from service workers (and how MS allocates pages so V8 can spawn this them). Service workers are specifically designed to circumvent issues regarding UI lag from a single thread..
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by askmike 8y ago
Until the next things pops up. I remember people saying the same about Myspace and Hyves (the very definition of social media in the Netherlands a decade ago) and even MSN before that.
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by askmike 8y ago
I have an apple laptop and an android based phone (from One Plus). One has a broken keyboard that I'm desperately trying to hold together with tape and one hasn't. Hint: the not broken device was a third of the price of a new iPho
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by askmike 8y ago
I very much agree with you! > You only really get any improvement in runtime if your compiler guarantees anything (and bakes it into whatever it is compiling). I meant this in reference to runtime speed optimisations coming from types. V
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by askmike 8y ago
For speed purposes? This post is for example already talking about how fast JS is getting without types. I'd say it would be a lot easier to simply focus on the WebAssembly format, you can write your code in a number of (typed) languag
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by askmike 8y ago
IMO The problem as it stands now is that when developing typescript you have a compiler running on your machine doing the typechecking. It will error out and simply not compile when you try to pass a string to a fn expecting a number. What
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by askmike 8y ago
Woah great feedback. This is very much appreciated! I'm not sure if going specifically into all of your points right here is the best way forward. But suffice to say I am very happen to hear them :) > the abstractions are wrong and
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by askmike 8y ago
I'm maintaining an open source project[0] and I'm struggling with using SemVer because my "app" doesn't have a single API but a few: At it's core it's a node app. Though I also include a small web server t
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by askmike 8y ago
I don't think developers would ever pick SF because of how user friendly the release page looks.
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by askmike 8y ago
I never had this problem. But if it's really an issue you can use betterTouchTool or similarly to simply remove all buttons so it doesn't render anything.
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by askmike 8y ago
I don't think this will ever be hardforked into bitcoin, but there are other ways of getting this in, such as via sidechains (see liquid[1] for example). [1] https://blockstream.com/liquid/
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by askmike 8y ago
You can also do that with sqlite: have workers query for data and lock records when they are working on it. (people have been implementing job queues in SQL based environments for decades). The point of using sqlite is that it's not so
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by askmike 8y ago
That's the Prinsengracht, I used to live in the little street in the top left of the video!

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