askmike

26 ms·

241.
by askmike 8y ago
You are very wrong, OTC markets are very liquid right now. Also $10 million in BTC isn't very much, you can trade this on the public markets without slipping very much if you really want to.
242.
by askmike 8y ago
> without having to store anything on disk and without having to generate static html. Wouldn't this be much, much harder without using JS? While it's possible to do without storing anything on disk (strange requirement imo - b
243.
by askmike 8y ago
The article states that the law is too vague to know how it will be used: > There is a great deal of vagueness in the law in its current form, and we do not know how it will be interpreted and used when it goes into effect in March. When
244.
by askmike 8y ago
I'm about to go live with my crypto startup[1] (it's a SaaS version of my open source app[2] on Github since 2013, with a market place and other premium features). I bootstrapped the whole thing, but the tech is 90% my open source
245.
by askmike 8y ago
I'm very happy that when I close my browser it kills all my tabs. If I really want something back I just view it from the history. > I would even expect if I quit browser with something written in the address bar (or search bar, etc
246.
by askmike 8y ago
Statistically it might make sense to segregate and discriminate groups of people. But morally? It's like how the public wouldn't really accept that if statistics show that all planes are blown up by people from country X, everyone
247.
by askmike 8y ago
I do some webdev (work with APIs & frontend stuff like react, vue). The firefox debugger is different. After an adjustment period I got used to them just fine and actually prefer some parts (like the network tab).
248.
by askmike 8y ago
Who would be watching that slack channel with a dozen of pictures per week? Or would the bot be spamming the pics in #general?
249.
by askmike 8y ago
I'm not sure if I agree, I think the BigInt type as proposed does no exist in other languages.
250.
by askmike 8y ago
How about the backwards compatible way of: {"value": "90071992547409949007199254740994n"} Which would get parsed into a BigInt. This specifically means that value isn't a number but a bigint. All JSON consumers that
251.
by askmike 8y ago
The only extra cost one might have is "eigen risico" (self risk). Meaning that the first time something happens in a year you need to pay the first x euro. But I don't think that applies to everything. I have never paid that
252.
by askmike 8y ago
> The price of one of my medications just tripled (to over $1000/year) due to the limited number of government approved suppliers, one of which bought the products from the other and then shut the cheaper competing product down. May
253.
by askmike 8y ago
other social media platforms, news articles, all viral media that get reshared on facebook, all the pictures of you your mom uploads to Facebook with comments from your grandma about how cute you are, etc. EDIT: I'm not saying Facebook
254.
by askmike 8y ago
> WHY IT MATTERS: > To become more useful, computer vision systems will need to recognize objects they have not specifically been trained on. For example, it is estimated that there are more than 10,000 living bird species, yet most c
255.
by askmike 8y ago
The "Elsevier block" is just a PR stunt, there is a button on the bottom of the page that directs to the (unblocked) Elsevier website.
256.
by askmike 8y ago
> You don't need a degree in economics to be able to ask these simple common sense questions and make a judgement on whether it's a good idea to take out that loan. That's personal responsibility, different from being resp
257.
by askmike 8y ago
> Nobody cares about these responsible people apparently. That's because they aren't. It's not their responsibility to figure out their own credit risk in relation to other loans that are packaged up in CDSes by banks and
258.
by askmike 8y ago
OP was blaming them for bringing the global economy to its knees. Regardless: yes there is culturally a big difference in buying bitcoin and getting a mortgage: the latter is not considered a risky investment precisely because everyone isn
259.
by askmike 8y ago
> Stupid people getting loans they couldn’t afford. > loans to stupid people, Ah so it's (partly) the people's fault now? So when a banker shows up and offers a mortgage to a struggling family (which they can't afford),
260.
by askmike 8y ago
In Dutch it is pronounced beamer like "Beam[er] me up scotty".
261.
by askmike 8y ago
> I wonder if it might be worth volunteering that information without any convenience/price reward if it means the shop might somehow act to serve me better as a customer. If they'd serve you better that automatically means the
262.
by askmike 8y ago
That's cherry picking, it's happening in virtually every major city in every developed country. > Gentrification is a side effect of not building housing. It's a much more complex than simply lack of housing. It's c
263.
by askmike 8y ago
I don't think it's easy to predict what is going to happen to all updates now. They run a big distributed infrastructure. I doubt they can even predict which updates will be commited and which ones will not. If replaying is even
264.
by askmike 8y ago
Deleting tweets is a terrible workaround. Once github start tweeting and people start linking to those tweets they can't go ahead and delete them 50 minutes later..
265.
by askmike 8y ago
Since this thread is about frontend, what about angular 1? Everyone who was using angular 1 because it was "backed by Google" got screwed hard on that one.
266.
by askmike 8y ago
Usually when people talk about the very high quality of apple hardware they are rarely talking about the specs. But instead about build quality, software, integration, usability, etc. As a practical example: I have been using a Macbooks for
267.
by askmike 8y ago
Yes they do, it's called a shadow profile[1]. If you're in Europe you might have some some recourse (GDPR and such), but if you're from the US you are most likely out of luck. Regardless, Facebook might have a detailed profil
268.
by askmike 8y ago
> I know RSS was supposed to be about the content too, but just as a notification system, it's crushes anything else out there. The sad truth is that RSS is a product designed for an internet that doesn't really exist anymore (
269.
by askmike 8y ago
That's a good point, though after a hack they would ask everyone to reset their password anyway - but these people are probably using the same e-mail/password on other services.
270.
by askmike 8y ago
> Not quite 'propaganda' How is this not propoganda?

More ›