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by bhaak 6y ago
Warren Buffett, the renowned investor, famously dismissed gold in a speech given at Harvard in 1998. He said: “It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or some place. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to
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by bhaak 6y ago
I suppose OP was committing too often or even had autocommit on. Then it wouldn't actually haven been a case of "bulk insert" at all.
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by bhaak 6y ago
You can say about Elon Musk what you want but he knows how to make headlines. I'm not sure you need $1.5B for those kind of headlines but these bitcoins can be sold again after all.
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by bhaak 6y ago
It's a surreal sight. The reddish tint gives an eary feeling. During the day, I was expecting to see the invading Martian tripods pop up at any time. Was a good occasion to listen to a few songs from Jeff Wayne's musical of he War
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by bhaak 6y ago
Do you think command line software developing for Linux is a paid full time job? My day job is on macOS where I've been using Homebrew for about 7 years. I know its warts. I don't say that it isn't broken for the usecase you
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by bhaak 6y ago
Cross-compiling is a need that almost no user ever has. The only legit need on macOS was for a long time iOS only and now, the two supported CPU architectures. But that is covered by using XCode. There would be now need for a Apple Homebrew
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by bhaak 6y ago
Universal binaries matter most for closed source. With Homebrew being used for Open Source software it’s by far not a priority for the generic user. The last years have shown clearly that Apple doesn’t go out of their way to make things eas
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by bhaak 6y ago
Homebrew is what a package manager would look like if Apple was doing it. So quite limited in scope and not much configurable options and if you say that you need some features, they'll tell you you're doing it wrong. It is quite
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by bhaak 6y ago
The real advantage of fzy over fzf is that fzy is actually better at guessing what you want (the documentation claims it's also faster but I never noticed a difference). That fzy also forces you to think about good input providers (lik
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by bhaak 6y ago
As long as you get paid for it, it's work. A Zoom call you can basically ignore but have to be around. Still work but not "working".
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by bhaak 6y ago
You were just lucky. There is at least one woman who developed a programming language on the list this quiz is using. I got Jean E. Semmet and she did invent the FORMAC programming language.
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by bhaak 6y ago
> That being said, it's not even true anymore that ETH is GPU-only; despite attempting ASIC-resistance, there are now ASIC miners for ETH too, although unlike with Bitcoin, Ethereum is still able to be mined with GPUs. Last time I l
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by bhaak 6y ago
Overall, a very good and thorough analysis with a completely comprehensible explanation why she's preferring a 100% BTC, 0% ETH strategy. I have only some minor quibbles. GPUs are very much not abundant. Gamers were complaining a lot d
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by bhaak 6y ago
Contrary to the other replies to you I think that most people do "make choices based on values" but the crucial problem is "given enough information". Remember that everyone of us is in an information bubble. We constant
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by bhaak 6y ago
This article goes into some details how it started on TikTok by Scottish musician Nathan Evans https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/entertainment/sea-shanty-... FWIW, I remember the sea shanties being wild
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by bhaak 6y ago
The first comment in the pull request is: "The maximum size for OP_RETURN outputs used to be 80 bytes, then got changed to 40 bytes to be on the safe side. We have now been running with 40 bytes for about 9 months, and nothing catastro
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by bhaak 6y ago
It might be some kind of an uncanny valley situation. Because they share behavior with two very distinct objects we have macroscopic experience with, we try to categorize them as such.
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by bhaak 6y ago
Why not both?
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by bhaak 6y ago
That's quite a feat. The best I could manage was looking for an error message when I had a problem with mp3 id3 tags handling, finding an unanswered, 4 years old question on SO which was exactly my problem and eventually answering it a
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by bhaak 6y ago
Price action is boring. I'd rather see usecases for cryptocurrencies linked here, not the same article every time Bitcoin surges above an arbitrary number.
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by bhaak 6y ago
The Ethereum Classic community wants to have a word with you.
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by bhaak 6y ago
Stellar is more like LTC as McCaleb took Ripple's code and forked it. But Ethereum Classic and Ethereum share a common blockchain history and it proves that the community doesn't always follow blindly the proposals of the Ethereum
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by bhaak 6y ago
Jed McCaleb, one of the founders of what would become Ripple, has still a few billions XRP left ( https://cointelegraph.com/news/ripple-co-founder-jed-mccaleb... ) and he is selling as fast as he is allowed to ( http:&#
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by bhaak 6y ago
The existence of Ethereum Classic disproves your assumptions of Vitalik's unlimited power over the course of the development of Ethereum.
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by bhaak 6y ago
Look at the history of currencies. The British pound sterling, the French franc, the Dutch guilder, they all were reserve currencies but they got overtaken. Usually not because their inherent values changed but because the environment chang
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by bhaak 6y ago
> Over then next 5 years, highly unlikely. That's a bold statement, given that within the last 3 years, Bitcoin dropped 80% from about the current price, only to recover in the last year. You also completely ignore that Bitcoin migh
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by bhaak 6y ago
Just because it went up doesn't make it a good investment. Especially as Bitcoin is still more gambling than investment. Also that you are blindingly listening to others would make you a bad investor. A good investor needs conviction a
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by bhaak 6y ago
I don't think they work well. But the existing box drawing characters might work better, possibly combined with the upcoming symbols for legacy computing being introduced in Unicode 13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by bhaak 6y ago
That’s just what they want you to believe. :)
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by bhaak 6y ago
No, you got that right. It's about a single mailbox and only for new mails. As they can't decrypt old mails themselves without a backdoor. Still, once they have this function, all it takes is a court order to start collecting for

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