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by cjg 4y ago
Much like stonehenge.
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by cjg 4y ago
Just buy the assets.
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Twitter asks some laid off workers to come back(reuters.com)
35 points by cjg 4y ago|36 comments
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by cjg 4y ago
I once put the word "complaint" on the top of a letter to a UK bank who had made a mistake on a statement. It made all the difference. What had previously been dismissed as unimportant was addressed and they sent me £100 compensat
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by cjg 4y ago
It's a poorly written sentence. The key idea is: "Rust got an 87% approval rate in the "most loved" category of the Stack Overflow Survey. [...] C++, meanwhile, languished at 48%"
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Deribit hot wallet hacked for USD 28M(twitter.com)
2 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 4y ago
So what? The company still generated the VAT revenue. The customer gets a refund, but has to charge their own customer VAT on the full amount of the goods they are selling, so the VAT accumulates until it is paid by someone who cannot claim
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by cjg 4y ago
Even with the current tax rates, it's not clear to me that it's a net tax gain for HMRC to push contractors to being permanent. A contractor typically charges VAT - which can more than make up for other taxes - especially if their
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Signal is secure, as proven by hackers(kaspersky.co.uk)
200 points by cjg 4y ago|312 comments
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by cjg 4y ago
https://archive.ph/kjOTw
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Scammer Call Centres Busted(thehindu.com)
4 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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Kubernetes Hardening Guidance [pdf](media.defense.gov)
237 points by cjg 4y ago|60 comments
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Detecting Agile BS [pdf](media.defense.gov)
4 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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Exploring Lock-Free Rust (2017)(morestina.net)
39 points by cjg 4y ago|6 comments
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Solving the Australian Signals Directorate cryptography challenge coin(senwerks.com)
110 points by cjg 4y ago|13 comments
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by cjg 4y ago
https://www.coe.int/en/web/impact-convention-human-rights/ri...
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Stress–Energy Tensor(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 4y ago
General Relativity has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%E2%80%93energy_tensor which is the term that generates the gravitational field. It includes the energy of photons.
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Circle, GitHub Comply with Tornado Cash Sanctions(cryptobriefing.com)
1 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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Why education is key to halting hacks like the $190M Nomad exploit(techcrunch.com)
1 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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UK Law Commission consultation on digital assets(lawcom.gov.uk)
1 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 4y ago
Here's a simple model: A market of one token that was initially worth nothing 1 year ago but the market now sees has value - let's say $100 - because it has some genuine utility - various companies have said they will accept it as
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by cjg 4y ago
Is it zero sum though? Finance in general isn't - it allows people to invest and manage risk. If I bought a bitcoin at $100 and sold it at $1,000 - who lost money trading with me? The person I bought it from because they could have kep
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by cjg 4y ago
Pay them a million each and it still works out cheaper.
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UK Court Allows Serving Legal Documents via NFTs(coindesk.com)
1 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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Pentaquarks: Scientists find new “exotic” configurations of quarks(bbc.com)
1 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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In defence of garlic in a jar(thewalrus.ca)
185 points by cjg 4y ago|400 comments
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Google looks to reduce pushback bias in developers' software code review(zdnet.com)
8 points by cjg 4y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 4y ago
Evolution is just variation and selection. That might be the biological evolution we are familiar with, but it might also be improvements that a carpenter makes to their toolbox over time. Here (the toolbox and this paper) the variation is
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by cjg 4y ago
Perhaps consciousness not computation directly, but something that computation is good at - thus leading us to get confused between the two. I'm thinking of information processing. This then shows the weakness in the hot iron argument.

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