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by csense 7y ago
Hopefully by now, everyone knows a bunch of banks bought CDO's, and then in '08 they collapsed, or nearly did, and took the world economy with them. If you run a bank, and you know this product is dangerous and causes banks to fai
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by csense 7y ago
What about [ENS]( https://docs.ens.domains/ )?
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by csense 7y ago
This is a piece of computer history. They should release it as open source. Get some free publicity for whatever their actual revenue-generating products are.
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by csense 7y ago
I guess you could say this hotel's definitely laundering money :)
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by csense 7y ago
What's the alternative? Fines and jail are basically the legal system's two main options for punishment. If a poor person commits a crime, that's not serious enough to throw them in jail, what should the legal system do? It
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by csense 7y ago
Thanks for this comment. This has changed my view somewhat on the Iran situation. I originally thought it was pretty dumb of Trump to tear up the nuclear deal, escalate tensions, and most recently basically try to start a war (by killing a
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by csense 7y ago
# A short Python program to cure one thousand diseases # Dependencies: crispr, genome_info for i in range(len(dna)): if genome_info.stores_viral_dna(i): crispr.write(dna, i, 'A') How far away
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by csense 7y ago
How could they possibly enforce legal limits on software distribution in the age of the Internet? Anyone can slap their code onto a private Gitlab installation in an hour. Hosting a tarball on an HTTPS server is even more trivial.
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by csense 7y ago
I wonder if it's related to liability. If you give teenagers a bunch of chemicals and tell them to learn by experiment, they'll probably end up doing bad stuff (drugs / poisons / explosions), either by accident or on pur
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A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (1999)(muppetlabs.com)
116 points by csense 7y ago|22 comments
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by csense 7y ago
It's probably covered in line 3,781 of the EULA for the printer's firmware.
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by csense 7y ago
> the Indian government sent in troops and shut down the internet How does this work on a practical level? I have so many questions. Are there a bunch of armed squads kicking in datacenter doors with AK-47's and flashbangs? A gro
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by csense 7y ago
Isn't sand made of silicon, which is one of the most common elements on Earth? I don't quite understand why it's scarce enough that stealing it's viable.
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The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems (2016)(theatlantic.com)
6 points by csense 7y ago|0 comments
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by csense 7y ago
Yeah, this changes the story a lot. Original headline makes it seem "this guy spoke up, then he's deported," it's more like "this guy was gonna be deported, he offered up what he knew in hopes they'd let him o
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by csense 7y ago
How should the rest of the world explain to China that being evil is bad, and they should stop being evil?
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by csense 7y ago
From PG&E's standpoint, what they should do is use the blackouts to extort as many concessions as possible from the state in terms of having the taxpayers pay for maintenance, and passing some kind of liability protection legislati
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by csense 7y ago
> Is cheap labor a legitimate source of comparative advantage? No, it isn't. Living in the Rust Belt, I find it so obvious that globalization is a race to the bottom that I'm amazed any reasonable person could believe otherw
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by csense 7y ago
This seems like Part 4 or Part 5 of an ongoing story. What's going on, for those of us who missed Parts 1-3?
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by csense 7y ago
There's too much money to be made by doing business in China for Western society to be willing to take a principled stand. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding i
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by csense 7y ago
Bitcoin's pseudonymous, not anonymous. Since every Bitcoin transaction is public, it's harder for criminals to hide from law enforcement than you'd think.
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by csense 7y ago
It definitely needs to be defined. Using only the paper, I assumed from the previous definitions that (a b . c) should be parsed as (x y) where x = a and y = b . c which can be re-written using only pair notation as (x . (y . nil) ) or (a
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John J. Kirby, lawyer and namesake of Nintendo character, dies at 79(polygon.com)
3 points by csense 7y ago|0 comments
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by csense 7y ago
Anecdotally, it's easier for established developers. If you've been with a company for a while, or you have in-demand skills, it's easier to find remote work.
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by csense 7y ago
Anyone can threaten a lawsuit. Even if the threat's not credible, my understanding is the threatener can often force the victim to spend tens or hundreds of thousands in legal fees, not to mention inconveniences like having to spend hu
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by csense 7y ago
I'm pretty sure they keep files on everyone. If you cause trouble once, even if you're perfectly within your legal rights, they will put a note in your file. Then you will be harassed every time. They know exactly how much they
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by csense 7y ago
This looks fantastic. But I can't in good conscience recommend anyone trust their Bitcoins to any wallet product that's not completely open source. Hopefully it'll be open sourced sooner rather than later. If your proprietary
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by csense 7y ago
Four years ago in this case, the LA police said that all cars in Los Angeles are under investigation. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7434448
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by csense 7y ago
Is this not a forbidden topic of discussion on HN? When I brought it up a few months ago, I got flagged, downvoted, and lectured by a mod [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20032085
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by csense 7y ago
So if banks are super desperate for Fed funds, but actually have Treasuries to put up as collateral to borrow those funds in the overnight market, why don't they just sell their Treasuries instead, or let them mature, and hold more cas

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