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by delhanty 9y ago
>..., and yet a totally stagnant economy. I mean I understand a lot of the reasons, but it's still weird. Totally explainable by the fact that Japan has the world's fastest aging (and now shrinking) population. [1] 1950: 84 m
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by delhanty 9y ago
Apologies - my bad.
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by delhanty 9y ago
HN discussion from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9943589
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Giving the authors zero prior notice - that's rude! As a long-term buyer of lots of O'Reilly ebooks - it's disappointing, but it's their prerogative if they want to exit the market. It's not like we entered into so
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by delhanty 9y ago
Four days ago I asked [1] for technical references on the differences between the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain length function, and @DennisP replied with 4 links [2] - Satoshi's classic paper and 3 good links on Ethereum. [1] https
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I'm political in outlook, sympathetic to the proposal, and like to see politics on HN as long as it has sort of hacker angle to it. On the other hand, IMO this sort of story crosses the threshold into general politics, which in the lon
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>Blockchain is perhaps the most economically important invention of the last 500 years. Right now the whole space is worth less than $100B, and it's going to be worth tens or hundreds of trillions of dollars. That could eventually t
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by delhanty 9y ago
There are two differences from GNU Units that I can see straightaway from the GitHub repo: 1. It's written in PureScript. 2. It's MIT licensed. (Actually I had to search the repo to find this - it would be nice if it had a LICENS
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by delhanty 9y ago
Thank you for all those links! I had some idea about the Bitcoin blockchain - also succinctly summarized by @tylerswift. But the Ethereum material is all new to me. It at least sounds more interesting than "the least interesting"
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Straight question for the uninformed (me): Do you (or anyone else) have a technical reference for differences between the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain length function?
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by delhanty 9y ago
You don't always need to have enterprise $$$ to take an antifragile approach though. I'm mirroring my private Git repositories between Gitlab.com and Bitbucket, which can be done for $0. I might even end up paying for the bottom e
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>For example, with global networking then a misconfiguration or error can more easily propagate globally and bring everything down. This sounds like Nassim Taleb's antifragile meme [1]. If I was running IT for some large enterprise
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by delhanty 9y ago
>None of them are active. I've quit the site more than once. OK - fair enough on the multiple HN accounts. Your posts do come across as pushing Infogalactic quite strongly though, which is why I looked at your profile for your past
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You wrote: >I would encourage you to learn a bit more about it first. When I'd already checked "them" out, and decided it wasn't for me. Also, as @detaro points out, a Show HN is clearly documented as for your own wor
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by delhanty 9y ago
I agree with nearly all of that except the last paragraph: >My initial feeling was that Ulrich Drepper deserves a Wikipedia page, but the evidence is that the deletionist might be right. Should niceness/sociablity/etc be a crit
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My I ask you whether you are connected with Infogalactic in any way? I could not see any disclaimer on your post, but you seem remarkably well informed about them. Ah yes - answered my own question - it seems likely that you are closely co
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by delhanty 9y ago
>Is there any way to view historical justifications of this? See my 3rd reference above from 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
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Infogalactic looks all free and easy now - but it could not remain that way if it got to anything like the scale of Wikipedia. Without the "fascist" administrators, Wikipedia would be an absolute spam-fest of corporate drivel, con
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by delhanty 9y ago
(slightly) OT: The article is well known and the author Ulrich Drepper is also well known in the FOSS world for his work on the GNU C Library. [1] So I was surprised to find that he did not have a small English language Wikipedia page, even
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by delhanty 9y ago
Think I was probably completely off-base and the OP doesn't have the printer ... Anyway, I forgot to say the write up and project on Github is very nice. I ended up buying the OP's Primitive for MacOS [1], [2] which is very nice
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by delhanty 9y ago
Or possibly OP has access via his employer Kitware? Kitware could be doing software consultancy for Formlabs. They already have expertise in 3D slicing [1][2][3], which is just what you need for 3D printing. This is pure uninformed speculat
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by delhanty 9y ago
OK - found this on Quora [1] that gave me some idea. I asked before as googling because there are often very well-informed software legal opinions on HN. [1] https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-different-between-Apache-v2-...
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by delhanty 9y ago
Straight question for the uninformed (me): Could you (or anyone else) elaborate on MIT vs Apache V2 and patent protection?
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Thanks for your opinion. I did not know about samplesort - found it on Wikipedia.
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Does anybody have any data on whether external sorting [1] is the way to go these days for CPU based sorts? That is, use quicksort for chunks up to the size of the L1/L2/L3 cache (depending on benchmarking) and then mergesort the
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The problem with this is that if that if there is a breach your typical bank will not take responsibility and claim that the customer is liable. It needs to be written into law in all jurisdictions, that if a bank has been negligent in se
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by delhanty 9y ago
I submitted this in relation to the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, London 2 days ago. Also relevant is the article referenced by Wikipedia: http://www.probyn-miers.com/perspective/2016/02/fire-risks-f... Edit
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Polyisocyanurate#Fire_risk(en.wikipedia.org)
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It looks very slick. Is the license activation per machine? (As opposed to be being per user.)
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I agree with all that, particularly the bit about the c ffi call. It's more relevant to compare Rust with C and C++, as Rust is a language that could reasonably display C for the ffi call. But then remember that @wyager is claiming &g

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