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by deweller 8y ago
Fraudsters are taking advantage of email aliases to get other people to pay for someone else's account. Example: 1) Fraudster create an account and put in a bogus card number. 2) Fraudster changes account email address to joe.smith@gma
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Cigarettes are a flawed analogy. There is no such thing as a "healthy" use of cigarettes. But I would argue that smart phones can be used in a healthy way. And I would also argue that the phone itself is not the problem. The pro
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Go is popular among open source developers, so announcing up front that the project is written in Go will attract more eyeballs and potential contributors. If I'm going to contribute to an open source project in my free time, I'm
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I applaud this effort as an academic project. Hopefully it will help move forward the state of the art. But I reject the idea that a new cryptocurrency will "fix the bitcoin problem" by just being faster. But there are already s
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I can think of no better way to kill innovation than to regulate all technology companies. Look at the state of the telecommunications companies in the US as an example.
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Here's some of the explanation about why they chose Dart: > There’s a lot of nice properties of Dart, we talk some about this on our website at our frequently asked questions. One of the nice properties of Dart is that it has a real
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by deweller 8y ago
I'm adding a reminder here that Amazon selected Nashville for it's "Operations Center of Excellence." This will create 5,000 jobs with a median salary of $150,000. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-ne
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Tether just opened up a platform for withdrawing fiat USD directly from them: https://tether.to/tether-reopens-account-verification-and-di... > This update allows the immediate withdrawal of Tether to fiat (1:1), with th
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I remember when Newsweek was a credible news organization. But they lost all of my respect when they published a piece claiming that they had found Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Cloud providers have standardized on VMs. If I were to deploy an app in the cloud using bare metal servers, I would lose all of the infrastructure, convenience and tooling provided to be by my cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc)
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In my experience, there is a tradeoff between high re-usability and performance. Building modules that can interact with any one of hundreds of other modules usually requires a fair amount of adapter code. This code comes with a performanc
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It is theoretically possible to serve a web app from github pages and let the decentralized peer-to-peer application run in the user's web browser. There are limitations and this approach might not be feasible for this application.
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Website says the RAM is "Configurable to 16GB"
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I would suggest that this is a better comparison with the Bach Cantata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJJJkiRukY I expect that history will look back and see Hillsong as an example of sacred music from this time period.
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I like that they are using HashiCorp configuration language (1) for the configuration. I have found HCL to be more human-readable than JSON and YAML. But it is plenty strict for use cases like this. 1. https://github.com/ha
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The success of Go heralds that of Rust(medium.com)
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Using global variables in a careless fashion is a bad practice indeed. But globals are not universally evil. Laravel uses globals very thoughtfully. Having used the Laravel framework for many years, I agree with many of the choices it ha
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The good thing in PHP that I don't think enough people talk about is Laravel. If you are starting a new PHP web app and you expect to grow beyond a toy project, I highly recommend starting by using the Laravel framework. Laravel provi
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> Scientists say there is no way to prove if these cannons really work, but farmers say it is cheaper to try the cannons than to buy hail insurance I don't even...
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HTC Vive Wireless Adapter(blog.vive.com)
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HTC Announces a wireless adapter for the Vive headset(techcrunch.com)
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What are the possible repercussions of an SEC investigation? Are they significant? Assuming for a second that this was just gamesmanship, it could be a great strategy. Many short sellers get their shorts cancelled due to their stops and lo
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Yes. This was a high-profile case with lots of public visibility. Asking for a huge sentence supported the political and career ambitions of prosecutors involved with the case. The prosecutors did not ask for what they thought was a fair
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Surely Bitcoin miners will snatch up these opportunities soon. Cheap electricity can be translated into money if you have the mining equipment.
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I'm sure there will be exploits, as the attack surface will become bigger. But isn't wasm designed from the ground up to be sandboxed in a certain memory space? And won't that prevent buffer overruns from gaining access to o
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This article asserts that Donald Trump is the Kremlin’s Executive in Charge of U.S. Operations. That makes it very difficult for me to take seriously.
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I learned React before I learned Vue. After I wrote an application in React, I decided to try Vue for the next one. It was like a breath of fresh air. The templating language is more intuitive to me and the lack of boilerplate makes it grea
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The money transmission licenses are very expensive too. You definitely should vet this with a lawyer before proceeding too far.
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> there is zero evidence that it has an impact on the FDA’s independence This is a strong claim. Do you have any proof? Has anyone studied this?
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Having a paycheck and being an entrepreneur is not an either/or proposition. There are things in the middle. You can find a well-financed co-founder and get a commitment for a paycheck for a fixed length of time (1-2 years). You will

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