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by dnomad 8y ago
This is the most suspicious element of the whole affair. The actual security algorithms weren't compromised rather they compromised the whole environment by getting their hands on the Realtek keys. Personally I doubt that retrieving th
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The GDPR hysteria demonstrates that: 1. Many people (even "rational hacker-types" ha-ha!) do not take the time to research, analyze or understand the regulations and laws that affect them. 2. Many people, even though they don&#x27
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> Central planning is almost assured to fail miserably tiling the power more into the hands of rich people while screwing up small people. This is not true. I encourage people to study the growth of Asian cities like Bangkok, Shanghai, a
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NYC is a high-tax, high-growth region. It should use a blockchain to distribute tax credits to those people who need it most. Those people can then take the tax credits and spend them at city businesses. The great thing is that it could def
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> What are you basing your claim off of, I've seen some pretty impressive use of C++ and one team that is starting to burn simple strategies into FPGA's. What does low latency buy you in crypto trading? What sort of strategies
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It's an interesting idea. I guess is an institution is going to take on crypto exposure they'll need all the trimmings including real-time market data in order to properly manage their exposure. But beyond the basic risk managemen
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The medium is the message. The internet changed drastically after the rise of social networks and Google. It took a while for Google to get going though and fittingly, the founding year of Facebook, 2004, was the turning point. The new inte
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Frankly I very much doubt that most of the claims in this thread are real or worthwhile. Besides the obvious anti-Amazon hardon that HN has, the thread itself will select for the most unhappy Amazon employees. Indeed what we're seeing
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I think it's doubtful that anybody will be able to correct your FUD. Once you've bought into this delusion it really seems to trap people forever and rags like the Register are absolutely delighted to feed the fear with nonsense a
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As I said, if your data actually has internal structure that can be verified then the Type is meaningful. (Though that sort of prefixing introduces its own problems and I think most IDs just end up being UUIDs or URIs or numbers.) Otherwise
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Types can definitely help with data well-formedness but personally I'm very suspicious of 'mini-types' like Name and CartID. If the data you're wrapping has no internal structure (that can be formally verified) and you&#
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> If you're just going to castigate and isolate people who have different view than you (but maybe have the same goal as you), what's the point? Certainly not my intention. I apologize. I try to separate the ideas from the pers
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> I believe we have more in common than we have different. Your feelings and beliefs are irrelevant to the question of reparations. Again, this may be an abstract issue that can be dismissed with platitudes to you but many people -- esp
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This understanding of reparations is backwards. Reparations are not a democratic process, there is no need to persuade voters to vote for reparations. Reparations is a legal process. They are executed in courts. Especially in cases of &qu
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The fact that even the pythonistas are now adopting types suggests that verbosity is much less of a concern than a bunch of spaghetti code that cannot be tested, understood, or refactored. You have to squint really, really hard to think tha
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The reality is that it's bad science and even worse philosophy. This stuff, like frankly all the rationalist nonsense, suffers from very highly motivated reasoning. The author isn't asking questions he's already decided on th
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> When inflation is too low, we print money. This is really not how it works. Many economists think this is how it works but actual real world events have made it very clear that governments cannot simply manufacture inflation [1]. Gov
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The US federal government and its partner banks would not be interested in a currency they did not absolutely control. Superpowers are simply not in the business of giving up power and it's not clear that the surrender of such power wo
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> If you don't allow massively consolidated domestic banks to operate in your country, why would you allow massively consolidated foreign banks to do so instead and "colonize" you? These days if you're a country and y
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Difficult to understand how people can still think like this. This is complete nonsense. Look around. The USA and Europe are littered with economic ghost towns where the disappearance of factories and industry sent the community into an eco
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Bank consolidation is inevitable. Large banks are like nuclear weapons. Every nation absolutely needs them or they risk foreign banks and investors rushing in and capitalizing+colonizing the entire country. So if you don't have large b
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I think this is basically it. Good ol' Buffet. His argument against gold is similar [1]. It's always interesting to note the fundamental differences between these types of investors. Some investors place their faith only in thing
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> The article is claiming that languages that allow a blocking style of programming via green threads (to still get the same high concurrency) allow a more natural way to program. I would say this is a subjective conclusion at best. We m
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> It illustrates decisively that a language that doesn't hide async behavior balkanizes libraries into (at least) two camps for everyone's detriment. That article simply begs the question. Or rather, I think the author has miss
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> There is nothing wrong with hiding the nature of the async under the hood of a sync function as long as the abstraction is clean, which in most cases it quite easily can be. This is the question and I would disagree. Hiding the asynchr
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BTW, I agree, but I think the opposite is the case. I strongly suspect that in fact we'll see more content as the ad economy collapses. People don't understand just how much content is driven without ads for other reasons (like HN
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I think stackful coroutines will always have their fans but the industry is heading towards stackless. The reality is that blocking I/O is a dangerous illusion. Any time you leave your address space you are fundamentally engaged in an
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Again, there are perfectly fine and very useful blockchains that do not provide any kind of trustlessness. See corda.net. This insistence that a blockchain cannot be permissioned is not accepted by most people. It's silly to keep insis
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I would say this is a rather limited, technical understanding of a blockchain. The three most interesting aspects of a blockchain are (1) the state of blockchain is visible to all participants (2) the rules (the code) for changing the state
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There's no reason at all the government couldn't give every citizen a bank account and let them wire funds to each other. In fact this used to be exactly the case: any citizen could walk into the Post Office and open a savings acc

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