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ETH contract had a flaw that locked away 11k ETH (34M USD) forever(twitter.com)
1 points by donpott 4y ago|0 comments
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by donpott 4y ago
I'm not sure about a deliberate ruse. In my experience, that level of forward planning is rare in big companies. What is clear to me is that hybrid is the worst of both worlds: Incurring the many costs of having to come to the office,
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Work from home to beat Putin, says EU(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by donpott 4y ago|0 comments
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by donpott 4y ago
More to your point, the book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a scathing indictment on this system, and how incompetent apparatchiks were chosen over less politically connected en
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by donpott 5y ago
Do you think this was a factor when they decided to call bytes (data information unit) "octets" instead?
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EU and US agree ‘in principle’ on sharing data across The Atlantic(siliconrepublic.com)
27 points by donpott 5y ago|9 comments
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by donpott 5y ago
Not at all, thanks for considering it :)
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by donpott 5y ago
Maybe a "[1975]" tag is in order, to better indicate that it doesn't refer to current events?
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by donpott 5y ago
This was a delightfully thorough thread. Thank you!
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by donpott 5y ago
This thread caused me to look up why they don't do sales. I was a bit frustrated at first; but I must say, after reading their rationale, that now I'm kinda convinced. To quote one of the Factorio mods/staff: > It isn&#x27
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by donpott 5y ago
That's next on my list now. Thank you!
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by donpott 5y ago
Based on this comment alone, I can tell you would enjoy "The moon is a harsh mistress" by Robert Heinlein. Recommended if you haven't read it already!
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by donpott 5y ago
It should be noted that this is also the case in the UK today.
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by donpott 5y ago
I have the same pet peeve. It irks me that Patreon takes pride in not accepting one-off payments.
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by donpott 5y ago
> I’ve been working from home for the past 18 months now and at present there’s no indication from my employer that I’ll be going back to full time work any time soon. First of all, lucky you! I have been WFH since the whole kerfuffle st
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by donpott 5y ago
I have seen this "exception to the exception" before. > When "u" makes the same sound as the "y" in "you," or "o" makes the same sound as "w" in "won," then a is used.
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by donpott 5y ago
Genuine follow-up question, do you read many Amazon-bought kindle ebooks on your kindle? If so, how do you load them to your reader? Do you download them somehow and then use Calibre? Asking because in my case, something like 95% of the ebo
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Ask HN: Do your Amazon products/apps get slower over time?
17 points by donpott 5y ago|11 comments
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by donpott 5y ago
Friendly reminder that salaries in the US are substantially bigger than in the UK/Europe. For context, making GBP175000/year or over would put you in the 99th percentile for the UK. Source: https://www.gov.uk/gover
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by donpott 5y ago
In terms of other recommendations, I can bring up "The design of everyday things", by Donald Norman. If I'm not mistaken, it's the book that popularized the concept of "affordances" in design.
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by donpott 5y ago
Too little, too late in my opinion. I've long gone to a client that loads the timeline chronologically.
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by donpott 5y ago
What's the case against Apollo? I use it and it seems to provide everything I need.
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by donpott 5y ago
Because Electronic Voting is generally considered too attack-prone to be trusted. Relevant Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
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by donpott 5y ago
@dang , we currently have two posts in the front page addressing broadly the same story, this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28452628 Perhaps it's worth linking them or adding a comment to that effect?
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by donpott 5y ago
> what is it with mountains that makes some men go macho.. I remember reading a hypothesis on this phenomenon in Steven Pinker's "The better angels of our nature". If memory serves, it was because mountain societies, like
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by donpott 5y ago
There's some videos where it seems to reproduce in the mobile version of Google Maps. See: https://www.portaldecadiz.com/provinciacadiz/63098-video-est...
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by donpott 5y ago
> If we exclude the humans, the wolf is the animal that had saved more human lives in the history Would you mind elaborating on this point? In what way has the wolf saved uncountable human lives? I've only ever seen it portrayed as
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Shadowmap – see projected shadows by date and time(app.shadowmap.org)
6 points by donpott 5y ago|0 comments
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Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy(nytimes.com)
2 points by donpott 5y ago|0 comments
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by donpott 5y ago
Absolutely agree. If an app stops working just to show a message like "your App is out of date, download the latest version to continue", it's an instant one-star review from me.

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