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by eganist 5y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding the value proposition for end users... Actually, I think I understand the model judging from my own use of cards. Guessing account holders are sticky enough (refusal or reluctance to cancel cards e.
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by eganist 5y ago
Eh, Alaska has the oil dividends.
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by eganist 5y ago
you could probably fire a bullet in any direction and hit a company with hundreds of apps or appliances affected. I recognize this probably isn't helpful on its face, but the best way to think of it is: if it's a Java app (or heck
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by eganist 5y ago
> We do “torture testing“: run a test case once and count the number of “fallible” function calls it makes. Those are calls to memory allocation, file operations, socket read/write etc. Then re-run the test that many times, and for
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by eganist 5y ago
If this argument holds consistently with every subset of cases, possibly. But for certain edge cases, humans still consistently outperform Tesla fsd (white trucks against the sun, for example) [citation needed], which means in certain scena
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by eganist 5y ago
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/get-started/cs... I take it you're leaning largely on this?
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by eganist 5y ago
Nice, thanks. Yeah, the few crypto events I had were thankfully much simpler and easily handled in re: taxes, so this was always an open question for me.
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by eganist 5y ago
Question (that I won't interpret as tax advice. I have no crypto positions to my knowledge): do crypto to stablecoin transactions incur taxes equivalent to liquidating securities to cash? Because if not, that sounds like a massive tax
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by eganist 5y ago
I mean, ARM is basically the only game in town when it comes to mobile chips. Combine that with nvidia's graphics technologies and now you've got basically the entire market for XR devices (I reject the use of 'metaverse&#x27
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by eganist 5y ago
It looks like your question was answered in another reply to you more than a half hour before this comment of yours. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423870 I'm by no means an attorney but the argument made seems
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by eganist 5y ago
> which might have an animal reservoir cats, minks, deer, in addition to the usual ones like bats.
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by eganist 5y ago
Tangential: there's a James Margolin listed as one of the contacts, and he looks vaguely like he could be a parent or uncle of one Grant Margolin, and they're both roughly local to NYC-ish based on James' LinkedIn. I wonder i
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by eganist 5y ago
> Was the Rittenhouse circus _not_ a federal case though? It literally wasn't. It was tried under Wisconsin jurisdiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting#Ritten...
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by eganist 5y ago
interesting, that's better than 40% assuming that the 41 figure represents root level comments as well. Thanks for digging into it; you didn't have to.
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by eganist 5y ago
worth noting that the parent comment was flagged to death 4 minutes after posting and vouched what, a half hour later? Anyway, I sent this to the comment author via email, but the best I can do in public is link to https://www.bl
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by eganist 5y ago
root-level?
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by eganist 5y ago
> As for helping you by editing text, or emailing people when their stuff shows up on HN's front page, I do that frequently for YC founders, non-YC founders, and non-founders. Fact: dang's helped me a few times with this when I
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by eganist 5y ago
> You got me curious to look at the data. pc has had the top comment in 41 threads since Sept 2007 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377 ). Of those, one was pinned to the top: https://news.ycombinator.c
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by eganist 5y ago
Props for attaching your name to your comment, something I wish the throwaway OP also did, though in the spirit of believing the victim, I can understand why they didn't. That said, with threads like this, there's also value in le
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by eganist 5y ago
once upon a time, there was a twitch stream that only played synthwave and vaporwave with backgrounds looped from RoyaltyFreeTube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDyoFl3axaufRwkpBA38-1w ) https://www.twitch
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by eganist 5y ago
This is nice, and I'm glad you posted it, and I'm glad it's still up. Happy thanksgiving! And for non-Americans wondering what it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving Controversy around origin
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by eganist 5y ago
Before people jump the gun with pitchforks like I was about to, please consider the following from the article: > Check back for updates in December 2021 on how to use Firefox for iOS as your system-wide password manager. Seems Lockwise
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by eganist 5y ago
Are you a practicing attorney?
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by eganist 5y ago
> I don't know of any legitimate security research group that hacks user accounts they don't own. nit: "user accounts to which they're not authorized" I work with friends' accounts all the time provided the
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by eganist 5y ago
> 50 years from now if someone is doing software archaeology and they go to install some software from a long gone company, who does clicking the button form an agreement with? Will it be legal to try that software? Can existing software
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by eganist 5y ago
Thanks; I googled it and the press was heaviest in April 2017 for a new London office, so this is a helpful correction for me. Though deeper inspection found 2013 ( https://www.facebook.com/Cloudflare/posts/10151742
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by eganist 5y ago
> I mean, good luck to him moving his HQ to NYC etc. but if I were an employee in London HM The Queen's tea cup in Windsor would be shaking from the sonic boom after I lit the reheats on my CV. I wish I lived in London just to us
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by eganist 5y ago
In fairness, Cloudflare's public perception as a disruptor already did Cloudflare's marketing for it in 2017 onward when y'all opened your London office; Eigen doesn't seem to have that advantage. I can imagine the sales
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by eganist 5y ago
works fine (though extremely slow) for me on current firefox on windows 10
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by eganist 5y ago
> WFH reality means that the most pleasant part of my day is destroyed. It takes all the joy of living in the city away. Then don't wfh if your company gives you the option to do one or the other. Companies that today mandate one mo

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