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by fab13n 9y ago
> But why should the caller not be similarly liable? He should, he will, and I never meant to imply that he shouldn't. But the cop should to, yet probably won't. That's a very wrong message to send to the other officers wh
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by fab13n 9y ago
> The police are trained to wound you and take you alive. Police should be trained not to rely on firearms. The gun is a last-ditch option to protect the cop's life, not a way to neutralise citizens. When a police officer shoots, he
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by fab13n 9y ago
No: in other countries, they wouldn't send trigger-happy ninjas based solely on a dubious phone call. In the few worse cases, it will mean some lost time, because the first responder cops will have to wait for assault teams. But in the
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by fab13n 9y ago
> SWAT teams cannot be expected to be fully prepared for both a hostage situation and a so-called prank. Yes they should, and they are in the rest of the world. Being a competent police officer is not supposed to be an easy job, and not
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by fab13n 9y ago
Seen from Europe, this is ludicrous. Police killed that guy. Swating as a prank is possible in the US because of US police's hysteria. And it's police hysteria that escalated a nasty prank into homicide--if not murder. [EDIT f
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by fab13n 9y ago
Functional style doesn't prevent logical errors, but it makes them much easier to find and fix. Automatic code property verification will probably become pervasive some day, but we're far from there: today's tools require exp
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by fab13n 9y ago
I believe some key root causes are Solidity's and EVM's designs, which encourage a bug-prone programming style. I'm willing to consider that it's also a _cultural_ thing, beyond the formal features of the VM and its main
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by fab13n 9y ago
Touché (and yes, I would also blend into that picture seamlessly).
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by fab13n 9y ago
> 1. Edge case leaks 87% of tokens to a dedicated hacker. Sorry? The level of code safety in smart contracts is abysmally bad today, Ethereum didn't further the state of the art with EVM/Solidity (quite the opposite), and this
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by fab13n 9y ago
I thought of ants and bees. In a pro-decentralisation context, the interpretation you're referring to--which is the pinnacle of centralisation forced through violence for selfish goals--is so obviously irrelevant, that it didn't e
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by fab13n 9y ago
It can't: regularly (every 2 weeks IIRC) the hash difficulty is ajusted, so that with the average hashing power available during the last period, a new block would be found every 10 minutes on average. So if it becomes less profitable,
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by fab13n 9y ago
> multiple chains combining into one. Does anyone know if this has happened before? I don't think it happened on any meaningful chain. It could be donetechnically through a proof-of-burn on the giving chain, and the corresponding mi
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by fab13n 9y ago
It's a bug in a smart contract, but the root cause is the bug-prone design of Solidity. It's hard to write bug-free code in Solidity (or anything targetting EVM actually), and nearly impossible to be confident that a given contrac
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by fab13n 9y ago
Michelson is a VM bytecode, not a programming language, although it happens to be readable enough to write simple contracts in it directly. IIRC, the old Camllight VM was pretty similar (I might misremember, that was literally decades ago);
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by fab13n 9y ago
The truth is, you don't need anything elaborate to expose a fraudster. Give a very simple programmatic task, a paper (or a blackboard) and a pencil. As you watch the interviewee elaborate his solution, and as you discuss it with them,
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by fab13n 10y ago
They say they plan to package batteries are packaged as standard freight containers. Since current turnarounds include freight container swaps, I don't see why a battery swap wouldn't fit in it.
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by fab13n 10y ago
> The thought of a Li fire on board an aircraft is something that would keep me awake nights. Whereas you wouldn't think twice about jet fuel fires, because you're used to it rather than because fuel isn't a fire hazard :-
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by fab13n 10y ago
Saving money amounts to producing some wealth without consuming any wealth in exchange (generally because you expect your savings to conserve value, and therefore get the right to consume without producing some time later. Like all bets and
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by fab13n 10y ago
> the point of this report is not to justify the punitive actions taken today. You mean the point of the persons who wrote it? Probably not. But the intent of those who decided to release it today? It most likely was. If so many HN comme
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by fab13n 10y ago
Chrome is a browser offered for free by what's essentially an advertising company. How could we expect it to be on the cutting edge of the fight against advertising? They only tolerate ad-blocking plugins as long as it's necessary
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by fab13n 10y ago
> Hertz, Avis et al are not seen as competitors They aren't: you have to go and fetch the car at their shop, which is very impractical compared to having your car parked on your driveway. The most radical change with autonomous cars
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by fab13n 10y ago
> Driving is so much fun. So is horse-riding, and some people still own personal horses. But most people don't, and those who do ride for fun, not for transportation. They take their car to go and ride their horse actually. Because
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by fab13n 10y ago
> "AirBNB for self-driving cars" AirBnB works great when you exceptionally need accommodation, far from your normal environment. Most people would hate to need booking an AirBnB every night of the year, in order not to sleep un
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by fab13n 10y ago
I haven't access to the Fitch article, and I'm no specialist of the automotive market at large. I know even much less about oil. However, here are a couple of guesses about how things are likely to go wrong for car makers. In a v
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by fab13n 10y ago
As a geek and a formerly classically trained musician, I found it interesting to see how a geek discovers musical conventions. I think his post raises interesting questions about western music's discoverability, something developers sh
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by fab13n 10y ago
Just looking at the polling data is exactly what did the many pundits who completely failed to predict the GOP primary outcome (as well as Sanders' excellent performance). By contrast, Adams predicted what would happen, why how and whe
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by fab13n 10y ago
I admit I don't know enough about Democratic party rules to guess who would replace a busted Clinton candidacy. Common sense would dictate that a candidate who came close second would be chosen, but common sense doesn't necessaril
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by fab13n 10y ago
> all the stuff that's "leaked" looks pretty reasonable to me. If I understand correctly, the only point of this leak was to demonstrate that the hack actually happened. The damaging stuff has been given to Wikileaks, whic
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by fab13n 10y ago
Indeed, filthy metaphors about doing semen forensics analysis in a whorehouse come to mind :-)
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by fab13n 10y ago
Only if God exists, which is highly debatable and highly debated.

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