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BCG Perspective on Blockchain Technology(bcg.com)
2 points by fovc 10y ago|0 comments
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by fovc 10y ago
What does non-aliasing mean in this context?
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Deseat me: Clean up your existence(deseat.me)
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by fovc 10y ago
Thanks! Lots of great reading here. The React piece looks interesting, but would definitely like to hear more about Clack. My biggest hangup is around infrastructure. I wouldn't mind terribly re-inventing the wheel a bit in terms of cl
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by fovc 10y ago
I've been working in JS full time for a couple of months now, except for a short break to build a JSX parser for Emacs. Switching to lisp was such a breath of fresh air. The code was denser, and every line took longer to write, so not
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by fovc 10y ago
I Ctrl-Fd "tptacek" as soon as I opened the page
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Towards Practical Attacks on Argon2i and Balloon Hashing(eprint.iacr.org)
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Does the Balloon hashing paper deprecate Argon2?(crypto.stackexchange.com)
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by fovc 10y ago
A big difference compared to programing is that you can't really define functions and objects, so a big win in readability comes from learning the common idioms and applying them consistently (e.g., index match). Then learning to thin
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by fovc 10y ago
> there was not a single fatality This strikes me as the same reasoning that Feynman criticized in the Rogers report: > The argument that the same risk was flown before without failure is often accepted as an argument for the safety o
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by fovc 10y ago
Do browsers kick position: fixed element animations over to the GPU? If not, does that mean it's worth putting them at 0,0 and using transform for their real coordinates?
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by fovc 10y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER remote or Amsterdam Hey HN! I've been working on a startup on my own for a few months now, and am now working on it full time. It's a niche B2B with a promising trial slotted for November. As time is running dow
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by fovc 10y ago
It seems like they're following the even more basic/old school formula first and then adding on the ML: Step 1. Pick a domain with loads of trivial, low-value paperwork Step 2. Convert the paperwork into online forms
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by fovc 10y ago
For me God Mode [1] has been amazing. It's modal editing (like evil or vim), but using emacs key bindings. Your make memory adapts to not hitting C- very quickly, and your pinkies will be very grateful [1] https://github.co
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Ask HN: Other worthy news/discussion communities?
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by fovc 10y ago
I think the standard answer is to use > OrderedDict([('a', 1), ('b', 2)]) I find myself doing that and similar things (objects with `key` and `value` attributes) to deal with JSON non-ordering a lot. I can definitely
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by fovc 10y ago
My first thought was to put these under a random number generator. Make the user do a double take every now and then
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by fovc 10y ago
Cannot agree more with wishcan. I sketched up a few different ideas for something like this, but never pushed on because I thought integrating with hotels, airlines, etc. Would painful. Also figured I'd need to automatically parse emai
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by fovc 10y ago
My peer group just out of college in consulting paid $1000 - $1600 for nice places. Low end of the range would be shared with 2-3 others and maybe 40 min outside the loop. High-end would be for a 1BR 15-20 min out. You could also live in We
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by fovc 10y ago
You go to the bank and say "my neighbor's house just sold for $X. My house is better. Can I have a loan for $X * .8?" Also see reverse mortgages [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mortgage
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by fovc 10y ago
A major difference in lifestyle (and I guess also financial implications) not mentioned here or the companion article [1] is that many search funds end up buying companies in less-than-happening locations, whereas MBB have offices in major
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by fovc 10y ago
Link to the source on github for anyone else without a view source button: https://github.com/jameshfisher/cursory-hack/blob/gh-pages/i... It's using a canvas to draw the address bar and adjusting t
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by fovc 10y ago
CO2 emissions alone add ~$0.50/gal or ~25% if you had to capture all that carbon. [1] Can't find a great all-encompassing source, but e.g.: http://www.c2es.org/publications/cost-us-forest-based-carbon... says
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by fovc 10y ago
I'm waiting for them to be sued for copyright infringement
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by fovc 10y ago
That's a common strategy, but not quite so simple to pull off. One approach is through M&A: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_inversion
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by fovc 10y ago
So the "Do not track" header is another data point in the fingerprint worth ~1bit on its own. Has it actually had any benefits or should we just get rid of it?
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by fovc 10y ago
I can't seem to find it, but I was under the impression that some famous mathematician (I had Erdos in mind, but that's clearly wrong) solved an open problem during a math olympiad in the 1950s. Perhaps that was just an tall tale
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by fovc 10y ago
Surpising that these physical models can outperform computers! I would have thought surface tension and gravity would mess up the scaling in the physical model. Is the problem in computer simulations that we don't have the equations, o
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by fovc 10y ago
Ok fair, maybe "made back" wasn't the most precise wording. Unless you think these savings are ephemeral, these are recurring earnings growing at a similar rate to the company overall. As a GOOG shareholder, your stock is wor
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by fovc 10y ago
They saved "several percentage points" off of 4.4M MWh, so maybe 250M KWH, which might be $10-20M. At 30x earnings [1], they just made back most if not all of the purchase price of Deepmind [2] [1] https://ycharts.com&

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