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   by gerikson 7y ago

   What alternative do you propose?
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   ISO counts Monday as the first day of the week.
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   Here in Sweden, every calendar includes week numbers. You can enable viewing them in Outlook (I guess both ISO weeks and US style week numbering). Due to some school holidays always falling on the same week (Winter holiday on week 9 in Stoc
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   The Loneliest Genius(nautil.us)

   2 points by gerikson 7y ago|0 comments
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   That could be, but I've also noticed a sort of purism where the shell script is ideal because it can be run on any system. (Of course, using bash for the shell isn't a good choice because you can't rely on bash being install
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   I actually don't have a bone in this fight. I am critical of Bitcoin and BCH in equal measure because I don't agree with their view on how money works. I do respect people in both projects for being intellectually honest about the
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   I elided a lot of history - Bitcoin Cash indeed had its genesis within the community around /r/btc (aka the "big-blockers", Bitcoin XT, etc.). When BCH launched, there was some confusion around the ticker, /r/b
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   Hashrate/difficulty is the only really objective measure. Not all nodes mine.
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   by gerikson 7y ago

   Isn’t this common in Hungarian too?
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    The original title is “Bitcoin.com Lists Ponzi-like Token HEX to the Dismay of BCH Fans”. BCH is Bitcoin Cash, a fork organized/promoted by Roger Ver, among others. It’s currently trading at $180.67, which is 2.3% of the current Bitcoi
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Both Scott and Gordon died at arguably the peak of British global power. Such a power can afford to venerate losers. In a previous time, when Britain's place in the world stage was not as assured, it could be less lenient to them: htt
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    They are how I discovered the blog. Eye-opening.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    The British ideal of the noble defeat being better than the pragmatic victory is rather strange.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    I don't get to code much in the day job, so having a bite-sized puzzle is great entertainment.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    The subreddit is pretty great. Tons of good discussion, feedback in the (very rare) cases when something's pear-shaped about the day's puzzle, and a helpful vibe.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Previous year’s contests are still up. I suggest doing day 1 to 3 of all of them to get a feel for how it all works. The problems start out easy! My “toolkit” is Perl and an Emacs expansion that adds some boilerplate reading text files and
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    You have to have an account but you don’t have to use a nick or name.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    I still get a reminder in Facebook to celebrate the birthday of a buddy who passed in 2007...
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Similar very recent case in Sweden: https://www.thelocal.se/20191119/man-found-dead-in-stockholm...
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    That's an interesting formula.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    HN has an API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API I'm using it to track common items here and on Lobste.rs (and Proggit): http://gerikson.com/hnlo/ Here's the endpoint for the latest 500
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    32 ETH is ~$4,800 at today's price of $151.07[1]. What's the expected "payout" for this stake? [1] CoinMarketCap used as source.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    I kind of enjoyed Gleick's bio of Newton: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17098.Isaac_Newton It doesn't shy away from what later hagiographies deride as "religious superstition", but what a
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    > Contaminated beefs I’m not that into cycling, what’s this about?
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Guy de Maupassant is said to have eaten lunch in the Eiffel Tower every day, because it was the only place in Paris he couldn't see the Eiffel Tower.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    "Stjärn" is not the Swedish word for star, that's "stjärna".
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    It's a big part of his philosophy https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/#LateWitt
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    I'm familiar with the philosophical differences. The kernel is GPL. Most of the userland (GNU stuff) is GPL. So is systemd.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    For something as central to Linux as a replacement for init and friends, I'd prefer a GPL license.
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    by gerikson 7y ago

    Thanks for clarifying. I agree 100%.