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by greenkey 6y ago
That’s what proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are about. I’m saying that the problem has been solved and would need to just be applied to this use case.
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by greenkey 6y ago
> a year or two behind the times How exactly? I agree with you that use of blockchain on its own is not fully secure, but that can be mitigated for the most part through the same sorts of proof-of-work and proof-of-stake mechanisms and e
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by greenkey 6y ago
> Oh wow! Thanks for telling us!... In the US, admitting you did something wrong could open you up to a class action suit where some customers could be eligible for damages due to negligence. You and others assume the merchant is unscrup
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by greenkey 6y ago
I’m not a fan of everything Bukowski wrote, but I wouldn’t try to censor him so that little Jimmy could read it, and I liked the movie Barfly. Similarly, I’m not a fan of everything Linus wrote, but I wouldn’t enforce bad CS101 code on him
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Tell HN: HN Karma Being Exploited
2 points by greenkey 6y ago|6 comments
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by greenkey 6y ago
This is good advice. Another thing to consider is cost-to-benefit ratio. If you don’t know cost, first look at: Product costs: free < one-time cost < recurring cost or recurring “one-time” costs Resource alignment costs: (Re-)hiring +
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by greenkey 6y ago
In my experience, the main reason these companies fail and especially why acquisitions don’t turn out well is the assumption that the way you do business and the people you have are just successful in their own right and will just take in t
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by greenkey 6y ago
> That said, Common Lisp is weird. What I find particularly jarring is that functions and variables live in different namespaces: if you put a function into a variable, you can’t just use it like a function, you have to funcall it. Unles
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by greenkey 6y ago
I like this post but “unscrupulous merchant” seems harsh for a company that may have changed their policies and didn’t realize they had to inform the referring agent of those changes. It’s not uncommon for policies to change; that initial m
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by greenkey 6y ago
Same here, I avoid them when I can. It won’t be too long before the gas stations are fast chargers, though- I give it 20 years.
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by greenkey 6y ago
That’s kind of harsh. Ruby was a great language and especially great syntax. Except for some duplication of methods and early misspelling of one or two methods, it would’ve been much easier for people to learn and do cool things with that d
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by greenkey 6y ago
Rails 1 was released in 2004.
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by greenkey 6y ago
I guess it’s a cultural difference because I don’t associate those things immediately with the word “bull”, even when it’s in the context of “red”. If someone were to say,”Do you want a Red Bull?” would you get upset?
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by greenkey 6y ago
How many operations and objects? The method he’s talking about would seem more efficient for the purpose vs all of the strings still being created even if never used in the plain hash version.
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by greenkey 6y ago
Which became dominant for a while, but cgi scripts on the server-side were also hot. Enter Perl and PhP server-side. Then there was JSP, ASP, and ColdFusion, all server-side. Rails! Also server-side. Then back to JS.
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by greenkey 6y ago
I wish Matz had been there with Rubyscript. JS wasn’t as powerful back then; it took over a decade for it to evolve enough where people would really use it for much other than client-side validation and neat UI tricks. In comparison, Ruby w
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by greenkey 6y ago
So: total reliance on someone giving something away for free that could break or be taken away at any time and you have no privacy- that’s ok, even if they’re not going to hire you later?
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by greenkey 6y ago
That’s awesome! In comparison, here a quote from the OP’s blog entry: “Fast forward to today. A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines of Perl or Python, depending on how terse you mind bein
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by greenkey 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Fighting_Bull “During the breeding, in order to preserve their natural characteristics, the bulls rarely encounter human beings, and if ever, never on foot. ... Some commentators
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by greenkey 6y ago
It’s probably not just universities either. A company I work for spent the majority of their budget and then some on things that they didn’t need, much without any forethought or planning. It’s either because of kickbacks or because it seem
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by greenkey 6y ago
Students today have become quite reliant on Google Docs essentially putting almost all of their classwork out on the web. What if it were to fail? That’s different than it used to be when each student needed to handwrite or type up a paper
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by greenkey 6y ago
The font on this blog would seem appropriate for the style and subject matter, but it’s hard for me to read.
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by greenkey 6y ago
I felt the same way reading it, but I also admire the ability to self-brand, even though personally I’ve given up on that, having gained weight and worn boxers to work most days recently. I could brand that, but it wouldn’t be original. Org
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by greenkey 6y ago
Why hasn’t w3c taken on some way to avoid the unnecessary complexity? (Simplified font definition and usage standard.)
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by greenkey 6y ago
Carta was eShares: https://techcrunch.com/tag/eshares/
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by greenkey 6y ago
Many cultures? Where outside of Spain? Also, I’d associate the bull with anger and power on the bull’s part, because of the breeding and/or natural selection to favor it. The bull is also angry at being penned and possibly maltreated,
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by greenkey 6y ago
Me also. Also the Mo monoliths look nothing like the one from 2001. Only in 2020 would an alien stick a big mirror in the ground. I hope they sell at least 5 to be setup next to each other in a hexagon with one side missing for entry for a
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by greenkey 6y ago
Corrected, thanks
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by greenkey 6y ago
No, it’s from the ATI logo which is red and was co-opted by AMD after its acquisition of ATI in 2006. Team red is AMD, team green is Nvidia, and team blue is Intel. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/8
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by greenkey 6y ago
Thanks for providing an example of the false altruism and anarchistic attitude of libertarianism: never did drugs, doesn’t mind if others hurt themselves and society. Might as well say “Columbia, go fuck it up.”

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