harwoodleon

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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Every day since you were born you have been near enough electricity to kill you instantly. We have good safety measures in place already after working with it for over a century. Petroleum is no different in that sense. Fuses are pretty goo
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Financial regulation is and always has been two sided. To protect you from losses and to protect you from profit.
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Yes, it’s a lot. But, people are going to have to get used to the idea of large voltages and anperages, in the same way that we don’t really worry about Fay to day handling of large volumes of highly explosive liquid (petroleum).
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
There’s a problem with this argument. The middlemen are being created again yes, but they are being replaced with mostly open-sourced software solutions like smart contacts and auditable ledgers. Bitcoin started the party, but the other pro
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Sorry Barack, but I think you mean: “Advertising models on the internet are the biggest threat to our democracy” The internet, if anything has promoted democratic practice around the world, which is why China wants to shut it out. It has do
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
It’s baked into the business model. Attention is the main material of the business, however it is gotten. It can’t change. Facebook couldn’t afford for it to change.
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Death is part of life, so is some element of suffering and pain, but neither are desirable. I don’t really subscribe to the “death is natural” idea. It’s certainly not a taboo for me, but my experience of life is the ultimate natural high
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Don’t worry, one day soon you’ll be able to ask an AI agent to explain to you what’s going on, in simple terms.
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
I am Spartacus. The only way to prove this is to get them to move a specific balance from the satoshi wallets. Conjecture is worth nothing.
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Why is that not a valid position to take? Sure you can have good non-specialist or non-technical leaders. Are they better or worse? I would say without a personal understanding of the challenges of the core business, their judgement would l
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Visa are advancing their approach to digital currency(usa.visa.com)
2 points by harwoodleon 6y ago|0 comments
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Counterfeit is 1984 speak for unprofitable.
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Even BMW has OEM parts.
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
Whether they have grounds or not, this is a PR disaster for Apple. Lots of people who love technology will see this as a monopoly move against a little guy by a huge company with more cash reserves than a small country. Not surprised that t
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
It’s not only happening in the US. The true numbers will be very hard to see, everywhere.
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by harwoodleon 6y ago
A broad statement. I’d like to see the evidence that they don’t care, especially when faced with the level of detail collected. I’d say they don’t care to know, not that they don’t care. Ignorance is not a defence, even if it is temporarily
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by harwoodleon 7y ago
With Trump at the helm, this now seems inevitable. I really wonder if this climate destruction is a form of warfare. It certainly favours countries in higher latitudes.
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by harwoodleon 7y ago
Seems to me that if the Amazon collapses we all lose. Why not sanction Brazil? Or at least put together an international coalition / treaty to buy the Amazon and other rainforests and protect them? Stopping buying from Brazil won’t ha
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by harwoodleon 8y ago
Chunking your work, or using pomodoro are good ways to break this cycle. As you get closer to the end of the work make smaller chunks and have more breaks. Also understanding what gives you pleasure in your work will help through the mundan
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
You just described 50+ years of software development in one paragraph. I might just print and frame this short thread.
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
A balanced view is that all the articles hold some substance. But the technology is more at threat through its own community than any external force. One question that I don't really understand is how can the total supply of BTC serve
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
The essence of Chinese politics is communist control. The actual iteration is very different as you say. But this does not alter the fact that freedom of the individual as provided by bitcoin runs counter to the Chinese communist manifesto.
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
You took that out of context. Monetary regulation protects, supposedly. It may protect individuals against losing money in stupid schemes. But it didn't save us from the recent massive and costly market crashes which hurt far more peop
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
Bitcoin and for that matter all crypto currency is a libertarian ideal. Libertarian ideals do not fit in communist societies. Regulation was always coming, as even liberal societies regulate. But regulation is only there to keep the establi
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
I'm glad you have outed this rather complex multi billion dollar industry with thousands of extremely competent programmers. > 'Mining' is an arbitrary answer to handing out block-chains. No it's not there are many wa
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
Websockets are of use to live documents. Application stacks are different. The definition is extremely important as the current level of interaction richness was never really envisaged in 1996. A document is a resource that is available spe
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
I do 10k miles a year, the range on my car is about 90 miles effective in the summer and 70 in the winter. I charge fully every 2-3 days and top up on long journeys over 60/70 miles using the motorway chargepoints. My bills have not re
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
As batteries get better and cars charge less frequently, solar improves (and improved solar is added to the car's energy collection) and wind too - the demand will even out, in fact the demand per car may well decrease by a large margi
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
What about the newer nerds who don't have grey beards?
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by harwoodleon 9y ago
HTML has a UX/UI standard for iterating documents. Applications however, are not explicitly catered for. HTML standards for web application development are a bit like putting F1 wheels on a bus. For example : a dashboard is a common in

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