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by hiq 4y ago
With no recourse if you lose your private key, is it really any better for 99% of users?
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by hiq 4y ago
> So stuff that really needs to be done I will deal with without any todo list I will just remember it Well you're lucky then, because I frequently have to remind people of important things they (still) have to do and seem to have f
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by hiq 4y ago
> But aren’t you writing down a bunch of stuff that, really, honestly, you’re probably not going to do? That's a separate problem, and a good reason to have periodic reviews. If you have big items that stay on your list for weeks yo
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by hiq 4y ago
That doesn't help if the attackers manage to social-engineer telcos using other public information such as your name.
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by hiq 4y ago
In many countries gambling regulations go beyond age restrictions and companies evolving in that space have to provide safeguards to prevent certain behaviors. I don't think it's far-fetched to imagine similar regulations for thin
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by hiq 4y ago
I'm not sure what your point is, we do ban some of these (with various successes and failures), so why wouldn't we do the same for social media? Yes we shouldn't ban everything, but there's a large spectrum of acceptable
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by hiq 4y ago
You can't compare Zurich with California . According to Wikipedia, California is 10 times as big as Switzerland. Rent is usually the biggest part of expenses and the prices are crazier in the SV than in Zurich (the city). Maybe you we
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by hiq 4y ago
This sounds like a good idea, I'd save all the `ln` commands the install.sh of my dotfiles repo. But do you just .gitignore all stuff in your .config you're not interested in?
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by hiq 4y ago
The same approach to compatibility with C++? Can you use Rust as successor language in a C++ codebase, just like Typescript in a Javascript codebase? From my (limited) understanding that's not as straightforward, and other sources onli
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by hiq 4y ago
If they manage to make Carbon highly compatible with C++ (which is one of the design goals IIUC), then a C++/Rust compatibility layer should work fine with Carbon/Rust, or am I missing something? That's a big "if" o
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by hiq 4y ago
This. There's a huge selection bias: people saying that they're (un)happy with this or that have already accepted the position they're in, so they were at least moderately happy with their compensation when they started, whil
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by hiq 4y ago
> What you actually need for a sufficiently complex financial life is input validation, and that's exactly the problem that plain text accounting software punts on. Which input validation do you get in gnucash that you don't ge
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by hiq 4y ago
More relevant: how much are Lightning transaction costs?
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by hiq 4y ago
How much is the VAT?
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by hiq 4y ago
https://twitter.com/zhusu/status/1546801270014758912
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by hiq 4y ago
Somewhat related question: are there proofs that meditation benefits do not come exclusively from placebo effect? Meaning, if I'm able to convince you that a certain ritual (however esoteric) is good for you and you end up doing it on
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by hiq 4y ago
> This is not my war, I oppose those sanctions. Did you oppose Germany's excessive reliance on Russian gas?
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by hiq 4y ago
> you can run a node for $20 a month So that's one more entry in your accounting, how many more are there? Once you've counted everything and implemented all the missing features (e.g. how much does it cost to do USD -> NANO
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by hiq 4y ago
> Lots of Open Source projects rely on volunteering one way or another. How many of them without any corporate backing have the same requirements as a payment processor? > There is of course always a cost for a transaction one way or
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by hiq 4y ago
> you probably haven't looked at how Nano works I have looked at the past n similar products and it was always the same story. At some point, you don't need to look at the implementation details anymore, you can take this from
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by hiq 4y ago
> 0 fee transactions You'd have to check how sustainable this is, Uber was (is?) also very cheap in some areas, just because it's massively subsidized. A solution that works today but not tomorrow and burns cash in between is n
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by hiq 4y ago
> Because it avoided the central bank, they could avoid the stealing of their hard currency via the standard international payment system. How much was paid in fees in total, from your currency to theirs (I assume VND)? If it's a US
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by hiq 4y ago
I invite you to read the comment I linked.
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by hiq 4y ago
I invite you to read the comment I linked.
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by hiq 4y ago
That's not how it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432661
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by hiq 4y ago
Telegram is criticized because it's way below than the state of the art when it comes to security, while still claiming (official website) that "messages are heavily encrypted" and that it "keeps your messages safe from
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by hiq 4y ago
> To protect the data that is not covered by end-to-end encryption No data (so Signal) is better than whatever legal hoops you're going through to supposedly avoid giving out the data you have. Plus if you look up "telegram dat
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by hiq 4y ago
As long as the hash rate is more than 0 and BTC/USD as well (which I think will always be the case), the Bitcoin network will reach another sort of equilibrium eventually. I'm not saying it'd go back up to current valuations
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> why would AAPL or GE stock drop when there is big negative crypto news? Does this actually happen?
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by hiq 4y ago
> Crypto in general contains a lot less uncollateralized debt, surprising chains of counterparty risk, and so on than traditional finance. I don't think that's obvious at all when you have entities like Tether with unclear off-

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