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by hiq 5y ago
What do you use them for? I went through the GitLab doc, I see how it could make sense for automated PRs, but for manual ones I don't see how I would benefit from them.
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by hiq 5y ago
The article is about Floria rejecting some maths textbooks without specifying which and why exactly: > Worth noting: The education department described the review process as "transparent," but did not name the rejected textbook
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by hiq 5y ago
> Worth noting: The education department described the review process as "transparent," but did not name the rejected textbooks nor provide examples of passages that failed to meet the criteria.
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by hiq 5y ago
> (I do watch DVDs on computer BTW) Do you watch them alone, or do you have a dedicated screen for that? Or what's your setup? Many people have a "TV" just for the screen, not the tuner, simply because you don't want
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by hiq 5y ago
> If by technical merits you mean "the tools all already exist" I mean the technologies that define this space, e.g. blockchains, ERC20 tokens, NFTs, and so on. I mean that in your comment, you didn't try to claim that the
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by hiq 5y ago
Note that the 4 reasons you've listed have little to do with the technical merits of what you're working on. If anything, your point 2 and 3 talks more about the drawbacks of the technologies you're using rather than their ad
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by hiq 5y ago
> But I believe cryptocurrency as an asset is well worth it, for the competition it provides to national currencies. If these decide to overinflate, crypto provides you with a relatively-uninflated asset Given their volatilities, cryptoc
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by hiq 5y ago
I suspect most of the devs in this space are actually agnostic to this. Enough money for the company to exist for the foreseeable future, big enough compensation, and tech problems abstracted away enough from the end result to be interestin
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by hiq 5y ago
I like to use an ereader for books I know I'll read cover to cover (novels in my case), but for other books (e.g. technical, where I skim through and jump between chapters) it's really lacking. How do people use ereaders for nonli
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by hiq 5y ago
Should be simple enough to prove, here is the test to pass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
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by hiq 5y ago
Not with reproducible builds, no.
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by hiq 5y ago
At the very least there should be two people to blame for the one-month delay problem, the person (junior) who suggested the bad change and the person (more senior) who approved it.
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by hiq 5y ago
Not sure how we're talking past each other re Taler. You answered the request for "great ideas" related to blockchain with a wikipedia article, which I pointed out is actually unrelated to blockchain tech. We followed with ot
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by hiq 5y ago
Taler is just a counterexample to "anonymous or pseudonymous online transactions" inherently requiring a blockchain; the userbase is not relevant for this. I could also question the actual userbase of blockchain-based cryptocurren
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by hiq 5y ago
> But the same people can't explain why it's a bad idea to take out a 2nd mortgage to invest in the market, or even secure a low-interest loan with your home as collateral. But isn't it exactly the same thing? So what was
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by hiq 5y ago
> It doesn't help that, as the article states, Satoshi even said, "Participants can be anonymous" Am I nitpicking if I say that's actually true? Anonymous means "not identified by name; of unknown identity".
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by hiq 5y ago
> those in charge of the cookie banners really believe that they protect the interests of the user As other commenters have pointed out, these are mostly legal requirements. In most cases, the user would be better off with no banner and
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by hiq 5y ago
The existence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler seems to indicate that you don't need a blockchain to implement anonymous payments. So that might not be the best example. Full decentralization (more exact
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by hiq 5y ago
This is configurable though (it's only a default), and is still better than the status quo in a lot of areas. Either you care enough to change it, or you stick to the default. Default (ISP) plain DNS is worse.
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by hiq 5y ago
You have to be more explicit about the properties you're referring to for us to have a meaningful discussion. The post you answered was looking for a "great idea", and it's not clear which one you have in mind in your co
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by hiq 5y ago
I don't get the absolutes here, this can easily be discussed during interviews and before signing anything. Either the company and the future employee agree on what's reasonable and they sign, or they don't, and that's i
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by hiq 5y ago
> you can stick the ssh one-liner in a script file Which ssh one-liner? You can't ssh into a machine that's not publicly reachable without some more hoops. I thought that was one of the points of Tailscale, taking care of the W
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by hiq 5y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...
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by hiq 5y ago
These are used in blockchain technologies, but blockchain technologies are not necessary to obtain them, or am I missing something?
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by hiq 5y ago
More details on how this book would apply here would be welcome. I don't imagine the stance OP took (saying that HN is skeptical about crypto and implying that HN is biased and thus wrong) actually works here. What would work better wo
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by hiq 5y ago
It's not an all-or-nothing situation, e.g. you might want to ensure that every user gets 100 tokens only once in their lifetime without further constraints afterwards on what they can do with this. Not saying there's any crypto pr
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by hiq 5y ago
Devil's advocate: I think the point is not to solve a problem the users have, but rather a problem the company dabbling in crypto has, e.g. that no user benefits twice from one-time offers, this kind of things.
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by hiq 5y ago
> If you are an engineer, your total comp is easily north of $200,000. At that pay scale compared to other careers, I expect (and I did) to burn through the night as needed. How are other careers relevant? You take the best offer you can
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by hiq 5y ago
I thought A/B testing was the state of the art in that field, which would address your concern?
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by hiq 5y ago
> I won't be able to handle the demands of formal schooling There are evening universities, certificates, part-time masters degrees (e.g. see The Open University), all meant for people who don't study full-time. Degrees help in

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