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by iSnow 6y ago
Wish I were, but I am too old to work in a start-up, and I have family to feed so I won't work for $30k/y. I am just spending all my free time reading up on the stuff - to me, it's the most interesting tech revolution since t
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by iSnow 6y ago
The paper is 2y old - which is a bit of time in blockchain space - and yet, no one has performed this attack successfully in the wild. So, either everyone is just loving Bitcoin and wouldn't harm it for profit, or it's not so easy
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by iSnow 6y ago
>Because blockchain keeps promising things and never delivering anything of actual value. Which is true for every early field. I was around in the 2001 dot-com bubble, and it wasn't different. AI has a 70-year history of broken prom
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by iSnow 6y ago
They farmed $4140 before tx fees and interest, so they made about $4k. Not too shabby...
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by iSnow 6y ago
This is a super special case and I am honestly amazed that some bot is watching for it. The common use-case on Ethereum is sending tokens from A to B, and that can't be front-run or falsified by a bot. This is the original use-case of
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by iSnow 6y ago
> why on earth would I store my data on there, encrypted or otherwise? Why would I want random people carrying out business critical computation for me? Well, I am working in big old industry outside the USA and we just bought a data ing
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by iSnow 6y ago
Yes the original cause was human error, and some robot just pounced once it saw the opportunity.
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by iSnow 6y ago
Whereas coding webshops, advertisement algos or mobile games are so much more relevant.
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by iSnow 6y ago
My god, have you tried to explain React code so someone outside of coding? Every field with any kind of intellectual depth invariable has to create an own set of terms to describe what they are doing. Stop talking down on people just becaus
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by iSnow 6y ago
Blockchain started with the "better money" idea, but it has moved on and branched out into totally different fields: - Document storage and attestation - Supply chain and provenance - making digital art non-fungible in the sense t
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by iSnow 6y ago
I work in old industry and the supply chain guys as well as finance is having a boner from the idea of moving their crufty systems to blockchain. The whole paper trail around a bill of lading isn't a joke if you are shipping from say C
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by iSnow 6y ago
It's a sentiment that gets expressed under most every blockchain-related submission on HN, and I wonder why. Maybe it's something about blockchain tech, but I have the nagging feeling that HN is just getting old and complacent. If
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by iSnow 7y ago
>Some countries test post-mortem (Italy) others don't (Germany). It's true and misleading at the same time. True: Germany doesn't do post-mortem tests on people not tested before. But at the same time, everyone who dies an
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by iSnow 7y ago
>Congratulations on building your time machine. And welcome to 2020. Please don't do that. You are using sarcasm to ridicule the guy you are responding to, and that's an unproductive way to argue. It is also against HN comment
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by iSnow 7y ago
Pretty much any and all reparations were cancelled for Western Germany and today's Germany by continuation. It was a mix of "we need Germany now" and the less than stellar experiences with reparations after WW I.
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by iSnow 7y ago
>While what you say is true, the contents of these meetings should be public knowledge. The decisions, yes. But not recordings of every brainfart of every participant. >means there is probably something there are is damning to someone
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by iSnow 7y ago
Uh, that's the one from the submission?
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by iSnow 7y ago
>all knowledge embedded in your code needs to have a canonical source I don't get it. Code /IS/ knowledge and whenever I copy-paste code around, I duplicate not only code but also knowledge.
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by iSnow 7y ago
Sure do. Back then, there weren't a ton of networks, so it was easy to find great channels. I gained my social net via IRC. Today, it seems most of the user interaction has migrated to a ton of commercial social networks.
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by iSnow 7y ago
>All wall warts that came with any Apple Phone or iPad I ever used are still usable because they are USB. Which is totally not a coincidence because back then, the EU was pondering forcing a common standard down producer's side. I s
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by iSnow 7y ago
Haha, I've been around when tech-illiterate regulators from the EU weren't around to stymie innovation in the oh-so important field of power connectors. In fact, I still have a box full of wall-warts from at least 5 phone manufact
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by iSnow 7y ago
For USB-C, the weak point is on the cable side. For Lightning, it's on the device side (little golden contact springs). The lightning plug feels like it's made for eternity, I must say though.
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by iSnow 7y ago
The only thing the EU mandates is producers come up with a common standard. Whether that's USB-C or Lightning is of no interest to the EU.
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by iSnow 7y ago
It's not just growth-oriented new companies. The old ACME BigCorp.'s have exactly the same problems, but not because they disregard best practices because everyone is fixated on growth, but because inertia has crept in everywhere.
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by iSnow 7y ago
>having multiple JDKs sounds like a pain. If I may, I'd like to recommend jabba for JDK switching, it's not my project, but it's really making my life easier: https://github.com/shyiko/jabba
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by iSnow 7y ago
The program pledges at startup, if it gets corrupted at runtime and the bad code tries to call something beyond what's pledged, it's game over. Hacked code from disk is still dangerous, but runtime-modifications would be caught.
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by iSnow 7y ago
IE5/Mac was the best browser of the time, hands down. The only galling bug was that it stubbornly cached CSS (at least locally read CSS), so you had to always close and re-start it.
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by iSnow 7y ago
Did this once to make sense of an especially hairy class structure I inherited. Would actually do this again, 4K displays notwithstanding.
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by iSnow 7y ago
Same for Safari, Chrome, Brave. The NaN is an especially nice touch.
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by iSnow 7y ago
Krugman's rants are mostly for a US audience and he needs a villain to sell his narrative. Additionally, he hates that Germany doesn't follow his model and still is prospering. And he is a pompous ass who puts ideology before fact

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