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by insulanus 7y ago
On the one hand - I really want to read that. On the other hand, should I download this PDF from the CIA?
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by insulanus 7y ago
This is a very good description of your argument. It may seem like an unfair stance - I'll try to show why it might not be a crazy position to take. Let's just use Bitcoin vs. Libra, because bitcoin is much easier to type than cry
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by insulanus 7y ago
> Should Starbucks be regulated as a bank because they let you prepay for a cup of coffee? Yes. Including how the funds in the pre-paid card are managed and invested, and certainly including all the rules about when the user is allowed t
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by insulanus 7y ago
> How will the reserve be invested? Users of Libra do not receive a return from the reserve. The reserve will be invested in low-risk assets that will yield interest over time. The revenue from this interest will first go to support the
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by insulanus 7y ago
> > > It’s a “narrow banking” model that would back its deposits with 100 percent reserves, located at what is deemed by nearly everyone as the safest of safe locations —the U.S. central bank Let's say I'm a country, say,
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by insulanus 7y ago
I hereby nominate posts discussing actual deeds of actual Nazis to be exempt from Godwin's law.
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> Libra will afford people the option to invest in and use a token that is backed 1 for 1 to a basket of global currencies and government bonds at a low cost. That part sounds good to me - tying together the international money and trade
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by insulanus 7y ago
That's a good point. Besides the potential dangers of allowing a tech company (one with no ties to your country) to run the money supply, there is also the understanding that you (as a smaller country) are inviting even more U.S. monet
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by insulanus 7y ago
Montenegro has a population of about 600K. Its annual GDP is $12 billion. There are also small countries that are pegged to the US dollar. When you are a small-potatoes nation-state, and have a non-diversified or small economy, it is a grea
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by insulanus 7y ago
If the EU goes tits up, Germany will be using marks again before the month is out. The EU could never have been started if member states had to give full control of monetary policy to the EU Council.
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by insulanus 7y ago
> Facebook promises to encourage dealing in their coin and airline would frown on that. Not much difference otherwise. Not much difference except it is controlled by one of the most powerful, and richest companies on the planet, with the
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by insulanus 7y ago
And those intermediaries are very closely watched by entities with power to affect the system, not by powerless "consumers" who's only choice is to shrug and choose another provider (if available).
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by insulanus 7y ago
172lb is a lot! Thanks for doing that. But I think solar panels meant for rooftops have a lot of weight in the aluminium frame, and are think glass. I can't imagine a car manufacturer putting thick glass above the aluminium skin of the
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by insulanus 7y ago
Good point, but would you leave your car without solar panels out in the hail? If it really breaks, then you have a car just as useful as before, until you get the solar panel fixed. Whether this is good or bad comes down to how much the pa
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by insulanus 7y ago
Definitely Ken Thompson. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
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by insulanus 7y ago
I agree with everything you said except this: > borders are also created by geography and culture It seems to me that borders exist because certain people could wield power, and gain benefits from controlling land. When we were hunter ga
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by insulanus 7y ago
Just because somewhere is bad doesn't mean that other places aren't far worse.
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You should never hide a pointer to a type with a typedef.
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Yes, they changed how search works - try using "google verbatim" for the old behavior.
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It's great that they are sharing their (re)discoveries, the real shame is that we software people don't have a giant, open and free repository of all these blog posts, Software Engineering articles, and interviews from our practit
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by insulanus 7y ago
Good point, but the call could result in an allocation through the modification of a field of result typedef struct { void* some_data_pointer; } api_result_t; int get_result(my_api_t api, api_result_t* result) { result-&gt
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by insulanus 7y ago
I'd argue that your web browser is one of the most likely areas to be compromised from. Huge codebase, network connected, processes many different types of data, can follow links without your direction ...
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I always recommend her blog as part of the answer to: "I want to lean to program" or "I want to become a better programmer" Her blog still has that pure joy of learning and doing with computers that we all remember.
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This might be a good starting point: https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/open-source-is-ba...
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by insulanus 7y ago
That's a good point about the rate of the unsafe products, but that is not the same as the rate at which those products are introduced into the population (due to lower prices, etc). It's not valid to compare the rate of unsafe pr
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by insulanus 7y ago
I've been around the block, and I hope I can give you some perspective from both sides. I'm glad you brought up git. Source control is central to modern software development. If you don't have it on your resume, someone might
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by insulanus 7y ago
Good description. Uber is making use of people's free time, and their car (a very expensive asset) at low rates. They can cut or hire a driver at any time, and they also control the pricing both ways. WeWork only controls pricing on th
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by insulanus 7y ago
I think you are correct that nothing is taken away from an author when someone reads their Wikipedia article. Perhaps what the poster above you is saying is that there is a continuum of information, some more personal and sensitive, like y
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by insulanus 7y ago
You could do it, but it would take forever. Here are some starting points for the different technologies involved: Here's how to make the walking robot: https://asimo.honda.com/ http://users.umiacs.umd.edu&#
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by insulanus 7y ago
Are you replying to this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724679

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