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by jnbiche 9y ago
> and even though you can exchange them for actual USD. That was a typo, I should have written, "and even though you can't exchange them for actual USD."
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> These guys take your USD and issue you equivalent tokens you can trade with. Nope. That's how it was until about a year ago, when all their banking accounts were closed (probably due to the issue you describe). For the past year,
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> All research comes with risks. And the core foundation of medical ethics is that the patient gets to decide if/how much of that risk to take.
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Why in the world would is that something you shouldn't do?
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by jnbiche 9y ago
If it's a non-negligible amount compared to other wallets, that would be pretty easy to track down. I mean, you'd look at new wallets compared to existing wallets.
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by jnbiche 9y ago
Well, that applies to the user, not to whoever spun the distro to begin with. Google could have put them wherever they wanted. Anyway, not a huge deal, just a bit odd. And evoking my OCD: ...must...keep...clean...root.
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by jnbiche 9y ago
Thanks for the summary of Cloud Shell, I was not previously aware of it. Any idea why Apache and Gradle are installed in the root directory? Normally, these would be in `opt` or some such.
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> how would this work if the actor decided to send the vast majority coins to many random, arbitrary accounts? (e.g. arbitrarily sending coins to everyone who has Then they'd have to take those coins off the blacklist, or else prepa
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by jnbiche 9y ago
You should be able to buy your own wifi router and plug it into your router/modem combo. Ideally, you'd then run the combo in bridge mode, but it should work regardless.
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by jnbiche 9y ago
One top-level comment is sufficient on HN. It takes a certain amount of hubris, or blithe ignorance, to post multiple top-level comments.
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> I once proposed extending C to allow talking about array sizes.[1] That would be a very useful, and relatively unobstrusive, extension to C. I've always liked the idea of a C "strict mode". I wish the political problems
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> If the Bitcoin Cash blocks get full, then we'll see how things go. Yeah, then they'll raise the limit from 8MB to 16MB. With 10 terabyte hard drives at $300-$400, that's not a big deal for anyone running a full node.
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by jnbiche 9y ago
Again, that's with only an 8MB block size. They're now doing research into 1 GB block size limits. Think about it, with 10 terabyte hard drive at $300, it's completely feasible to have 1GM blocks.
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by jnbiche 9y ago
Arguably not. Based on testing, they're able to handle up to 25 tx/sec without any problems now, compared to Bitcoin struggling with only 5 to 10 tx/sec. And they have only a 8MB block limit currently, but are only using a sm
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> Please unpack this statement. Which part of the Bitcoin system is functioning incorrectly? The payment system part. One of the main reasons why Satoshi created Bitcoin in the first place. As someone who got into Bitcoin in early 2011 (
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by jnbiche 9y ago
No one has seriously mined Bitcoin using GPUs since like 2013. By 2014, everyone was using FPGAs or ASICs. Now, only ASICs are used.
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by jnbiche 9y ago
As you likely know, you will need to be very careful when developing web-based applications for the resource-constrained devices you mention. A typical bloated web app as made by most companies will often not run well in resource-constrai
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by jnbiche 9y ago
For some reason you're getting downvoted, but clearly people have some misconceptions about libertarianism, perhaps confusing it with anarcho-capitalism. I'd agree that contract enforcement (including to combat fraud) along with t
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> I thoroughly enjoyed his old lectures, but I've avoided watching any of his newer stuff for fear of finding out if he's begun to pander to his (largely) awful followers. I think he did pander a bit, but then realized how far
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> A law that empowers kangaroo courts sin't "simply asking nice." A law that empowers those courts to use an unscientific "unconscious bias" test that claims to get into your head isn't "simply asking n
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> I keep getting hung up by the fact that a whole lot of Peterson's followers are fascists and racists. Well, given that Peterson has repeatedly pissed them off by saying that ethnic nationalism is an idiotic ideology (I'm para
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> So he more or less had to create a controversy out of nothing. The great majority of people consider the question a matter of courtesy and hold no strong feelings. Well, this is now enshrined in Canadian law, so it doesn't matter
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> We're not talking about 200 students in this case. We're talking about one on one conversation with one person. That's when pronouns matter. Professors never engage in one-on-one conversation with their students? And the
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by jnbiche 9y ago
There are some 4 or 5 new pronoun classes, totally over 30+ new gender pronouns recognized by some transgender rights activists. This UW LGBT Resource Center lists an additional 7 pronoun classes, totaling 35 new pronouns [1]. So imagine th
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> Have you ever actually gotten that to work? Have you personally ever changed a single persons mind? I know the question wasn't directed at me, and it's not with respect to the proposed Muslim ban, but I have changed the mind
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> A violinist might be asked to play a technically difficult but short piece during an audition, No. Compared to what we do as software developers, the correct analogy for a violinist interview would be to ask them to whiteboard all kind
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> FWIW, preparing for interviews is standard practice irrespective of the industry. This is simply wrong. I suppose if you've spent your whole life as a developer, it may seem like it would be done likewise other industries, but i
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by jnbiche 9y ago
Oh man, listening to Switched on Bach now. First music I loved as a kid; it still evokes an emotional response. Life has been hard recently, living through a serious illness with lots of pain, feels good to kick back and listen to this. BTW
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by jnbiche 9y ago
Oh please. The "couple of hours" line is used for any range of "take-home" coding projects, from ones that actual do take a couple of hours, to ones that take a few days. Also, how would programming projects reveal that
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by jnbiche 9y ago
> In all honesty, it's not that bad. It absolutely is that bad. If you've not had a shitload of experiences like this, you've been very lucky or very sheltered by an unusual selection of target companies. On the other ha

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