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by joosters 6y ago
The fact that this was flagged so quickly shows that HN and its readers are part of the problem :(
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by joosters 6y ago
An API doesn’t care what company the client belongs to, so it’s pretty easy to have a DB that can be updated by more than one company. There’s no technical reason to prefer a blockchain, it’s just marketing.
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by joosters 6y ago
You know that a private, or permissioned, blockchain is pointless, right? If some entity controls the blockchain, you might as well just use a standard database.
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by joosters 6y ago
Please, no. One of the biggest problems IMO for Linux desktops is that everyone decides to rewrite most of it from scratch. (e.g. gnome 2 -> 3, Ubuntu's varied and changeable desktop UIs, etc...) No-one can be bothered to fix bugs
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by joosters 6y ago
I just transferred a friend's iphone the other day and noticed this animated pattern. I presumed the QR-like code was just to transfer authentication so that the two phones could establish a secure wifi connection, since the QR recogni
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by joosters 6y ago
I can't see how that's true. A quick search tells me that dishwashers can get up to a max of around 60c, that's nowhere enough to kill most bacteria, especially ones hiding deep inside cavities. Maybe you could pasteurize mil
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by joosters 6y ago
I later discovered that Instagram banned all mylink.fyi links from the platform. A customer also confirmed to me via email that Snapchat started blocking links. Heh, I’m banned by Instagram and Snapchat! [...] If you’re interested in acq
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by joosters 6y ago
“ Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ” With the fashion industry ' pushing the unseen and unsold 2020 collections into 2021 ', Oscar Wilde's quote may no longer be true!
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by joosters 6y ago
And yet, in the real world, people could use that sentence as part of a discussion without causing any confusion or ambiguity. Because sentences don’t exist on their own, they have a wider context which can focus their meaning. Human langu
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by joosters 6y ago
I wondered why that has been happening to me too, all techcrunch URLs redirect to advertising.com/* and then stop (extentions / pihole blocking the domain, I guess). Why would any self-respecting website redirect everyone through
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by joosters 6y ago
One major expense for a restaurant is rental costs for a dine-in area. That is what makes a restaurant a restaurant, rather than a takeaway. Restaurants didn't end up with dine-in areas by accident, nor do they offer in-house dining
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by joosters 6y ago
I can remember the good old days of telnetting into hermes to read my mail...
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by joosters 6y ago
His homepage ( @ the wonderfully named dotat.at domain) says he's looking after the central DNS and email servers, but his work homepage says he's just responsible for DNS services and domain name registrations. So maybe he doesn&
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by joosters 6y ago
I submitted this link, and I also thought it was going to be Doom the game from where I originally saw it!
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Endless Doom Scroller(endlessdoomscroller.com)
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by joosters 6y ago
The wages and costs of train drivers are pretty insignificant in the costs of running the London Underground, so tiny a percentage of the running costs, yet people focus on them because they earn a relatively good wage (how dare they have a
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by joosters 6y ago
Moreover, this free-rider problem is made far, far worse by the fact that Bitcoin ownership is very unequally distributed, thus giving the Bitcoin-rich powerful incentives to restrain the growth of the money supply (since such restrictions
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by joosters 6y ago
A 'fixed supply' is not key to his points. Point 1 is, more specifically, that you would not be able to get agreement to adjust properties of the currency (remember, bitcoin is only 'fixed' in that there's a number
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by joosters 6y ago
Normally, a big problem in crypto-currency blog posts is that an ill-informed author blathers on about supposed technical features of blockchains. But this article is remarkable in that it doesn't mention any feature or property of bit
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by joosters 6y ago
The preschool is hiding behind the hill on the railway line? I wish they'd stop building these schools on the train tracks, it's so irresponsible.
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by joosters 6y ago
‘over 95% of global communications traffic is handled by just 1 million km of undersea fiber-optic cable.’ 'Just'? 1 million km is a lot of wire, you could wrap that length around the earth over 25 times. I can't imagine wh
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by joosters 6y ago
Because we have decades of experience with the existing engine & fuel types, but very little experience of battery powered aircraft?
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by joosters 6y ago
...so someone else can install the updates that break the server? Check your SLA, no cloud provider is going to pay you much compensation when the service goes down
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by joosters 6y ago
Sounds just like the 'real names' policy that Google and Facebook have tried before. That never made any difference to hate speech, racism and intolerance, so why do you think it will magically make Twitter better?
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by joosters 6y ago
Also, it seems to me that whatever they do to make the TLS handshake and certificate look more like a typical web server, they would never be able to make it exactly match. Tor connections could still be identified by simple things like the
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by joosters 6y ago
Hey, thanks for the reply, and I should apologise to you: While it still seems to me that the cause, effect & justification for leaving medium seems strange, I didn't mean to accuse you of intentionally lying or deceiving people in
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by joosters 6y ago
Even though Medium reinstated my profile, I stopped publishing on the platform and moved to my blog again. There's some history re-writing going on here. The tweet from Medium about unblocking his account was in July 2018 - the autho
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by joosters 6y ago
None of these changes impact HTTP server code. Pages that run javascript might want to set some new headers, but setting headers is something that web servers always have to do. Changing a site config to send some new headers is work for a
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by joosters 6y ago
The video always plays at a (large) fixed size... which is unfortunate for a vector data source, scaling should be relatively easy for such a file format. (Edit: I just notice the full-screen button on the video, I really think they should
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by joosters 6y ago
It doesn't help here any more than existing solutions. How exactly is a distributed collection of blockchain miners meant to validate (e.g.) a sensor that is being used to show that a shipment of chilled meat was always at 3'c or

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