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by knorker 4y ago
This shows again that even literally core bitcoin people are not competent to run their own banks. What chance does the unbanked have? They'll have a much better chance in traditional banking.
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by knorker 4y ago
I'm pretty sick of all these "it's hard, so let's not even try to do it". I can't put myself in the head of someone who doesn't understand inspiration, passion, or dreaming. It seems so short-sighted. &quo
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by knorker 4y ago
To me there are three reasons that reading on a phone is a nonstarter: 1. Screen is too small. And for everything except reading books "a large phone" is a bad. I've tried big phones. I don't like them. Other use cases e
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by knorker 4y ago
> I would ask the Tarot reader if he/she believes he/she is telling a fact or an opinion. I think any lawyer would easily get out of that by pointing out that the Tarot reader just reads the cards, and believes them as fact. Or
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by knorker 4y ago
Article starts of with the incorrect term "virtual shell". If it's supposed to be the character in the story using an incorrect term, I don't think it fits the rest of the article. I feel like this article has been writ
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by knorker 4y ago
I was merely objecting to people who claim that Google is lying. I have not read the ToS lately, so I don't actually know if email contents make it to your profile. All I can do is assume that unless they say that it doesn't, then
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by knorker 4y ago
We don't know if they're charging less than it costs to run. They probably simply have to make investments this year in order to acquire revenue next year. Or at the very least it's a large factor. They could choose to not gr
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by knorker 4y ago
There are laws against lying about it. So if you believe they are scanning your email but saying they're not, then you have a slam dunk case to get rich by suing them. Edit: Hell, Google can't keep a secret anymore without leaking
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by knorker 4y ago
Costs money to build new DCs and lay undersea cables for next year's customers when you're consistently growing at 40% year on year. My prediction is when they stop growing exponentially the investments will instead become huge pr
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by knorker 4y ago
Uh, google cloud is growing like 40% year on year, and its losses are not. You could call those losses investment, and compare it to how Amazon took over the world (pre AWS) without making a profit. Consistently growing 40% year on year is
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by knorker 4y ago
Well, depends if the commenter meant anything that is something we currently not only can't do, but are fairly sure isn't possible. Terminator, BTTF: time travel. Star Trek: depends on the episode (e.g. Q, or the Daud, or time tra
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by knorker 4y ago
Some classify Truman Show as sci fi. And depends on what you mean by "supernatural". There are many many movies without magic, but with possible future inventions. The category of hard scifi. Europa report, primer, deep impact, ro
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by knorker 4y ago
I think Unifi resets the detector daily with a cronjob on the AP.
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by knorker 4y ago
They just all disagree what the line is for "excessive". Few so called absolutists would stand behind child porn. Yet that's what absolutist platforms get.
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by knorker 4y ago
The standard blockchain enthusiast answer for that is a convoluted description of a centralized fast-path, but with a fancy name. Described without irony.
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by knorker 4y ago
Aren't these just all ideas about how to get VC funding, or ideas about how to get crowdsource funding? Whether it's about extracting money from few rich people (VC) or many not-as-rich (or even poor people), this just seems like
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by knorker 4y ago
Yeah, how much would you really lose sight of a multi billion dollar business you own 90% of? (at least I read that it was 90%)
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by knorker 4y ago
I've seen it in person a lot in internal corporate presentations. Maybe they've all been wrong, but that's how language works.
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by knorker 4y ago
You can catch std::bad_alloc in C++, too. That's not my point. Especially because destructors free immediately (not wait for GC) I would expect C++ to handle this as a language much better than Java. But when memory pressure is high yo
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by knorker 4y ago
His father worked for FTX for a while. He may be facing charges too.
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by knorker 4y ago
Sometimes MM is thousands monthly. It a strange world.
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by knorker 4y ago
I disagree. Exceptions are a fundamentally different control flow. Exceptions are exceptions. Return values are not. I would not call std::optional in C++ any form of checked exception, and the difference isn't that std::optional doesn
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by knorker 4y ago
Entire books, I'm sure, have been written about the pro and cons of exceptions for error handling. Yes, I called it "idiomatic C++" before, but reasonable people disagree about the best option. Smarter people than me have wri
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by knorker 4y ago
I think a language's standard library sets a good pattern for how to write idiomatic code in that language. C++ throws on memory allocation error, but that's about it. Memory allocation errors are special in all languages. Because
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by knorker 4y ago
Not so much legacy as specifically of the time period where Java was created. C++ doesn't do this (in the standard library, setting a good tone for idiomatic code). Older languages don't abuse the exception idea. Nor do newer ones
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by knorker 4y ago
Java is the... uhm... exception here. That's not how idiomatic C++ is. Nor Rust. Nor Go. One of Java's (incl standard library) main design flaws is overuse of exceptions. It should not be emulated. It's too late to fix Java,
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by knorker 4y ago
One of my proudest investment moments was predicting this and selling all my NFLX (that I'd held for over 5 years) at its peak value.
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by knorker 4y ago
But that is not what happened here. Here Trump changed his mind, and decided to not declassify it all. I know it wasn't you who linked it, but the Tampa Bay Times explicitly contradicts what you said: “I agree with the Archivist’s reco
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by knorker 4y ago
This is a different argument. Did you see other comments in this thread, for example someone bought a drive online and turned out it still had some backblaze data? Compliance often has a bunch of useless checkboxing, but in that case it rea
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by knorker 4y ago
First, here's a clip from the HN guidelines: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" The article mentions it by dismissing it. No, really, this is t

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