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by leifg 5y ago
Usain Bolt and I can run. Magnitude matters.
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by leifg 5y ago
> 99.9% of websites on the internet are scams/ads/useless? Really? Does Amazon, Wikipedia count as one website or do you just deploy an arbitrary definition of the word useless ?
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by leifg 5y ago
Which ransomware doesn’t use crypto?
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Solutions That Create Problems(ez.substack.com)
1 points by leifg 5y ago|0 comments
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by leifg 5y ago
Author here. I agree, me not liking it is not a great point. I think a stronger point would have been: If you take the energy usage of anything you need to ask: "Does the positives of the thing justify this energy usage?". Let&#x2
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by leifg 5y ago
If I understand the Ruby pipeline operator it's essentially an alias of the dot. The example in the feature tracker is: ``` 1.. |> take 10 |> map {|e| e 2} |> (x) ``` which is equivalent to ``` (1...).take(10).map{|e| e 2} ``
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The Bitcoin Energy Argument That Nobody Makes(leif.io)
18 points by leifg 5y ago|18 comments
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by leifg 5y ago
To everyone saying my weekend project is going to be on the hook for millions: The keyword here is "fahrlässig" (translates to negligent). Whoever is damaged must be able to prove that a bug caused through your program was neglige
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by leifg 5y ago
You mean the name? I guess that makes sense. If the NYT would release "The daily NYW word game" it would probably not catch on as much.
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The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties(onezero.medium.com)
6 points by leifg 5y ago|1 comments
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by leifg 5y ago
Is there any IP attached to wordle? What was preventing them from paying someone to build a clone?
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by leifg 5y ago
General question: are crypto exchanges not regulated the same way banks are regulated (in the US)?
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by leifg 5y ago
To everyone saying "just use tool x for this": the advantage of curl is that is so widely available. For your development laptop you can install anything you want but more often than not you need to log into a EC2 instance, a Dock
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by leifg 5y ago
The NFT ticketing example always makes me furious especially the "solving shady secondary market" argument. This is a ridicolously easy problem to solve: Make tickets personalized, give buyers the opportunity to sell ticket back t
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by leifg 5y ago
This to me seems more like a logical separation than anything technical. I use GitHub and always squash commits before merging a PR. This keeps the commit log clean and also has the side effect that you have the PR number in the merge commi
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by leifg 5y ago
> Gallium is cheap (~$300/kg) Please correct me if I get the numbers wrong but if that is the price, that means the price of 1 ton Gallium is $300,000 per ton From [another comment]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by leifg 5y ago
Not sure what the difference is but either probably works for my use case.
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by leifg 5y ago
That is already 100 times better than existing solutions. That being said, I find it useful to see the location I'm connecting from (mostly to make sure that my VPN works).
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by leifg 5y ago
The problem I have with the UBI is that you absolutely have to nail it on the first try in order for it to succeed. A great example is the housing market (in the US but also applies to a lot of European countries). Regardless of UBI there w
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by leifg 5y ago
Alternative Title: "Web3 feels like a scam, it probably is one"
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Play Wordle for a Different Day(leif.io)
2 points by leifg 5y ago|0 comments
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by leifg 5y ago
One of the things I always wonder with giant relational database is. How much of the "typical relational stuff" are they actually using? Do they have constraints on rows? Are they using views or do they just denormalize and duplic
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by leifg 5y ago
Here (in California) I mostly see 18,20,25 for restaurants and even higher ones in coffee shops (sometimes over 30 as the highest tier)
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Building a Wordle Solver with Regular Expressions and Elixir(leif.io)
2 points by leifg 5y ago|0 comments
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by leifg 5y ago
> What surprised me about the standards was that there’s no hash commitment for the data located at the URL. I hear a lot that some of the smartest people work on web3/blockchain/crypto. It blows my mind that the NFT standard d
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by leifg 5y ago
Aren't Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina in the same trade union? I don't know the details of Mercosur but in the EU you can buy whatever you want in any other EU country and take it back home without the need for customs. Where is
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by leifg 5y ago
While "banning crypto" is a challenging task, making cryptocurrency useless in your jurisdiction is extremely easy. prohibit any business to accept crypto as payment, ban crypto exchanges from operating in your country, ban banks
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by leifg 5y ago
Wasn’t there a case where someone went to prison and no one had access to repo? Is that handled with this feature?
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by leifg 5y ago
I use a similar recipe manager on my phone (paprika 3 but also playing around with Mela). They come with an integrated browser to download the recipes. Not only do they did rid of the novel about the ingredients and their origins, they also
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by leifg 5y ago
The internet, the electric grid and satellite communications are all great examples for state sponsored endeavors…

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