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by leppr 7y ago
Well most likely any relatively complex piece of software will get updated so we can exclude the current staples like MakerDAO[1] or Uniswap[2]. What would still be used as is would be some kind of basic function (as basic as `ls` or `curl`
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by leppr 7y ago
There are technological ways to get the benefits of this approach without changing the office workers' habits. I don't remember the name of the solution, but working with a big SF company which has both many office and remote work
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by leppr 7y ago
What are you implying exactly: that there are no problems with present day currencies, or that Bitcoin doesn't solve any of those problems? > ML was solving real problems from day one No, machine learning developped slowly over de
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by leppr 7y ago
There's no dedicated place to discuss meta-topics in here, and I feel the virulent anti-blockchain sentiment on HN is more detrimental to the quality of discussion than my small one-liner complaint at the end of an on-topic explanatory
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by leppr 7y ago
Thanks for the explanation but: > 1) you’re assuming a lot about what this guy intended and giving him a lot of credit when he clearly didn’t understand the topic I'll quote Daniel Krawisz's tweets with added emphasis on the
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by leppr 7y ago
Don't generalize from such a sample please. BSV is a cryptocurrency forked from Bitcoin by supporters of a businessman called Craig Wright[1] who is widely considered as a fraud, even within crypto. Just like with any nascent, hyped-
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by leppr 7y ago
> 2. Why would anyone want people to post illegal material on a blockchain when it is immutable? Let's assume the culprit goes to jail, but then you have billions of people now able to access illegal content, that can never be remo
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by leppr 7y ago
Those are "easily" manipulated if the issue is important enough to someone powerful enough. Sure, you could carpet-bomb and publish your hash on many different platforms under jurisdictions with competing interests, but at this po
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by leppr 7y ago
There's not a single plug for their own events and services, and the article has actual accurate advice for a beginner. What are your arguments?
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by leppr 7y ago
It's true. Blockchains can't really be seen as a tool helping existing businesses and their problems. It's like saying "emergent economies in Africa solve my business' problems". Businesses don't control
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by leppr 7y ago
The syntax and features remind me of Pug[1]. I find it's very nice to look at, but the significant indentation means you really have to have editor support for writing lengthy text blocks, without having to constantly manually add&#x2F
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by leppr 7y ago
> It would also make its creators obscenely rich. How? If you want a language to be adopted and become standard, it would have to be free and open-source. You don't get "obscenely" rich from that. This is a good example
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by leppr 7y ago
Blockchain scaling is still a very active area of research, and anyone (like GP) telling you there's a battle-tested solution available today to replace Visa is lying to you. On the precise issue of transaction cost predictability, I t
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by leppr 7y ago
That's wishful thinking, not reality. In reality, many different actors can benefit from info about the used software on a particular users' PC. And now they know who to bribe to get it. > Has this investor got a beta build fro
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by leppr 7y ago
Personally I much prefer plastic on my laptops. Less likely to bend and doesn't pass current and heat to my hands.
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by leppr 7y ago
Exactly, it's an incentive game. Airbnb has an incentive to maintain high rankings across the board, because customers compare ratings across platforms as if they're equivalent. If they see a majority of 3/5 on Airbnb, they&#
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by leppr 7y ago
That doesn't absolve anyone of responsibility in regard to the law. Whoever was in contact with them and suspected them could report them to the police. In most jurisdictions, witnessing a crime and not reporting it is also punishable.
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by leppr 7y ago
Friend-to-friend networks[1] bring the self-moderation most real-world networks rely on to the digital, without imposing a centralized power structure. No surveillance needed: if you see one of your peers (/"friend") committi
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by leppr 7y ago
Doesn't take much imagination to switch up grand-parent's contrived examples for your own definition of actually threatening deeds to get their point, does it? Would "operating a slave-manned factory" or "training v
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by leppr 7y ago
It's important to also acknowledge the crucial role culture plays in this problem, regardless of the political system it cradles. The public is simply ignorant about surveillance technology issues. Not that long ago we used to tolera
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by leppr 7y ago
> everyone's unhappy, and we do .... nothing. Because of 'innovation' or some other conjured up fantasy term. The only reason "we" do nothing, is that "we" have no agency. Other reasons are just ratio
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by leppr 7y ago
Ok the bugs might have been isolated to the configuration GUI and not the driver strictly speaking, but the point still stands.
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by leppr 7y ago
Just wanted to say I love this business model of providing a free open source app, with convenient secure syncing being the paid option. The trade-offs for a user who's committed to not paying for the premium features are mainly about
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by leppr 7y ago
It's anonymized to the website owner (who has your IP anyway), not to Google. That means even non-Chrome users are forced under Google's omniscient watch of the web.
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by leppr 7y ago
Clearly this isn't a trivial or very fun job (last time I used them, the Linux drivers were buggy as hell). Who would have the motivation to do it on Windows, where you have a driver that works and users have little expectation of priv
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by leppr 7y ago
Except that visiting a website is a known, expected information leak to the website owner, and for 70% of web users also automatically to Google. On the other hand leaking the list of apps on your local computer, and to a third-party to top
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by leppr 7y ago
Isn't this basically a Montessori school? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
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by leppr 7y ago
> Multi-destination route optimization is not available. OsmAnd+ on F-Droid[1] has this feature, although the UX isn't stellar. Add intermediate destinations to your itinerary then the Edit next to intermediate destinations >
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by leppr 7y ago
I understand what you're saying, its absence denotes a level of speech that is advised in certain spheres, but describing it as "rude" would be confusing to a non-native. A stranger wouldn't just accidentally drop-in the
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by leppr 7y ago
That's an exageration. Other than in an uptight office setting or by the employees in a refined establishment, these words (especially "ouais") are considered familiar but not rude to your interlocutor. "tromé" migh

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