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by leppr 8y ago
> Except this new-old state is built on a framework of exponential energy waste that powers cryptocurrencies. Few in the cryptocurrency community, except the so-called "Bitcoin maximalists", believe Proof of Work will survive
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by leppr 8y ago
> Of course, someone will then create an escrow service that gives you the opportunity to dispute the transaction, in return for a small transaction fee. Maybe they’ll even offer to let you buy things in Bitcoin and pay them back later
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by leppr 8y ago
It doesn't take much imagination to come up with many settings where a trusted, fair, omnipotent third-party arbitrator is absent. Those unregulated environments are the trust settings where cryptocurrency will shine, not the local, al
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by leppr 8y ago
Yes, they're mostly the same. On some points Firefox is better (e.g. DOM Inspector, Network tab, animations, dark theme), on others Chromium is (e.g. Profiler, sources). I use both.
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by leppr 8y ago
Maybe the interface could be simplified: you're always going to give it URLs so you can allow those as non-option arguments (also can you pass it multiple URLs?).
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by leppr 8y ago
> Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. That's the big posi
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by leppr 8y ago
What does a "pro-ana" group gain from attracting new members ? Seems to me the dynamics are very different from a cult, where members are asked for money/work, and to bring new followers. This is mostly just teens discovering
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by leppr 8y ago
> I'm kind of surprised that YouTube doesn't put more effort into subverting adblockers, it surely wouldn't be that difficult to inject the ads into the video streams and make them unblockable. Not only would that force
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by leppr 8y ago
Rust is a very different beast when it comes to development speed. When compromises must be made, its design decisions always favor runtime speed over developer friendliness. That results in rather unwieldy APIs compared to the alternatives
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by leppr 8y ago
Or you could convince yourself to switch. Your only options for change in a closed platform are leaving, or coercion by force.
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by leppr 8y ago
Language is an abstraction. It is inexact as soon as it talks about something other than itself. There's nothing wrong about that metaphor except your lack of imagination.
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by leppr 8y ago
iirc, MakerDAO was originally going to peg itself to the IMF's SDR, which is a basket of multiple currencies regularly rebalanced to achieve "universal" stability[1]. They then decided to peg to the USD to please traders, who
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by leppr 8y ago
> Blockchain is a Semantic Wasteland Ironic that you would quote that article yet completely ignore its meaning in the rest of your comment? Stablecoins are a superset of centralized voucher tokens like Tether. Research into trustles
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by leppr 8y ago
Yes, named parameters or anonymous structs please. I'll take human-brain parsing speed over compile speed any day.
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by leppr 8y ago
> Does multi-monitor mixed-DPI work in Gnome? Not by default. I had to hack a script by mixing xrandr scaling and Gnome scaling settings, which works, with some caveats I haven't figured out yet[1]. The reason I stick to Gnome is
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by leppr 8y ago
In my experience using both for years, Gnome has always been more stable. Multi-monitor, Hi-Dpi support, in particular, is properly broken in KDE (while it's only half broken on Gnome). As for features, the titlebar integration used
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by leppr 8y ago
Instead of focusing on the plywood part, let's just get back to the point that "everyone can make DIY Halloween decorations", even if you live in a tiny appartement. Pumpkins, candles, white sheet tied to a string for ghosts,
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by leppr 8y ago
For anyone interested in that strange phenomenon, this book is a classic: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300169171/art-not-being-...
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by leppr 8y ago
Cryptocurrencies, thanks to their unstoppable and uncensorable properties, enable organic commerce in a frictionless and scalable way. At this time, I don't know if you can point out a single "industry" that will be revol
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by leppr 8y ago
I too boycott exchanges trading SAR, VES, and other such "sketchy" currencies. Big financial institutions should stick to respectable assets. I also stopped using USD because I don't support the Iraq invasion.
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by leppr 8y ago
Dunno why you're being downvoted. This indeed is a very widespread problem. Even some Google services (like Google Docs) have it.
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by leppr 8y ago
> I suppose the only drawback here is that they're issued from a centralized authority. That's only true for this type of "vouchers" stablecoins, where coins are redeemable for some physical asset. There are whole o
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by leppr 8y ago
Coinbase is trying to be the interface between the government-regulated world, and the code-regulated world. Of course they have to make more compromises to accommodate the side with the guns, than the immaterial one.
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by leppr 8y ago
It does, but "centralized cryptocurrencies" are still useful in that their similar technology makes interoperability with "proper" cryptocurrencies easier. It's money with a standard API. Whether the actual "va
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by leppr 8y ago
Personally I find it easier to push a single key that's slightly up above the number row, than have to press both a modifier and a key in the lower right corner of the keyboard. This also gives me more freedom for window-management key
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by leppr 8y ago
Totally agree. I have come to integrate a live module dependency graph visualization[1] in my JS workflow, it really helps me when apprehending a new project or prototyping ideas. More flexible representations (at the function scale for ins
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by leppr 8y ago
Yes, it's sad how common it is for people to be extremely critical of individuals or even whole institutions (e.g. Trump, Conservatives, cops, the prison system, the NRA, Google, Comcast), yet still have a strong unspoken belief that b
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by leppr 8y ago
Faith (in governments) is stronger than logic.
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by leppr 8y ago
For anyone new here, this is a copy pasta.
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by leppr 8y ago
You're missing the point by thinking only of your specific use case of huge graphs. Client side interactivity without network delay is a valid use case for these libs. Client side encrypted data also.

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