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by m-i-l 8y ago
Most film quotes on HN would be covered by "fair use"[0]. If someone pasted an entire script in a comment that would be something different entirely, and likely to be picked up by the existing flagging or moderation system. Also,
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by m-i-l 8y ago
See also the YC curated selection of HN highlights[0] and also an algorithmically generated list of (recent) best comments[1]. [0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/hacker-news/ [1] https://news.yco
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Deals are bilateral, but club membership isn't. You wouldn't seriously expect to be in a strong negotiating position with Amazon if you decided you wanted to leave Amazon Prime but retain some of the benefits without having to pay
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From the headline I thought it was going to be about the variously shaped concrete blocks, e.g. Dragon's Teeth [0], used as anti-tank defences, which can still be seen all over the British coastline[1]. [0] https://en.wikipe
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Another way of putting this is that leaders determine the best destination and managers determine the best route there.
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I used to make a point of submitting a minor contribution to every project's code. I used to (part jokingly) liken it to Alfred Hitchock making a cameo in most of his own films. The stated reason was to make sure I had the dev tools an
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by m-i-l 8y ago
The only Choose Your Own Adventure book I had was "Inside UFO 54-40". The objective was to reach the paradise planet called Ultima Thule. Looking through all the pages in the book, there was a page for Ultima Thule, but working ba
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Chilling discovery: ice house discovered under London street(theguardian.com)
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Following the current government's cutbacks to the state-run police, residents in one part of London (which is incidentally the "one of the safest ... seats in the United Kingdom"[0] for the current government) have funded th
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I'd rather have state control over money than for-profit megacorps, especially one with such an appalling reputation as "They 'trust me', dumb f---s" F--ebook. This is one of the issues they're finding with the
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Don't want to sound defeatist because I do think it is a good idea, but: The great thing about distributed social networking standards is that there are so many different ones to choose from[0]. We need to develop one universal standar
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One of the most exciting and transformative things about the world wide web at first was the concept of "disintermediation", i.e. that small independent shops could reach out directly to customers via their web site, or (using the
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Decentralised blockchain-based solutions either can't scale or aren't secure[0]. There may be some other more viable ways of (re-)decentralising the web though, e.g. Solid[1]. The problem I see with these is that they all seem to
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Statistics of the Year 2018: Winners announced(statslife.org.uk)
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13 square boxes on Linux detracts from the effect somewhat.
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I think chrisco255 is saying Basis and DAI aren't one of the stablecoins backed by actual fiat. I believe there are 4 sorts of stablecoins: - Ones backed by fiat, or allegedly backed by fiat[0]. - Ones backed by commodities, e.g. the o
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Maker DAI is one of the asset backed stablecoins (in this case the asset is still in crypto - there are other stablecoins where the asset is outside of the crypto sphere). What made Basis really interesting is that it was purely algorithmic
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by m-i-l 8y ago
If I've read it correctly the article is saying the percentage of instances per age group have decreased over time, but to your point if there are more people reaching those age groups the total number of cases may increase.
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Martian and Scottish soils 'strikingly similar'(bbc.co.uk)
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> 'I'd think a billionaire with $1 million worth of cryptocurrency would be less incentivized than someone with no other "wealth" but $10k worth of cryptocurrency.' Precisely. And in the context of this discuss
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> 'what you're left with is "rewards early adopters" and "makes new subunits" and that... is a pretty ordinary startup.' While you could argue that a startup and a ponzi scheme can be considered simil
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by m-i-l 8y ago
>Who is debating this? It seems pretty straightforward that creating new coins is inflationary. It is enabling coins within a fixed supply of 21M - this is not the same as creating new coins with no upper bounds. It isn't my inten
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by m-i-l 8y ago
1. There's nothing at the code and protocol level about sustaining the price, but at the human level the early adopters (i.e. the 4% owning 97% of assets) are incentivised to try to sustain or increase the price through whatever means
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by m-i-l 8y ago
If I were to describe a scheme that disproportionately rewards early adopters[0] and requires a constant addition of new adopters just to sustain the price[1] - would an ordinary reasonable person[2] think "the future of money" or
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by m-i-l 8y ago
I wish there was a good way to try mattresses properly before buying them. Not just lie down on it for a few minutes in a shop, but sleep the whole night on it. Like a bed shop teaming up with a hotel chain to let you choose which bed and&#
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by m-i-l 8y ago
A couple of similar questions on HN from a few years back: - "Ask HN: Steady 4-5% on $5 million?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108163 - "Ask HN: Just cashed out for 2M. What now?" https:/&
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by m-i-l 8y ago
> When bitcoin appeared it's price was zero, yet people still mined it despite being a clear "worthless" activity. It was as simple as pressing a button, labelled "Generate" on the original Bitcoin client if I
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by m-i-l 8y ago
The source for the article's "Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate" headline is "We documented 43 blockchain use-cases through internet searches ... we found no documentation or evidence of the results blockchain wa
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by m-i-l 8y ago
Yes, and as per your example this combination also doesn't need blockchain. The only combination that actually needs blockchain is decentralised and secure.
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Also note the "blockchain trilemma": at the moment you can have decentralised and secure systems that don't scale (e.g. Bitcoin), or you can have scalable and secure systems which aren't decentralised (e.g. all the &quot

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