marstall

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1. 391.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   how about freedom from harassment, abuse and surveillance?
2. 392.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   > Any good crypto wallet will generate a distinct address for each transaction. From what I know, the would require an extra transaction, and additional fees? At least on ETH. Correct me if I'm wrong.
3. 393.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   but on the model the abusive content is still there - on every node, publishable by any other intermediary that chooses to -- no?
4. 394.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   if Facebook can't figure out moderation with its billions, can blockchain though?
5. 395.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   Hey hacker news, let's acknowledge this is a really important and well-thought out exposé of a serious flaw in blockchain (on par with Maxie Marlinspike's recent dive into web3 IMHO) and show our colors by sending to the top.
6. 396.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   would you rather face that - or death?
7. 397.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   it's good to see billionaires putting money into health moonshots (vs real moonshots). Helps so many more people.
8. 398.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   yes - I think that fits the bill pretty well too.
9. 399.▲
   by marstall 5y ago

   I'm picturing words at a readable font size. make the pixels tiny like that and you need some specific technology to retrieve the info - and if the format is fragile, a single smudged bit could ruin everything.
10. 400.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    bound paper with words on the pages and a nice leather cover. drop it off a cliff, cut it in half. cut it quarters, hell shred it. rub out a quarter of the letters. get it dirty, magnetize it. forget about it completely (it will turn up whe
11. 401.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    will be fascinating to follow this one and see how responsibility for the death is apportioned. I can see the argument for indicting the driver. He could be seen as negligent for choosing to unleash this car, known to be buggy, on a public
12. 402.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    funny I was thinking this would demonstrate that Xcode and Interface Builder were easier to grok for a beginner than they are today, but it seems it was just as particular then as it is today.
13. 403.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    for those with SciAm subs, this June 2020 print article is a profile of the first scientist to encounter Covid. She had spent a decade in caves around China investigating SARS and was therefore called on when early reports of Covid arose. I
14. 404.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    amen.
15. 405.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    there are many, many other analytics providers. I personally like plausible.io - and they happen to be GDPR-compliant and EU based. Which is not even the reason I chose them - they are just superior in many ways to GA. (no affiliation)
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    “Seagliders” are a cross between a ferry and an airplane(bostonglobe.com)

    4 points by marstall 5y ago|1 comments
17. 407.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    startups maybe - but large corporations might be a different question. At my last company, 40,000 people, they used MS Office and I had the impression the sales pitch and glide path from Microsoft to just embrace the Azure cloud was a stron
18. 408.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    can someone who knows more than me speak to the GDPR (European privacy law) implications of a technology like this?
19. 409.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    (tl;dr: crapshoot as to whether you get featured, but worth it if you do.) my personal experience with it was positive. I posted my site on PH over the summer (plug: https://avant.fm , a customizable feed of new releases from the
20. 410.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    thanks for pointing me to that. avant is powered by musicbrainz actually - so I will look to see what I can pull from acousticbrainz!
21. 411.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    thank you!! that's very nice to hear. and I will check out musixmatch for sure.
22. 412.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    looking forward to it then. I always appreciate the prose of the K&R C book, which was the first programming book I ever read.
23. 413.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    super cool. would love a "has lyrics" feature (for my player, https://avant.fm ). Always wonder how hard that would be.
24. 414.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    Nice! just put "Unix: A History and a Memoir" in my Amazon cart.
25. 415.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    thank you! <3
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    Show HN: Avant.fm, a feed of new releases from the best indie record labels(avant.fm)

    2 points by marstall 5y ago|2 comments
27. 417.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    this was an amazing read! I know some are upset at certain recent SciAm op-eds. But every issue has 2-5 gorgeous, beefy articles like this one that make me a happy paying subscriber. Absolutely stunning visualization of the inner workings o
28. 418.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    The issue with jitter is about timing . Remember the endpoint of all of this is a DAC which isn't generally a buffered component - so it needs to process samples in real time. If a packet arrives from the switch a bit late, the DAC do
29. 419.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    Digital "jitter" is actually a thing that can measurably degrade quality. The DAC clock and the source clock need to be in perfect sync or else the quality of each sample will effectively degrade. Higher end CD transports have a &
30. 420.▲
    by marstall 5y ago

    ^counselor :)