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The race to dominate the DeFi ecosystem is on(economist.com)
1 points by mastazi 5y ago|1 comments
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by mastazi 5y ago
13:21 in the linked video: using the copper to change palette below a certain scanline - that is genius! I really like how creative the 80's and early 90's platforms were!
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by mastazi 5y ago
To me, it sounds like music industry execs are not familiar with the Streisand effect. The first time I became familiar with Youtube-dl, it was during the Github DMCA PR fiasco. The number of stars for Youtube-dl increased sharply as soon a
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by mastazi 5y ago
In Italy, the same service was called Videotel[0] and the terminals were sold by the state-owned phone company, Sip. there was a model where the keyboard would slide out from under the CRT screen[1], and another model where the hinged keybo
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by mastazi 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I agree with what you said, I think one problem with the current social-media-driven public discourse is that it brings the tendency to "put a label on people" to an extreme. But as you say, if you spen
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> And if the Amish hackers and early adopters teach us anything, it’s that you have to try things first. Try first and relinquish later if need be. Wow this reminds me of "break things and fail fast". I used to have a negative-
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Thank you this helps a lot! Especially when you talk about the requirements and the fact that Gitlab has CI.
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oh, I see, so I guess it's correct to say that this is the first "real" transplant and previous attempts were experiments. Also, apparently, transplants of heart valves from pigs have been around for a while, see this https:
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Is this really "a medical first" as the article states? I would have sworn that I heard about pig hearts being transplanted into humans at least a decade ago... Anyone from the medical field can give some background? Or am I imagi
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Exactly, in the last 2-3 years I closed more than a dozen of accounts, from Facebook to Google and more :-) Something like Netflix, I'm OK with, even if they close my account for some arcane reason, I'll just make a new one. The s
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by mastazi 5y ago
And that's exactly why it's not worth it to keep your data on such services. Someone can make an unsubstantiated DMCA claim and in most cases your account will be taken down automatically without even any human verification. Which
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by mastazi 5y ago
Oh nice, thank you!
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by mastazi 5y ago
Yes! I'm a big fan of Firefox containers and in the past I actually used it for this specific use case, among others. Unfortunately I had to switch from Firefox to another browser for unrelated reasons.
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Thank you! Looking forward to your blog post! I want to learn more about advantages and disadvantages of GitLab
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I'm not trying to assess whose fault it is for something. I'm reasoning about where my personal repos should be, and the answer is "not on Github", for the same reason that my email is not on Gmail: it's on someone
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> GitHub rarely takes action against accounts well, this just made the Hacker News front page a few minutes ago :-D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29870151
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> I've never heard of GitHub enforcing the multiple accounts thing, FWIW correct they don't enforce it but they make it such a royal PITA to switch accounts that I eventually gave up trying. They don't have an account swit
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My takeaway from this story is that I never really gave a thought about the fact that Github can close your account... And since on Github you are not allowed to have multiple accounts (e.g. personal vs work account), when that happens they
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by mastazi 5y ago
> Links won't get rich previews. as a counterpoint, iMessage messes up links sometimes, I had to turn it off because it breaks some types of links that I sometimes have to exchange with my coworkers. SMS is plain text, so the link i
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I have an iPhone but all of my messages are green: I have disabled the iMessage features because they tend to mess up certain types of links which I have to sometimes exchange with my coworkers[1]. Unlike what the heading suggests, the colo
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Edit: actually I'm not sure if that's true, are there reliable sources that we could rely on? Obviously I stand by the rest of my statement (even if X is better than Y, that doesn't mean that we should oppose proposals to imp
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True and my personal preference is for paper money made of actual paper. I prefer that over crypto too.
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That's true, still, we can find a more sustainable way of making banknotes I'm sure.
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by mastazi 5y ago
OK, I see what you mean now, sorry I misinterpreted your comment.
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oh I'm not a crypto proponent to be honest with you, GPUs should be in gaming PCs where they rightfully belong. What I'm saying is: why replacing a bad solution with a slightly less bad solution when you could instead adopt a good
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by mastazi 5y ago
Sounds like you should get more informed about the environmental impact of cotton and plastic? Cotton: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/18/the-d... Plastic: do you really need a link f
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Elsewhere in this thread, iOS CI/tests have been mentioned.
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> should just have an etched and URL + branding for the app It should not be an app. Or there could be an app in addition to other methods of paying. Edit: the reason is accessibility and the fact that they are providing a public service
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The problem is installing the app, that's the part I don't want. All you said applies to the case in which the app is installed. Edit: just to elaborate a bit further in case it's not clear: should people who don't have
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Maybe if they didn't have a "pay by app" scheme as seen in one of the pictures, people would be less likely to fall into this scheme. I'm not sure why government agencies should require people to download an app just to

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