mhluongo

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   by mhluongo 7y ago

   The article you posted is about how Beluga was turned into Messenger...
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   by mhluongo 7y ago

   Didn't they acquire Messenger as well? I think it was called Beluga
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   by mhluongo 7y ago

   The whole population? Freedom is freedom for minority rights and opinions to not be quashed by the majority. Thus the term "the tyranny of the majority" A majority can "not care" about systematic racial injustice and oth
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   by mhluongo 7y ago

   The cyberpunk future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/technology/hong-kong-prot...
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   by mhluongo 7y ago

   I hope their commit messages are better than that >:|
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   by mhluongo 7y ago

   The clickbait title was what got me to this page, so why not? :)
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   by mhluongo 7y ago

   I learned them as "ukemi"- I'm sure judo has them, though I was introduced via karate and later aikido.
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   by mhluongo 7y ago

   If you took falling lessons as a kid, and you knew how to properly respond- following the push to a controlled fall, roll, or other redirection- you'd be fine. Sometimes the overreaction is the problem.
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   by mhluongo 7y ago

   Most people don't advocate for "themselves-ism" -> not a tautology
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    > Its actually a regulation problem. That's another way of saying "a housing policy problem"
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Where does most of the Mozilla Corporation's money come from? I'm not trying to cast stones here, but they're still primarily (last time I checked) funded by Google- not users. Your incentives are aligned with the people who
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Of course. Chromium is still an upstream that has had changes due to Google's interests, right?
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    With other browsers, the clear and obvious incentive is "to get paid to spy on users". I'm not a big Brave fan but saying their incentives are worse than Chrome or even Firefox is ridiculous.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    That's pretty dang centralized. Then again, so is using a VPS, just at a different layer
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Should athletes be so well paid? How about musicians? Construction work is much harder than office work, maybe 2-3x. Should office workers be paid less, or construction workers more? Whether something is "harder" has very little t
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Please stop the FUD, or point to an example of a software dev getting contacted about their software being used by a third party to exploit children
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Binance proper has turned off access for US users. You should remove your funds.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Looks like a "growth hack" :|
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Bitcoin! :)
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Some more details https://twitter.com/LorePach/status/1159459121722097666?s=19
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    The Open Money Initiative [0] has done qualitative research to help pin this down- from what I remember of talks they've given, the answer to real usage in Venezuela is somewhere in between. Crypto has certainly been helpful for capita
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Then you have a loose, inclusive culture- right? That's not the case everywhere
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    For folks with vascular issues, standing while flying can be more dangerous (increased vascular load). Movement rather than standing or sitting still is the way to go.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    There are plenty of ways to arb without actual settlement to USD. Look up "statistical arb". Even without stat, all you have to do is go USDT <> USD <> BTC or similar and take the arb across multiple pairs. It's a
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    I didn't post the link. I'm just asking for details about an unspecified attack in your comment, or really any pointed criticism at all (:
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    > It's almost like unregulated financial institutions have a tendency to screw over their customers... Regulated institutions are great at it too.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Care to explain that hand-wavy downside?
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Consensus certainly is.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    > Yet if everyone who wants a job eventually gets one, this number will eventually go to zero. And if it goes to zero, that would be a good thing. Yet everyone panics if the number of jobs created that month goes down. Unless there'
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    by mhluongo 8y ago

    > A language where the program is constructed by editing a running process in-place with a debugger/IDE, then the process is "saved" as an executable. It's been a few years, but this reminds me of learning Smalltalk b