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by mundo 7y ago
This is probably my most confusing slew of downvotes. What do you think, I own a plantation of rubber trees? I thought it was surprising and interesting that something invented ~100 years ago would be an optimal choice in a thriving marke
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by mundo 7y ago
I bought a latex mattress several years ago, and will never buy another mattress. (Literally, they last 50+ years) Feels great, available in a range of firmness, no weird smells, never deforms, doesn't get hot, and naturally insect&#
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by mundo 7y ago
Since you're getting downvoted for an honest question, I'll explain: you're confusing the cost of owning a domain with the cost of registering a domain. ICANN and Verisign don't own nor sell domain names, they just p
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by mundo 7y ago
> My understanding is... That's how two finserv companies would transact off-chain with each other, but when I go to buy a cup of coffee with a bitcoin, I'm not opening up a payment channel with them for one transaction, that w
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by mundo 7y ago
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding things, but Lightning Network means off-chain transactions, right? Which can be be reneged on if one party is malicious, meaning they'll only occur between trusted parties? And in practice, tha
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by mundo 7y ago
I'm a hiring manager and here's my opinion: * If it's less than a year, you don't need to explain it or justify it. Just leave it blank on the CV and in the interview, say something like, "...and then I took some t
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by mundo 7y ago
I feel like the #1 thing they ought to be doing is opening it up as a platform. I think their original mission was: build a better keyring. They've done that, it works great! But the idea that they will follow that up by building a c
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by mundo 7y ago
Agreed, the tone of this post is "I'm unveiling an exploit KB refuses to patch" but the content is "I asked KB to add a feature and they added it."
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by mundo 7y ago
How much of this is due to venture capital? Like, if it were possible to make a billion dollars by investing in 100 plumbing companies even if 99 of them turn out to have been dumb, would plumbers make $250K out of college?
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by mundo 7y ago
> I think we would be better off if a different stablecoin with a more solid grounding was the most popular one. I think you're missing the point of the article - the reason Tether is the most popular and cheapest is because it is
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by mundo 7y ago
Her column was written for an audience that was familiar with the show. Monty Hall had, at that point, been opening doors and revealing goats-but-not-cars to contestants five days a week for more than twenty years.
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by mundo 7y ago
It was back when it was banned, partially due to intentional propaganda (which is why Americans use the Spanish word for it, rather than cannabis). A quick read through the wiki page of Harry Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Na
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by mundo 7y ago
Agreed! My personal project is vanilla JS, no dependencies, and no attempt to support old browsers, and it's so much fun to work in. And, since Real Life sometimes puts side projects on hold for a year or two, it's nice to know
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by mundo 7y ago
> It’s not open source. WL is essentially just a bunch of useful functions collected into a common platform, and I think we already have the open source equivalent of that - it's called npm, and it's great, but it is very diffe
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by mundo 7y ago
Linus Pauling was a bona fide genius; he won a Nobel for his pioneering research in to chemical bonds, made important contributions to our understanding of crystalline structures and various proteins, helped explain the the molecular geneti
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by mundo 8y ago
+1, I don't always agree with him but I don't think there's another blogger who can touch him for niceness, thought-provokingness, and intellectual courage. He's like a walking, talking manifestation of the HN submissio
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by mundo 8y ago
He means fair in the sense of content-neutral or objective. Obviously any forum can just delete stuff the mods don't subjectively like, that's the default option used by most fora.
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by mundo 8y ago
Sure. And if you lend me $100 and I refuse to pay it, you're out the money regardless of whether I'm living in a cardboard box or a mansion. But there's a case to be made that the law should allow you to collect your $100 i
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by mundo 8y ago
A pension is a lot like a loan - a promise to pay someone something with your future earnings. The problem is not that people sometimes fail to repay loans when they go broke, it's that they sometimes manage to weasel out of paying th
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by mundo 8y ago
I don't know which transit system you think is our best and most expensive, but the one where I live (Portland, OR) is great. In 20 years it's failed me twice: once a bus broke down in a snowstorm, and once a train was blocked by
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by mundo 8y ago
All I really want from a social network is to be able to share small files with my friends and see small files that my friends have shared with me. It's convenient to have a for-profit handle all the hard parts (checking whether peopl
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by mundo 8y ago
I'm a lot more sanguine about communities muting someone because they don't like that person than about companies muting someone because it's profitable to do so. You can hypothesize a future in which Mastodon gets very popul
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by mundo 8y ago
What's the difference? AFAICT the idea that when a website gets big enough it becomes de facto infrastructure and gets governed by different rules is pure imagination.
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by mundo 8y ago
My point was that American free speech is not based on the belief that all speech is good or that no speech is bad. It's based on the idea that there's no one we trust to distinguish the good speech from the bad speech. Pointing
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by mundo 8y ago
This strikes me as a timely and important sentiment. When we demand that Twitter ban anti-semitic tweets, or that Cloudflare block white supremacist websites, or that Youtube deplatform Alex Jones, we are taking the power to limit speech (
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by mundo 8y ago
Just anecdata, but in my experience any company whose product is not software tends this way. Standard Insurance, Kroger, that sort of place - they have large software groups, but those groups report in to traditional executives from non-s
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by mundo 8y ago
Would this be solvable by integrating support for Keybase or something similar? Come to think of it, someone else complained about the amount of local storage this uses, and Keybase includes some gigs of free cloud storage as well...
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by mundo 8y ago
This is still false. He does not praise it (beyond "it's better than the really bad one I just described"), and he explicitly advises against taking it. I can only suggest reading the article more carefully because you'
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by mundo 8y ago
This is reprehensibly crass. As a former CEO of Reddit, the author is uniquely qualified to know just how difficult and intractable a problem online harassment is; to portray it as having a straightforward solution, which could be implemen
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by mundo 8y ago
Really, really false. He explains in detail why it's better, and then advises people to still not take it.

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