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by nnx 4y ago
Agree on your examples about judging liable a water company or electricity company for helping criminals… And yet that slippery slope has been totally taken for granted in recent decades for banking and finance…
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by nnx 4y ago
65,535 karma points ought to be enough for anybody.
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SwissMap: A smaller, faster Golang Hash Table(dolthub.com)
2 points by nnx 4y ago|0 comments
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by nnx 4y ago
Yes, because the cost of pretending to “do something” is far too high (unbanking unprivileged people and a huge % of the world just because they aren’t born in the ‘right’ country or with the right name) for absolutely no result! By analogy
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by nnx 4y ago
All this AML/CTF nonsense for a 39EUR transaction… There should be laws and penalties for triggering any of those nonsense checks for such insignificant amounts.
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by nnx 4y ago
We have to win every time, but they have to win only once.
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by nnx 4y ago
But I thought only crypto was risky? And that over-regulated bank sector was totally safe? Imho, this is a great argument for the return of Free banking (including crypto) as we see time and again that regulations do not work. Fail early an
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ARM vs. Intel on Amazon’s Cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark(lemire.me)
142 points by nnx 4y ago|89 comments
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Base(base.mirror.xyz)
1 points by nnx 4y ago|0 comments
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Our reality may be a sum of all possible realities(quantamagazine.org)
287 points by nnx 4y ago|196 comments
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by nnx 4y ago
Is there any drink providing extra energy now without borrowing the future then?
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by nnx 4y ago
Asymmetric encryption. The private key does not have to be stored in the balloon at all (only the public key that can encrypt but NOT decrypt), it can stay safely in a PLA datacenter in China.
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by nnx 4y ago
Out of curiosity, are you connecting to third party websockets from your workers?
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by nnx 4y ago
This is really sad as it will probably cause unnecessary children deaths down the road. I think public health authorities have serious soul-searching to do, this outcome was clearly warned upon by a lot of doctors and paediatricians who see
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Mapping the World’s River Basins by Continent(visualcapitalist.com)
18 points by nnx 4y ago|0 comments
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by nnx 4y ago
> it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches. $0.0125 per search seems awfully high. Do they think this cost can be compressed as more users use Kagi thanks to economies of scale?
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by nnx 4y ago
I'll wait for Mountain Ventura
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The Mysterious Song of the Dinosaurs(bbc.com)
2 points by nnx 4y ago|0 comments
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U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to restrict Huawei's access to banks(reuters.com)
1 points by nnx 4y ago|0 comments
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by nnx 4y ago
``` EARTH OBSERVATION Starshield launches satellites with sensing payloads and delivers processed data directly to the user. ``` Never heard of this capability for Starlink before. What kind of sensing payloads can it do? Imaging? Thermal?
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How China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment(restofworld.org)
5 points by nnx 4y ago|0 comments
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by nnx 4y ago
IIRC this was at the express demand of the US... similar situation in UK as well.
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Is Covid-19 Becoming Less Polarizing?(nautil.us)
4 points by nnx 4y ago|0 comments
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FTX: The $32B Implosion(trungphan.substack.com)
3 points by nnx 4y ago|0 comments
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by nnx 4y ago
“In a video meeting with Alameda employees late Wednesday Hong Kong time, Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison said that she, Mr. Bankman-Fried, and two other FTX executives, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang, were aware of the decision to send customer f
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Alameda, FTX Executives Are Said to Have Known FTX Was Using Customer Funds(wsj.com)
77 points by nnx 4y ago|38 comments
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FTX Yikes(rekt.news)
77 points by nnx 4y ago|108 comments
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by nnx 4y ago
Luckily it's not a much milder virus now (Omicron vs original strains) and 90%+ of cases are asymptomatic...
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by nnx 4y ago
90% of which are asymptomatic as of today (569 symptomatic over 5643 cases). And percentage is most likely under-estimated as they're more likely to miss more asymptomatic cases than symptomatic cases.
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by nnx 4y ago
The whole premise that it collects "everything" is FUD and inaccurate: --- TikTok is said to collect "everything", from search and browsing histories; keystroke patterns; biometric identifiers—including faceprints, somet

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