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by nybble41 5y ago
For the most part limited liability is a private agreement between you and your creditors, not a get-out-of-jail-free pass to avoid any and all consequences when you cause deliberate or negligent harm to someone who never agreed to those te
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> raising electricity prices or cost to mine bitcoin which helps push up the price of bitcoin The price of bitcoin is not driven by electricity prices, or more generally by the cost of mining. Bitcoin supply works at a fixed rate: one ne
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The global chain will "win" but transactions made in the local chain can be retried in the global chain after the networks rejoin so long as there are no conflicts. Absent deliberate or accidental double-spending, the biggest sour
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As these are internal hostnames, you're probably doing a DNS-01 challenge rather than HTTP-01. With DNS-01 you don't need to open up any ports for incoming HTTP connections; you just need to place a TXT record in the DNS for the d
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Obviously we are approaching this in the context of different frameworks with different definitions of property. IMHO attempting to define property as a right to prohibit others from deriving any benefit from the good—regardless of whether
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Merely defeating someone's "revenue goal" is not theft. Your definition is so overbroad as to include competition . Or simply not buying every good on offer at whatever price is asked even if you have no interest in it whats
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> It is the right to exclude people from a defined set of actions with regard to a defined subject, which is exactly what property is. That is not what property is. Ownership of property is the right to decide how a good will be consumed
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The way I look at it is that the system must continue to meet its requirements (whatever they might be) whether it gets one GET request or many in response to a single action within the user agent (clicking a link, submitting a form, script
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It's not that complicated. Copyright was simply never intended to apply to recipes. The fact that there is nothing copyrightable about a mere list of ingredients and basic preparation instructions without any creative elements is not i
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> (like GitHub treats repos for example) This is the way. Publicly read-only repos with easy access to forking and pull requests are far superior to wiki pages with no access controls. Compared to current GitHub you would mainly need to
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> I wonder whether "fake facts" (bogus names, numbers, addresses) are copyrightable. This has, unfortunately, been upheld on occasion. True damages from copying such false entries would be nonexistent, naturally, but statutory
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If you have machines in the network which you don't trust to handle their own incoming connections securely you can block those connections at the firewall, without port or address translation. Ideally you'd put those on hosts on
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> There was an opportunity to make Rust more like "safer C". Sadly, it's creators wanted a better C++ instead. Fortunately for us. Though calling it "better C++" is underselling Rust by quite a bit IMHO.
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> But there aren't and infinite number online or off. Not literally, no. But there is effectively unlimited room in "cyberspace" for both public and private squares. That people actually choose to congregate in a particula
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> … wouldn't that mean you'd want to move your valuable NFT assets to a cold wallet? If they're in a cold wallet, you then wouldn't be able to prove you own them to use them in a game. Just provide a way for the NFT o
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by nybble41 5y ago
Rust makes up the majority of the current Fuchsia code on the main branch (2.6M lines), at least according to `cloc`, but there are more lines of C++ code (1.6M) than plain C, assembly, and C/C++ headers combined (0.95M). And that&#x
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"Types more advanced than Vec<T>" are inevitable. You need them to write safe abstractions for the rest of the kernel to use. Simplicity is a virtue, of course, but not to the point of limiting Rust to the equivalent of &q
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by nybble41 5y ago
Haskell has a traditional C-style stack, but it's usually very small (a few KiB). The evaluation model is very different from most other languages; recursive definitions do not necessarily result in recursive machine code, and almost a
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On the other hand, this nearly identical program in Haskell runs just fine on my system in interpreted mode with a maximum resident size of about 160M, and less than 15M when compiled: {-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-} module Main where
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> Try executing 1000000 + 1000000 in Church numeral representation. Will you get a stack overflow? The sum is just function composition, so not likely. In terms of using the sum, it depends on the function being applied and whether the
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> after all, you still need to test a condition for if/then/else, otherwise it is not if/then/else The way this works in Smalltalk is that primitives (e.g. equality on numbers) return an object which is either `true
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If the threat is credible and imminent, yes. That's because killing people is obviously illegal, and those you threaten can reasonably take you at your word when you make a credible threat against them and respond accordingly to prot
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> I'm waiting for Enhpase or Tesla, or someone to come out with an AC Coupled grid tie battery that has full generator support. Enphase either already supports this, or is very close. Their current gateway device (smart transfer swi
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No, tail recursion is more general than iteration—it can be used to implement arbitrary control structures, without needing extra constructs such as conditions. (E.g., this is how Smalltalk implements if/then/else with only blocks
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> When companies are allowed to become large enough that they have a significant effect on the ability for alternatives to compete in the marketplace, they assume an obligation to provide access to that marketplace to everyone. I would d
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I don't believe Forward Email runs a blog, but this article[0] has a fairly good summary of how forwarding works and why one might want to set that up. The short version, in the context of this thread, is that it allows you to accept e
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Iteration is just a special case of tail recursion.
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A better phrasing would be "you don't get what you don't pay for". The mere fact that you've paid does not guarantee that you receive anything of comparable value in return. When it comes to open source and other co
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I download a new Takeout every six months. One thing to be aware of if you plan on storing these long-term is that their archives are not very efficient. In particular, there is no incremental backup option—each Takeout is a full copy, and
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I can vouch for Forward Email ( https://forwardemail.net/ ). It's easy to set up if you have your own domain, you can continue using Google Mail if you like (for both receiving and sending), their message size limits a

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