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by oelmekki 9y ago
I've heard mentions about the lightning network quite a lot in previous years, but never got what the implementation was. I get it it's "offchain transactions", but how does it relate to bitcoin, exactly? Is it "sid
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Indeed, didn't think about it, but fees are a problem as well. Also, if bitcoin had to manage the throughput of VISA (or even a fraction of it, at this point), capacity issues would probably worsen dramatically. It's probably best
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Which is why I mentioned the distinction :)
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I don't see this happening for bitcoin, though (or maybe for online orders, which don't need to be instant). Two years ago, I got sick of banks whose services I found of lesser and lesser quality, and tried a bitcoin/VISA deb
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I think the concept you're looking for is the one of catharsis [1]. Aristoteles used it to explain why theater was a good thing, when people were complaining that violence in dramas may cause violence in society. The global idea is tha
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Also worth noting that they are highly popular among marketers and community managers. It does not say anything about "what they do", but I guess it says something about how well they do it :)
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I tried to backtrace where I got that (core devs involvement) from, but it turns out the New York Agreement did indeed not include core devs: https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreeme
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Oh, my bad, I thought your question was more about why they exist rather than who are their users. I would love to know that as well, I never bought in any fork myself. Although, the very first time I bought some cryptocurrency, it was doge
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by oelmekki 9y ago
This is the result of conflicts between bitcoin actors, mainly miners and core devs. We'll probably see more of those, btw, as those conflicts are far from resolved. The core problem is scalability. Miners are very incentivized to fix
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Well, this is a serious regression from 3d printing :) More seriously, this is genius. I can hardly imagine how challenging it must have been to build something that automatizes finding which parts should be glued and act as joints. This co
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by oelmekki 9y ago
There's an other group who is very good at refuting everything: conspirationists. I love how HN comments often provide more insight into subjects that the article they are discussing, but this is no excuse for the blatant discarding of
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Usually, what people call "crash" are just corrections happening very fast. I think this one qualifies.
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by oelmekki 9y ago
[sincere question] aren't cryptocurrencies creating new money supply, though? I often hear "market cap raised by X billions", but it's not just that fiat billions are used to buy bitcoins, it's also that existing bi
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by oelmekki 9y ago
When I heard the word "mixed reality" for the first time two years ago, the idea was that AR was a 2d layer on top of reality (like google glasses) and that MR was actual 3d objects merged in the reality. But then, mobile apps sta
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by oelmekki 9y ago
That's my intent as well: use MR to replace monitors, then progressively switch to monitor-less apps. There may be a limitation, though: resolution. If we are have 9 virtual monitors, each displaying content at 2500x1200 (random pick),
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by oelmekki 9y ago
In the other way, it's called FOMO :) (fear of missing out)
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by oelmekki 9y ago
lol, no, it's implicit there are many hours between the first command and the second one :) It's purely commiting often to easily have checkpoints to revert to, nothing fancy (yet, incredibly useful).
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Maybe it's not worth being in there because of how simple it is, but I guess it would be useful for newcomers: # Oh shit, I've changed 200 files and want to revert to the state of this morning $ git add . && git
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by oelmekki 9y ago
As a side note, you may also consider that between those who act for lobbies and those who want to defend net neutrality, there's a huge amount of people who just don't care. And actually, I kind of understand them. While I would
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Did you try create_react_app? I find it way easier to setup my frontend using it than to use webpacker, even being used to both rails and react. You type "yarn build", and you have properly fingerprinted js and css files ready to
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I love how the title of this article is an understatement. Google abandons ajax crawling scheme because... it will render javascript in all pages. This is an awesome news :)
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Indeed, it requires auth. The xkcd page nor grandparent were mentioning not requiring auth as a requirement :) I didn't get this is something GNUnet would allow. I guess it could be a thing... if using GNUnet is easier that registering
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Indeed, thanks. Here is the relevant part from it: > Go 2 must also bring along all the existing Go 1 source code. We must not split the Go ecosystem. Mixed programs, in which packages written in Go 2 import packages written in Go 1 and
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Awesome. Does anybody here know where this discussion happened, for further reference?
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Indeed. I didn't think about that, but given how gophers are into code generation, this could happen.
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Actually, there is: if both users are on gmail, you can attach big files to your mail, and it's automatically uploaded on Drive (and retrieved seamlessly by recipient from mail). If recipient is not using gmail, you can still use Drive
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by oelmekki 9y ago
My biggest fear being that go-2 may be a major break, like symfony-2 and angular-2 were (as examples). Running old code and having it "just work" is something I really love with go. I hope go-2 new features won't come at the
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by oelmekki 9y ago
While I agree with you that the amount of users probably raised a lot to the point were servers are stressed out, there's something slightly off with the data you present: the latest entries are actually smaller percentage moves. Here
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by oelmekki 9y ago
Please, no need to be hateful, Intercom and Zendesk are from SF too :)
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by oelmekki 9y ago
I think you nail it, here: the biggest problem of google is support :) This is something notorious and traversal to all its products.

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