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by phpnode 9y ago
> This website is so clearly a scam created for this antitrust case. I can't speak for the quality of their product but this is absolutely not true, Kelkoo has been around since 1999[0], almost as long as Google itself. [0] https:&
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by phpnode 9y ago
No, for reasons others have said, but they can use the pointer to deal with collisions
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by phpnode 9y ago
Also means they can't move the object without more bookkeeping
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by phpnode 9y ago
They only need a unique id for the object, they can't hash based on the object contents because those can change and because two objects with exactly the same properties are not equal in JS: assert({} === {}); // throws
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by phpnode 9y ago
If counterfeit Tether has been used to prop up the market the losses of the comparatively few people who actually hold Tether will be a drop in the ocean compared to the affect on BTC price. The bitcoin price is a function of demand, if Tet
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by phpnode 9y ago
> It's a bit like Amway but everyone is going to be in on it. Is this supposed to be an endorsement?
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by phpnode 9y ago
Not a no-op, it wraps the awaited value in `Promise.resolve()`: async function foo() { const a = await {then(resolve) { resolve(123); }}; console.log(a); } foo();
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by phpnode 9y ago
I see this argument about censorship resistance a lot but I don't really understand it. If the main purpose of the technology is to evade law enforcement is this not a massive reason for governments to ban cryptocurrencies? The user of
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by phpnode 9y ago
It doesn't sound like the OP is claiming that at all, Coverity and tools like it use a technique called Symbolic Execution [0] [0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_execution
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by phpnode 9y ago
from the blog post: > the integrity of these 106 packages were never jeopardized. are we operating with different definitions of jeopardy here? 106 packages were absolutely at risk of harm during this window. The fact that some communi
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by phpnode 9y ago
A relatively tiny number of people will ever download the blockchain, a relatively tiny number of people use Tor, how many bits of information does a state level adversary need to deanonymize someone?
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by phpnode 9y ago
Where does this "bitcoin is a store of value, not a medium for exchange" nonsense come from? Literally the first line of the white paper: > A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent
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by phpnode 9y ago
Which planet is that? This will either explode on launch or orbit the sun for a billion years before burning up
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by phpnode 9y ago
It will orbit the sun for hundreds of millions of years
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by phpnode 9y ago
The cost of the second hand Tesla is nothing compared to the PR value of doing this.
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by phpnode 9y ago
Or a wheel of cheese[0] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_COTS_Demo_Flight_1#Addi...
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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster mounted on Falcon Heavy Payload Adapter(i.imgur.com)
59 points by phpnode 9y ago|43 comments
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by phpnode 9y ago
The tesla sadly lacks the ability to do a propulsive landing on mars, they'd need a sky crane like Curiosity had - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Sky_cr...
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by phpnode 9y ago
The grid fins on the outer cores are aluminium, the centre core is titanium. Newer Falcons will have titanium grid fins (the outer cores have already flown once before) Edit. Looking closer I'm wrong - the titanium grid fins are on the
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by phpnode 9y ago
They haven't taken the legs off because they're going to attempt to land all 3 cores, probably 2 at the launch site and 1 on the drone ship
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by phpnode 9y ago
Not to mention that BFR can carry approx 3x the payload of Falcon Heavy to LEO
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by phpnode 9y ago
They will launch Musk's Tesla Roadster into orbit around the sun, where it will continue orbiting for hundreds of millions of years.
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by phpnode 9y ago
the Big Falcon Rocket - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)
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by phpnode 9y ago
Perhaps I should have chosen a better example, argument order is just an illustration. In 1998 the Mars Climate Orbiter[0] failed because of a fairly simple software error - an imperial value was treated as metric causing the spacecraft to
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Opaque Types in Flow and TypeScript(codemix.com)
51 points by phpnode 9y ago|9 comments
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Stronger, Faster, Better JavaScript with Opaque Types(codemix.com)
3 points by phpnode 9y ago|0 comments
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by phpnode 9y ago
Falcon 9 is the rocket, dragon is the capsule
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by phpnode 9y ago
Is this repeatable though? It seems like this could be explained by a combination of the Frequency Illusion / Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon[0] and the Birthday Problem[1]. That is - it is possible that the reason you were discussing the to
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by phpnode 9y ago
See also GOTO which is a wart 99.9% of the time but really useful for writing e.g. parsers.
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by phpnode 9y ago
point is that npm are encouraging you to use npx, which is bundled with npm 5.2+ as a general tool for executing adhoc commands from the terminal. It just massively increases the chance of typos.

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