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by polemic 9y ago
Even so, there will be a certain amount of BCC that is locked up and unavailable on any market. For a time, there will be simply less BCC than BTC. BTC should remain suppressed while the question of the locked up BCC is resolved (either b
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by polemic 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you hold BTC with Coinbase (or any wallet you don't control) you'd be extremely foolish not to pull it out now. The value of BTC after the fork will presumably be the value of BTC + BCC after t
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Timekeeping on Mars(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by polemic 10y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 10y ago
So... :IANYL: _I am not your laywer_
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flAWS challenge – learn about common AWS issues(flaws.cloud)
2 points by polemic 10y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 10y ago
Btw, misspelt "Finnish" as "Finish" in multiple locations.
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by polemic 10y ago
Flagged the story for this reason.
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by polemic 10y ago
Ok, this corkscrew: https://www.amazon.co.uk/MONOPOL-Bell-Corkscrew-BAROLO-Germa... (Note this appears to be a later design, slightly less pretty as the original IMO) My parents bought one of these years maybe 15 years ago
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by polemic 10y ago
Fools gold, pretty soon.
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Type Drummer – turn any text in a beat(typedrummer.com)
3 points by polemic 10y ago|1 comments
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How Peter Thiel Got New Zealand Citizenship(nzherald.co.nz)
23 points by polemic 10y ago|18 comments
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by polemic 10y ago
> They'd get even more customers of they refused to comply with any subpoena. Dubious. They might capture more of an existing niche market. Coinbase is aiming to expand the market significantly to people don't see Bitcoin'
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by polemic 10y ago
There is a similar system in use in New Zealand and Australia called POLi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POLi_Payments It's discouraged by banks and you don't see it as much as you used to (in NZ anyway).
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by polemic 10y ago
Makes you wonder if - given enough time - they (or perhaps a larger bird) could evolve the ability to maintain a completely airborne life-cycle.
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by polemic 10y ago
This matches my own experience using AMP via google search. As a _user_ the experience is excellent but it pushes me toward using content in a very shallow way. If I were a content _publisher_ I would be thinking very carefully about the co
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by polemic 10y ago
Uber's problems extend far beyond China. While the app is nice, its the cheap fares that bring the vast majority of users to Uber, vs competitors or plain ol' taxis. Those cheap fares are artificially low, funded by SV money and i
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Insurer Claims Man Comitted Arson via Remote PC Login(i.stuff.co.nz)
1 points by polemic 10y ago|1 comments
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by polemic 10y ago
> "If AB is a vulnerability only if B is a vulnerability, then A is not a vulnerability" Stringing together multiple (seemingly) insignificant vulnerabilities to pivot through a system or own a user is hacking 101. I'm not
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The Blackbird – fully adjustable car rig that creates photoreal CG cars(themill.com)
2 points by polemic 10y ago|1 comments
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Bullet Journal – An Analog Journaling System(bulletjournal.com)
1 points by polemic 10y ago|0 comments
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Systemd v230 kills background processes after user logs out, breaks screen, tmux(bugs.debian.org)
152 points by polemic 10y ago|182 comments
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South Atlantic Anomaly(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by polemic 10y ago|0 comments
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A Mapbox May the Forth from Geografa(bl.ocks.org)
1 points by polemic 10y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 10y ago
> "How is this different from any other academic research?" Well it's not, although CS should be particularly amenable to reproducibility. > "He is asking that researchers produce code that he can put into produc
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by polemic 11y ago
If this had a buffer overflow vulnerability it'd be perfect ;0
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by polemic 11y ago
Less impressive, but they moved a historic tavern in Auckland, NZ, recently to make way for a cut & cover motorway tunnel. http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/time-lapse-video-of-birdcage... Pricy, but I'm glad th
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by polemic 11y ago
> I always wonder how GIS databases deal with that (since often they have the notion that buildings of this size "never" move). Stuff moves all the time, so it really depends on how accurate you need to be. For example, if yo
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Vend CEO seeks own replacement to focus on product vision & evangelising(medium.com)
1 points by polemic 11y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 11y ago
Am I right that this is basically this is a super high tech Michelson–Morley experiment, to detect waves instead of aether?
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Comodo “Chromodo” Browser disables same origin policy(code.google.com)
217 points by polemic 11y ago|59 comments

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