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by pshc 4y ago
The e-Ink monopoly needs to be smashed.
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by pshc 4y ago
Keys are still safe in your phone. It’s an encrypted backup. Random Apple employees can’t get to the private key. I’m not interested in goalkeeping both sides of the convenience-security spectrum. Bury your keys in a tin can if you want, or
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by pshc 4y ago
Apple
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by pshc 4y ago
I think this one is actually possible, they have policy for letting loved ones into accounts. Better to be sure and write the account password in the will.
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by pshc 4y ago
Pretty easy to download a wallet that’s stored in the Secure Enclave of your iPhone with an encrypted backup to your Apple ID account and all those problems go away.
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by pshc 4y ago
Only if the central entity can be trusted not to become a corrupt rent seeker. (Looks meaningfully at TicketMaster)
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by pshc 4y ago
Parsing isn’t all that hard, it’s about working with the right tools and level of abstractions. Messing around in C with null-terminated strings is just hilariously error prone.
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by pshc 4y ago
It's pretty common for youtubers and streamers to get their content demonetized, muted or pulled for a bogus copyright violation.
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by pshc 4y ago
Thanks for letting me know.
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by pshc 4y ago
>Salary range $60-250K Surely this is a typo, or else why post a range this vague?
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by pshc 4y ago
This is a thing in some newer construction, e.g. in Vancouver BC, the Southeast False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility recovers waste heat from a wastewater treatment system to supply heating energy and hot water to mixed-use buildings.
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by pshc 4y ago
How do you get the bath water to the laundry machine?
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by pshc 4y ago
I’ve had corroded pins on a couple Lightning cables, always happens after the phone was in a humid environment like a steamy bathroom after a shower. Now I resort to wireless charging if there’s any hint of moisture on the phone and that ha
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by pshc 4y ago
It’s more like $1 these days due to the bear market, granted these remain high fees. Cheaper payments can be sent on a zero-knowledge Layer 2 like starknet or zksync. Beta services but usable (except the whole on-ramp off-ramp part). Once s
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by pshc 4y ago
I typically don’t deal with the middlemen directly either (though most people use Booking or Expedia) but they’re underneath it all. Referral fees for search links, payment processors, the ticketing system, security fee, airport improvement
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by pshc 4y ago
> Do you have any problem buying airline tickets now? Do airlines have any problem selling them to you? Of course not; this process is already efficient and optimal. I don’t know about optimal, there are middlemen everywhere.
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by pshc 4y ago
Whether it’s with solar or nuclear (or wind, hydro, geothermal, or what have you) I think it’s clear that the fossils need to be replaced foremost.
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by pshc 4y ago
What about the greenhouse effect?
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by pshc 4y ago
More or less than fossil fuels?
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by pshc 4y ago
Person who is definitely not bluffing: “I’m not bluffing.”
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by pshc 4y ago
My take is that studying history and literature aids in understanding human behavior and connecting with different people, valuable in many situations, but not sufficient by itself as having hard skills/opportunity/leverage/e
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by pshc 4y ago
Calculus is a workout for the brain, but closed form symbolic manipulation has few use-cases in normal life. Now take stats and probability? Also a great way to expand one’s mind, and key to decoding truths and understanding the dynamics of
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by pshc 4y ago
>people who have a disconnect between the left and right hemispheres of their brain. >A researcher shows a patient a message in his right eye, saying, “Please close the window.” The patient gets up and closes the window. Then the r
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by pshc 4y ago
This two-calculator setup has the advantage of being intuitive to anyone despite having only two storage slots. Or rather because it has only two storage slots and they’re always visible in fixed places.
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by pshc 4y ago
When you live in a system that increasingly benefits the few at the expense of many, anger is a natural immune response. A healthy catalyst for change, really.
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by pshc 4y ago
Stores like Redis and message queues have had pubsub updates for ages…
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by pshc 4y ago
In practice you can look up a tx by its hash from the transaction index (implemented with a Merkle tree)
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by pshc 4y ago
People won't use it for traditional number crunching. Way I see it, the idea is to get your data, code, and capital into the big global ball of state by consensus where it can coexist with other code. The point is being able to co-oper
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by pshc 4y ago
The validator of the first proof of stake block earned just over 45 ETH as everyone clamored to get their transaction in this historic block: https://etherscan.io/block/15537394
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by pshc 4y ago
More evidence on how harmful a car-centric lifestyle is to humanity.

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