rjknight

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by rjknight 7y ago
I wonder if the name is inspired by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)
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by rjknight 7y ago
This does already exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litigation_funding
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by rjknight 7y ago
The author is using "cringe" as something of a euphemism here. "Cringe" in this case is anything that a person could say that would cause other people to think badly of them, including highly offensive things, so long
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by rjknight 7y ago
I don’t get it. If the point is that the text is indistinguishable from real Trump speeches, this is because it says precisely the kinds of things that the actual Donald Trump says. What would be dangerous would be persuading people that he
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by rjknight 7y ago
I think the argument could be a bit clearer here. A SAFT allows a party to offer the delivery of tokens at some point in the future. This offering is a securities offering under US law, and therefore has to comply with the relevant regulati
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by rjknight 7y ago
I know that "did you not read..." comments are normally (rightly) down-voted, but in this case I think it's a reasonable question. The article makes a number of bold claims, without citing evidence. This is only acceptable be
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by rjknight 7y ago
How many wolves would a Wolfram ram if a Wolfram could ram wolves?
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by rjknight 7y ago
As Williamson will no doubt appreciate, a similar story was an important plot point in the original UK House of Cards (the PM's brother was accused of taking advantage of inside knowledge of government decisions, the PM was implicated
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by rjknight 8y ago
Part of the problem is that many software developers work in organisations where that kind of information - dollars saved or made, time saved, steps reduced - isn't shared. In a siloed org, the development team writes code to satisfy b
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by rjknight 8y ago
On the other hand, announcing it now means that anyone who really would have changed their minds still can. Apple will almost certainly accept returns, even in countries which don't provide statutory rights to return unwanted goods w
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Biggest offshore windfarm to start UK supply this week(theguardian.com)
2 points by rjknight 8y ago|0 comments
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by rjknight 8y ago
Look at it from the other perspective - if Google doesn't police the Play Store then users are put at risk. When bad actors are detected, they're banned. It sucks if you've hired one of these bad actors to do development work
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by rjknight 8y ago
It sounds like the problem is with the outsourced developers responsible for the app. It's their account which has been banned - for multiple violations of the ToS. Now, perhaps this is just over-zealous enforcement on Google's
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by rjknight 8y ago
When I grew up in 1980s Britain, we used to have milk delivered in re-usable glass bottles. Deliveries and collections occurred daily, and were done using an electric vehicle[1]. It's interesting to look at why this approach (popular u
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by rjknight 8y ago
You can get the same feature by doing a long press on the space bar, though!
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by rjknight 8y ago
A few years ago I had to do "financial crime training", and although I had heard all kinds of rumours about what working in financial services is like, I was surprised that they were so up-front about it! More seriously, I think t
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by rjknight 8y ago
A blockchain is just a bunch of cryptographically-signed messages chained together. You can determine the state of the system by taking these messages and applying their effects in the correct order. We have lots of names for this pattern b
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Oceans 'soaking up more heat than estimated'(bbc.co.uk)
132 points by rjknight 8y ago|219 comments
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by rjknight 8y ago
This was an excerpt from a satirical spoof of the real footage.
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'Spectacular' diabetes treatment could end daily insulin injections(theguardian.com)
54 points by rjknight 8y ago|18 comments
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How Islamic State Ran the City of Mosul(theguardian.com)
3 points by rjknight 9y ago|0 comments
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Practically-a-book-review: Luna white paper(slatestarcodex.com)
7 points by rjknight 9y ago|0 comments
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2018 year in preview: the future of cryptocurrency(medium.com)
5 points by rjknight 9y ago|1 comments
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by rjknight 9y ago
If only accredited investors can buy FileCoin then only accredited investors can access the storage market. This does not seem feasible! And, indeed, it isn’t. FileCoin has only done a pre-sale so far, selling securities (SAFTs) to accredit
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by rjknight 9y ago
The interesting unasked question here is why he seems to like FileCoin (the reference to decentralised storage markets) - what does he think that FileCoin gets right that others are getting wrong?
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Tokens for ecosystem investing(medium.com)
2 points by rjknight 9y ago|0 comments
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by rjknight 9y ago
Actual article title: "Don't use a blockchain unless you need to"
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What does Ether $100 mean?(medium.com)
4 points by rjknight 9y ago|0 comments
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Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum's future(medium.com)
4 points by rjknight 9y ago|0 comments
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We Don’t Need Political Solutions for Global Trade – We Need Practical Ones(hbr.org)
3 points by rjknight 10y ago|0 comments

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