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631.
by runeks 5y ago
Not only that, but it would also be impossible to see what’s on your computer screen as this isn’t designed to outshine the sun.
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The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT (2021)(economist.com)
12 points by runeks 5y ago|1 comments
633.
by runeks 5y ago
I wrote the backend for my side project http://cryptomarketdepth.com in Haskell (source: https://github.com/cryptomarketdepth/main ) in Haskell. I like to code in Haskell because it works better than any ot
634.
by runeks 5y ago
Do we even need NO_COLOR if this works as promised? Why prefer NO_COLOR=true command over command | nofun ? The latter seems both cleaner to me and it doesn’t require modification of all existing CLI programs to work.
635.
by runeks 5y ago
> Every bill has a serial number, so every bill is unique. This is what it means when money is "marked" in a police investigation, they give bills with known serial numbers to bad actors in a criminal enterprise and then recove
636.
by runeks 5y ago
> - The main driver of this cost increase is more expensive labor and services, essentially human time is becoming more expensive to purchase. This is interesting, because I’d assume that the labor part of the total cost to produce a nai
637.
by runeks 5y ago
> By contrast, think about your doctor: they can't legally sell your private data. This is not a reasonable comparison. You choose to tell the doctor private information because of patient-doctor confidentiality. The other type of “
638.
by runeks 5y ago
The simplest solution to this I can think of is to use a mail app on your laptop that syncs with your Gmail. That way you will always have a local copy of your emails.
639.
by runeks 5y ago
Perhaps, but they can kill individual accounts.
640.
by runeks 5y ago
https://archive.ph/j8b7l
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Justin Trudeau’s crackdown on protests could make things worse(economist.com)
60 points by runeks 5y ago|68 comments
642.
by runeks 5y ago
That looks like a syntactically correct piece of code that fails at runtime.
643.
by runeks 5y ago
Along with the bounty for this one: https://gerhard-wagner.medium.com/double-spending-bug-in-pol... (also $2M [1]) [1] https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/polygon-pays-out-record-2...
644.
by runeks 5y ago
To be clear, I'm arguing that the same reasoning behind the Scottish decision is why cryptocurrencies don't have a built-in features that prevent stolen cryptocurrency funds from being spent: because it would make the currency non
645.
by runeks 5y ago
> With a digital currency you can do a pre-sale trick, so you'll see the funds were stolen - and you then don't sell them the car in the first place. It's a race against time. As soon as the coins are sent to a new address
646.
by runeks 5y ago
Which is only possible because it's centralized
647.
by runeks 5y ago
There is no solution because you would end up punishing innocent people. E.g. if a thief buys a car with their proceeds then it's not fair to punish the car dealership by confiscating the originally-stolen coins. This was decided in Sc
648.
by runeks 5y ago
Are you using Tornado Cash to launder money?
649.
by runeks 5y ago
Wouldn't it still be laundering?
650.
by runeks 5y ago
Beets per sale
651.
by runeks 5y ago
It's almost as if the people who upvote stuff differ in opinion on what is valuable and/or interesting
652.
by runeks 5y ago
I work for Obsidian Systems ( https://obsidian.systems/ ) writing Haskell. I believe we're still hiring engineers, and I've pinged the partners with a link to this post.
653.
by runeks 5y ago
;)
654.
by runeks 5y ago
> I’m testing Apple’s claim of 1000 nits sustained brightness which led many people to believe that they can finally use their laptop in direct sunlight without squinting at the screen. How about increasing the brightness of just the tex
655.
by runeks 5y ago
> It came from ETH owned by the bridge, essentially in a kind of escrow. This thread is about where the now-stolen ETH will come from (to restore 1:1 backing of wETH to ETH). Not where the stolen ETH originally came from.
656.
by runeks 5y ago
> Doesn't it have to land in a public repo before it can be patched? No, they could have patched the contract before publishing the commit on GitHub. Granted, an attacker could watch the chain for such "contract upgrade"
657.
by runeks 5y ago
> I feel like 128 bits is a lot for address space but not enough for encryption. Yes, collisions take sqrt(2^128) = 2^64 operations to find on average. Usually 256 bits is chosen to make that 2^128 operations if finding a collision poses
658.
by runeks 5y ago
Nor rich enough
659.
by runeks 5y ago
> And if not, why the hell not? Because he sent funds to a contract (a program) and not a person (a private key). The operation of the given contract (the actual program) cannot be altered, which is useful in the sense that you can inspe
660.
by runeks 5y ago
WETH is short for “wrapped Ether”. It’s a token issued on the Ethereum blockchain. This token conforms to the so-called ERC-20 standard, which is — essentially — the API of the token. Ether itself does not conform to the ERC-20 standard, wh

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