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by samhw 5y ago
> it's not impossible a printer in Swansea whirs to life to print your answers out into the original paper form Speaking of which: my mum went through the form to renew her Oyster card the other day, and, having finally completed it
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by samhw 5y ago
I mean, whatever the truth may be, you're begging the question somewhat by calling it an 'open source license'.
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by samhw 5y ago
> Even though gov.uk is actually a really good IT company For anyone who's wondering, the relevant team here is GDS[0]. We hired a bunch of engineers from there at one of my previous companies - which was doing some quite gnarly tec
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by samhw 5y ago
> could be generated statically a couple of times a day Hell, let's do some partial evaluation: just bake the computed HTML into the source code and recompile that a few times a day. No need to even read from a file when you can fet
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by samhw 5y ago
Nor is there any indication that whoever posted it here had anything to do with PostHog (which, to be clear, is apparently an open source project, not a paid service like everyone seems to have assumed).
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by samhw 5y ago
> Is there are github page where one can block all google or fb used domains or ips? Are you asking for a repo - for software? Or instructions? Or something to do with GitHub Pages? I may be able to help, but I don't quite follow.
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by samhw 5y ago
Haha, yes, we're not nearly at that point yet. It's not quite that common...
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by samhw 5y ago
I mean, hey, SCOTUS decided in Citizens United that political donations were constitutionally protected expressions of opinion, so all bets are off...
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't think every spelling correction has to be taken as an attack, as is implicit in your comment. I'm glad to have people correct me when I'm wrong, since it makes me better at whatever I'm doing. It seems to me what
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by samhw 5y ago
> You're wrong about the EU, the setup you're talking about is long gone Sure, the EU might have more authority than you would like, or more than it used to, but 'government' has a specific meaning - and the EU is not
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by samhw 5y ago
An opinion is something that can be represented as a proposition about the world. It's the non-factive superclass of a fact: i.e. the structure of a fact, but not requiring/entailing the property of truth. Hatred is not an opinion
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by samhw 5y ago
For what it's worth, the EU is not a government. There will still be 27 countries implementing it - like browser vendors implementing a spec - and, again much like browser vendors, they won't be doing it in a well-coordinated fash
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by samhw 5y ago
This constantly-in-hysterics tone is why people find it tiresome to try to understand crypto advocates. Cool - you like your new technology. That’s great. I’ve been in the same boat with countless things and I know what it’s like. But if yo
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by samhw 5y ago
Thank you. This hits at the essence of why “I can send money instantly!” is such an absurd argument. It’s not money. You can’t use it as money. You have to convert it to money, at a loss. If that counts as ‘sending money’, then hell, I ca
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by samhw 5y ago
I’m not a crypto fan, but I’m not sure what that example demonstrates. A company made an overengineered gimmick just to show off their street cred; nothing came of it, just as they expected, and it was a waste of the engineering. I’m lost a
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by samhw 5y ago
My pleasure - thanks for being magnanimous about it!
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by samhw 5y ago
The worrying thing (for me) isn’t which one it is. The worrying thing is that so many people seem incapable of even making a creditable attempt at answering that question and analysing its fundamentals. This has opened my eyes to how many p
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by samhw 5y ago
What do you mean, “will be zero knowledge”? How does that apply to a blockchain in a currency context, when validating a new transaction requires knowledge of both parties’ transaction history?
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by samhw 5y ago
Thank you for writing this: it crystallises something that’s always annoyed me about the trope-ridden evangelist shtick. You’re absolutely right.
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by samhw 5y ago
Yes, I’m a strong believer in cryptocurrency, but I don’t believe any current cryptocurrency will be the one that changes the world. They deserve praise - some of them - for laying groundwork, but I tend to believe that the world-changing c
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by samhw 5y ago
> Your key serves as proof you own something and nobody else without your key can claim to it. Yes, and what maps that to your physical identity? How is that any different from showing someone a public key you just generated with GPG? Fo
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by samhw 5y ago
I’m aware that I’m inviting a “bad bot” riposte by saying this, but it’s: > one of the top cloud providers, if not the top rather than: > one of the top, if not the top, cloud providers since the latter cashes out to: > one of the
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by samhw 5y ago
That's fine: it doesn't suit their needs. No protocol is meant to be all things to all people, and every organisation has its own security posture and its own environment. I don't think any of that entails that FTP is somehow
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by samhw 5y ago
Thank you for this, I appreciated reading it. It's depressing to see how many people's vision of the world is fundamentally negative and opposed to letting human beings live freely and flourish according to their own hopes and dre
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by samhw 5y ago
> If someone has a great idea that can double food production - they owe all the money and food to the society because they would not have had the idea or been able to implement it otherwise. I don't see why this makes any more sens
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by samhw 5y ago
> But people are not all "equal", they have different abilities. 'Equal' in that context is used to mean 'equal in moral worth'. No one, obviously, is saying that all human beings in the world are identical
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by samhw 5y ago
> I was confused about how it does sum up all transactions to get the balance so quickly, like we in accounting usually do For what it's worth, in a system design context, this is called event sourcing (in more general terms it&#x27
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, it's an absurd claim. And of course it never applies to their own hagiographic opinions of these people and these companies - it only invalidates critics. Handy! Who wants to be the one to tell the Holocaust historians? And yeah,
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, I hadn't realised that. I'm really glad to hear that. Obviously I hope PV and other green energy sources will take off, but in the interim nuclear is by far the best established and working green source of energy.
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by samhw 5y ago
Your approval of Thiel. I agreed with your view that your sample was biased.

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