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seppel
6y ago
> Even if the tether is only worth $0.70 it’s still a better deal for some people who can’t exit their BTC position legally. I don't get this part. What can you buy using tether, even if it is worth only $0.70? (Well, obviously you
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seppel
6y ago
> Print tether, buy bitcoin, sell bitcoin for real money. But to buy bitcoin for tether, you first need someone to sell bitcoin for tether. And this guy then has tether. What is he going to do with the tether? > Day traders use tether
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seppel
6y ago
I don't really get it (as always if tether is involved). If someone is printing tether to buy bitcoin, then who is selling bitcoin for tether and keeps the tether? I mean, if I had substantial bitcoin, I'd not sell it for tether
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seppel
6y ago
But that's an UI/UX problem. I had extremly long running usenet discussions back then. My usenet reader was giving me a tree view of all topics were I could: * See all news messages since the last time. I could see all the threads
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seppel
6y ago
But reddit doesn't remove anything (AFAIK), it just makes it read only.
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seppel
6y ago
> Once it is fully evaporated, you still need to account for the information that was contained within (or accept information loss). One way to escape this is: * You accept that the Hawkin radiation contains the original information. * B
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seppel
6y ago
> I am not a fan of these types of proofs. Baez didn't explain how one would go about searching for this proof, he just happened to know that repeatedly using the differential operator on a seemingly random differential equation wou
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seppel
6y ago
A diff is something that describes the changes between two versions but does NOT refer to any specific version; or at least it is something that can be worked with independent of any specific version. Ie. I can develop a fix for a issue for
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seppel
6y ago
> Well, the schema of the JSON is something you have to come up with on your own. I happen to have seen like 8 trillion pod manifests so I know what I'm looking for, but if you don't, you have to figure out the schema in some o
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seppel
6y ago
Well, it computes "(MAX - n + 1) % n", where MAX obviously depends on the type.
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seppel
6y ago
I means that people who would have died later this year (e.g. September) already died in March.
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seppel
6y ago
How to destroy bitcoin is two easy steps.
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seppel
6y ago
> For the “common cold” vaccine, you’re looking at hundreds of strains across about nine types of virus, so a pretty tall order using traditional approaches. A couple of hundred does seems tall at all, especially when it is basically jus
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seppel
6y ago
Since they now have ranges, the discussion can start all over... But I'm maybe no completely up to date, where the discussions is.
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seppel
6y ago
It is not difficult to do it, but it is difficult to do right and in a C++ way. That means with least overhead, i.e. not copying stuff if not necessary and not doing any memory allocations. This is why C++ still has no string split is its s
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seppel
6y ago
> Can't remember where I read it, but the idea was that using existing vaccine tech to knock out pretty much any virus is a major financial undertaking. Now multiply that by 100x, or however many common-cold-causing viruses exist. I
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seppel
6y ago
Why would you enable swap?
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seppel
6y ago
At first I thought it is a tool to fight against clickbait / spam videos, which could be quite useful. But no, it is a tool to report videos about opinions that made you feel uneasy. Wow.
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seppel
6y ago
> The world is continuous, not discrete. Therefore, like it or not, trading must be continuous and not discrete. That is not true, there are market models where you run auctions all the time (with short but random auction end).
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seppel
6y ago
couldn't explain = didn't want to :) But anyway, it also shows that the failover was not properly tested.
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seppel
6y ago
> Current status: We've identified a recent change that appears to be the source of the issue. We're rolling back the change to mitigate impact. Current status: We've identified that reverting the recent change did not all
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seppel
6y ago
I see. But this also means that every mobile user of wikipedia (I guess the majority now?) which is not logged in and enabled that feature (for sure the majority) does not even know about the discussion pages of wikipedia articles. This is
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seppel
6y ago
This is how it looks in my Firefox: https://imgur.com/a/x2Gl1Sj And this is how it looks in my Chrome: https://imgur.com/a/LQ7pmH8
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seppel
6y ago
Can you tell me you I can get there, e.g., here? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test The work "discuss" does not show up in the source code, you can check "curl https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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seppel
6y ago
That's appreciated, thank you. I already have such an extension to redirect reddit to old.reddit. It works and I can somehow see why such a thing might be necessary for commercialized platforms such as reddit. However, I'm suprise
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seppel
6y ago
> Firstly, at the bottom of the page in either desktop or mobile you can get to the other with a mobile/desktop link. (Discoverability fail maybe?) For a long page, scrolling to the bottom might take even longer than just changing t
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6y ago
> How else do you know what they call carbon fiber in German? [0] > [0] Kohlenstofffaserverstärkter Kunststoff, of course. Well, it actually not that simple :) Kohlenstofffaserverstärkter Kunststoff[1] is carbon fiber reinforced polym
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seppel
6y ago
The sole critique of the UX of Wikipedia that I have is that the normal version of Wikipedia redirects you to the mobile version when using a mobile device, and changes the URL while doing so. This is why we end up with all these m.wikipedi
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seppel
6y ago
There's nothing inherently wrong with reading and writing to the same file (as least if it is a binary file). And if you read at offset x and write at offset x-y you can easily move contents around with only a very small buffer. Just b
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6y ago
> the price of a CO2 offset is not a constant. Well asymptocially it is. And then the real intersting stuff happens, because economy becomes aligned. > But currently there's still an absolute glut of fairly-cheap CO2 reduction me
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