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by sireat 8y ago
Have there been any studies on 1980s cell phone use ('the brick phone') which had much higher power output? Anecdotally you heard of 1980s stock brokers getting brain cancer but were there any statistically valid studies done on t
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by sireat 8y ago
Most of modern web is like that Pascal's letter: "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." It takes time to make lean sites look good.
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by sireat 8y ago
On what basis do you think there was no everyday crime in Soviet Union? Having lived in SU there absolutely was normal crime - violent and nonviolent. Levels of crime were presumably like everywhere else. Why wouldn't there be property
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by sireat 8y ago
I like that Vue is easy to add to an existing site (ie the new jQuery). I dislike that Vue feels too much like Vue and its magic and not enough Javascript. With React I feel like writing normal ES6 Javascript. I love the official Vue docume
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by sireat 8y ago
As Aristotle said everything in moderation including cigars and pizza. Going into a full blown mega health nut phase is not very helpful either because the end result is not going to be pretty anyways. Now if/when we start making serio
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by sireat 8y ago
You meant 520M (oops now 475M ) market cap as of June 26th. They raised about 22M in their ICO in January, 2018. It seems to be just another (sh)coin with 'sharding' which seems to mean dividing network in smaller chunks/sha
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by sireat 8y ago
Intel gutted their budget mobile Celeron/Pentium lines by replacing them with Atom based models. This strategy makes sense for smaller laptops/netbooks but it makes for horrible user experience at 15inches. It is like putting an e
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by sireat 8y ago
Hilariously sad: The Last Day for Shipping to Europe (For Now) Will be May 24, 2018 Why in the world a backpack business would be so worried about GDPR?
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by sireat 8y ago
Single core speed is near equal on 3770 and 1700 but you get 2x the cores with 1700. So if you can benefit from 8Cores (ie compiling for one) then it is a nice upgrade. If you rarely utilize all 4 cores on your 3770 then it is a pointless u
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by sireat 8y ago
I read it as 10nm and thought how appropriate :)
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by sireat 8y ago
This seems par for most courses. Most often someone who already knows a bit about some language will explore a framework which they have no knowledge in. Results vary...
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by sireat 8y ago
Cool idea but I noticed you stopped after week 43. What caused you to 'break the chain'? Was it getting a chore just to come up with technologies to explore?
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Tether's claim now is more like: "There was a girl in my apartment on June 1st. Our lawyers are pretty sure of that, but not sure enough to claim anything else."
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In some ways this is a positive news in that Bitfinex/Tether managed to have 2.5Billion in bank on June 01st, 2018. That seems rather plausible unless FSS completely messed up verifying bank sources(ie someone impersonated a respectabl
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by sireat 8y ago
Revenues are necessary but not sufficient for profits. Personally as a sole operator i'd prefer 10k revenue and 5k a month in profits over 100k in revenue and 2k in profits. However the last is more preferable for expansion. To expand
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by sireat 8y ago
Well you did write Ripple and XRP so you can see how one could be confused. :) When/if financial institutions start using Ripple the protocol for real then I will agree that it creates a real value for customers. If I order an eval kit
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by sireat 8y ago
Ripple (the protocol) has been tested and presumably is still tested by money transfer firms and banks for evaluation purposes but not used in production. And Ripple the protocol != XRP which is kind of funny with the ridiculous valuation o
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by sireat 8y ago
I'd give my left toe to learn to do this in a few lines of code in HTML/CSS3. Desktop centric UI toolkits provide a set of widgets which lets me build up a UI in a predictable way that respects my sanity. Windows Forms, WPF, Qt, v
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by sireat 8y ago
I wonder how does someone like KM Music on Youtube make money. They have near 400M views and 600k subscribers but all their videos use big commercial pop hits. Do they actually get a cut or does all the ad revenue flow to music authors and
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by sireat 8y ago
Many on HN have seen the promise of crypto since 2010-2011. We mined some, we bought some, we dealt with technological issues, we were ecstatic for a while. Yet the big crypto promise is to be fulfilled and we are now on 3rd or 4th big hype
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by sireat 8y ago
Very impressive! For someone outside normal corporate culture who is actually paying for Slack bots? Middle level managers who have to administer daily meetings? It is amazing that being outside the corporate loop you were able to hit such
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by sireat 8y ago
How soon until Lifeline is a reality for a subset of patients? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Line
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by sireat 8y ago
There is not question that teaching Python to beginners has made me appreciate various aspects of the language better. For one how little need is there for map,reduce,filter in Python when you have list comprehensions and generators . Still
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I call it "Nothing matters, everything matters" dilemma. Every little thing you do has some sort of meaning (even those hours spent debugging) if you choose to give it one. On the other hand nothing really matters on a large enoug
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by sireat 8y ago
The problem is that even paid books can be horrible. I am a subscriber to Bookbub list which sends out e-mails to daily Amazon sales (0.00 to 1.99) on e-books of your chosen category. Quality wise it does not seem to matter on the price.
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by sireat 8y ago
Human curation / whitelist is the answer but Google being human averse is not going to pay for that and keep hoping for AI answer. I remember there was a second party website of human curated youtube videos for kids some 4-5 years ago,
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by sireat 8y ago
A co-worker of mine paid some $800 for a developer(read prototype) EEG headset from a promising startup a few years ago. The promise was lofty, but the device was near unusable in practice. In the demo application you could learn to move th
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by sireat 8y ago
That was a decent report considering the source has the incentive to be pro Bitcoin. And the best that positive report could come up with was: * serious lack of Tether transparency is not necessarily fraud. * some correlation with deposit b
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by sireat 8y ago
Bitcoin as a great transaction medium WAS the strategy in the early years. This was the big promise. As price and transaction fees rose the transaction medium for everyday things(like me paying for Namecheap hosting/domains in BTC in 2
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by sireat 8y ago
I love writing React code and it is easy to get up to speed there. I abhor the mix of HTML/CSS for UI design. I'd rather code UIs in Actionscript. The web browser as an abstraction for general use UIs is just not ideal. XAML might

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