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by sireat 9y ago
See, I remember the huge growth in merchant adoption in 2013 for Bitcoin and how for a moment in time Bitcoin was useful as a currency. I actually used Bitcoin back then from my 2011 minings. Now I agree that there is a niche for Monero in
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by sireat 9y ago
Endorsements and nifty tech are nothing without actual use. Nano suffers from the same problem that 99.9% of cryptocurrencies suffer from: no useful information on how an average person might actually USE it. Google brings various ways you
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by sireat 9y ago
How does Lignting Network plan to deal with the fact that each transaction appears to require rerouting? White paper glosses over this fact. This seems like a huge rise in exponential complexity. Because the channel balances change, the bes
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by sireat 9y ago
Her joining Dropbox was discussed 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7565546 That was a very realpolitik like hire.
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by sireat 9y ago
If you can't trust a goofy bear who can you really trust then? If you think about it all the goodwill Tunnelbear had was built on quirky/irreverent front end client.
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by sireat 9y ago
Somewhat unsurprisingly the usual Google Cars/Buses/Streetsigns recaptcha is used by Proton Mail once you go past a certain amount of signups per IP. There is simply no escaping this reCaptcha. Once in a while you hit some bad one
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by sireat 9y ago
Alas that Quora tread is full of questionable answers as Quora threads tend to do. My bias: I am a FIDE master who skipped chess study for a year when I was a teenager. (insert Brando quote from On the Waterfront here). Notice that the main
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by sireat 9y ago
Same goes for chess. 15 is already considered very late to start serious study in chess. You simply do not develop the unconscious mastery the blink like ability to play a good move instantly. It is not the lack of time in older players eit
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by sireat 9y ago
How do you go about finding a good HW guy for a side-project? Asking because our analog layout guy with decades of experience really needs help with the discrete parts. Nothing fancy just some rotary encoder work. This is the kind of stuff
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by sireat 9y ago
Speaking of latency: a well calibrated point to point wireless connection is less latency than fiber jumping a bunch of switches. Proof: finance industry's wide use of microwave towers. https://meanderful.blogspot.com/2
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by sireat 9y ago
Nice work! This is really promising for bridging UI/UX and programming. The paradigm seems right to this javascript dinosaur. Hopefully some day it can work like Visual Studio Design View where a non UI/UX programmer can produce a
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by sireat 9y ago
I am partial to Maximilian Schwarzmüller courses(Vue, React etc) as he has really good diction and screen presence besides being knowledgeable. Then you have someone like Jonas Advanced CSS who is a great teacher but ridiculously monotonou
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by sireat 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence as long as you are a state you are fine. Plenty of current examples from all types of states.
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by sireat 9y ago
Upton Sinclair - "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
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by sireat 9y ago
Agreed that you need both talent and deliberate practice for chess but you also need to start early. For becoming a chess GM you need 3 things: talent, grit(deliberate practice), starting early(10-12 is okay, 18 is too late these days). One
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by sireat 9y ago
http://wiki.c2.com/?MuAnswer -> the question is unaswerable
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by sireat 9y ago
This reminds of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borislav_Ivanov Technically never proven a cheater but the evidence is extremely convincing.
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by sireat 9y ago
I believe it is manager's responsibility to set reasonable goals without resorting to micro-managing people. Trust does go both ways. I've seen it first hand what happens at an office where management does jack. Employees slack of
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by sireat 9y ago
If you are producing roughly in line with everyone else then your 40% might be enough to last a few years. Still expect to be fired suddenly.
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by sireat 9y ago
Excellent article for a dinosaur like me. So much of CSS seems like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. I've had to occasionally delve into webdev since 1994 and despite progress CSS still seems clunky. Currently I am going t
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by sireat 9y ago
I still wonder whether it is better to quit cold turkey or to struggle on in the same field (senior competitions, coaching etc). As a chess master I am blessed and cursed with something that I can play at a reasonably high level until old a
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by sireat 9y ago
Good point that skilled trades are still needed. However what if you fail at learning 1 or two skilled trades? Plus even those in skilled trades need to know at least the bare basics of entrepreneurship. The days of cushy union jobs are ove
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by sireat 9y ago
A link to HowTo for buying with lightning? My impression was that it was still not very user friendly(not saying much in crypto world) nor widespread.
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by sireat 9y ago
How do you keep sane in web-app development? Rather what is the normal workflow for making UI in web-apps? How do you keep the abstractions from leaking over? It seems you need to keep all the CSS quirks in your head to be productive. As a
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by sireat 9y ago
LibreOffice should shine in customizability but it is not the case for intermediate users. Anecdotally I was trying to set up a simple keyboard shortcut to change color of a row of the selected cell in a spreadsheet. Neither Excel nor Calc
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by sireat 9y ago
Except you are not always assured on what = does when reading other people's code. :)
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by sireat 9y ago
The fallacy is not that capturing 10% of China's soda market is hard, but that even capturing 0.01% of China's soda market is extremely hard.
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by sireat 9y ago
Even IF ( a big IF) your explanation is true, it is of little help to most of people holding USDT. So in the best case scenario to redeem USDT for USD: 1. You have to have a Taiwanese bank account. 2. You have to gain verified status
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by sireat 9y ago
The best we could get my mom was LG Wine Smart a year ago, she is reasonably happy with it as she requires physical buttons. There really is not much choice when it comes to flip phones today: https://www.gsmarena.com/result
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by sireat 9y ago
Lots of large companies use git internally but they do not necessarily use github for hosting. Gitlab self hosted is just one of many options.

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