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by spiralx 6y ago
The first digital computers were used by banks within years of each other - 1955 for BoA in the USA, 1958 for BNP in France and 1959 for Barclays in the UK. And those machines merely took over from existing calculating systems that had been
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by spiralx 6y ago
The only issue I have with that is that it's a common refrain from libertarians on the right as well.
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by spiralx 6y ago
I spent a few years implementing a real-time stock-charting applet with historical data, dozens of customisable indicators, drawing tools, multiple stocks at once... all using glorious Java 1.1.8 or whatever it was the MS JVM supported. I d
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by spiralx 6y ago
There's XSL:FO which allows you to transform XML into PDF documents, and you would not want to be writing that every time you wanted to add some basic styling to a webpage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatt
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by spiralx 6y ago
Isn't Perth the city that's farthest away from any other city in the world? Obviously that depends on the criteria which I can't remember, but the people I know from there have all complained that if you're bored of the
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by spiralx 6y ago
Looks like most of Dragon Magazine is there as well, although I couldn't find any way to get a listing of them all other than via the individual magazines: https://archive.org/details/DragonMagazine260_201801/
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by spiralx 6y ago
I still enjoy reading my 1E Wilderness and Dungeoneer's Survival Guide books once a decade or so :)
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by spiralx 6y ago
I remember reading the first announcement of Bitcoin on Slashdot over a decade ago, and every time I begin to feel regret over not having downloaded it then, I realise that I would almost certainly have lost anything I had from one of a tho
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by spiralx 6y ago
Yeah, I would say that algorithmic curation is the key difference between "before" and "after" here. Social media makes it easy to form filter bubbles, but on its own it's just an iterative change to an existing phe
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by spiralx 6y ago
HN for me is far too convinced of its own rationality and the rationality of others, leading to arguments based on weird idealised versions of human behaviour at odds with the real world. It could do with being a lot more empirical to be ho
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by spiralx 6y ago
And some were business owners who flew in on their private jet, some were privately-schooled children of millionaire parents, and others were Olympic medallists.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Somebody should tell these people: https://www.designboom.com/architecture/saudi-arabia-the-lin... I'm not convinced it's not vapourstructure given how ridiculous it seems.
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by spiralx 6y ago
They claimed 74% a while back IIRC, with the rest being in some unspecified combination of loans and other assets.
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by spiralx 6y ago
Look at how much the price changes based on a small number of trades - sometimes even from a single large trade - to see how little money is really in the BTC ecosystem. The whole idea of the Tether fraud is to pump the price of BTC higher
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by spiralx 6y ago
The "market cap" of a cryptocurrency is a meaningless value. If I create a million coins and sell one for $1 that doesn't mean there's a million dollar market suddenly. If the BTC market was really $600bn you wouldn&#x27
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by spiralx 6y ago
More that nobody buys any USDT with $ at all, and then Tether announces that there are two billion new USDT, which are then used to buy BTC. The trick is that lots of exchanges don't have any way to convert from crypto to real currency
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by spiralx 6y ago
A vendor dependency that's almost certainly locally cached already if you use one of the common CDNs for serving jQuery - ajax.googleapis.com, cod.jquery.com, cdnjs.cloudflare.com or cdn.jsdelivr.net.
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by spiralx 6y ago
How? It's about the same if you have one callback maybe, but as soon as you have a callback within a callback - or worse, want to do something involving the results of more than one callback - I just can't see it. What's the
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by spiralx 6y ago
Before that ES2015 allowed you to do Array.from(nodeList, mapFunc?) which I still use due to the optional mapping function e.g. Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a'), a => a.href)
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by spiralx 6y ago
His intent might not be malicious, but accusing the other person of doing something to undermine free software that's so bad it should be "cancelled" is not very nice. He certainly isn't advocating for code being free he
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by spiralx 6y ago
It also only awarded mod points to people who browsed the site on a regular basis but not all the time - so logging in every day or two for an hour would give you them fairly often, but if you spent all day on there you never had mod points
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by spiralx 6y ago
The +5 to -1 range was a great idea as it made it harder to suppress a controversial opinion by burying it in downvotes. It still stands out as one of the best systems I've seen although I'm not sure it would work on something lik
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by spiralx 6y ago
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
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by spiralx 6y ago
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
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by spiralx 6y ago
I found it here in an earlier HN discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
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by spiralx 6y ago
I know RMS is often abrasive, but that it is a whole new level of bad faith from him on display there. Plenty of "just asking questions" from one of the other participants as well. Here's another example of RMS on the subject
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by spiralx 6y ago
r/NeutralPolitics/ used to be good for discussion as well due to heavy moderation including requiring sources for claims. I've not read it in quite a while though.
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by spiralx 6y ago
/r/libertarian was famously unmoderated for years until the drama a couple of years when the head moderator finally resurfaced and decided to step in after alt-right mods took over the sub: https://www.reddit.com/r
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by spiralx 6y ago
My go to question for interviewing candidates is "What trends do you see in web development now or you see being important in the next few years?". There's no right answer there, I'm just looking for something relevant t
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by spiralx 6y ago
The reason for the lack of guns is most likely that the attackers had come directly from a Trump rally where there was security at the entrance including metal detectors. Had that not been the case there would likely have been a lot more we

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