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by techman9 9y ago
Well, it's kind of neat?
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by techman9 9y ago
How is it possible or how is it challenging? The FAQ document describes both. It relies on a principle called "Weak Subjectivity" that Vitalik describes in detail here: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/2
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by techman9 9y ago
PoW comes with huge energy and computation requirements that can make scaling infeasibly difficult. It's possible, but challenging, to design a PoS system that is secure and does not consolidate power in the hands of those that own the
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by techman9 9y ago
That's true in the abstract sense, but this article primarily deals with the weeks, days, and hours immediately preceding death.
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rrequire: A lightweight browser to node RPC framework using ES6 async/await(github.com)
1 points by techman9 9y ago|0 comments
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Announcing Arrington XRP Capital, a Crypto-Denominated Hedge Fund(arringtonxrpcapital.com)
26 points by techman9 9y ago|2 comments
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by techman9 9y ago
Oh I'm positive this happens all the time. The GPL specifically is pretty restrictive and there are frequently cases where GPL licensed software has made it into nonfree distributions. There are several lawsuits by the Software Freed
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by techman9 9y ago
I think the responses in this thread explain this quite well: https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/933036555001774080 To paraphrase, (as I understand it): The FCC did have some rules about Net Neutrality (The FCC Ope
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by techman9 9y ago
Wow I totally missed this. Fascinating.
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by techman9 9y ago
I have a feeling that something scandalous is going to drop about Peter Thiel in the near future. This news comes on the heels of YC cutting ties with him [0]. [0] https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/19/y-combina
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by techman9 9y ago
I hate to discuss anything faith-based on HN, but in seeing models of charities like Watsi's, I'm reminded of how Tzedakah (charity) was discussed in Hebrew school growing up. Maimonides suggests that not all giving can be conside
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by techman9 9y ago
I'm continually surprised that there's no YC company that's yet had an IPO.
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by techman9 9y ago
I have a friend who goes through a list of most common first names and tries emailing them all @<companyname> for companies he's interested in working at. There's bound to be at least one person with Michael or John or Rober
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Anatomy of the FA-1/8 Hornet(youtube.com)
1 points by techman9 9y ago|0 comments
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by techman9 9y ago
Git already has quasi-"pull request" functionality by a different name. It's possible to use https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull and an out of band communication tool (Email, Slack) to achieve the
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by techman9 9y ago
I hate to ask this, but how is this fundamentally different from: https://www.npmjs.com/search ?
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by techman9 9y ago
Pretty essential if you're working on a project hosted on Github. I primarily use it to make PR's from the command line, but that alone is a huge win.
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Fostering Failure: Dubious Arrests, Damaged Lives(projects.sfchronicle.com)
1 points by techman9 9y ago|0 comments
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by techman9 9y ago
What on earth would make you suspect that the device does not work as described?
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by techman9 9y ago
The second photo is literally the chancellor of UCSD with the Dalai Lama.
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by techman9 9y ago
The leadoff photo is literally outside the main library at UCSD.
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by techman9 9y ago
This reminds me a lot of Dan Luu's article, in which he makes the same "Moneyball" comparison: https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/
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by techman9 9y ago
Oh my god, there's a guy riding on the outside at the end of the video. I've been on this lift several times and it's scary enough in the cabins, I couldn't imagine doing that in a million years.
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Dallas tornado sirens hacked last night turning on all of them(twitter.com)
41 points by techman9 9y ago|11 comments
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Restoring /dev/null from tape backup(blog.plover.com)
4 points by techman9 10y ago|4 comments
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by techman9 10y ago
It'll be around the same time as Amazon discontinues EC2
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by techman9 10y ago
I feel as if I'm looking at the future of textbooks. This is absolutely incredible.
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by techman9 10y ago
This was just a quick hack and so I'm keeping everything in a redis instance rather than using a real DB. A consequence of this is there's no good way to keep keys consistent if I were to ever need to rebuild the index. I've
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Show HN: Instagraham PGaaS. Paul Graham Delivered as a Service(instagraham.io)
5 points by techman9 10y ago|3 comments
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by techman9 10y ago
Pants are also a thing you can wear on your legs.

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