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How the Internet Kept Humming During 2 Hurricanes(nytimes.com)
3 points by tommoor 9y ago|0 comments
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Al Gore’s New Movie Exposes the Big Flaw in Online Movie Ratings(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by tommoor 9y ago|1 comments
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by tommoor 9y ago
That's exactly what Filecoin / Sia etc are doing, no? It doesn't make it any more worthwhile for the individual participants providing the storage though
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by tommoor 9y ago
I agree - but this is going to get forgotten about in a month, Equifax's stock price will be back where it was in 6 months (or less) and everything will continue as before
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by tommoor 9y ago
Agree. The best thing that can happen here is the entire 149 million gets published online somewhere - that will force change. Overnight, companies will have to stop assuming SSN is secret.
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by tommoor 9y ago
There isn't really any incentive for these folks though, It's not worth the hassle, bandwidth, and electricity to give up remaining disk space for a couple of cents / month.
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by tommoor 9y ago
Replace parking with more loading zones - of course that requires city governments to understand and embrace the shift.
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Self-driving trucks to be tested on UK roads(bbc.com)
2 points by tommoor 9y ago|0 comments
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by tommoor 9y ago
Performance was the main reason we switched over. We found using Immutable objects to be the key to a performant UI when using something like React that's diffing your props every render loop.
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by tommoor 9y ago
Two reasons: - Clarity of code. You can't accidentally mutate data that will then be used elsewhere. - Performance. Being able to avoid deep equality checks makes a huge difference for React in particular.
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by tommoor 9y ago
The main thing I can think of is that it will add all it's internal methods to your objects, which restricts which properties you can use – eg, "update", "merge" etc. This isn't usually an issue but we happened
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by tommoor 9y ago
I've been using this library for over a year, I'd say if you have an existing project that you'd like to use Immutable objects in then it's a great choice with minimal downsides. For a greenfield project Immutable.js is
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The analysis Filecoin doesn’t want you to read(medium.com)
6 points by tommoor 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Abstract (Git for designers)(goabstract.com)
11 points by tommoor 9y ago|3 comments
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by tommoor 9y ago
Good point - I'd imagine that quickly becomes something you can request that the vehicle have. Maybe it'll take an extra 5 minutes to get to you as there are fewer but that might just be a bonus if you have a kid to get ready :D
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Quitting the Paint Factory (2004)(molvray.com)
28 points by tommoor 9y ago|6 comments
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Amazon and eBay images broken by Photobucket's 'ransom demand'(bbc.com)
4 points by tommoor 9y ago|0 comments
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by tommoor 9y ago
From the article: "To make a ton of regular paper requires 100 tons of water". It hardly seems silly to avoid that cost, fresh water is on it's way to being a scarce resource in many parts of the planet.
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by tommoor 9y ago
At least Google uses web standards for their video
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by tommoor 9y ago
There are several tokens such as Tether and Digix DGD that are backed by real world securities to create a more stable asset that can still be traded with the advantages of a blockchain. Not ideal because you're back putting your trust
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Pledge your Ether into our eighteen-line smart contract(hodlethereum.com)
1 points by tommoor 9y ago|0 comments
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FCC votes to overturn net neutrality rules(bbc.com)
2 points by tommoor 9y ago|0 comments
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Under the Trump Tax Plan, We Might All Want to Become Corporations(nytimes.com)
19 points by tommoor 10y ago|7 comments
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by tommoor 10y ago
If there was a modern, truly ethical bank in the US I'd be signing up in minutes. It's a great differentiator in a sea of corruption and morally apprehensible investments…
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by tommoor 10y ago
People that have an internet connection but no phone number? I think you're in the minority of the minority there.
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by tommoor 10y ago
Actually fantastic to see there are legitimate uses for this tech beyond the obvious
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by tommoor 10y ago
Well, at least it wasn't "enough to lift MY two Teslas"
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by tommoor 10y ago
Only AWS would have a screenshot of a permissions error in a new feature launch post :D
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by tommoor 10y ago
The UK gov supplies a very simple chart that shows where your taxes have gone, it looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/pr6LQ Although the real thing shows how much money you personally contributed to each sector - I re
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by tommoor 10y ago
The Spotify app is not built on Electron - it's built on CEF and always has been, author was wrong.

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