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by tych0 6y ago
> So why is this met with warm welcoming arms especially when they are also going into cryptocurrencies? In the other thread it was not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713953
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by tych0 6y ago
> If you create a contract with intent to mislead people The guy didn't intend to mislead. He didn't even advertise the thing besides publishing it on the blockchain. People bought it from him without auditing it. I sincerely h
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by tych0 6y ago
This guy put up a sign that says "If you give me $100 I'll give you $10 back with an extra 0 handwritten on the bill", and people gave him $100. Put another way: I can't claim fraud just because I didn't understand&
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by tych0 6y ago
Why? The contract is public, anyone trading this token can read it. This seems like "don't trade tokens you haven't audited".
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by tych0 6y ago
Because it's hard to write a "you're being a dick" cookie cutter response for every possible case. People are dicks in a huge variety of ways. I don't enjoy figuring out prose that won't offend people, I enjoy
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by tych0 6y ago
People are dicks to maintainers of X11-based software too. I think people are just dicks. It's one of the reasons I love stale closing bots. I don't have to pay attention to people who are dicks. I can just unsubscribe from their
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by tych0 6y ago
My best friend just sent me a calendar invite for a ski day. We've been friends since we were four and have done everything that entails (cub scouts, sports, boy scouts, roommates, breakups, best-manning, etc.). I wouldn't ever wa
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by tych0 6y ago
I maintain the python bindings for the other way to interact with X, xcb. I remember when I wrote the binding from scratch six and a half years ago, I thought "why am I doing this? We're all going to be using wayland in a year&quo
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by tych0 6y ago
What's awesome is, I did the migration, and now both hangouts and messages get my text messages, even though the "SMS" thingy under Hangouts is disabled. Thankfully most of my friends use Signal as well, so it's mostly
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by tych0 6y ago
No idea, but these are all examples they gave us during our training.
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by tych0 6y ago
I was a poll worker in Denver, and the way it was explained to me was: you can't wear anything referencing stuff on the ballot. So for example you can wear a shirt that says "{Black|Blue} Lives Matter" because there's no
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by tych0 6y ago
Huh, that sucks. Good to know, thanks!
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by tych0 6y ago
> It limits the damage that some decisions can cause, but exacerbates others. Signal only allows the first-party client to connect to its network; if the developers were legally compelled to add a backdoor into that client, users would h
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by tych0 6y ago
Presumably in case the car did something weird/bad, so they wouldn't tell anyone.
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by tych0 6y ago
Different keyboard.io model 01 owner here, maybe two-four weeks. It's a great keyboard and I've been very happy with it.
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by tych0 6y ago
But hey, now I have http://tycho.pizza instead of co-opting .ws. Pizza is great. So there are some silver linings.
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by tych0 6y ago
Thanks for the link! I spent thousands of hours playing Diablo 2 through middle school-graduate school, developing bots, etc.; it's where I really got interested in computers and reverse engineering. My dad locked the disk in our famil
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by tych0 6y ago
Agreed. All I saw were various non-forks of "torvalds/linux" (e.g. raspberrypi/linux; why is this not a fork?). I removed it from my profile.
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by tych0 6y ago
for deb packages I guess? https://snapcraft.io/docs/snap-store-metrics > the store assigns an anonymous identifier, the device-serial, to every new snapd client it sees. This exchange usually happens when a new inst
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by tych0 6y ago
And can/will you disclose the difference? :D
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by tych0 6y ago
> We provide a rate of return on savings that on average is in-line with the top yielding savings accounts out there like Marcus or Ally. You might get a higher return if you’re lucky and win more prizes than expected. You might get a lo
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by tych0 6y ago
> - bug: QT applications leave withdrawn "empty" windows on the screen if qtile is reloaded (which happens when displays are connected or disconnected) Late reply, but this might fix it: https://github.com/qtile
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by tych0 6y ago
> Nobody disputes that. And yet you did :)
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by tych0 6y ago
> So racism has been killing more than the 130,430 people who have purportedly died from COVID-19 in the United States? Well, yeah. > Current estimates are that about 12 million to 12.8 million Africans were shipped across the Atlanti
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by tych0 6y ago
Nothing: http://docs.qtile.org/en/latest/manual/faq.html#why-the-name...
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by tych0 6y ago
What are the usual cgo issues? I've used it a fair bit and haven't had any general problems. There are specific problems like you can't use syscalls which must be single threaded (a royal pain for container managers, since se
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by tych0 6y ago
Say what you will about the motivations for changing the name, but why-oh-why did they choose "main"? "trunk" continues the tree analogy ("branch") much better...
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by tych0 6y ago
> Public companies have a fiduciary duty to maximize profits and investor returns. No, they don't. There are many articles on the subject, here is one: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16&
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by tych0 6y ago
My life was also improved with some additional aliases in my git config: [alias] dfif = diff idff = diff grpe = grep
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by tych0 6y ago
Yeah! Thank you too. The excellent web pages and docs would not be there without your efforts.

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