wakamoleguy

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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
It seems pretty natural for ad blockers to block miners, which extends them more into the space of allowing users to maintain control over their client, rather than purely blocking ads as the name implies. That being said, the primary conce
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
I love their first FAQ. You don't often see a service that comes out and says "This probably isn't for you." > Q: Will This Work On My Site? > A: Technically yes, economically probably not. That same answer goes on
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
It doesn't bother me too much, all in all. Distracting, sure, but then again, they found a way to draw your attention to the most important button on their website (in their opinion). It doesn't obscure the content like a popup or
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
This rant has some seriously flawed assumptions. Agile is a generic set of values for building software. There's nothing that says you should have no manager, or no code review, tests, and maintenance. No framework prevents people from
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
Agreed. Some people like it, some people don't. Maybe a more general suggestion is "If you don't like something, stop pretending you do." There are a ton of social reasons why one might keep up appearances, though, so th
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
The footnote got me curious about Segwit2x replay protection, so I went to find how it works[1]. Essentially, strong replay protection would work automatically but force wallets and other software to upgrade to use the forked chain. Opt-in
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
I find testing new user experiences for something as established as a dial pad to be interesting. This post mostly talks about changing the design for the dial pad to put more buttons within thumb reach, without going into many of the addit
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
I'm not sure it's that simple. There's a wide spectrum of types of gambling, and equal variation in the laws regulating those types. Going to Vegas and losing your money on dice sounds like commercial casinos, which is why I
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you are asking about. I was focusing on the distinction on whether a coin would be considered a security or not. As far as I understand it, one could operate in a fraudulent manner (or not) regardless of that
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
That's true. If we are being pedantic, though, it does mention an amount ("half a million"), which turns out to be the number of dollars they awarded ($539,000). So I will stand by statement that the headline mentions the &qu
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
It's not a strawman. The parent is suggesting that we as a people have no problem with allowing low-income or low-net-worth people to gamble (pointing to the acceptance of Las Vegas as evidence). Then an equivalence is drawn between ga
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
This is great! While the headline uses the absolute dollar amount to attract eyes and look big, I am more impressed by the list of results in the article. Previous awards from Mozilla have led directly to improvements in Tor, Python documen
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
It seems that in practice, yes, most people who are buying into ICOs have an expectation of profits based on the actions/development/promotion of a third party team running the project. Matt Levine talked about some of the nuances
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
In many places in the United States, there actually are laws to prevent gambling.
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
This argument is underwhelming to me. Physicists found that simulating a few hundred electrons (using one particular method) would require more atoms than there are in the (known) universe. This is a good argument that we cannot simulate ou
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
That's definitely an interesting distinction. In that case, I would expect there to be consensus among shareholders to follow the court's order. That could be enough to force the transaction if the chain is unique to the company i
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
It's an unfortunate allusion, though, as many people do buy into Multi-Level Marketing schemes.
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
Forking the chain or otherwise building consensus may be necessary to recover the coins from those particular transactions, but it's not clear that we would need to do that. As an analogy from traditional currency, consider what happen
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
As much as I like DuckDuckGo and believe that privacy is a real concern, it's always healthy to be skeptical of surveying techniques. For example, the entire section on 'How do consumers react to private browsing knowledge?'
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
There's not a great reason to make such a claim, unless you are interested in proving a point afterwards. Instead, it's valid to believe "Bitcoin's price today is higher than its intrinsic value" and take action on
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
What are the advantages of duodecimal over heximal/base-6. Since they have the same prime factors, the same fractions are representable as terminating decimals, right? With larger numbers you would use fewer digits. Anything else?
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
This is one of those simple ideas that makes a lot of sense. I'm glad to hear there are teams working to reduce costs and improve UX for the military. Microsoft obviously did a lot of user testing with their controller, but they must
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
In case you didn't see it, parent replied with a link on my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15280029
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
Excellent, thank you!
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
If DRM has already existed for years, and the majority of browsers have already accepted EME as a de facto standard by implementing it, wouldn't codifying that standard be positive?
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
Do you have a source for that? The latest article that references the W3C on their site already shows them as a member, and it appears that they were heavily involved in Do Not Track work before EME. Did they post something somewhere when t
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
> But a manager that is pushing you to work 70 hours a week isn’t a manager who plans ahead for unexpected work. No, this is a manager who solves problem by telling you to work harder and longer. This seems like a little bit of a leap to
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by wakamoleguy 9y ago
My only guess is that they assume people will be confused by 3-digit (or fewer) results. They could have coerced it to a string, though, which yields pretty good results: (Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000) + 10000 + "").substr(1)