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Ask HN: How do you document services and systems?
1 points by whiskers08xmt 7y ago|1 comments
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by whiskers08xmt 7y ago
You should be able to find a torrent file for whichever subset of wikipedia you need, which isn't too dated. There's even something like this, that lets you browse via bittorrent: https://github.com/mafintosh/
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by whiskers08xmt 7y ago
Important note here is that it's primarily red and processed meat. I think fish and poultry are still considered healthy in moderate amounts.
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by whiskers08xmt 7y ago
It can still be competitive with things like tar-sand extraction, which takes more energy than you get out of the oil. It's only economically viable because energy in gasoline/oil form is more valuable than the energy content itse
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
This echoes the sentiment of Deep Work, which helped me a lot with my own productivity. If you can do 4 hours of productive work, truly, no distraction, deep productive work, then you're likely way ahead of your peers. Leave the rest o
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
No doubt. It'd be incredibly expensive and risky, but with a huge potential pay-off.
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
A lot of heavy rare earth metals can only be found in very limited concentrations in the earth's crust, with the largest concentrations all being from asteroid impacts. As a consequence, these metals are incredibly valuable. A single h
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
The amount of transactions is much higher, but the amount of money being moved is much lower. The highest number I could find for yearly transaction amount in mPesa was 3.7 Trillion Kenyan shilling, which is about 36 billion$. Compared to t
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
A digital, decentralized currency. If you want to solve the double-spend problem, you need some kind of economically incentivized block inclusion lottery.
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
Coded communication is nothing new between criminals, and weakening the security/privacy of Australian software is not going to solve this problem. Weakening encryption of Australian software is not going to work against organized crim
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
Of course having access to the private key, need to be the most basic way to access funds. It's the only thing that's guaranteed to be uncensorable, while minimizing the requirement of trust. It is a big responsibility though, and
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
Most of the world's population lives in third and second world countries. You're absolutely right that the centralized fiat gateways are the obvious, censurable bottlenecks of crypto-currency, and there's no good way around t
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
Danish university student here. In the course I'm currently taking, they've made a point of stressing the importance of not rolling your own crypto, along with using salts, and have had assignments where the point was to crack wea
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by whiskers08xmt 8y ago
Realities get murky when you talk geo-politics. Some times it's in the interest of the US, to protect the self-determination of a nation, especially when it goes against the interests of a geo-political adversary. We see this with your
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
IANAL, but you should own the copyright on all the software you wrote unpaid, as well as the derivative copyright of everything that is based off of your initial software, which sounds like is pretty much the whole stack. Let's try to
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
IANAL but my father is. This is exactly the advice he gave me in a similar situation. OP is the legal owner of the IP, if he was never given compensation, or signed away the rights. If I was in the OP's place, I would tell his family a
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
The US has never signed the Ottawa treaty, banning the use of land mines. The US do however claim to abide by it, outside of the Korean peninsula. The US never signed the treaty on cluster munitions either, which have many of the same human
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
A strong AI which limits itself to one machine, isn't very strong at all.
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
What are your opinion on the centralization concern? It seems like the dPoS consensus algorithm is inherently more centralized than PoW or regular PoS. Would love to hear your thoughts!
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
The chance that someone would send him money a second time is very small, and the act of terrorism comes with risk of getting caught. If the extortionist is in it for the money, it doesn't make sense to continue the same scheme. It mig
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
The Copenhagen metro is fully automated, but it was built like that from the start. This means that there's no metro driver unions, and the metro stations were built in a way, where it's generally hard to get unto the tracks. It d
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
Could it be argued that crypto has intrinsic value in it's ability to hide from these tax liabilities? I've seen Bitcoin, and other crypto-currencies, compared to the off-shore tax evasion market, as it seems to be able to fulfil
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
Capital begets capital. The choice of consensus algorithm doesn't matter, as long as the system follows some kind of capitalistic economic model.
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
What do you think is the best way for society to provide capital to people who need it? I'm genuinely curious. Peer-to-peer lending is interesting, but I'm not sure it's competitive with banks. State owned banking-enterprise
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
Proof of work was the first, crude consensus algorithm for crypto-currencies. A lot of more eco-friendly consensus algorithms have been proposed. Ethereum, the second largest crypto-currency in the world, is currently moving towards a Proof
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
Depending on the future of blockchains, Consensys might be a good place to look.
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
Oh absolutely, I should have worded that more clearly. What I meant was, that metropolitan areas should aim to make it possible to get around with kids, instead of having to make tax exceptions for people with kids.
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
There's no direct proof yet, but we have detected the magnetic fields that theories predict, and of course observe the gravitational effects. The Event Horizon Telescope[0] will probably deliver something more tangible by 2018. [0] htt
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
Why is it necessary to have car if you have kids? It's quite possible to get around with kids, if the city is built for it.
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by whiskers08xmt 9y ago
There are some projects working on solutions like this, but the problem becomes how you move funds between these blockchains.

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