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No surprise now that bitcoin mining tends to migrate to heavily corrupt regions with subsidised power but likely something that the original design didn't anticipate when it spoke about distributed mining
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The newer formulations - especially those that are slow release and combined with naloxone, are fine and have their use. The problem is the 20+ years of overprescribing straight up plain and crushable oxycontin that for a time was better th
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Mayoshi made his gut-call huge initial investment before WeWork opened in Japan He was charmed - it worked on Benchmark as well but at least they didn't bet the farm in followon
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I wish 1password integrated this so that I could have both random email addresses and random passwords for accounts all stored in one place
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I have pig hunting friends who all said they can't wait to stand on the back and hunt pigs with a quiet electric truck
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There's something charming about it - even though it has the performance and characteristics of a cheesy off-strip magic show on talent show night
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I use both - protonmail for personal email and fastmail for corporate/business Both with custom domains and aliases on PM for throaway stuff They're both very good - the upside with PM is privacy while the downside is compatabilit
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How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace(lennyrachitsky.com)
301 points by wp381640 7y ago|49 comments
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I pulled the Honey extension a while ago to poke through it in order to better understand it and the first interesting thing I found is that despite the Google order that they'll no longer allow obfuscated Chrome extensions[0] the Hone
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one of the best real life examples of being resistant to financial deplatforming is Wikileaks and they used Bitcoin
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Most have penalties for repurchasing such as restocking and delivery fees that mean they still make good That is before going into the psychological pressure applied to distributors to not "fail" by asking for a restock, and the i
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I landed on that issue a while ago and your pull request was linked so I ripped your solution and added it to my own dotfiles :)
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If you're going to be using pyenv + poetry you should be aware of #571 that causes issues with activating the virtualenv https://github.com/sdispater/poetry/issues/571 the OP himself has a fix for this i
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It's not - we shouldn't be selling weapons to them either. Ditto with sharing intel. Sanctions on selling exploits seems easier to achieve though since there is less of a conflict with economic interests
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These tools keep authoritarians in power and indirectly impact hundres of millions of people. It's like saying you don't care about pacific ocean plastic because you live on the east coast.
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You don't understand why people use a communications app with 1.6 billion users as opposed to one with likely less than a million? It's network effects In my own anecdotal experience Signal ranks way below Viber (popular with migr
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Thought the same when a film about Facebook was announced > “I think there will be a Bitcoin Billionaires movie,” Mezrich said to close the panel after hinting at it multiple times. “Hopefully Armie [Hammer] will come back and play these
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Bitcoin is valuable because people value it. If you need anonimity you mix your coins - almost every darknet market (likely bitcoin's largest transactional use case) explains how to do this Probably the easiest way is Samourai Wallet
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Yes there is, sometimes they don't even remit but rather use btc. I send $10 a month to ~5 people in Venezuela and it's one of the only ways now to help out and/or live there
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I just started a new scrapy project with: https://github.com/clemfromspace/scrapy-puppeteer best of all worlds
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You can still use DoH with your ISP - it's about finally encrypting DNS requests in transit The reason why ISPs are afraid is because they know that given the choice most people wouldn't opt for ISP hosted DNS since they have a hi
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Every street corner is still a lot cheaper then running it to every premisis Rollout costs follow an almost power law[1] when you chart FTTP, FTTB, FTTC, FTTN[0] connection costs [0] to the premisis, basement, curb and node respectively [1]
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In my consulting I switched from rolling out ElasticSearch on Azure, AWS or on-prem to Algolia and couldn't be happier. I want to scope and build products and not be a sysadmin - clients don't want to do any of it, let alone hirin
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Darkweb child porn site busted by feds by following Bitcoin trail(bloomberg.com)
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Would you prefer Amazon outsource their warehouse operation staffing or hire them direct and pay them $15 an hour? Seems people would gripe either way
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I would actually like to look at this dataset - my anecdotal experience is that ex-[Google|Twitter|Paypal|Facebook|Uber] etc. find it easier to get funding but their outcomes may be no different It would have to be based on valuation built
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I know China defenders take whataboutism and moral relativism to extremes but not even the Soviet Union stooped so low to justify any of their actions with "But, Pepsi"
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Masayoshi Son took what Yuri Milner did but supercharged it - we all thought Milner and his investments and valuations were insane ($3.5 billion for Facebook - nuts!), but Softbank took it to a whole new level and ran out of growth to inves
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you're right that Google X is a money sink - one of the first things Ruth Porat did when she came in is take an axe to it as it had been a sore point with instutitional investors for a while "lets do Google X but with $100 billion
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> I wrote one once, and it was a couple hundred lines of code. This demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the problem domain edit: rather than cheapshot with a throwaway comment i'll expand on this - from my experience what Ga

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