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by ww520 4y ago
Fund can be borrowed. As attested in last the couple months, billions of funds were borrowed to bet on the market one way or the other. Borrowing a billion dollars to subvert the network for a short duration sounds like a feasible strateg
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by ww520 4y ago
What are the checking mechanisms that 2/3 of the nodes are not colluding together? In other words how do you prove someone owning 51% or 2/3 of the network?
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by ww520 4y ago
Oh yeah. The unsubscribe page is a minefield of dark patterns, with innocent links leading to continuing the membership. I was pissed enough by then to pay extra attention to get rid of it.
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by ww520 4y ago
It doesn't help that dark patterns used by well known websites normalizing the problems. That other day I got a credit card charge notification of $154 from my bank about a charge from Amazon. I didn't buy anything from Amazon rec
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by ww520 4y ago
Bigger machine doesn't automatically mean higher performance. The code needs to scale with the increased number of cores, has share-nothing or share-very-little approach to avoid contention, and uses efficient data structure to utiliz
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by ww520 4y ago
Reddit got a $150 million investment from Tencent.
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by ww520 4y ago
DMV doesn't care who pays it. They won't process the title transfer of the car as long as there're unpaid taxes or fines. Imagine I've already paid the money to make the purchase, and later going to DMV to transfer the
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by ww520 4y ago
Story time. I was looking to buy a 911 in the past. Found one at a dealership. The car was 3 years old, just off lease, in good condition, and with no accidents shown in Carfax. I searched the VIN number in the state’s DMV car registration
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by ww520 4y ago
I generally just use expect(), assert!, or unreachable! rather than simply unwrap() to document the unexpected invalid state.
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by ww520 4y ago
Seriously how do you measure the median of GDP per capita? Do you measure the GDP output of each person of the population and take the middle person's GDP outpt?
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by ww520 4y ago
This is a great list.
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by ww520 4y ago
It's easy to put out something algorithmic generated. It's more difficult to make them approaching art. It's even more difficult to make it seemingly creative.
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by ww520 4y ago
Having is the where-clause for Group By. It's easier to understand by thinking the SQL query as a pipeline. Stage 1: From returns the whole world of rows. Stage 2: Where filters down to the desired set of rows. Stage 3: Group By aggre
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by ww520 4y ago
Why does it have to the coal or gas? Why not geothermal, solar, wind, or tidal wave?
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by ww520 4y ago
Same way people dig up oil, sell it for cash, and put it in the bank.
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by ww520 4y ago
I do see one use of Bitcoin - harvesting energy in remote places where the electricity transmission cost is prohibitively high. Cheap energy in remote places that have no chance of transmitted out for normal usage is converted to value in
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by ww520 4y ago
Extendible hashing allows space efficient growable hashtable on disk, with a maximum of two reads to reach the data page, and an extremely simple and efficient way to grow the hashtable.
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by ww520 4y ago
"Skin in the game" = option to buy.
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by ww520 4y ago
SEC should use some of award damage to hire more people.
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by ww520 4y ago
That's a minuscule amount spread over 10 years for the huge markets watched by SEC. SEC probably should have done more to encourage more whistleblowers coming forward.
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by ww520 4y ago
3D print tabletop game pieces. Lots of tabletop games use cards. Having physical pieces adds a nice touch.
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by ww520 4y ago
BMW sells heated seat subscriptions to car owners, starting with $18 a month.
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by ww520 4y ago
Is this a competitive barrier for Starlink? Or is this a response to the Starlink competition?
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by ww520 4y ago
Nothing in particular. I checked HN in the morning. Hmm, it's down. I went ahead to have breakfast, played a round of games, called up some hotel to resolve some reservation issue, checked up on the various ways of embedding 3D mode
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by ww520 4y ago
For latency and bandwidth, LEO beats GEO hands down.
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by ww520 4y ago
There might not be enough data to train a NN, and it's probably prone to overfitting the model. It's a similar problem to using NN to predict the stock market. You might have better luck with shallow learning statistical techniq
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by ww520 4y ago
I thought this guide is great. Not sure why people are upset with it. It’s not the be all end all definite guide to the topic, but it definitely helps. I especially like the examples given that remove ambiguity in explaining the concepts.
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by ww520 4y ago
They were misrepresenting their FDIC status if they were claiming FDIC covering their company's failure. They might be cleaning their language to avoid legal problems.
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by ww520 4y ago
They are misrepresenting their FDIC status if they claim FDIC covers their company's failure.
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by ww520 4y ago
Your cash is FDIC insured in regarding to Metropolitan failure. Your cash is not FDIC insured in regarding to Voyager failure. Omnibus account is a shared account which Voyager has absolute control. See their language below where Metropoli

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