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by yuan43 4y ago
> The Calvine UFO photograph is in my opinion the best image of an unidentified flying object ever taken. And yet the no evidence for this is presented in the entire article. Government cover-up/friction is not evidence of authentic
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by yuan43 4y ago
The effect of all of this nonsense will to drive developers into pseudonymity. It won't solve the "problem" of developers building privacy tools. It won't stop experimentation with shitcoins. But it will eliminate the ph
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Drought hits Germany's Rhine River: 'We have 30cm of water left'(bbc.com)
2 points by yuan43 4y ago|0 comments
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by yuan43 4y ago
See for yourself: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
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by yuan43 4y ago
> However, we cannot control the medication that we take, which carry side effects. What makes you say that? The medications one takes are due in part to decisions made earlier in life, which result in conditions experience later for whi
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by yuan43 4y ago
> ... Arcane Research estimated that in Q1 22, Lightning facilitated $20–30M in monthly payments. That’s a 4x YoY increase, but a far cry from the $866B Visa facilitates each month. It's worth noting the scorn and hate once thrown o
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by yuan43 4y ago
> No creative impulse, just worries about chores/bills/obligation and painful memories... and later: > Does anyone know a way to truly rekindle the creative spark after it's completely died? Take an unreasonably keen in
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by yuan43 4y ago
And yet the website is still functional and apparently still taking deposits, notwithstanding the easily-ignored popup and banner saying that withdrawals are suspended. https://celsius.network
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by yuan43 4y ago
I don't get it. It seems that some context is missing. Is this parody? Why is this the top story on HN? Why do I see SQL at the bottom of the highly-touted wet/dry search page? > SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT vacid) FROM vac ; http:&#
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by yuan43 4y ago
> To be sure, the Covid-induced pandemic saw Meta embark on a massive hiring spree, growing its number of full-time staff from 48,000 at the end of 2019 to more than 77,800 — a 62 per cent jump. But now the firm must “prioritise more rut
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by yuan43 4y ago
It looks like this only checks one of the blacklisted addresses. For the full set, see: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/... Blacklists have been a topic in Bitcoin for ages. The probl
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by yuan43 4y ago
This is why you don't publish addresses. Ever. You use them once and toss them. Any system that requires otherwise is subject to the same fate as Tornado eventually. That said, blacklists are an asinine idea cooked up by people eager t
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by yuan43 4y ago
This is one reason answering questions on StackOverflow is so rewarding. You can save future you a ton of trouble by putting a (better) answer there and then stumbling onto it later. Ditto blog posts. Power tip: this also works for personal
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by yuan43 4y ago
The author notes that API simplicity might be a reason to avoid pushing invariants to compile time: > What do I mean by “API simplicity?” Well, this panic could be removed by moving this runtime invariant to a compile time invariant. Nam
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by yuan43 4y ago
> Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of ‘forever chemicals’, according to new research. And yet the title of the research paper, the journal in which it was published, or even the vaguest description of the experiment
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by yuan43 4y ago
This article is a bit old, so it doesn't mention the latest story to have hit /r/exmormon: https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-church-sexual-abuse-invest...
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by yuan43 4y ago
From the Helium home page: > Using a Burn-and-Mint Equilibrium token model, The People’s Network utilizes two units of exchange: HNT and Data Credits. Here's a simple heuristic to separate "crypto" wheat from chaff: is a &
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by yuan43 4y ago
> Whenever F2Pool's block timestamps reach the point where mining difficulty is supposed to decrease, they artificially set them to be one second earlier. F2Pool has been executing this attack over the past two years, and the eviden
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SlamBall, the high-flying trampoline-infused basketball game, to return(ftw.usatoday.com)
1 points by yuan43 4y ago|0 comments
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by yuan43 4y ago
NPR ran a story yesterday on the Oakland Public Library's collection of things found in books: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/02/1114851706/library-notes-book...
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Senate Bill Classifying Bitcoin as a Digital Commodity to Be Introduced Today(bitcoinmagazine.com)
8 points by yuan43 4y ago|0 comments
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by yuan43 4y ago
What were the prevailing job market conditions when the pay cut was tried?
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by yuan43 4y ago
> ... your best people will just leave. Where is the evidence for this? I get that it seems like what would happen, but where are the cases proving that's what happened? Especially in an economy shedding jobs, there may not be many
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by yuan43 4y ago
Why not cut pay across the board? I know this is not the cultural norm, but I am curious how long this norm can persist. Without the ability to cut pay, layoffs are the only option for companies burning cash and losing altitude. That locks
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by yuan43 4y ago
> tl;dr a routine upgrade marked the zero hash as a valid root, which had the effect of allowing messages to be spoofed on Nomad. Attackers abused this to copy/paste transactions and quickly drained the bridge in a frenzied free-fo
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by yuan43 4y ago
The greybeard in this case appears to be, not an employee, but an owner. Maybe he's acting as a consultant, or maybe he's supporting the product his company makes. What about greybeards trying to interview for coding (not manageme
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by yuan43 4y ago
> As several of these statements blatantly contradict one another, I went back to the data and ran the same sanity check that I did with Facebook above. In other words, what if Google is using the hiring freeze as a smoke screen and only
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South Korea’s Chip Stockpile Swells in Warning Sign for Exports(bloomberg.com)
2 points by yuan43 4y ago|0 comments
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by yuan43 4y ago
Couple of thoughts. 1. In the background you can hear a series of two or three chimes/tones. This was a constant part of the department store experience. It was a communication system that I guess eliminated the need to tell customers
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by yuan43 4y ago
From the Welcome: > A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

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