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901.
by zelly 7y ago
> lets me treat my laptops like cattle rather than pets. If you lose your device, just grab another one. All your stuff is up in the cloud. Strange bug? just power wash the machine and start over. This is my argument for - Nix or Guix as
902.
by zelly 7y ago
He would still have gone to prison no matter what (the government can make up evidence), but they may not have been able to seize his Bitcoin without stealing his laptop.
903.
by zelly 7y ago
Ross Ulbricht needed this.
904.
by zelly 7y ago
It's good, don't try to stop. If you subvocalize, you comprehend what you read better.
905.
by zelly 7y ago
You probably do even if you do not realize it. Can you spot incorrect use of "a" vs. "an" in text? You're subvocalizing. Are you unable to read while talking? You're subvocalizing. The idea of not-subvocalizing
906.
by zelly 7y ago
*kibibyte
907.
by zelly 7y ago
It's impossible to get into the flow state of reading (when you are not aware you are reading) without subvocalizing. I've tried forever. It's impossible and anyone who claims to is lying or is just constantly skimming (&quot
908.
by zelly 7y ago
I was obsessed with speed reading at one point and still practice some of the techniques. I can attest to the author's recommendation to skim before reading. Especially with challenging material, I find skimming first reduces anxiety-i
909.
by zelly 7y ago
He also contributed to an Emacs package http://ergoemacs.org/misc/Richard_Stallman_and_Julian_Assang...
910.
by zelly 7y ago
The person you have to hire to manage that would cost 10x a public cloud bill
911.
by zelly 7y ago
Yes, it's very hard. They would have to completely re-architecture their systems. For e-commerce, the client can sign his or her address with the shipper's public key, so that only the shipper and the recipient are guaranteed to k
912.
by zelly 7y ago
No I'm talking about the rows in their database being ciphertext with the client having the private key
913.
by zelly 7y ago
Maybe this will convince businesses to encrypt user data end-to-end. Either lose the pennies you would've made from data mining or lose real millions from getting ransomed. Your choice.
914.
by zelly 7y ago
WASM won't kill JavaScript because there is a whole generation of programmers that actually prefers it to Python etc. and goes out of their way to use it (nodejs). There are also more technical reasons like WASM not being able to acces
915.
by zelly 7y ago
It's a different kind of programming. Two different industries basically. Python and JS were designed for small experiments. I would wager 90% of Python code per capita are single file scripts. Java is for building whole systems. The r
916.
by zelly 7y ago
Every language is becoming Rust. I love it.
917.
by zelly 7y ago
Linux only lags behind in desktop/laptop use. (Dominates servers and smartphones.) Yes, absolutely, in the case of desktops, it is <60% as good as Windows or macOS. I say this as a nearly lifelong desktop Linux user. The userspace d
918.
by zelly 7y ago
A business model based on data hoarding will never last long-term. As soon as one open source player steps up that's 60% as good, it's over. Like Encarta or Britannica vs. Wikipedia. Lasting value comes from the software in betwee
919.
by zelly 7y ago
I love getting my rides subsidized by VCs
920.
by zelly 7y ago
npm for C is apt/brew
921.
by zelly 7y ago
Is it really a time sink? You have to have a build system anyway to link together your project itself, assuming it's bigger than a single-file hello world. One extra line in your build system should be the least time consuming part of
922.
by zelly 7y ago
Short term convenience Long term technical debt
923.
by zelly 7y ago
Great point, not that I agree with your conclusion that we shouldn't care about privacy, but good point that most supposed privacy people are living in cognitive dissonance. This is why I always lol at people putting duct tape over the
924.
by zelly 7y ago
RMS doesn't even have a phone. He asks other people to use their phones if he has to make a call. He also only browses the internet by emailing himself text/HTML from a remote server.
925.
by zelly 7y ago
LineageOS + prepaid SIM card reloaded with cash in person. Never install Play Services or use any mainstream apps, only F-Droid apps. One day I will do this.
926.
by zelly 7y ago
> I can't do a cool in person coke buy with bitcoins Why not? Each of you can have Bitcoin wallets on your phones. I'm sure coke heads can figure out something to talk about for 10 minutes waiting for 1 confirmation.
927.
by zelly 7y ago
> The bills are intended to be spent hand-to-hand in meatspace with cryptographic validation. See section 2.1 [1] When I accept a physical note, do bits move on the Ethereum blockchain? If not, how do I know that it's really mine? T
928.
by zelly 7y ago
IMO this breaks the entire security model of cryptocurrency. If these bills are intended to be spent hand-to-hand in meatspace without cryptographic validation on a computer, then it is no longer a cryptocurrency. It is another paper curren
929.
by zelly 7y ago
Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people
930.
by zelly 7y ago
You wouldn't be able to sign the fake message with the fake domain unless you compromised the sender's PGP private key, which was not the vector of this attack.

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