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   by zubairq 3y ago

   I need to do this as well… Pretty amazing article. I end up doing a mix of autopilot and other stuff
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   by zubairq 3y ago

   I thought this explained well why decentralised systems are useful for people
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   by zubairq 3y ago

   One of the best discussions in a long time I have seen about smart homes, thanks
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   by zubairq 3y ago

   Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman was such an influential book for me! It was so readable and I believe it helped alot of people become interested in science, which was usually portrayed as a very boring topic
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   by zubairq 3y ago

   I heard so much about GEOS but never used it. Did anyone here ever use it a lot? I would be interested to hear about their experience
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   by zubairq 3y ago

   I think what this article is saying is that there are so many companies that are run badly and whose costs have run out of control, that outside investors (PE companies in this case) see that they can run them much more efficiently (ie: muc
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   by zubairq 3y ago

   So interesting to learn about Prince, whose music was such a huge part of the world growing up in the 1990s
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   by zubairq 3y ago

   Thinking about tinkerable software, this is one of the promises that crypto offers in my opinion, as it decouples the front end from the back end in a very clean way. This gives the ability for anyone to add a different front end to any pur
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   by zubairq 3y ago

   I have heard so much about HTMX but never really “got” the essence of it. This finally brought me a bit closer, thanks!
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    I love the game of monopoly! Always interested in the different winning strategies but cutting off others from buying a street was always my best winning strategy
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    I didn’t know that the hacker news demographic had changed so much. Are there any stats on this anywhere or is it a general feeling that you have? And if so then where do all the hackers hang out now?
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Yes this is accurate, satoshi is the unit and Bitcoin is more of a UX thing
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Yes you’re right, “fractional banking” may have been a bad choice of words on my part. The point I was trying to get across was that assets given to a crypto exchange would be lent out and used, instead of custodied. This is the same as a b
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Yes it would be clear. According to this site there have already been 105 forks of Bitcoin: https://forkdrop.io/how-many-bitcoin-forks-are-there
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Yes everyone with keys will have access to addresses on both forks. Which is why people have access to both “Bitcoin” and forked “Bitcoin Cash” addresses with one set of keys
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    The amount of fake bitcoins traded by exchanges and custodians probably exceeded 21 million already over the last 5 years. Hence, “not your keys, not your coins”
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Bitcoin keys in bank vaults guarded by security guards is exactly what is happening. I wrote about this almost 10 years ago here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-163-zubair-2015-bitcoin-p... My timeline for when thi
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    iShares is blackrock
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Actually a huge amount of Bitcoin that people bought from large institutions over the last 5 - 10 years was already not on the blockchain. (1) a customer would go to an exchange’s website and purchase 1 Bitcoin (2) the exchange would add 1
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    I’ve always wondered about DNA from a programming language point of view and always thought it was more like a data structure than a language
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Nice, I didn’t even know that ZIP bombs existed! I have seen some huge spam traffic on servers I run in the past so this will be a good tool for me to use. Thanks
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Good point. I don’t use red planet labs product myself either, but in a world where it is hard to get people to even consider your product the article did work
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    I always think of the one golden rule of interface design to be: Don’t make me think!
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    I learnt something important about webassembly today from this. Thank you!
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Agreed that this article is an advert for a certain database type, but the advert for red planet labs worked. I certainly read it! :)
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    My understanding of this Windows vs Linux OS development article is that it is a great description of why open source beats closed source for large complex projects. Please correct me if I am wrong, instead of just downvoting me. I am here
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    I always think of these loops too. I also liked the quote: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." —Bruce Lee
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    I like the idea of this time travelling computer language. It got my head buzzing with all sorts of ideas about time travel in the real world too, and parallel universes!
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    I like all these new use cases for SQLite, which appears to be a new platform itself
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    by zubairq 3y ago

    Yeah it does feel like all the websites have gone, it only the static ones