0xFreebie

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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
il on May 15, 2013 >As the anarchists and idealists on HN will soon learn, the decentralized nature of Bitcoin won't make a difference if anyone transmitting it is in violation of federal law. https://news.ycombinator.com
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Naw I removed it. Just idle speculation. I'll put it in my about if you want to repost.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
It absolutely still exists. Here is a chart that shows how regularly it happens. https://www.statista.com/chart/5824/ios-iphone-compatibility...
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Ah, Marvin the Paranoid Android, thank you.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Was Marvin named after Marvin Minsky?
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In Time (2011 Film)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Might their be some need to legislate chip allocation? What would sink GDP more: one year of no new cars, or one year of no new phones? Which would have the greater domino effect on the economy? Because auto manufacturers are such low marg
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Long ago, the accuracy would decline as scar tissue formed around implanted electrodes. Not sure if that's changed in recent years as techniques improved.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
A loose remaining proxy will be the ratio of like count to view count. Perhaps one of those will be axed next. I don't understand why complaining creators don't just turn off voting.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Because they are pivoting to being an ad company like Google.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Old people will show up and say: "Paid Firefox, I remember that when it failed as Netscape." Although technically that was Netscape Communicator? Maybe times have changed though.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Anyone have stats on how much it costs to run Wikipedia's collection of websites? Do they release itemized expenses (servers, programmers, lawyers, management, etc)?
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
There are also the reports about Wifi affecting plants. https://www.eurekaselect.com/141391/article But "Wifi allergies" seem like a myth. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
It's strange that Apple requires a billing address to download free apps. That was unexpected given the marketing.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
I can't decide if Facebook's usage of the word "safety" is more Kafkaesque or Orwellian. Where did this bizarre usage come from?
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
It sounds like the clearest example of a Ponzi scheme in my lifetime.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
There's more about this amazing story at Paul's substack https://zeroshillings.substack.com/p/it-was-never-supposed-t... with the original blog post at https://blog.deversifi.com/23-7-million-
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Extensions are not allowed, because of course... It also self updated, even if you have that turned off.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
It's jarring because I've never seen advertising on any of the dozen substacks I've visited before. This one has so many ads .
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
You know, PvE is really underrated. I find playing against bots to be more fun, easier to gauge skill progress, and a better time with friends than playing against overmatched humans, whether cheating or not. Losing 50% of your matches isn
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
I wish Ray Monk would write a biography of Alan Turing. He is an excellent biographer.
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Pentalobe Screw(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
I've recently had the experience of getting a spam email that allowed the spammer to add an appointment to my Google Calendar without my permission - even though I never enabled such a feature, never communicated with the sender before
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Past time? She left in February.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Here is some context: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/i8nuyb/firefox_de...
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
The way things are going, Firefox will have to drop their rendering engine for Webkit. What they're doing now is unsustainable.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Unfortunately, this is what actual Mozilla developers think about posts like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20200731211652/https://www.twitt... It's sad.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
Your right. This should be flagged.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
The same reason Microsoft changed their business strategy in the late 1990s. If Apple keeps it up, they will be split up.
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by 0xFreebie 5y ago
That's a good question. I know my comment sounds defeatist. Another commenter suggested requiring trades be announced in advance. Sometimes blind-trusts are used, but there's not much to show they make a difference. Opening up

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