Calamity

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by Calamity 29d ago
Although it has nothing to do with me, what a pleasure it was to read your comment.
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by Calamity 2mo ago
Indeed, I truly don't understand how simply enabling parental controls onto mobile devices handed to kids which then gets advertised to each website/app that they use isn't sufficient. You make it an opt-in feature to "s
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by Calamity 2mo ago
The combo of mise + UV has made my development environment setup/recreation so seamless. We've come a long way. (Props to your work on mise)
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by Calamity 2mo ago
I mean, okay sure, but modify the counterexample they suggested slightly and then it's the same thing. If GM promised to "rent out" (instead of buy back) the cars it sold to Hertz as a backstop (if not enough customers are re
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by Calamity 3y ago
One of my favorite thought nuggets from Douglas Adams
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by Calamity 3y ago
how well does this actually pan out for you?
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by Calamity 5y ago
Interested if you could elaborate further here or have some pointers to good references. I feel like I'm at a turning point in my life where I'm starting to see things a little differently. Sometimes bewildered by how little knowl
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by Calamity 5y ago
Thanks for the input Troy. Although I can see the reasons for it, transfer restrictions seems to me a little like the company has too much control over its shares - but like you said, they aren't "privately-traded securities"
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Ask HN: Is it possible to execute options but then sell the shares to employees?
2 points by Calamity 5y ago|3 comments
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by Calamity 5y ago
Yeh, definitely - I appreciate the input nonetheless!
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by Calamity 5y ago
Sure, but you can still track those individuals through the block chain and freeze all their other "classic" assets in the US. All I'm saying is that the argument that it's a good "anonymous" form of currency i
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by Calamity 5y ago
Yeh, I had actually briefly looked into after writing that comment and found the same - interesting that Paul came up with his own version of LISP to do it in. If you wanted to remake it in a modern framework though, what stack would you pe
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by Calamity 5y ago
Thanks for the input oblib! Will check it out
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by Calamity 5y ago
And actually, re: "The only real, pragmatic usecases are fueling ransomware, drugs and illicit cross-border transactions", arguably, will all the KYC checks needed now along with all the coin tracking software being developed to t
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by Calamity 5y ago
Yes, you're spot on. Thanks for catching that. It was late, brain slipped up on me ;) Shame it's too late to edit - it does make it confusing
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by Calamity 5y ago
Thanks for the pointer! Will look into it
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by Calamity 5y ago
That's fair enough haha! I guess just looking for a pet project to get started with.
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by Calamity 5y ago
Say you wanted to recreate hackernews as a toy project - what stack would you use nowadays to achieve that most efficiently?
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by Calamity 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for the feedback. Didn't even consider the whole innate multicore support.
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by Calamity 5y ago
Here's perhaps a controversial and less heard argument: The core concept of bitcoin is that it is decentralized and away from the prying "government". That's what also gives it its "safe haven" allure in much t
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by Calamity 5y ago
Thanks for the brutally honest reply :) I guess part of my question is Django still as relevant today or is it losing 'market share' and finding devs to help out in the future is going to prove a lot more difficult.
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Ask HN: Go-To Web Stack Today?
10 points by Calamity 5y ago|30 comments
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by Calamity 5y ago
Unless PWAs really took off, in which case, you wouldn't need to develop for the custom linux phone - you would just need a supported browser.
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by Calamity 5y ago
So, by the same token, do you observe the galaxy you're approaching age quickly? On "fast-forward" if one could imagine that?
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by Calamity 5y ago
I think you would just get a lot less research overall. It might lead to a better fraction of research being of higher quality, but in absolute terms, it would be a drastic cut. R&D is always going to be a sunk cost, especially when exp
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by Calamity 5y ago
This would indeed be great, but the impact on one's career of reproducing another's work would have to be equivalent to that of the original publication on the original author's career. Otherwise, nobody will want to spend th
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by Calamity 5y ago
Having the citation's impact on one's H-index decay with author position would cause an interesting stir to the "academic game". I wonder if we would start seeing supervisor's bully for first authorship.
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by Calamity 6y ago
Indeed - something often misunderstood as always recorded from the perspective of a third party observer. Quick follow up question. If you did depart and travelled at near-ligth speed to another galaxy, arrived there in a few seconds and th
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by Calamity 6y ago
That's beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
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by Calamity 6y ago
Solipsism fitting into camp a)? I always wondered: If you believe in only "One" - one consciousness, one unity - does that de facto make you a solipsist?

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