SevenNation

5 ms·

1.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> ... This site works primarily by analyzing for each user the frequencies of the most common words and phrases in the English language. Accordingly, the easiest way to avoid being identified is to simply use different words than you ord
2.
by SevenNation 4y ago
There are more (non-FB) images here: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/if-jodorowsky-directed-t...
3.
by SevenNation 4y ago
Highly misleading title. The actual text of the bill is available here: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A7389 The subjects of this policy are not miners, but "electric generating faciliti
4.
The waning days of DEI's dominance(world.hey.com)
9 points by SevenNation 4y ago|0 comments
5.
by SevenNation 4y ago
Here's the part explaining the active chemistry: > The team were also surprised to detect sulfur dioxide, which had appeared as a mysterious bump in early observation data. Its presence suggests a photochemical reaction is taking pl
6.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> The largest elephant in the room to address is probably Rust. ... Breaking this down, I can only find two practical problems the author has with Rust: - long compile times - the ownership model ("the borrow checker") The rest
7.
by SevenNation 4y ago
The code makes it clear that the --release flag is being used, but not the text. Sometimes optimization posts written by authors trying to up their skills end with a "...and then I turned on the release flag and tada - 80% improvement.
8.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> With Rust, though, one needs to learn entirely new ideas — things like lifetimes, ownership, and the borrow checker. Those three things are actually just different facets of the same thing: ownership. The bad news is that you must lear
9.
by SevenNation 4y ago
I didn't see anything about the hiring process needed to get high-documentation culture to work. Many developers don't write well. Some don't empathize with the reader and so can't communicate complex ideas effectively.
10.
by SevenNation 4y ago
Here's a simple question: what is NATO's goal in this conflict? If it is, as some officials have suggested, to throw the Russian army back across the pre-2014 borders, how exactly could that happen? If militarily, that almost cert
11.
A history of ARM, part 2: Everything starts to come together(arstechnica.com)
2 points by SevenNation 4y ago|0 comments
12.
CFA Franc(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by SevenNation 4y ago|0 comments
13.
by SevenNation 4y ago
Facilitating the exchange of stored value for goods and services without a trusted third party.
14.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> ... What is the point of it without exchanges? The point is that exchange of bitcoin for goods and services is possible without trusted third parties. Whether you approve of what is being traded is a separate question.
15.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> Holmes in January was found guilty of four charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Wikipedia has this short lay description of wire fraud: > In layman's terms, anyone trying to scam other people or groups thr
16.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> The disappointment is that, 14 years after the Bitcoin blockchain was invented, little of this promise has been realised. Crypto’s frenzy drew in talent from bright graduates to Wall Street professionals, and capital from vc firms, sov
17.
by SevenNation 4y ago
Follow the links through the other article gives this: > Bankman-Fried and FTX “management practices included the use of an unsecured group email account as the root user to access confidential private keys and critically sensitive data
18.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> On Wednesday, the crisis touched a high-profile crypto lender run by the billionaire twins Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, forcing them to halt withdrawals from their Gemini Earn crypto lending program. ... The Gemini Earn pro
19.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> Third-quarter revenue [automotive] was $251 million, up 86% from a year ago and up 14% from the previous quarter. There's some impressive growth there. What kind of moat does the company have on this?
20.
Correction: Russia-Ukraine-War Story(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by SevenNation 4y ago|0 comments
21.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> Bankman-Fried has maintained that FTX has never invested the deposits of crypto account holders on the exchange. I pressed him on that point via Twitter, and while he continued to insist that FTX did not directly use account money in t
22.
by SevenNation 4y ago
It's puzzling that there don't appear to be any other likely-neutral accounts of this case. Nothing in a local paper or local TV news. No essays or posts. Zip. The case is a year old. The only thing is the gofundme page linked i
23.
by SevenNation 4y ago
Having watched the video, the kind of content Notion AI generates is the kind I typically stop reading after a few sentences. By then it becomes clear that the article has nothing to say, was written by a non-expert, and is really nothing m
24.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> Everyone can agree on one thing about the past year. It has revealed quite how little economists understand inflation, including both what causes it and what causes it to persist. ... The larger problem is the lack of a common definiti
25.
by SevenNation 4y ago
It appears the company is saying that the trading/custody business is not affected, but loan redemptions and originations are. This Bloomberg article has more: > Crypto brokerage Genesis is suspending redemptions and new loan origin
26.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> This U.S. proof-of-concept project is experimenting with the concept of a regulated liability network. It will test the technical feasibility, legal viability, and business applicability of distributed ledger technology to settle the l
27.
The Death of Decentralized Email(blog.lopp.net)
4 points by SevenNation 4y ago|0 comments
28.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> Yet there is the belief that you can somehow create a coherent experience into a “whatever”. Whatever it is actually. My first mastodon instance was de-federated by accident from my current instance. I moved to that instance though bec
29.
by SevenNation 4y ago
> A lot of requests don’t make sense, because people have not yet learned about the platform. Like “Why isn’t Mastodon a single server?” We're not going to jump on the opportunity to undo all of the decentralization. The word "
30.
by SevenNation 4y ago
The user growth is high enough that at any given time roughly half of the people involved have been at it for less than 18 months. So the space is dominated by the least-savvy and has been for some time. Many people will never be capable of

More ›