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by aazaa 5y ago
> Some banks have already begun dabbling in these areas without regulatory clarity. Earlier this month, U.S. Bancorp (USB.N) announced it was launching a cryptocurrency custody service for institutional investment managers. This is fasci
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by aazaa 5y ago
> It's extremely HackerNews-ish of you to propose that the author of the article ignores your pet theory. What pet theory is that? All I did was to mention two historical episodes that preceded the event under discussion, and which
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by aazaa 5y ago
The article begins with the idea that the causes of the Great Depression are not known or too numerous to pin down. It then continues by claiming that "recent scholarship has resulted in striking agreement on the reason for the crisis.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> I wish I had a happier note to end this on, but honestly, my biggest takeaway from the whole experience is that maybe some puzzles just can’t be solved. We can try to attribute Jack’s problems to intrinsic biological/psychological
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Fork Freshness: Project lifespans in the Ruby ecosystem(gilesbowkett.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
> ... recently I’ve heard of some ships not even waiting to load empty TEU’s as they normally would and instead they are immediately leaving for China, literally empty. If this is happening, what would be the consequences of allowing eve
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by aazaa 5y ago
> It seems that everyone now agrees that the bottleneck is yard space at the container terminals. The terminals are simply overflowing with containers, which means they no longer have space to take in new containers either from ships or
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by aazaa 5y ago
This article reminds me of every other article I've seen about blockchain voting. None of them start with a threat model. None of them talk about what's broken with voting. Mostly they just dive into technology, relying on the rea
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Harlan Ellison wrote Star Trek’s greatest episode. He hated it. (2018)(vox.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
I'd be interested in a link to this legal theory and its application under US Law. Barring that, what sections of the AGPL are you looking at to make that claim?
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by aazaa 5y ago
Not from what I understand. Your copyright (by default) gives you standing. If you hold no copyright, you have no standing to claim copyright infringement.
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by aazaa 5y ago
You're right. Deleting... Oops, can't do that, it appears.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> I and my colleagues at Software Freedom Conservancy are experts at investigating non-compliance with copyleft license and enforcing those licenses once we confirm the violations. We will be following this issue very closely and demandi
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by aazaa 5y ago
That website is a catastrophe. The banner on the left prevents the intro text from being read. There's also a banner on the right which is similar in behavior. Neither can be dismissed. Text can't be copied without dragging along
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund, which has over $4 billion of assets, said it invested $25 million in Bitcoin and Ether through NYDIG, a Bitcoin-focused subsidiary of asset manager Stone Ridge. This is a space to w
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FDA authorizes booster, mix and match doses of Moderna and J&J vaccines(lite.cnn.com)
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ProShares Bitcoin ETF enters as second-most traded ETF in history(etfstream.com)
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China's housing market slid into a deep freeze(asia.nikkei.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
> Since we do not have default arguments in Rust, in order to initialize such structure we would have to list all fields: I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Default: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/def
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by aazaa 5y ago
Not even the same league of event. The value overflow incident was a flaw in the protocol implementation itself. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident The DAO hack resulted from a poorly-written contract.
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by aazaa 5y ago
> One of the reasons why eating in cemeteries become a “fad,” as some reporters called it, was that epidemics were raging across the country: Yellow fever and cholera flourished, children passed away before turning 10, women died during
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by aazaa 5y ago
It may be counterintuitive, but the best thing that could happen to Bitcoin would be for Tether to collapse in a cloud of dust. Tether is continually cited as a large risk factor to Bitcoin by people who have gotten past the "it's
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by aazaa 5y ago
The problem with the long analogy is that it's serial, not random access. You have to read the entire thing to understand the writer's message. But I think it can be summarized as follows: > “And this is the way everyone is doi
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The "iBuyer" model used by Zillow and other real estate companies entails purchasing homes directly from sellers, and then re-listing the properties after doing minor work. But thanks to the current shortage on labor and mate
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Bitcoin's First ETF Hits the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday(cnet.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
I'm going to simplify the framework here: - give yourself a stable income - give yourself energy - manage your well-being Unfortunately, this is also a framework for being a non-producer of side-projects. One element that's missin
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by aazaa 5y ago
What's the story here? Why is this front page news? It's an open blockchain. You can see transactions. That's not news in itself.
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ProShares Bitcoin Futures ETF to Start NYSE Trading on Tuesday(coindesk.com)
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by aazaa 5y ago
Original title: "Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies after complications from Covid-19" From the article: > "We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a gre
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by aazaa 5y ago
Odd that there's no video introduction. The first hit I found on Google had two ads and was a guy basically wandering around the app as if he had never used it before. > Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder

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