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by iroq 5y ago
If you're aching for typespecs in Elixir being useful, but are dissapointed with Dialyzer, I recommend checking out my library Hammox: https://github.com/msz/hammox . It's an improved version of Mox, the de-fa
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by iroq 6y ago
China and India have an extremely small infection percentage - all the areas below 0.001% are filtered out. You're right, that's likely very misleading - I'll leave them in for completeness.
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by iroq 6y ago
All the informational dashboards I've seen so far have two main problems for me: 1) they show total cases including recoveries and deaths by default, bumping up countries like China 2) they sort by total cases which pushes high populat
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Show HN: Covid-19 infection ranking adjusted by population(covidhotspot.info)
5 points by iroq 6y ago|5 comments
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Securing Your Crypto Without a Hardware Wallet(michal.space)
2 points by iroq 9y ago|0 comments
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by iroq 9y ago
Nitpick: Bitcoin, being a system where the history of all transactions is publicly available, is hardly an "anonymous" system. It is an additional level of separation from other forms of payment tagged with your credentials, and y
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by iroq 9y ago
Correct, as far as I know. Breaking the cryptography with quantum computers is often raised as well, but Bitcoin can transition to a quantum-resistant algorithm if that proves to be a real danger.
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by iroq 9y ago
I describe this in the "Security in numbers" paragraph in the last part (Part Three): "As pointed out before, giving rewards for creating blocks creates an arms race in computing power. Transaction fees only magnify the effec
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by iroq 9y ago
Hi! Author here. Thanks for the appreciation! You're right, I didn't describe the details of networking. My main goal was to keep it as short as possible while still explaining the main "pillars" of Bitcoin in detail, an
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Bitcoin Workings Explained, for Real(michal.space)
32 points by iroq 9y ago|9 comments
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by iroq 9y ago
>There is a const operator, which helps ensure primitives don’t get mutated. But anything that’s not a primitive is as malleable as jell-o Making so many errors in a sentence about basic language features, when a big chunk of OP's a