jasonlingx

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by jasonlingx 1y ago
An alternative is using an eSIM with an “internet breakout” via another country. Esimdb is a good place to start.
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by jasonlingx 1y ago
He could’ve skipped the intermediate steps and made it a one-liner by piping the sql dump over ssh right into the sqlite3 reconstruction command.
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by jasonlingx 4y ago
Depends what you mean by “holding” USD. Is it under your mattress? Or in a bank? Is it a bank in Venezuela or Lebanon? Holding USDT is kind of holding USD. You just have Tether in the middle. Main utility (value?) of stablecoins is to “brid
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by jasonlingx 4y ago
If Tether is insolvent then better to ban it earlier than later, before it becomes even “too bigger” to fail.
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by jasonlingx 4y ago
The other stablecoins are unaffected though…
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by jasonlingx 4y ago
So here’s where there might be some confusion, Binance consolidates a pool of different stable coins into 1 “BUSD” balance for its users[0]. Depositing any of these stablecoins into Binance will add to your BUSD balance, and you can withdra
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by jasonlingx 4y ago
Why not just use or alias ‘mv’ to trash?
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by jasonlingx 4y ago
In the article, a Wizz Air rep explained it’s meant to charge bots and other automations for booking, but is catching users who use ad blockers as a false positive.
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by jasonlingx 4y ago
Just send it to yourself first?
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
This is it. Amount of energy spent = profits from mining / cost of energy. While price is the main factor affecting profits, fees/volume and the constantly decreasing block reward also play a part.
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
> Maybe HFT is intellectually more interesting than day-trading but I don't believe it to be very gratifying at deeper level. HFT is automated day-trading in a way, so 1 meta level more intellectually interesting I suppose.
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TikTok: Trump signs order to address 'threat' of Chinese app(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by jasonlingx 6y ago|1 comments
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
> The Supreme Court asked them to block the delivery of content inside of Brazil, for brazilians in Brazil's territory. If you read the article it’s saying the court is asking Facebook to block delivery of certain content globally,
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
The Brazilian Supreme Court is asking Facebook to block accounts globally, not only in Brazil.
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
He’s probably saying these are free apps which Apple doesn’t take any money for, and the money the developers keep are from ads or fees from clients and so on.
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
This one I made couple years ago (and haven’t checked in years) is still running for free thanks to Heroku and Cloudflare: https://github.com/jlxw/geoip
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Show HN: Static-JSON-db, a database that can be deployed as a static website(github.com)
3 points by jasonlingx 6y ago|0 comments
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
Facebook had a free simple login service, over email and SMS as well. Until they shut it down.
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
Of course, but that was my (and presumed common) use case for discrete graphics.
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that iOS has “content blockers” built in. If you google “iOS ad blocker”, AdGuard should be the first result, just install the app and flip a few switches in settings to enable it. I still haven’t actu
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
> How long till Apple GPUs can take the fight to discrete graphics? I already play Fortnite, Call of Duty, PUBG, etc at 60fps on my iPhone.
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Show HN: Playliststar.com – browse and search the most playlisted new music(playliststar.com)
2 points by jasonlingx 6y ago|0 comments
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
Browsers can’t write, only read. So you would need another way to get client input into the db if that is the requirement.
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Show HN: Static-JSON-db, The Native Jamstack Database(github.com)
2 points by jasonlingx 6y ago|0 comments
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
> FB, Have you consider adding Continuous Integration and Functional Tests questions to your Interview's questionnaire? :)
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Show HN: Static-JSON-db, The Native Jamstack Database(github.com)
3 points by jasonlingx 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: static-json-db, The Native Jamstack Database(github.com)
9 points by jasonlingx 6y ago|2 comments
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
Let’s take a step back and look at the quote in the article’s opening paragraph: “As a US business (and tech) community I think we should be significantly clearer about our horror at, and opposition to, the atrocities being committed by the
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
> They shut down a sizeable portion of downtown for a weekend every year. Literally shut it down. For a fuckin Grand Prix. They do this in Singapore too. They used to close all the roads in the city for 2 weeks just for the F1, but slowl
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by jasonlingx 6y ago
> Is that where we are heading now? That even 6 year olds get phones? Isn’t a phone just another computer? I mean, how is it worse?

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