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An Anomalous Wire Made of Manganese and Platinum(avi-loeb.medium.com)
14 points by jflatow 3y ago|2 comments
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by jflatow 3y ago
not a secret perhaps, but actively suppressed and noised up https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/the-ufo-files-of-mus... also not necessarily the first one either
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by jflatow 4y ago
The US government is not your wife no matter where you live
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by jflatow 5y ago
You need to know what NFT you have, it's all about the contract. e.g. the EtherFreakers contract is immutable and contains a git commit hash (line 83: https://etherscan.io/address/0x3a275655586a049fe860be867d10c...
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by jflatow 5y ago
Compound Labs | Senior Engineer | Full-time | Remote (US continental timezones) | https://compound.finance/ Compound is an interest rate protocol on the Ethereum blockchain, that lets developers create new financial applica
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ΞTHΞR Frξakξrs DξCξntralizξd GAMΞ(observablehq.com)
1 points by jflatow 5y ago|0 comments
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Compound v2 (Presidio) now live on Rinkeby(medium.com)
2 points by jflatow 7y ago|0 comments
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by jflatow 9y ago
I used an Amiga as a kid, and loved it. I am sure it had a profound impact on me. I never identified with a broader Amiga using community, until now. This is so cool, I'm excited to realize that the spirit lives on.
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Ask HN: Palo Alto HN drink up?
2 points by jflatow 9y ago|1 comments
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by jflatow 10y ago
In general, groups that want to suspend tolerance do so because they believe tolerating such behavior/people poses a threat to society. The people you are telling to read more liberal philosophy clearly believe that the real threat to
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JFDB: Indexing and querying mutable data with log-structured merge tries(flatown.com)
2 points by jflatow 10y ago|0 comments
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by jflatow 10y ago
Which makes me think that the lesson of this story is not "avoid forking at all costs", but that building anything universal is a fragile endeavor. Anybody can just come along and obsolete your status with respect to that goal. As
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by jflatow 10y ago
Also, congress hasn't declared war since WWII, which is required by law.
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by jflatow 10y ago
'www' should stand for wild, wild, web. In many ways, the web is a technology frontier, with all the frustration and liberation that goes along with it. I sympathize with the author. The problem is trying to tame the web, as oppos
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by jflatow 10y ago
And when what's being said doesn't fit the media narrative, they just edit it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1SUQ1qtdb0
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by jflatow 10y ago
> The article almost makes it sound like UTF-8 was a Plan9 invention. It more or less was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History
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by jflatow 10y ago
The worst part is we just have to slowly watch it happen. As Snowden says, our ability to meaningfully oppose the state has been undermined.
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by jflatow 10y ago
Who knows what she would have done if she weren't stonewalled. Your explanation is no "simpler", you're just completely disregarding the facts. People didn't just play along, she got a lot of pushback, especially
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by jflatow 10y ago
What makes you think she did all important and confidential communication on paper? Everything I've read goes counter to that. The administration didn't accept it - a lot of people questioned it and they were told never to speak o
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by jflatow 10y ago
This is the best case version (for her), and what her camp wants people to believe. Its hard to see that it's true though. The IG report is pretty clear that she willfully violated recommendations and warnings about security. I'm
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by jflatow 10y ago
Its not really about SQL or NoSQL - I believe AdRoll internally has systems that map SQL queries onto TrailDB where its needed. Its about efficiency. TrailDB compresses the hell out of event streams grouped by some key (typically user). I t
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by jflatow 10y ago
I'm so glad AdRoll finally open-sourced this. TrailDB is by far the easiest way to process trillions of events on a single machine. Can't wait for them to start publishing their internal ecosystem around it too.
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by jflatow 10y ago
What I mean is that I wonder what the internal dialogue is over this. This is more out of curiosity than indignation, I would like to be a fly on the wall to understand how this happens. It seems to me, no matter what the reason, this is th
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by jflatow 10y ago
Considering the government currently has the same power over citizens, I can't see how this argument holds up. Especially when the government is granted powers of total surveillance and mass hacking[1], there needs to be some accountab
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by jflatow 10y ago
Sure, but there are many things the FBI could be doing to be more effective. The only thing stopping them is constitutional protection of civil liberties. So I wonder what the conversation sounds like when they determine in this case, the
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by jflatow 10y ago
> The FBI wants to block individuals from knowing if their information is in a massive repository of biometric records, which includes fingerprints and facial scans, if the release of information would "compromise" a law enforc
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by jflatow 10y ago
I think this is largely about Palantir, there's been a lot of backlash as they've been slowly taking over the city. Their presence is at least an order of magnitude bigger than any other company downtown.
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by jflatow 10y ago
I sort of buy this. Anyone that doesn't should put forward a definition of free will that doesn't contradict itself.
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by jflatow 10y ago
This just begs the question though, what is the right way to tax? Assuming that you are redistributing wealth (as you describe above), taxing wealth instead of income has a profound effect. It creates an incentive for every individual to in
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by jflatow 10y ago
Yeah, I chalk this up to broken feedback loops. A separate but related problem, is that in most places it works roughly like G = TI, with a fixed T (tax rate), so that G (government budget) is a function of I (income). The tax just works li

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