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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
I think the "hacker" is going to have a massive fraud lawsuit on their hands against the DAO. Combine that with bad faith arguments for punitive damages and they can probably wipe out the entire organization.
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There was no hack. The contact executed as designed. The "hack" was the scramble to figure out how to scuttle a valid transaction.
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I think the original proposition is just a tautology. What does it mean to "know" something? I think it is equivalent to being able to complete an "exercise". The fallacy here is thinking that the exercises in a book are
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
I'd guess that putting the brain and body in novel states would stimulate all kinds of effects. Do you know of any more general studies on novel states? Does the impact of the treatment (TMS) reduce over time (not persistent effects, b
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Companies only act through their employees. You are an employee, so you either need to fix the company or stop being an employee.
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I've heard that actual scientists and economists are just a type of professional writer, as they must "publish or perish". I've even heard that in those publications, there is a push towards constructing narratives and t
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
The full source (not counting all of the code behind to process the scene [mathbox, three.js, babel/jsx transpiler]; though you can view that at the github repo) for the scene is in the textarea to the right. If you set the `bend={1}`
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Too bad, so sad. How can you estimate something that isn't done? You can throw some words out there, but they are likely meaningless. If you are operating solely on predictive ROI, then maybe investing in ambitious software projects is
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
>If I am running a business that is looking at what projects to fund for the next year, and one of those projects is a software project with an unknowable time to completion vs (for example) opening a new store, with a well known time to
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#1 only applies to companies wanting to keep their code secret. Companies with all open source code do not need to publish to private repos/images.
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[note: title was edited without notice or consent]
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Wouldn't Humble need to be in on the laundering then? Or are the launderers able to be in cahoots with the publisher of games?
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How exactly does the laundering happen in this scheme? Isn't the money just being sent to Humble, never to return to the person who sent it?
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Show HN: Integer Factors Wrapped on a Sphere(blakelapierre.github.io)
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Ah, OK. I think Google might need the "Slideout windows" [0] patent for their web-based Maps product? [0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7325204B2/en?assignee=Ya...
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What interesting patents does Yahoo! hold (or had placed in some troll vehicle)?
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Cloudflare also runs a MITM operation on TLS connections.
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Oops, that should have been an is .
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A checksum is an integer. Stating an integer is fair.
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Who is telling us this? Really, the great debate? Also, where can we get stats on the flag count?
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The project was under Sam Altman [0], lead investor of the raise: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hwr02/i_am_sam_altma... [0] http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/fundraisi
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What is the relevance of this comment? The person arrested was "global head of foreign exchange cash trading". Is it normal for global heads to be making routine trades all day? (the article indicates it is not; again, only three
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Do you know where I can find the announcement of the death of the pledge and analysis of how it likely violated SEC rules? I believe Y Combinator was the force behind the pledge, why would they push for and publicly announce something that
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
I would like to see some reporting on the 10% of reddit's recent $50 million raise that will be distributed to the users. Recent changes (eg. stealth adding link tracking) and comments (eg. Huffman's, we know everything about you
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The author alludes that the traders would have been making those trades "all day", but suspiciously absent is any evidence that they actually had. According to the facts reported, the traders only traded pounds on three days over
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Wouldn't mining trillion+ dollar asteroids make you a fortune?
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>You know why Ford turns a profit? Because they've gotten those economies of scale. Ford was immediately profitable, was it not? Even before implementing an assembly line?
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None of that seems to make a case for "automatic respect".
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>Of course, I'm a tall well-built, well-dressed white guy, i.e. all the things that automatically command respect. ? None of those things automatically command respect.
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Ethereum is fully open-source (that is my understanding anyway; I have never used it), so all the code is known. Further, anyone may participate, or not; contribute code, or not; promote and run their own protocols, or not. Congressional el

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