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by leppr 3y ago
Yes, and that's like arguing that spaces between words is syntactic distraction. It's clearly not, more syntax rules can make a language simpler to understand (for both humans and computers).
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by leppr 3y ago
It's fine, you can still get the same feeling and experience working on mobile computing. User-respecting mobile OSes and hardware are still as unusable as the desktop Linux of 20 years ago, the incumbents are not helping at all, and t
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by leppr 3y ago
As if relying on Paypal by itself wasn't enough of a nightmare, imagine relying on Paypal directly linked to crypto stuff. Or is the value proposition here that Tilia somehow have a deal with Paypal to keep their users accounts open?
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by leppr 4y ago
Valid point which I expected to come up, but the difference is that AFAIK exfiltrating precise data with such a setup would be challenging, while the software stack is so messy that it's orders of magnitude easier to stealthily comprom
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by leppr 4y ago
Sometimes I briefly get out of my bubble and realize that the vast majority of the world population - even the first, highly educated world - still trusts their entire digital lives to a black box controlled by either 1 of 2 US companies. I
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by leppr 4y ago
You are both going around my very simple argument that these mind-blowingly huge piles of money poured into crypto scams, don't undermine the undeniable reality of crypto that is not a scam. Yes, people pouring their savings in tulips,
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by leppr 4y ago
> Simply owning digital tokens is not a real world usage of those tokens, full stop. It's as much real world usage, as people owning stocks and precious metals is. > I can fully accept that 5-25% of a countries population is g
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by leppr 4y ago
If anything, crypto at least seems to indirectly put food on your table, articbull. I would find it hard to believe you don't get any compensation from religiously covering every HN comment sections about crypto with misinformation. Su
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by leppr 4y ago
You are right. From reading the article, Neal Stephenson doesn't criticize cryptocurrency in itself. His whole criticism is about integrating it inside the universe of games. I don't agree with your opinion that item transferabili
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by leppr 4y ago
The "Wolf of Wall Street" types and various "crypto-bros" didn't "ruin it for everyone". They tarnished the connotation of the word "cryptocurrency", and wasted a lot of people of a lot of money.
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by leppr 4y ago
Are they really that pitiful compared to the global average? I think that in the English-speaking tech sphere we are just too inclined to compare to the US. But compared to the rest of the world, and outside of a few small low-tax hubs (Sin
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by leppr 4y ago
Precisely. People are struggling to internalize how much wealth inequality (both local and global) has shot up in recent years, and instead blame the symptoms of this inequality as if they're the cause. The woes Portuguese people are f
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by leppr 4y ago
The problem is not about the broadcast capabilities, they already support RSS. The problem is about their content censoring. I don't reckon Automattic reversed the "sexually explicit" purge initiated by Yahoo. I'm not in
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by leppr 4y ago
Happy to be be proven wrong as I haven't used this specific service, but the quality of Zoho mail-related offerings is so laughingly bad that I wouldn't touch any of their other products.
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by leppr 4y ago
Tumblr was very close to the perfect social media network. It's a shame it succumbed to corporate greed after the Yahoo acquisition. I really hope someone manages to recreate it as a decentralized protocol
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by leppr 4y ago
What doesn't work well about mouse scroll wheel on Linux? Its behavior is very similar to MacOS, in that it sends scroll events even to unfocused windows.
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by leppr 4y ago
If the money is stolen (as is the case in the articles' story), then yes, you can be legally compelled to return the money to its original owner.
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by leppr 4y ago
This whole episode should hopefully bring donation recipients to do more due diligence on where the money comes from, before spending it. The US president, those researchers, and many, many startups are holding what is pretty directly the m
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by leppr 4y ago
The term DAO as it's used now is orthogonal to blockchain and crypto. It's mostly a term to describe codified governance/community systems. There may be point systems implemented via crypto tokens, but in the vast majority of
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by leppr 4y ago
IPFS doesn't solve permanent data availability either, the closest to "solving" this is Arweave[1] but that comes with problems of its own. It's fundamentally impossible to correctly price the availability of a "ser
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by leppr 4y ago
I'm not sure if HN is a representative audience regarding interest in ChromeOS, but personally all I hope is the money Framework makes from this allows them to release a larger model on which I can slap Linux on. Lightweight 15" l
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by leppr 4y ago
It depends what we're after. Almost all of the code in LoC percent terms might be open-source, which helps people who want to launch derivative browsers or learn from the code. But on the other hand, almost all of the Chrome instances
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by leppr 4y ago
Then we should use a less general word than "technology", because it becomes hard to reason about the problem and gives arguments to luddites who don't make the distinction. "Big tech" is short enough to be used in
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by leppr 4y ago
While traveling through Europe this summer, I noticed many small currency exchange shops process cryptocurrencies. What surprised me most is that many shops handled a wide selection of what I would call shitcoins, not just BTC and ETH.
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by leppr 4y ago
> Why is technology moving us to a Kafka story instead of a Star Trek story? That's a problem which has nothing to do with technology itself. Technology makes providing support cheaper , so if the only changing variable was addin
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by leppr 4y ago
I thought these services charge exorbitant amounts that are a % of your deposited amount, unless you are in the 9 figures?
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by leppr 4y ago
There is no open-source requirement, like there would be on Gentoo packages for instance. NPM packages frequently pull arbitrary binaries in their install scripts.
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by leppr 4y ago
I absolutely hate cryptocurrency shilling on HN so forgive me if the following appears like so, but this answers your question. > Those with the most resources to mine will mine the most and thus receive the most, allowing them to mine
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by leppr 4y ago
Yes, this was ad-hominem because it seems obvious the OP is not asking this in good faith. Their first comment is not in the form of a neutral question, but a prejudiced assumption based on a false idea that nothing in the linked article co
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by leppr 4y ago
We all know the pedestrian outsider opinions about cryptocurrency, they are repeated ad-nauseam here on HN and everywhere else. Adding informed color to this is a good thing, I would think.

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