northben

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   by northben 11y ago

   I had the same experience when I learned to type on a Dvorak keyboard layout. I had to give it up (and relearn) qwerty because I was unable to use basically any other computer. Oh but I loved Dvorak!
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   by northben 11y ago

   Fellow HN readers: We're a smart bunch of hackers. Why don't we have a startup working on a technology that could recognize and alert lifeguards when swimmers are in danger? I bet a few cameras and some (admittedly advanced) machi
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   by northben 11y ago

   Well, modern wallets create new addresses for every transaction. So it's like having a new credit card number for every transaction in your analogy. It's pretty much anonymous.
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   by northben 11y ago

   It's not a crime to create many small transactions...
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   A note to self on the importance of specifying the version of each dependency(pixelchef.net)

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   by northben 11y ago

   Imagine how cool it would be if I could share a guid for my repo - and then your bit client (let's call it gitcoin, or maybe just bit) can fetch new commits from a distributed block chain (essentially the git log). Github is no longer