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by overthrow 3y ago
Police often manipulate or coerce people into making false confessions. 29% of DNA exonerations in the US involved a false confession. https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-...
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by overthrow 3y ago
Nor does the Rust compiler. Rust's build system, Cargo, does however. And many C build systems do as well, e.g. https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/guide/using-dependencies...
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by overthrow 3y ago
It is true. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40794287/cannot-write-to... https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/img_5be...
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by overthrow 3y ago
> I think the only law required here is "do something useful for real people" It did something useful for the Venezuelans. But you don't care about that because, why? Because you made up a story in your head that someone s
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by overthrow 3y ago
This message is devoid of evidence lol Look how hard some governments have tried to stop this movement, and none have succeeded. That's real life evidence that they simply aren't capable. I think this cloud will outlast the old me
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by overthrow 3y ago
> They're not using it, at all. This is obviously false. Just look at the transaction rates on the publicly available ledger. And: Moneygram has all but publicly admitted that crypto remittances have grown large enough that it'
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by overthrow 3y ago
Petro is an attempt at embrace-extend-extinguish. If that "Reception" section is to be believed, nobody is using it willingly. Do you have evidence to the contrary? Look under "NiceHash-able", if the number is less than
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by overthrow 3y ago
> I think if people have working mobile phones then they're able to be sent electronic cash without a p2p system. Indeed, more easily than having a VPN and relevant skills to received crypto assets. Spoken like a true first-world ar
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by overthrow 3y ago
> Venezuela already has extensive digital payment systems Sure, but those systems had been sabotaged by a politican/dictator named Nicolás Maduro who rejected the results of an election. > What in this process requires (or even b
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by overthrow 3y ago
GPT is a generic acronym - the wikipedia article writes it out in lowercase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo... gpt4free means "gpt for free" and also predates GPT-4. I don't
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by overthrow 3y ago
Maybe instead of saying what people should and shouldn't be doing, you should ask yourself why they're using it anyway despite the obvious downsides. Lightning fees are less than $0.01 - much better than the alternative of $20 for
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by overthrow 3y ago
You're right, this is a job for the government... but the government isn't solving the problem. "Let's just" have the government do their job. Call me when that happens. While we sit around waiting, the private sect
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by overthrow 3y ago
The fun part about such bombastic claims is they can be disproven with just one counterexample. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/us-government-enlists-usdc-f... > US Government Enlists USDC for ‘Global Foreign Policy
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by overthrow 3y ago
Under-banked does not mean they have no money. They obviously have some money or they would starve. Many live paycheck-to-paycheck and give 3% of their wages to a check cashing service. If it were as easy as you seem to think for them to
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by overthrow 3y ago
If there's a difference I'm open to someone citing a source quantifying it, but I won't quite be convinced by unsourced blanket generalizations that go against common wisdom
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by overthrow 3y ago
The majority of CVEs are due to memory exploits. For C/C++ code that holds true across companies and OSs Microsoft says 70% https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se... Google says 70% https:&#
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by overthrow 3y ago
I'd live like this if I could. I did it for a good 5 years, and then my hands just stopped working. I tried coding by voice for a while, that lasted for a year, then I lost my voice. Now I code for at most an hour a day, until the pain
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by overthrow 3y ago
We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.
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by overthrow 3y ago
WebGPU is a low-level interface close to the hardware. If you don't care about having control over those details, it's not the right API to use. You'd have better luck with either a high-level wrapper or something else like W
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by overthrow 3y ago
I'd argue we passed that point once civil forfeiture became common. Your property can already be seized even without a debt that needs settling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
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by overthrow 3y ago
Windows has an analogue to futexes called WaitOnAddress.[1] Zig's stdlib claims SRW locks are faster than a futex-based implementation.[2] But the futex-based implementation a few lines down that should run fine on Windows since it use
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by overthrow 3y ago
I think egui is complete enough to use in real apps. Layout can be a bit weird, but I haven't found anything that's impossible. I might even prefer it for cross-platform apps since startup time is so slow for GTK on Windows.
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by overthrow 3y ago
For a cheaper setup, I have a right-handed vertical mouse (Amazon $20 special) to the right of my keyboard, and a second left-handed mouse on the left, and I switch between them throughout the day. It makes my desk look a little silly, but
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by overthrow 3y ago
At least WASM is first-party code written by the browser developers. I'll take that any day over a pile of third-party plugins.
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by overthrow 3y ago
The minimum wage is beneficial because employers tend to have more leverage than employees in the relationship. It's actually similar to the leverage Apple has over its users. And they've used that leverage to control what apps pe
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by overthrow 3y ago
Maybe that's how cash will go out - not with a ban, but a whimper. Once a cheeseburger hits $100, people will probably collectively decide that dealing with bands of cash for small purchases is more trouble than it's worth.
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by overthrow 3y ago
The last few times I asked for $100s, the teller counted it once, and then ran all the bills again through a counting machine. I'd bet a kidney the newest counting machines also log serial numbers now.
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Coinbase secures Bermuda licence(reuters.com)
158 points by overthrow 3y ago|380 comments
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by overthrow 3y ago
Thanks I wasn't aware of that, I stand corrected
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by overthrow 3y ago
Probably license issues - same reason Linus won't add ZFS to the linux kernel. https://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-zfs/ If Linus is afraid of Oracle, MS should definitely be afraid

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