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by sprovoost 3y ago
It already has the "fix" inherited from the Bitcoin code they reuse. Though you shouldn't count on that feature to not have bugs: the Dogecoin codebase is old and poorly maintained. If you run it on a cloud service, always tu
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by sprovoost 3y ago
This script asks a node for the 2000 headers between block 783,569 and 785,568. It's normal for a node to request headers in chunks of 2000, either as part of syncing the entire chain from scratch, or when catching up after being offli
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by sprovoost 4y ago
I think their name is deceptive, see my other reply :-)
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by sprovoost 4y ago
I wouldn't even call them a publisher. They're a printer, drop-shipper and a book store. I am both the writer and the publisher and I hired my own editor. A lot of companies call themselves "publisher" but really aren&#
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by sprovoost 4y ago
Ah, I see your point. Here's a January 6, 2009 snapshot from the Way Back Machine. This was before he publicly released the code. The entire project is MIT licensed and only contained one file: the whitepaper. https://web.ar
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by sprovoost 4y ago
You're confused about the roles here. An editor is someone who works either directly for the author or they work for the publisher. In any case they don't work for the printer / distributor, which is KDP. An editor or "p
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by sprovoost 4y ago
I did not say: "They will all scan physical books" I said: "It's a matter of time before they all scan the content before printing."
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by sprovoost 4y ago
You take everything literally I assume?
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by sprovoost 4y ago
I guess Hackernews doesn't render the tl&dr I wrote: <meta name="description" content="How a KDP infringement claim led to kafkaesq dialogues with support. I could not speak to a human and was never told what the
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by sprovoost 4y ago
Maybe I was not clear enough on this: I'm not claiming my book was censored, at least not in the traditional political sense of the word. What I'm saying is that the way the book got blocked, is a harbinger of what future physical
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by sprovoost 4y ago
So you're saying that Amazon will communicate their requirement to a "real" publisher, but not to fake publisher like me? Some sort of old boys network I should just pay to join?
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by sprovoost 4y ago
If Amazon wanted more detailed proof, they could just ask for that. There's no limit to how pedantic one can be in evaluating evidence. Maybe they need a physical wet signature from a specific bureaucrat at the US copyright office, sen
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by sprovoost 4y ago
Nowhere do I predict Amazon to become a monopoly. The prediction is that all other publishers will start following their model of screening content. Perhaps against some global blacklist, more or less following the model social media compan
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by sprovoost 4y ago
Yes, because Amazon doesn't scan paper books, this route still works. But there aren't that many companies that can print books. It's a matter of time before they all scan the content before printing. At least, in the dystopi
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Amazon and the dystopian future of book censorship(sprovoost.nl)
50 points by sprovoost 4y ago|26 comments
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Show HN: Bitcoin Core on single board using Armbian(medium.com)
2 points by sprovoost 8y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin Core and Lightning and Rails on AWS(medium.com)
2 points by sprovoost 8y ago|0 comments
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by sprovoost 9y ago
I stopped reading at “James Damore, who was sacked after he circulated the misogynist iniquitous 33,000-word memo” as it reveals this journalist has an overt agenda and doesn’t mind lying to achieve it.
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Historical Bitcoin Core Client Performance(medium.com)
1 points by sprovoost 9y ago|0 comments
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Please steal €100 from my first smart contract(medium.com)
2 points by sprovoost 10y ago|0 comments
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Four hypotheses and two experiments of why my app hasn't made me rich yet(sprovoost.nl)
2 points by sprovoost 14y ago|0 comments
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by sprovoost 15y ago
How would you go about testing the business model of each of these apps? Are you able to test it this week? Idea one sounds most useful to me, if it hasn't been done yet. Given your experience in teaching people iOs development in real life
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by sprovoost 15y ago
According Arethuza's comment below, at least one of the labs is 1400 meters below ground. Also you need to calculate the straight-line distance between the two points, not the distance over the surface. Although for calculating the differen
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by sprovoost 15y ago
My guess is there's something wrong with the statistical modeling, but I realize that's not a very useful statement. I missed the press conference, but I did read the paper and I even understood a few things. :-) It was good to see they eve
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by sprovoost 15y ago
To put that in perspective: a 20 part per million difference in speed over 730 km distance is about 15 metres. So details about the detector are relevant, but they obviously know that.
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by sprovoost 15y ago
I've never seen convincing evidence that inflation is a good thing (to be honest I haven't spent my life searching for it). It is however pretty easy to see why inflation is good for people in power, in particular governments; it's a hidden
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by sprovoost 15y ago
American Mormoms in Thailand deal with Thai immigration, foreign Mormoms in the US deal with US immigration. In Utah you can get a tour in dozens of languages, so there's a lot of people in that second category. Of course there's also Ameri
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by sprovoost 15y ago
Unfortunetaly a.f.a.i.k. you need to be in a relationship for two years in order to apply for a greencard, but I love the idea of a russianbrides.com for entrepeneurs :-)
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by sprovoost 15y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that Dutch immigration is any better (it's most likely worse). I was speaking in absolute terms, not relative. If you're under 30, take a look at the Australian Work-Holiday visa, that's about as laid-back as it ge
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A religion to get foreign entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley?(sprovoost.nl)
54 points by sprovoost 15y ago|30 comments

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