whatwherewhy

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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
Nah I don't think that's what I did. As another commenter said maybe that's how it came out (sorry), but not the intention.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
> Take a step back and ask why - intention and tone are two different things, and if you get the latter wrong then we will misunderstand the former. Good point, OK.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
> you know better than them what they’ve done wrong Hardly, since I just agreed with what they said. I suggested what IMHO is a good way to make up for it. Nothing else. > that you have to tell them Sure, I have to. I think everyone
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
I am not assuming anything. I made a suggestion, nothing else. They're free to do nothing if they feel like they already did enough. You're assuming I'm assuming <...>, which goes against the HN rule to assume best inte
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
I don't see anything patronizing or showing superiority in what I wrote. I am saying this as a peer, not as a superior. It's kinda weird to expect people not to make mistakes such as this if nobody tells them it's wrong. And
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
My free funds are currently 100% dedicated to helping Ukraine and will be until Russia falls back to 1991 borders.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
Nah, I'm really not the kind of person that says nothing to this.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
Was I supposed to say "great job" to this? Lol.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
If an app is popular only with terrorists and child rapists, it's a weird choice for a business.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
Of course... If you send someone unencrypted data, they can read it. Companies at least have to follow some laws regarding the data - don't expect that with private instances (not controlled by you).
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
Eh... Was it really that hard to guess what they're gonna do with it? How long ago was that? It's not like their abuse of [foreign] workers is anything new.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
What kind of company gets an app popular with drug dealers for their internal communication?
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
In the US there are also authorities making sure (especially medical) machines are in good order. Perhaps the investors trusted the authorities?
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
> Investors losing their skin? That's all risk/reward. They took big risk for big reward but lost. No, it's not OK and it's not all risk/reward. The risk is whether the product can succeed and be better than othe
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
Many electrical outlets now have USB ports... And now it's supposed to be USB-C... And then something else - it's going to be just as hard.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
The alternating left-to-right right-to-left lines were done because you could read it easier that way - they used to have gigantic books/scrolls, the lines were very long.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
It does matter, the risk calculation gets way worse once you start counting in the possibility of fraud. It's going to be 9/10 if each one of the 10 actually try their hardest to succeed. It's going to be 10/10 if fraud
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
> Even in case of "corpo disallows it" (for whatever idiotic reason) it can be turned off one way or another in OS... Corpo can disallow that too via central policies
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
> This is possibly the biggest financial crisis in the history of everything. Isn't that a huge hyperbole? I really don't see how it could even remotely resemble anything at all what it was like in 2008. It's no more tha
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
2 days - I get the BTC around noon, transfer it immediately, in the evening I get a confirmation from the recipient that they got it, and then I see them transfer it to someone the second day. Sometimes it's just 1 day.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
I'm usually sending around $500-$1000 once every 2-3 months (per contractor - I work with multiple).
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
All of these options you listed are significantly more expensive, and some of the contractors I work with don't even have that option due to KYC requirements - these people don't have access to functioning governments, they don&#x
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
I pay for software engineering work done in Africa and sometimes South-East Asia.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
I don't hold Bitcoin. I use it for cross-continent transactions. I buy it from people in my city using a local FB group or (way in the past) Localbitcoins.com and then send it to the recipient. They usually use Localbitcoins to convert
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
From people around me, in person.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
I don't hold Bitcoin. I use it for cross-continent transactions.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
It works in real world without any exchanges. All of them could crash and burn and Bitcoin would continue on.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
I'm a user of Bitcoin and I never used any exchange.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
I write programs cca 2:1 comments:code and it is consistently praised for its readability during code reviews and by later maintainers that have to add features to it.
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by whatwherewhy 4y ago
Why is it so hard to just go work at another one of the thousands tech startups and companies?

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