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You should never trust journalists with your data.

If you don't want to reveal how you look, don't meet them in person or cover yourself up.

Except this guy had proof that he contacted law enforcement multiple times and provided them with data (which they mostly ignored).

Related, from another article I've read recently:

> Jazz clubs didn’t have “no talking” rules back when jazz was a black popular music. (Charles Mingus and Nina Simone complained bitterly and often about people talking during their sets.) The sacralization/classicalization of jazz only dates back to the 1980s, when, for better or for worse, it became an academic music. On the one hand, it’s nice to go to a jazz concert and be able to hear everything. On the other hand, the music is not exactly the dynamic creative force it was back when it was being played while people smoked, drank and danced.

I wonder how long it will take until people understand why nobody is "their own bank" with their cash.

Getting hacked is one worry, I would worry even more about someone with a wrench in my apartment.

Even better, the fake link looks more legit than the legit link.

FAKE link: hxxxs://github.com/electrum-wallet

LEGIT link: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum

What about Mario clones? (platformers)

Doom clones? (first person shooters)

Warcraft clones? (real time strategy)

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I didn't say pension funds are scams, but that pension funds make their profits from trading against non-knowledgeable people (like GP implied bitcoin traders do)

You mean, like pension funds trading the stock market?

There was a time when the Bitcoin price was zero, yet people spent computer time mining it.

So the answer to your question is never, a Bitcoin death spiral can not occur.

Maybe, but according to the article until they are 12 it's not legal.

In some countries, you need to drive you kid to school until they are 14.

The Western imperialistic view of the world is not the only correct one.

We should have a multi-polar world, where China and Russia also get to impose their views and values.

Why not take from Germany?

> People in Germany essentially got paid to use electricity on Christmas. Electricity prices in the country went negative for many customers - as in, below zero - on Sunday and Monday, because the country's supply of clean, renewable power actually outstripped demand, according to The New York Times.

> Science is about hypothesis, iteration, and testing

Maybe in the past. Today science is about getting grants, publishing as much as possible even if the paper is trivial or you p-hacked your way to heaven.

It's also about finding a niche where there is no competition so that you can build a name for yourself. If any sort of competition appears, quickly run away to a more fertile ground (see the recent article about DeepMind and protein folding)

> Plenty of places have friendly policies and are taken advantage of by a few, but they keep the policy because people like it.

It's changing:

> Every time shoppers return purchases to Best Buy Co. BBY -2.65% , they are tracked by a company that has the power to override the store’s touted policy and refuse to refund their money. That is because the electronics giant is one of several chains that have hired a service called Retail Equation to score customers’ shopping behavior and impose limits on the amount of merchandise they can return.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-your-returns-are-used-again...

Sometimes I still browse Digg (it's different now). Since the last Firefox update from a week ago which disabled Symantec certificates the site doesn't work anymore. I bet the day Chrome disables Symantec certificates they will immediately notice and fix it.

It's sad that in one week not even one of their people opened it in Firefox, and not many of their users either (there was just a couple of mentions on Twitter about this issue)

> As opposed to broadcast and cable?

Which is why nobody bothers checking out broadcast/cable shows anymore. They have become synonyms with crap.

Netflix is playing a dangerous game here by letting content quality slip. And I don't think it's about the money, they obviously have it and are willing to spend it, but there is only so much acting/producing talent out there.

On Netflix most of their own series are low production value crap. I don't even bother checking them anymore even if the subject sounds interesting, unless I hear about them in the media first.

This can't be good for them in the long run if the Netflix name becomes associated with filler content.

He's testing on a 7 year old 8-core server CPU. As irrelevant as possible for your average laptop Firefox user.

JavaScript code has access to SQLite. So any webpage where the attacker controls/can inject JavaScript is vulnerable.

> many alternatives to electron do in fact offer markup language like GUI creation and css/html like styling including Qt with its QML offshoot, or JavafX.

> Not to mention that I don't see any obvious reason why HTML would be easier to use than the WPF

Can I use Vue.js or React over QML? That's a point many people miss. You think of HTML/JavaScript as the thing from 10 years ago that maybe you played with in school.

Vue.js/React is to HTML/CSS what WPF is to raw Win32 GUI programming.

> At least but not at last Electron apps are so slow to start and so hardware-hungry I actually doubt it is going to become a truly mainstream platform for desktop applications

Nobody is going to write a Photoshop or a music production software in Electron. You need C++ for that kind of stuff. Neither PyQt or WinForms cuts it. Apps like that use custom GUIs built directly over OpenGL/Direct3D.

But I have a feeling your app is no Photoshop either.

> I can say it involves a serious amount of of non-intuitive hand-coding and feels annoyingly hard and slow as compared to WinForms and WPF. It is most probably going to get easier and faster with experience

No, it won't get easier, because the technology is flawed. If you want easy you use HTML. There is a reason all new complex applications are written in Electron.

That's exactly the point.

It's called humble-brag.

and now you are defining you whole class inside that return {}. Do you honestly find this more readable?

Why not use the private/public keywords like in TypeScript?

Was this # thing voted by the community or something?

It doesn't scale. If a significant portion of the user-base starts doing this, what will happen is that security issues will be discovered 7/14/X days after they are introduced, not immediately.

Because the fundamental problem is still there: nobody is reviewing the code.

Laws should have an expiration date. Otherwise in 100 years there will be 1 million laws.

I have a very-very good Haskell programming friend, and quite a few times I caught him start speaking in technobabble to impress a couple of blubers.

I also have a few Scala friends, and I can see the obvious Haskell envy they have, they feel the need to become good at it to prove their alphaness.

When bitcoin loses 50% of it's value, people say that's the proof it was an obvious scam and people woke up.

When Nvidia does that, it's just markets...

> the registry still existing

You know that GNOME also has a registry, right? https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/dconf