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Blindedwino··on The French Language and Why We Learn It
The Alliance Française all around the world. I can't think of many other countries that have glorify their own culture internationally, especially in past colonies (like in Vietnam and Cambodia).
Blindedwino··on Ecuador will hand over Julian Assange to the UK
But then... is he really fearing for his life? Is it really about him knowing secrets or him trying to avoid the rape charges in Sweden?
Blindedwino··on Blackmagic eGPU – Thunderbolt 3 external graphics processor
This is for laptops.
Blindedwino··on Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
Sadly, FF still slows to a crawl on OSX and it makes it unusable for me. I can't even watch a Youtube video without it skipping frames.
Blindedwino··on CryptoKitties sales plummet in popularity
It's a very costly and potentially ruining way to do experimentation though.
Blindedwino··on The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?
I had not heard Behind the Shock Machine, thank you.
Blindedwino··on Grab drivers in Southeast Asia are now convenience stores, too
I use Grab all the time but only motorbikes and can't imagine these drivers carrying snacks around. I don't have stats but I'm pretty sure that at least here (Vietnam), the overwhelming majority of Grab users go for bikes.
Blindedwino··on Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app
Nah definitely not true, I use a VPN hosted on an AWS EC2 instance and I have no troubles accessing Youtube or Vimeo (or Pornhub).
Blindedwino··on How a domain registrar can kill your business
I'm curious, what makes you say that Uniregistry is "...okay"?
Blindedwino··on Firefox 60 released
Same issue here with v60. I really, really want to move away from Chrome but I just can't, it's unusable on my MBP.
Blindedwino··on TorchCraft – StarCraft: Brood War AI
Are there any resulting data we can look at? Did anybody find wrote about actually running this for a while and seeing anything cool emerge?
Blindedwino··on Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter
A lot of it are "permanently temporary" jobs with no prospects of raises, promotions, etc.
Blindedwino··on Ask HN: Organizing company knowledge?
So I would have to edit my documentation in this app, export to HTML and rsync the files to a web host on our intranet to share it? I'll stick with Mediawiki.
Blindedwino··on Ask HN: Organizing company knowledge?
At a glance, it looks like a product that's stored on the company's servers. Why would any company, startup or dinosaur, want to put their knowledge base and documentation in the hand of a new pretty and fancy product that might fold next month?

There's no Linux download, no github, and especially, no server - I stay away from products like that, sorry.

Blindedwino··on Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
I would venture to say that most of the world isn't using computers with 32GB RAM...
Blindedwino··on Vaccines against addictive drugs push forward despite past failures
Coconut oil, really? Never heard of that, I'll have to look it up. Replacing the sugar from alcoholic drinks with juice, that seems logical.
Blindedwino··on Vaccines against addictive drugs push forward despite past failures
As a quite heavy use alcoholic, I would gladly test any vaccine that worked on alcohol.

Also, I've had a pretty amazing childhood with awesome parents. I still became addicted to cocaine a few times and I've done tons of drugs since my teens up to a couple years ago.

Blindedwino··on Vaccines against addictive drugs push forward despite past failures
Yes, I had a friend who was an ex heroin addict, she needed huge quantities of any sort of painkillers to get any effect.
Blindedwino··on Ask HN: Is there server-side software that we are missing in 2018?
It looks promising. Now if it could integrate easily with syslog-ng/rsyslog, that would be perfect.
Blindedwino··on Ask HN: Is there server-side software that we are missing in 2018?
Nagios doesn't do log monitoring out of the box though. Unless I've missed that? It definitely doesn't aggregate logs.
Blindedwino··on U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
You can't _easily_ exchange bitcoins for fiat currency, that's why USDT exists. Many banks are not accepting deposits coming from some shady offshore bank into a "normal people" account.

The average Joe who's paper rich because he has 100 bitcoins on an exchange and sells them, there's a good chance their local bank branch won't be happy if he's receiving a wire transfer of $1M from the Virgin Islands or Cyprus. So instead, they keep that $1M as USDT and they can keep trading with it and still be paper rich.

The same applies to exchanges, a lot of them are totally unbanked in the US. USDT allows them to play with Monopoly USD instead of the real thing.

Blindedwino··on One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC per month
You don't "need" to, though. We're talking about internet pogs here.
Blindedwino··on Coinbase booked $1B in revenue last year, has told hovering VCs to back off
IOTA is not made to be a currency to shop online or buy coffee, it's an IoT currency. Stop trying to shill what you've bought. It's also deeply flawed, centralized and its wallet is not user friendly.
Blindedwino··on Coinbase booked $1B in revenue last year, has told hovering VCs to back off
Haha, good one.
Blindedwino··on Coinbase booked $1B in revenue last year, has told hovering VCs to back off
Because they like to take your money but won't tell you that you can't take it out until you try.
Blindedwino··on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production
I worked at Airbus while the A380 was being developed, I still remember fondly seeing the test flights over our office and looking at it in awe. Then a while later I got to fly in one and it is indeed the best and most modern plane I've been in.
Blindedwino··on Learn to Code Ethereum DApps by Building Your Own Game
If you want to, but the company behind CryptoKitties doesn't want to.
Blindedwino··on Show HN: Cryptocurrency portfolio app on Blockstack
I gave it a quick try - Coinsapp only seems to support a very few coins while there are plenty of portfolio apps out there that include pretty much every single altcoin out there (Blockfolio comes to mind).

For me, this is not yet the killer app that lets me track all my coins that are spread around various wallets and exchanges.

One more note: not all coins are bought, some are mined. It would be nice to have an option when adding a holding that it has been mined and not bought.