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Buttes··on Warning Signs About Another Giant Bitcoin Exchange
What do you want to do with BTC scripts that you can't do now? P2SH lets you use arbitrary scripts, at least.
Buttes··on Exceptions in Elixir
Processes can monitor each other. Processes dedicated to monitoring and restarting other processes are called supervisors. You code for the "happy path" and let a tree of supervisors handle unexpected failures. An uncaught exception will torpedo its process.

Processes might also monitor each other for other reasons. For example, a resource pool would monitor processes which check out a resource, in case they die before returning the resource.

Buttes··on In Chatlogs, Celebrated Hacker and Activist Confesses Countless Sexual Assaults
Yeah he basically admitted it in a PGP signed message. Why are we debating his innocence?
Buttes··on Remote Code Execution in CouchDB (and Privilege Escalation in the Npm Registry)
This would be solved by configuring jiffy to use maps instead of proplists.
Buttes··on She Warned of ‘Peer-To-Peer Misinformation.’ Congress Listened
The NYT issues corrections
Buttes··on As epidemic rages, ER study finds opioids no better than Advil and Tylenol
I find that really hard to believe. Maybe for some kinds of pain OTC meds or marijuana will cut it, but when I have really bad back pain nothing works as well as opiates, not muscle relaxers, not tylenol, not even close. Opiates work like magic.
Buttes··on Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
Ya, for example, I've seen people react with surprise when they're told (withdrawal from) heavy drinking can cause life threatening seizures.
Buttes··on Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
Wasn't this connection pretty well known? Colon cancer and all that. Plus like cmon its no secret alcohol os tough on your body, cancer is probably the least of your worries.
Buttes··on Using CNNs for Handbag Brand and Color Detection
Presumably they're using this to sell handbags. Like to put "buy now" buttons under images on their properties or something.
Buttes··on Neovim v0.2.1 released
I do those things inside emacs.
Buttes··on Mail-Order CRISPR Kits Allow Anyone to Hack DNA
How long until people are making bathtub crystal meth with GM yeast?
Buttes··on How slot machines are designed to be addictive
Preaching to the choir
Buttes··on How slot machines are designed to be addictive
There have to be verifiably fair ethereum gambling contracts right?
Buttes··on How slot machines are designed to be addictive
In 10 years: How Facebook is designed to be addictive
Buttes··on Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
Sanders would still have lost if there were no superdelegates.
Buttes··on Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
Why should the superdelegates have flipped their votes against the popular vote? This makes no sense.

The only way Bernie would have won is if he convinced superdelegates from states that came out for Clinton to go against the popular vote in their state and erroneously vote for him. He still would have lost with no superdelegates, or if their votes were awarded to their state's primary winner.

Fantasy land.

Buttes··on Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
Hillary won like every southern state, the Bernie folks are living in fantasy land if they think the DNC could control that outcome.
Buttes··on Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
>they don’t actually stand for anything.

I've met lots of young women who adore Hillary and would beg to differ. The woman is a feminist icon.

Buttes··on Appalachian miners reject retraining because they think coal will make comeback
I'd study to be a radiology tech or something along those lines. Tech and Healthcare are the "jobs of the future", if you take tech out of the equation, the answer is obvious.
Buttes··on Carnival scam science, and how to win [video]
I don't think I need a NASA engineer to tell me that.
Buttes··on Who’s Sitting Next to You on the Subway? An R Train in September
I take the bus everywhere and that's not been my experience at all. Might depend what city you're in.
Buttes··on CrunchyRoll.com is serving ransomware
CR did start its life as an illegal streaming site before they were bought out. But I guess you can almost say the same thing about YT...
Buttes··on Apache Kafka Goes 1.0
This is like the whole point of kakfa. You make all your workers idempotent and retain N days/weeks/months/years of messages. The design of kafka follows, clients track their offset, messages aren't "delivered". The docs are rly simple and if you spent 5 minutes reading the overview it would answer all your questions.
Buttes··on Blockchains Considered Harmful: Is Brute-Force Processing Replacing Good Design?
Maybe not DoS persay but I assume they meant anti-spam, which isn't totally inaccurate.
Buttes··on How the Kodi Box Took Over Piracy
Who remembers when everyone complained about TV bundles and paying for shit you don't watch...
Buttes··on Cryptocurrency Evolution
Bitcoin is the chain with the most work.
Buttes··on Saving San Francisco goes deeper than “build more housing”
That's a very ordinary amount of walking for many people.
Buttes··on Show HN: 4chan on the Ethereum blockchain
Ethereum is a DAG so the block time is very low, like 10 or 15s.
Buttes··on Show HN: 4chan on the Ethereum blockchain
Some users pay for some kind of premium account.
Buttes··on The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
More likely for users in China etc.
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