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This is a great list! Thanks for sharing.

On a PC.

I don't like that it requests to intercept traffic to https://ajax.googleapis.com/* -that's far too general to trust.

Ironically

.deveap-hero grid-template-columns needs to be 49vw 50vw

49vw not 50vw, to approximately make room for the vertical scrollbar when it appears.

OK, on with my day ;)

The customers here in question are other large institutions (for now).

Why is a Merkle proof difficult to implement in a relational DB?

The only required data fields in each row are the parent row ID and a hash, no?

I've tried the random word string concept but I can't remember those ones either.

I feel like I filled up my password memory sometime in the late 90s.

> Is this not just a classic example of HN looking for the negative in every positive?

No. Google has the monopoly on search (outside of China). Avoiding anti-trust is a huge concern of theirs. Look at MS and IE in the browser wars - they were forced by the EU to build into Windows links/ads to the other browsers - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu#/media/File:B...

Whilst DDG has huge momentum by now, duckduckgo.com is still an ache to type - that's why ddg.co has existed for years, and why you use "DDG" yourself ;) duck.com is way more memorable and even faster.

Not a lawyer, but given DDG's brand recognition, I'd imagine they would have a strong case in an ICANN dispute given that Google are not using it. Google are proactively avoiding at least this bad PR by doing the right thing (this week).

Here's a couple of 3D top-down ones:

Blockout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockout

Welltris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welltris

Are there any US municipalities that already allow fully driverless cars at all?

That would be The Idealist, presumably.

...but he's not? Don't give him UI design tasks.

...and he actually is? If there is room for such cross-competency roles in the team, let him shine. It'll give him great work satisfaction. And if there isn't, don't give him UI design tasks.

Blockchain is so much more complex than the basic internet/web. The excitement is about building the first gen of blockchain tech, and the vision is over many decades - the last Bitcoin will be mined around 2140.

Compare to the web, which brought huge change, but decentralized governance is much harder for the lay person to understand. Most people haven't even considered many of the problems it proposes to solve.

So the value of Bitcoin/crypto is held up by the excitement of the change it heralds. It's just going to take a while. (And the trading and investment is the means to the end in getting it going).

But yes, let us wait for the clowns to depart.

Here's an article that reverse engineers Amazon's implementation; http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-... - not the first implementation by a long shot, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, but perhaps the first implementation for the web.

Exactly. We should stop using the word "waste" to describe the energy consumption of the Bitcoin miners. It's not waste if it serves a purpose. The service it provides is to guarantee the integrity of the blockchain without the requirement of a central authority.

Your bank could put a line at the top of your statement that reads:

SPECIAL HAPPY NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM FACEBANK $0.00

and then come February they realise they look pretty stupid so they take it out of the statement (web page). No one would care too much.

Ethereum and Litecoin among others offer fast and cheap transactions today, and efforts are underway to solve this problem for Bitcoin (e.g. Lightning Network).

There will likely be a trade-off or balance of trust against transaction speed and cost. We're still working out how to build it and so we're not there yet, but my belief holds; the banana governments are not going to disappear anytime soon.

Yes. The implication is that the 2B unbanked will get access to a cheap Android, and therefore ability to trade instantly with anyone anywhere with no fees, before the banana state fixes their massively corrupt government.

> nobody wants to spend something that's by design supposed to become scarcer and scarcer.

Except that Bitcoin is (with consensual upgrade) infinitely divisible. (E.g. the network can [vote to] move to 16 decimal places, and so on).

That's not relevant to the question.

> He is the one who wants the nicotene, he is the one freaking out, not me. I'm breathing deeply, and smelling food again.

That almost sounds like a Buddhist approach.

Single sign-on? (e.g. logging in to Trello with your Google account)

I've never seen so many examples and variations of Jackson Structured Programming!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming

..and listen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyVWQH7jIg8

Often game developers put various hidden cheat modes into the code. For example pressing a secret combination or sequence of buttons will add 1000 lives, or give the player a large amount of in-game cash, or unlock all the levels, etc.

This makes it easier to test the game, preventing game testers from having to play through the entire game, just to test one part of it.

Possibly not a bug but a "god mode" for testing.

The customers still dictate your work. If you don't build the features they want, you won't have a business. Essentially you're still working for them.

It's the propositional calculus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional_calculus