discobean··on 12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018)I'll be ok with it just powering my house
discobean··on 41 Years Ago, There Were BBS Instead of the InternetI started coding by doing C for ProBoard BBS plugins! I wrote SMURf CHaT back in 97!http://archives.thebbs.org/ra119a.htmI remember when I encountered my first smilie on chat :)Those were the days :D
discobean··on The subscription-pocalypseThis would be ok if the articles were worth a 10c read, but I feel like with the majority of articles being of low quality, paying for an article would be a gamble that rarely pays off and I'd "just stop trying".
discobean··on Please do not attempt to simplify this codeI find I often write code in comments first w/ the business logic, and then flesh out the comments with actual code.
discobean··on Why I lost $42,500 making a VR gameIt cost 43,200 to make and it sold 42,500 net, that's ok if he did it himself, for a first effort, nicely done.
discobean··on Paralleltext: Learn languages by readingGreat idea, but the english->polish book is wrong on most paragraphs unfortunately
discobean··on Matt Parker – Standup MathematicianAlso recommend Numberphile YT channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A that also has some cool stuff w/ Matt and others
discobean··on Shamir's Secret SharingSomewhat interesting article on secret sharing being used to store Hardware private keys https://medium.com/@markstar/backup-your-trezor-ledger-using...
discobean··on Towards a design philosophy for interoperable blockchain systemsFor a new pump & dump scheme
discobean··on Consul 0.7Thanks for some great tools guys, and a shout out to Fabio another great tool built on top of Consul https://github.com/eBay/fabio
discobean··on Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulatorswhen you create addresses, you can do them offline. Has nothing to do with the blockchain.
discobean··on Bitcoin falls from $266Right.. Because a DDoS on their site should create a trading lag in their backend engine?Are they running on 1 server?
discobean··on Apply with me to YC in the next 3 days and change the worldDid you invest in Bitcoin when it was $21, and want to bring that price back up?