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merkaloid··on Ask HN: How are you preparing yourself for a recession?
i was nowhere near the smartest kid in my school or my uni class but Im more successful than them by miles. Don't let it discourage you.
merkaloid··on Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California worker law
no ones being forced to drive for uber lol, prices are only low because theres way too many people doing it
merkaloid··on Tesla Model 3 spoofed off the highway
In the article it says that it makes the car drive recklessly, brake checks in the middle of the highway and zigzagging across lanes. I'm not sure how you can equate that to Google maps showing you an out of date map.

Also, even if this isn't new information, that doesn't excuse them from writing an article with dangerous information, I don't recall getting bomb making instructions in the New York Times...

merkaloid··on Tesla Model 3 spoofed off the highway
Don't see anywhere in the article that this was _responsibly_ disclosed to automakers. They're literally publishing how to kill people on the road for the sake of making a buck (company seems to peddling spoof resistant GNSS).
merkaloid··on Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash
they do have that, but as you might imagine, the emergency brakes are only there to mitigate damage in case of a crash, not to prevent them
merkaloid··on Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
/page/4 would probably be more prudent
merkaloid··on Pika/pack – NPM packaging, reimagined
For you use case you just have to make JSDOM an external package (assuming you use webpack or rollup) and declare it as a peer dependency of your package
merkaloid··on Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
It's only a Ji in Brazilian Portuguese accents. In other accents (most notably continental Portuguese), Di is pronounced like Dee.
merkaloid··on As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back
If you do that people will think you're exiting and your company will tank massively.
merkaloid··on Fusion.js: A Plugin-Based Universal Web Framework
i thought nominal typing was only for the classes?
merkaloid··on Waymo Applies to Put Autonomous Cars on CA Roads Without Safety Drivers
thanks for next season black mirror spoilers dude
merkaloid··on Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget?
Get Cloudflare and aggressively cache your data. I've seem them eat dozens of TBs of data on the free plan without complaining that you're using too much bandwidth on a free plan.
merkaloid··on Governments Worry That Cryptocurrencies Could Be the ‘Next Swiss Bank Account’
Cryptocurrencies don't require you to give away your computing power for free, the blockchain gives them rewards for securing the network.
merkaloid··on The Intel Optane SSD 900P 280G Review
Looks like its almost completely worthless for consumers. Real world performance is the same as NVMe drives yet at much higher $/GB
merkaloid··on CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
If you obfuscate it it will run even slower, and it wouldn't be hard to detect the code heuristically and kill it. And in case it does become really hard, you can just kill the network requests so whoever is mining on your PC doesn't get squat.
merkaloid··on CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers
Because if this becomes mainstream, people will come to know what crypto currency and mining is and wonder why arent they mining it themselves (more effectively so using native clients instead of shitty js miners) instead of giving them to others in exchange for content they were getting anyway with adblock.

Greed basically.

merkaloid··on Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner
Cant imagine that anyone blocking ads wouldnt also block this
merkaloid··on Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
>Number of U.S. households powered for 1 day by the electricity consumed for a single transaction: 5.58

The one that surprised me the most

merkaloid··on Sperm Count Dropping in Western World
Isn't this good anyway? Because of overpopulation?
merkaloid··on Amazon engineer will let strangers manage his $50,000 stock portfolio 'forever'
He's probably not just any engineer because if you actually check the stream it looks like it is viral marketing for "robinhood.com"
merkaloid··on Blockstack: A New Decentralized Internet [pdf]
It would be valued as something closer to 0 if you did take it over.
merkaloid··on Firefox Network Monitor Reloaded – Part 1
Your browser is already a HTML/CSS/JS renderer. Why would they not use what is indisputably the most productive UI stack?
merkaloid··on Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
if your blog is static data on S3, you can put cloudflare in front of it with the free plan and pay next to nothing due to the caching which they dont charge for
merkaloid··on Atom 1.18 released
so that it can run 50% slower than it already does?
merkaloid··on Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554187
merkaloid··on Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs with Gigabit LTE
x86 emulation will make life easier initially. But if these devices become popular, so will UWP apps.
merkaloid··on Let's Encrypt is down
Or someone forks it
merkaloid··on Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js
that's a lot of text you wrote for something that will get automatically disregarded by anyone with a brain for having mentioned plaintext response benchmarks
merkaloid··on The AMD Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 Review
I have a 1070 and Chrome crashes all the time watching streams/youtube, got flickering on windows when running a 144hz monitor
merkaloid··on Improving startup time in Atom with V8 snapshots
if you want to protect your source code, don't use Javascript.
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