devinus
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Comment · 8 months ago
A corporation, according to US law, is considered a "person" and afforded many of the same rights as an individual citizen (https://www.fincen.gov/who-united-states-person).
Even outside of the US, a corporation is widely considered to be a company of people with their own agency and rights.
A person or group of people should be able to set their own boundaries without being subjected to immoral and unjust retaliation, i.e. corporate murder (https://x.com/i/status/2027515599358730315).
Also, ask any frontier model what Pete Hegseth thinks about democracy.
Comment · 8 months ago
What exactly is considered "settled" law when the SCOTUS can unilaterally overturn Roe v. Wade overnight after almost 50 years of precedent?
Comment · 7 years ago
This is the kind of content that would be #1 years ago before HN became about regurgitating news about acquisitions in Silicon Valley. Remember that it's Hacker News you're reading. I welcome a return to those days.
Comment · 8 years ago
I recently switched to iOS from Android after years on Android. I'm coming from being a daily macOS user for almost a decade. I would argue that iOS should no longer be considered the more "user friendly" of the two. That might have been the case years ago, but iOS seems to expect prior experience with what I can only guess are iOS paradigms specifically.
Almost every important action I need to take in an iOS app is hidden behind a gesture. In Android apps, gestures are value adds. They make on-screen actions or actions accessable through contextual menus quicker to accomplish for the experienced user. In iOS they're essential to accomplish some tasks.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm late for this reply, but it completely depends on your use case. If you're just a normal user using cryptocurrency daily and you're most interested in the stability of value you could trade everything you receive for a "stablecoin" as it's known within crypto circles. This would effectively "lock in" the value. This is most effective using e.g. Nano since you can perform this immediately without worrying about transaction fees.
If you're unaware of that concept as a user but a fiat "off-ramp" exists (a way to turn your Nano into your local currency) you can immediately "cash out" whenever you receive a transaction.
If you're dealing with micro-transactions or payments in general then we're beginning to wade into the territory of imaging a secondary "off-chain" system of accounting and many strategies likely apply.
Comment · 8 years ago
That might be a valid criticism against e.g. Bitcoin with a 30 minute confirmation time, but if you send your friend $10 worth of Nano they'll have $10 worth of Nano by the time they receive it, ignoring whatever they decide do with it.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm one of the core developers for Nano[1] (formerly called RaiBlocks). It's one of only a handful of cryptocurrencies with an actual working product available today that does everything it claims to do: Instant transactions with zero fees on a green network that could be powered by a single wind turbine.
Despite what I see as it's massive potential for things like micro-transactions, global remittance, arbitrage across exchanges, a development platform for payments and functioning as an actual currency (i.e. a medium of exchange, what you send is exactly what the other person gets) -- the market does not reflect this reality at all right now. There are several projects that are objectively scams with higher market caps than Nano.
To me this reflects that the market is completely irrational right now. I knew as early as January that there was going to be a reckoning, but until some of these coins and tokens that are going nowhere are shaken out projects will just have to stand on their own merits and prove that they're valuable.
[1]: https://nano.org/en
Comment · 8 years ago
These are rather large release notes for a patch release.
Comment · 9 years ago
Rebel | Senior Backend Engineer, Email Engineer | New York, NY or Remote | Full Time | https://gorebel.com/ | [email protected]
Hello, at Rebel we are working on making everyone's inbox an interface for immediate action. We allow our users to send their customers emails that work like a normal web experience. Customers are submitting reviews, educating themselves with hotspots, and even shopping with 1-click directly in email. We believe that the inbox of the future is going to be just another surface for people to do what they want, like a bit sized application delivered in a push. We're hiring smart engineers across the stack to help us make that a reality.
Stack: Node.js, Ember.js, MongoDB, Influx, AWS, Docker
Comment · 10 years ago
I've been on GitHub since the earliest days, and I've definitely noticed that there's something going on -- or the lack of anything going on more like it.
When was the last time a big feature that people are actually clamoring for was added to GitHub (and let's not pretend LFS fits that description)? Meanwhile you have the maintainers of the most popular projects publicly begging for changes they've been waiting years for, startups like ZenHub innovating on TOP of GitHub in the form of browser extensions, and then startups like GitLab poised to eat GitHub's lunch as soon as they figure out how to capture the social aspect.
I'm not sure what GitHub is spending the money on, but it sure as hell isn't on the core platform itself or keeping it's most active users happy.
Comment · 11 years ago
> Wide variety of mature database drivers
That requirement was probably not met when they started.