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colesantiago

5,294karma·2,469submissions·July 16, 2017
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well, I mean, at least they are building their own tech and their own platforms I guess...
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Just curious, seems to see a lot of Elixir posts crop up on HN lately. I know a startup that did £75K+ in sales in the first week with only just using node + heroku. Could the same be applied to Elixi…
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Then, I should see absolutely zero complaints about privacy, tracking, spying, google analytics and facebook tracking. Perhaps we should ask Scott if he is willing to share his browsing history, his…
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Gigantic caveat. > I agree to these additional telemetry terms as part of the technical preview
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Go home GPT, you're drunk.
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> A precursor to banning crypto itself... Is it? How would you go about banning crypto completely such that nobody uses it?
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What is the average age of a Kiwi Farms user? Is it possible that these are all just kids with a lot of time trolling people? Of course what happened to Byuu/Near is repugnant and horrible and sh…
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Well, Binance has been banned in the UK (Biggest crypto exchange in volume) so I don't see why we should stop there if the only usecase is 'scams', 'fraud' and 'ransomwar…
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> So far the only mass use-case for crypto has been speculation... so you can't send crypto to another person? i'm confused. to downvoters: When you say the mass use case, you mean e…
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> Not sure if you're being serious here because it's widely acknowledged that they're nowhere near as risky or volatile as cryptocurrencies!? So penny stocks aren't a risky vola…
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> Gamestop is clearly an exception. Your argument is "Cryptocurrencies are dumb, i'll just put my money in stocks instead" which not only young people also put their money in, but ar…
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OK, but what's the real alternative here? I'm sick of these JWT hate articles on HN all the time with no universal solution. Why not just use cookies and be done with it? This looks like a…
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> The title of the article is literally "Why Gen Z is ditching traditional investments". And? Why do you have a problem with this? You're not the one taking the risk with caution are…
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> crypto money laundering scheme Does this mean we should call for the arrest and charge of Katie Haun, Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and the rest of the A16Z crew?
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> My point is that young people do stupid shit. OK? So what? 'Young people do dumb shit' since time immemorial. I stand by what I said, cryptocurrencies just like other technologies are n…
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this looks like a kneejerk emotional reaction. how is this bad? cryptocurrencies aren’t going away.
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> he really didn't contribute anything except tax fraud to the world. So why is HN (a technology forum) discussing him then? So he didn't contribute anything to technology?
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He built an antivirus technology company used by billions of people.
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I still wouldn't use it since it falls back to Bing or Google.
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> Parent comment’s question seems genuine. Why are you assuming genuineness when the parent mentioned this: 'an app with some basic functionality ' 'I doubt that all of their staf…
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> It's an app with some basic functionality. > I doubt that all of their staff is doing DevOps or maintaining servers Please don't assume this. Just because you don't use the app…
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yuck, can't we just use TOML or Dhall and be done with this?
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Wasn't Rust also lacking libraries as well? Example: Last time I checked couldn't find a firebase library for Rust, so gave up on it. Rust seems a bit immature in the library department no? …
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fb already thinking about putting dang out of the mod job? would certainly free up some time, wonder if hn has something like this...
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So Stellar, Cardano and XRP are all scams? > Polkadot: They claim everywhere to have 'Parachains'. The reality is that this feature doesn't exist yet. So it's a scam because it …
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Is Tailscale / Taildrop fully open source? Such that I can set this up myself for my own purposes 1:1? Wanted to use Tailscale's service but saw this on the sign up page: > Sign up with y…
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All Ad tech, spyware, and data collection firms/startups (and even startups collecting any PII data) with little care for the GDPR or the CCPA are extremely evil. No regards for privacy at all, t…
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this is an obvious trap. avoid big tech companies bearing dubious questionable gifts. there is always a catch.
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You think downvotes and character attacks present as a good argument? Doesn't count as proof IMO if there isn't a valid argument presented, you're going to have to do a lot better than …
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