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> "you could verify it against LV's centralized product blockchain" You can replace the word "blockchain" with "database" in this sentence and it'll still wo…

Yes. Better still, I skim read "Teach Yourself to Echolocate" as "Treat Yourself to E-chocolate". Maybe my subconscious is trying to tell me something. Did a bit of an internet sea…

That's a good tip about making the motions to write the person's name on the palm of your hand. One thing I noticed not that long ago was that if I heard someone's name, e.g. if they sp…

"'High end' here means 'luxurious' – a marketing position for a building." In London it has long been a joke that all new builds are branded "luxury apartments&quo…

I wonder how much of that is actually a symptom of the whole ICO funding model, i.e. you need increasingly "boil the ocean pipe dreams" to stand out from the competitors, which in turn leads…

Even if the map isn't authentic, to quote the original article "Archeological discoveries at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland confirm that the Vikings had settlements in the Americas long …

> "When I’ve been depressed, here’s what worked for me. 1) long walks in nature" Interestingly "Doctors in Shetland are to start prescribing birdwatching, rambling and beach walks …

> "Aberdonians, Glaswegians, Edinburghers, residents of the Kingdom of Fife, Teuchters and all the rest have different accents and different dialects but they don't speak different langua…

Putting Gaelic on the recently introduced Borders Railway signs did strike me as a slightly odd decision given lowland Scotland has zero historical connection with the Gaelic language. It almost comes…

See also https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cs-lewis-greatest-fict... and the HN comments: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10686217 (original post from…

Also published today "Spice: a lethal epidemic fuelled by austerity": https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/29/spice-... …

"Right now, Coinbase's most promising project, say Johnson and others, involves a new class of investments known as security tokens" I used to think security tokens were going to be o…

> "Gresham's law ... Bitcoin is the best money that has ever existed" I think Gresham's Law has been showing us the exact opposite point with cryptocurrencies as a whole - crypt…

Bitmain have their tentacles in other cryptocurrencies too, e.g. Ethereum: "As recently as April 2018, mining equipment provider Bitmain Technologies announced an Ethereum version of its POW appl…

I think the "bath" is the long "a" vs short "a" split[0] (usually associated with north of England vs south of England) rather than r insertion. There is however somethin…

The "r" is an interesting one. I only recently found out that the "r" isn't pronounced in many words by most of the English in England. It was thanks to some homework that one…

The differences between XML and blockchain are: 1. Blockchain is being touted as a panacea, a solution to every problem, not just every data integration problem. This has led to all sorts of compani…

> "I feel way more in control of fiat then of crypto." I have to agree. I know it wasn't meant to turn out this way, but with crypto almost all the wealth and power has been concentr…

> "frequencies used in remotes like the Space Command were too high for the human ear to pick up" Pretty sure I used to be able to hear the different high pitched whines as a child (beari…

My parents built a house. They got help digging the foundations (which required heavy machinery given it was built on rock) but did everything else themselves. A couple of tips: - They bought a pretty…

My first thought was - why not go one step further and put a modern battery in an original electric vehicle from the 1970s like the Enfield 800 [0]? Then on reading the Enfield 800 wikipedia page I fi…

Yes, sometimes the employee doesn't know things the management does, and if they did it would make the seemingly irrational more rational (or at least slightly less irrational). I could probably …

Agree with other comments that these are more coding issues, that aren't uncommon in pre-beta versions of software. But if we're talking about design issues, there is one big one that everyo…

Well we've already had the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute [0] (a copy/paste collection of every Satoshi Nakamoto forum post) become so fanatically strict in their interpretation of the "gos…

Thanks for clarifying. I was skim reading and assumed "digital manipulation" was something to do with digital data, maybe listening to mp3s too loud or something, but putting fingers in your…

On the gammon with pineapple thing - I remember a popular science programme when I was young (Tomorrow's World maybe) about gammon and pineapple. It started with a story from the Second World War…

Seems reasonable, because bank vaults and armoured vehicles are designed specifically for protecting high value items. Hotel room safes on the other hand are not (in fact some even have a disclaimer a…

Sorry for his loss, and the mobile providers do need to do something about this known attack vector. But with cryptocurrencies you need to "be you own bank", and extending his own analogy ho…