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deletia··on Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally
> It may or may not continue to increase in value long-term, but it has little uses outside of being worth a lot of money.

So at worst: bitcoin > gold?

deletia··on Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month
This just in: centralized authorities worried about the deflation of our fiat bubble and crypo currencies position as the next generation of digital commodities capitalize with FUD propaganda two weeks before a software patch (proposed last year) is rolled out exactly* in the way it is intended to.
deletia··on Kik Messenger App Debuts Own Digital Currency Amid Bitcoin Boom
Exactly :)

A lot of larger companies affected needed a wake up call regardless.

deletia··on Kik Messenger App Debuts Own Digital Currency Amid Bitcoin Boom
> They are obviously shitty people and everything they touch is shit.

Thoughtful and a high quality statement, the world is black and white and most issues have no grey areas at all

(/s)

deletia··on Kik Messenger App Debuts Own Digital Currency Amid Bitcoin Boom
This ^

Arguably one of the best things to come out of that whole incident was NPM's realization that the (then) entire system of dependencies had a huge issue; that is, the fact that one pissed of developer could break a massive amount of production codebases.

IMHO the incident was a good learning experience for the JS community as a whole and really shouldn't be framed so negatively all the time.

deletia··on Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United Airlines incident
Interesting sidenote:

Last Thursday, after Trump illegally bombed Syria, #HandsOffSyria was becoming reasonably popular on Twitter. I remember making a few offhand tweets with the hashtag and the app on my phone suggesting it.

Last Saturday, I happened to be photographing the #HandsOffSyria protest which was going on in Toronto. I made a tweet about it and noticed that, oddly enough, the Twitter app was no longer suggesting the tag.

Seems to be working again now fwiw ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Perhaps the (presumed human) moderators at hasty (or unpopular) decision makers?

deletia··on Employee burnout is becoming a huge problem in the American workforce
Employee burnout happens because the majority of businesses today cling to a 20th century, mass production designed, work model (9am-5pm workday, ass in seat productivity measure) while employees are forced squeeze their lives around a corporation for "security".

I recently wrote a post which outlines this idea in a slightly broader context (those interested can visit https://allidina.me, feedback & constructive criticism welcome).

Cheers!

deletia··on Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
One of my favourites: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-schemer
deletia··on Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users
This hosts file is updated regularly to help prevent accidentally stumbling upon (shock|malicious|etc) style sites: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

Been using it for a few months now and have found it invaluable.