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leitasat··on Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
Russian citizen living abroad
leitasat··on Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
It was great until they turned racists and stopped me from using the service because of my nationality (Russia), even though neither me or the business had anything to do with Russia.
leitasat··on Concurrent Hash Table Designs
> 2025 > Java

really

leitasat··on TIL: timeout in Bash scripts
Have you heard of exponential back off? Tl;dr make the sleep time dependent on the mumtof retries
leitasat··on Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
you are right, it was a secret.
leitasat··on Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
'Final solution' was classified all the way till the end of the war, only some of the party and SS officers knew about the scale of the plan and the name itself. Ordinary Germans, both soldiers and civilians, knew little about it. Any kind of deliberate violence was never on Nazi's electoral leaflets (who would voluntarily vote for it?).

This speech is precisely an example of what it is exposing – clickbaits.

leitasat··on Algebraic Data Types: Things I wish someone had explained about FP
it should have been called 'How to implement Enum in Javascript'
leitasat··on Brave launches 1.0
so instead of spying on the level of websites, it is moving to the level of a browser? And not only aggregated clicks, but detailed statistics of browsing time per user?

Meh.

leitasat··on UCLA introductory programming classes should focus more on Python, not C++
Can't wait for the driving lessons in a self-driving car
leitasat··on 10+ years of experience and no hash maps or Fizz Buzz for data engineers
what you really need is easier visas for overseas engineers, the EU has a shortage themselves. Right now only few huge companies provide them.
leitasat··on The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy
Well, there are some improvements over existing systems (e.g. fiat money):

1. Less costs to switch to a competitor comparing to banks and states which leads to 2. The governance body and all influential members are really in need of public approval of their actions since that is exactly what makes a coin worthy. If they change protocol in a drastic way, the price will immediately plummet leaving them in tatters 3. Same mechanism prevents conflicts within the community

In general I would like to see more about the role of law in economics and possible tech implementations of it (meta-protocols?)

leitasat··on Z-order curve usage to decrease dimensionality to 1
As the commentators on the website mentioned, this method does not preserve the closeness of the points (when going from 2D to 1D), so it is unclear how can it help the author.
leitasat··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
hey, is there more info about the team available? I've scrolled through linkedin, but info is a bit scarce there.
leitasat··on Beating the Compiler
Is not a tail-recusrion version of the quicksort algorithm needed to really allow compiler to optimize performance?
leitasat··on MacBook Pro
No USB-C port? That's I call consistency!
leitasat··on This Bubble's Got Legs
Right, I bet it's essentially a stealing of SOEs.