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natcombs

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I spend a lot of time on the web

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I spend a lot of money on food and rent

I spend a lot of time counting

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natcombs··on The Spite Software License
Alternative: Publish a blog about the spite license, and then anyone who reads the blog knows the contents, but has not read the license itself!
natcombs··on Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance
Thank you!
natcombs··on Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance
Crypto != cryptocurrency
natcombs··on SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B
I wish they went public. I’d love to invest in them long term
natcombs··on SEC Charges Interactive Brokers with Repeatedly Failing to File SARs
> Firm Will Pay a Total of $38 Million in Penalties to Settle With Regulators

$38 million!?!? That's a expensive mistake for not submitting some paperwork that should be automated.

I'd like to see a list of international government agencies and what they can/do charge for penalty fines. I suspect that the United States SEC sets a high bar compared to some of the smaller fines I've seen elsewhere. GDPR appears to be one of the top contenders

https://www.tessian.com/blog/biggest-gdpr-fines-2020/

natcombs··on Assange Hearing Day 8
>> particular the Java script of the messages allegedly between

Sounds like they were conspiring via a web-based client and the prosecution is going to read the functions to the jury ;-)

natcombs··on Assange Hearing Day 8
It’s almost worth asking what those 11 were. The prosecution must have really failed
natcombs··on Grail S-1
I had not heard of them, but their mission statement in the S-1 is simple enough:

>> Our mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured.

natcombs··on The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
Congrats Eric! I've been excited about this since your original announcement.

I'm hoping that you'll offer an index fund to make it for passive investors (and dollar cost averaging) to put more money in this exchange, with less effort, and push the wall street incentives toward longer term.

natcombs··on The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
Forgive the stupid question, but what's the continuity plan LTSE shuts down in a decade. Who does my share of MSFT go to?
natcombs··on GitPals – Find team for cooperative development
To expand on this idea, it would be cool if you could define a finite task you need (such as a user story) and exchange that for some other finite task that someone else needs. They work on your user story (in a skill they have) and you work on theirs (in a skill you have). Like bartering.

Right now, I see "Wanted: UX designer" but that doesn't tell me if they just need a menu bar, or an entire front-end for a mail client

natcombs··on Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone”
Not even in the same ballpark of relevance. PR is different than HR
natcombs··on Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone”
You can actually mute the “microphone” feature (which is an electric disconnect internally, someone on HN mentioned before), and just use the smart speaker capabilities through the app, for playing music & setting smart home routines.

So even those who don’t speak can use it

natcombs··on The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages
>> Morgan Stanley analysts pointed out in late March that the buying was running at eight times the pace seen in prior episodes of Fed purchasing under programs known as quantitative easing.

8x increase over QE is crazy. Is that 8x mortgage bonds or 8x bonds in general?

natcombs··on Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone”
The screenshot shows a request, not a demand. The tweet’s headline is clearly clickbait
natcombs··on Amazon demands we correct an article refering to an Echo as a “microphone”
>> they send their staff of high powered attorneys to shop for an amenable forum and file the SLAPP lawsuit that your org can't possibly afford to defend in a court you've never heard about

Do you have an example of Amazon doing this?

natcombs··on ProtonDrive Security Model
It looks like you are correct, but only if you let them generate the password. If you define your own password, then you would have to share it via another channel-

>> While the Proton server will know the URL, it will never receive the password.

>> When creating a new shareable URL for a file, the web client will first confirm that a share directing to the file exists. The passphrase of this share must then be encrypted with the new password associated with the URL. This new password is either randomly generated by the ProtonDrive client, or is specified by the user.

>> In the case of randomly generated passwords, the user can choose whether they want to include it at the end of the URL, equivalent to sharing the content publicly. This section of the URL isn’t shared with Proton servers, making the password and the content inaccessible to Proton. Alternatively, the user can choose to share the password separately.

>> In the case of user-defined passwords, this option isn’t available and the password must always be communicated separately.

natcombs··on A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe
Ya, the few I clicked on look like this is a random collection of ideas, tips, and tricks. Not falsehoods and logic

Clickbait with a lot of effort but poor delivery of title and expectations

natcombs··on Disney criticised for filming Mulan in China's Xinjiang province
I’m glad I watched that. Looks like the movie is a waste of time
natcombs··on NASA’s InSight detects Phobos using its seismometer during solar eclipses
That is incredible sensitivity. How does one calibrate something, or also not suspect the instrument is affected by other environmental variables?
natcombs··on Chanakya
Which is the priority?

> we will have lost those manuscripts forever.

You do realize that starvation results in millions of lives lost forever. That’s why I donate to food & local water/well charities Today. Manuscripts can be photographed and transcribed later.

natcombs··on US, Taiwan seek 'like-minded' democracies in supply chain shift from China
Tibet and Vietnam come to mind. Hong Kong most recently (violation of treaty). here is a full list for you

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_P...

Also, as a democracy the US has released information about those events. We don’t expect the PRC to release evidence they behaved poorly (since they already forbid talking about TS)

natcombs··on US, Taiwan seek 'like-minded' democracies in supply chain shift from China
I explained that already
natcombs··on Chanakya
> It's a great opportunity for philanthropy

With 189 million people undernourished or starving in India, why not donate to help with that first?

https://www.indiafoodbanking.org/hunger

natcombs··on US, Taiwan seek 'like-minded' democracies in supply chain shift from China
The graphic is inaccurate And clearly has an objective. North Korea often invaded South Korea after the war ended

> A total of 3,693 armed North Korean agents have infiltrated into South Korea between 1954 and 1992

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_border_incidents_inv...

natcombs··on All forms of signing email are generally solving the wrong problem
What new pet idea did the article suggest? I must have missed it
natcombs··on Bread, How Did They Make It? Addendum: Rice
I wasn't familiar with the Karen people until your comment, thanks for sharing your story. What led you to live with them for several years?
natcombs··on The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down
"No good reason" is subjective. Was there any reason given?

Looked at the article, but didn't see any. Perhaps it was cost? Does the Pentagon budget break out the cost of Stars & Stripes?

natcombs··on Bread, How Did They Make It? Addendum: Rice
A little known fact is that Germany resorted to using sawdust in bread when they had flour shortages during the world wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommissbrot

Are ther any other strange flour replacements that people have heard of?

natcombs··on Expressive Pixels
This is cool! Is there a similar product where I can get just the light panels + the ability to program them? Dont need the speakers
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