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txsh··on Proposal to restore a destroyed Ethereum contract
> Nobody wants to live in a world where a bug in a contract lets people steal your money and you can't get it back, even when you can prove who did it.

If you can prove who stole it, you can go through the courts to gain ownership of their accounts and then transfer the funds back.

txsh··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?
> Belonging to a side desensitizes you to it.
txsh··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?
/v/politics is just as obnoxious rightwing as /r/politics is obnoxiously leftwing. Belonging to a side desensitizes you to it.
txsh··on Theranos’ Letter to Shareholders Shows the Company Is on Its Deathbed
Future Hacker News comments when Holmes peddles her new scam:

“You cannot hold that against her.”

“Most entrepreneurs experience failure.”

“She was fined by the SEC. What are you complainig about?”

“I’m sure she’s learned from her mistakes.”

txsh··on Cancer breakthrough leads China’s biotech boom
This would be great if it were true. Unfortunately, it’s a clinical trial from China.
txsh··on Learn React by building a web app
I am new to React and Redux so I might not have a well informed opinion. Also, I see the value of Redux and I use it in my projects.

But it's awkward setting up a global event handler with switch statements. And it seems like adding new functionality should require one step instead of three (updating a reducer file, updating an action file, and updating mapStateToProps).

It's like Redux operates on a different paradigm than Javascript and React. I do not think I'm knowledgeable enough to suggest any solutions.

txsh··on Russian trolls hit Reddit, too
> In comments, Huffman also noted that these troubling accounts were most active in /r/funny, /r/uncen, /r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, /r/gifs, /r/PoliticalHumor, and /r/The_Donald, a notorious pro-Donald Trump subreddit.

Russian trolls are active in many other subreddits such as /r/politics. But Huffman only lists the rightwing subreddits he personally disagrees with. He's using Russian propaganda to create his own propaganda.

Reddit needs a CEO who doesn't engage in amateur stuff like this.

txsh··on Learn React by building a web app
I feel this way about React but Redux seems awkward and worthy of replacement. Am I in the minority on this?
txsh··on [dead]
I see a man behind a fence. Not sure what video you’re watching.
txsh··on [dead]
An unarmed Palestinian...trying to cross a security fence defended by soldiers, not a peaceful protestor.
txsh··on Theranos Lays Off Most of Its Remaining Workforce
Anything less than life in prison is a miscarriage of justice. She’s a murderer.
txsh··on Android container in Chrome OS
Apple systems are great precisely because they’re single platform and closed-source. It would be unfortunate if that changed.
txsh··on If iPads were meant for kids
The solution is not an iPad feature. It’s you deciding to be a good parent.
txsh··on A man who spent $100K to remove a lie from Google
You’ve never had a conversation with a poor person, have you?
txsh··on Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Been 'De-Monetized'
They absolutely are responsible.

Imagine if Uber started randomly denying drivers payment, taking away their source of income for arbitrary reasons with no chance of appeal. It would only be a matter of time before someone showed up at their door with a gun.

Only the shooter is guilty of the crime. But YouTube is responsible. And the courts will agree when the victims sue.

txsh··on Tell HN: 17 years on the same game
Also, time was valuable. You only got so many minutes per day on a BBS before you would get disconnected. You wouldn’t want to waste your time waiting for images to load.
txsh··on Tell HN: 17 years on the same game
We played MUDs through BBSs. It was a different experience than the internet. Everything was text. You dialed up someone’s house and created an account to join a community which gave you access to a specific set of resources. The people playing the game with you were usually people in your area code.

Upgrading from ASCII to graphics would mean kicking out all your friends with older modems, those with poor phone lines, those without Win 3.1, etc.

txsh··on One of Estonia's first "e-residents" explains what it means
So, in your world, the best software developer gets paid the most (gold), the second best gets paid less (silver), the third best gets paid the least (bronze), and everybody else works as slaves because they're losers.
txsh··on Working on an iPad Pro as my main computer
“My work time breaks down like this, on average:

50% communicating with clients, translating their requirements into actionable, incremental tasks, researching solutions.

25% reading code, my own, legacy code I inherited, and code from programmers I’ve hired.

25% writing and testing code. The main tools I use on the iPad Pro:

Inbox (GMail client) Skype and Hangouts Slack Blink (ssh client that support mosh, a real timesaver) Working Copy (local copies of git repositories) CodeHub (GitHub client) Textastic (code editor with Working Copy and sftp) Dash (offline documentation) Google Drive, Sheets, and Docs Google Keep, for notes, to-do lists, saving web sites”

So, no, that is not accurate.

txsh··on Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel
I don't see why a separate desktop device is needed at all.

Give us a MacOS-like desktop mode. We could connect a mouse and keyboard using bluetooth. We could airplay to a display. Even better, replace lightning with thunderbolt so we can connect our phones to an external GPU.

txsh··on I Hate the News (2006)
I'm getting downvoted for this. That's how far HN has fallen, folks.
txsh··on Hours After FOSTA Passes, Reddit Bans 'Escorts' and 'SugarDaddy' Communities
The bill passed the senate 97-2. This is about censorship and liberals want censorship just as much as conservatives do.

Voting against it:

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky)

txsh··on I Hate the News (2006)
The world would be a drastically better place to live if Aaron Swartz were still in it.
txsh··on Water Slide That Decapitated Boy Violated Basic Design Standards
If I’m reading this correctly, the ride opened in 2014 but the kid was decapitated in 2016. So not only did they rush its construction but they had two years to fix it and chose not to. Incredible.
txsh··on Google starts blocking “uncertified” Android devices from logging in
Kindle tablets
txsh··on iPhone protected you from Facebook call scraping. Android, not so much
In the comment thread you linked to the author has a “faint recollection” of what I’m referring to, confirms Facebook has special access because of iOS integration.

So I’m not sure why you posted that. Seems to undermine your argument.

txsh··on iPhone protected you from Facebook call scraping. Android, not so much
As an iPhone user I’d like to think iOS does not allow this. However, I understand there’s a private API that allows larger companies access to functions that are not available to regular developers. It allows them access to the microphone without the red bar showing even when there’s not a call. Like others have, I’ve received ads for products spoken about near my phone but never typed into a device I own or on my router.
txsh··on Powerful flare from star Proxima Centauri detected with ALMA
Everyone knows the sun is a static source of energy. If you say otherwise you’re anti-science and probably a shill for big oil. /s
txsh··on Need Some Feedback on the Python Job Positions Aggregator
Menu bar overlaps heading on mobile. iPhone 6, chrome.
txsh··on Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail
What happens the first time someone is murdered by someone in your program who would have otherwise been in jail? It’s ruined countless political and civil servant careers. How will your company survive the public backlash?
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