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> Some banks have already begun dabbling in these areas without regulatory clarity. Earlier this month, U.S. Bancorp (USB.N) announced it was launching a cryptocurrency custody ser…

> It's extremely HackerNews-ish of you to propose that the author of the article ignores your pet theory. What pet theory is that? All I did was to mention two historical episodes …

The article begins with the idea that the causes of the Great Depression are not known or too numerous to pin down. It then continues by claiming that "recent scholarship has resul…

> I wish I had a happier note to end this on, but honestly, my biggest takeaway from the whole experience is that maybe some puzzles just can’t be solved. We can try to attribute J…

> ... recently I’ve heard of some ships not even waiting to load empty TEU’s as they normally would and instead they are immediately leaving for China, literally empty. If this is …

> It seems that everyone now agrees that the bottleneck is yard space at the container terminals. The terminals are simply overflowing with containers, which means they no longer h…

This article reminds me of every other article I've seen about blockchain voting. None of them start with a threat model. None of them talk about what's broken with voting. Mostly …

I'd be interested in a link to this legal theory and its application under US Law. Barring that, what sections of the AGPL are you looking at to make that claim?

Not from what I understand. Your copyright (by default) gives you standing. If you hold no copyright, you have no standing to claim copyright infringement.

You're right. Deleting... Oops, can't do that, it appears.

> I and my colleagues at Software Freedom Conservancy are experts at investigating non-compliance with copyleft license and enforcing those licenses once we confirm the violations.…

That website is a catastrophe. The banner on the left prevents the intro text from being read. There's also a banner on the right which is similar in behavior. Neither can be dismi…

> The Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund, which has over $4 billion of assets, said it invested $25 million in Bitcoin and Ether through NYDIG, a Bitcoin-focused subs…

> Since we do not have default arguments in Rust, in order to initialize such structure we would have to list all fields: I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Default: https:/…

Not even the same league of event. The value overflow incident was a flaw in the protocol implementation itself. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident The DAO hack res…

> One of the reasons why eating in cemeteries become a “fad,” as some reporters called it, was that epidemics were raging across the country: Yellow fever and cholera flourished, c…

It may be counterintuitive, but the best thing that could happen to Bitcoin would be for Tether to collapse in a cloud of dust. Tether is continually cited as a large risk factor t…

The problem with the long analogy is that it's serial, not random access. You have to read the entire thing to understand the writer's message. But I think it can be summarized as …