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What is DIV?

I've seen people referring to CockroachLabs referring to it as CRDB internally.

Which of these opinions would be surprising?

Comments like this are what the internet is all about! AFAIK Yugoslavs call tea "čaj" (pronounced... chai!). I have no idea about other Slavs. And if by Commonwealth you mean the B…

Why is this getting downvoted?

If the username is used as the salt when storing the hashed password in the database, it's unpossible to know if a supplied password is valid-but-for-a-different-account.

Makes more sense than the current HN title.

Dollar prices for selling e.g. ETH seem 10-20% lower than market.

> And again: "Taxi company considered by a court to be a taxi company". And this is news. Any info on how much it cost European citizens to establish this stunning revelation?

> I have little doubt that the current value of BTC and other coins will probably blow up in the future Blow up bigger, or blow up smaller?

Possibly because the latest version of MetaMask has broken event listening: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/2393

> The fatal flaw in Tether is that you have to trust the company behind it. How is Unum any different? Looking at the contract: 1. Contract owner can withdraw the ETH balance at an…

lol

Some people, rightly or wrongly, feel that their use of an open source library is endorsement and thanks enough, at least until you meet the maintainer in person or have other caus…

> Bringing web security issues to desktop apps Wonderful :)

Except when "how are you?" just means "hi".

In some countries, downloading things from CDN has a significant effect on page load times so this is good advice. Sadly most users won't disable custom fonts because they don't kn…

put their money

> You don't even need to go as far as France. The implication in the comment above is that he's already in France. So going to RI or NJ would be going further.

> Yeah, in 21st century English fish is a meat Having spent the best part of the last 17 years speaking 21st century English, this is a surprisingly strong assertion to me. From ht…

Looks like https://www.simprints.com/

It only supports _some_ western European languages.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080103072111/http://www.zedsha...

What did ThoughtWorks do with their profits before they were bought? If it was privately owned, does that mean the profits were dividended to the founder? Or were they all re-inves…

Got a link for this? The original seems to be gone.