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mortallywounded

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    Ask HN: Does Microsoft pose a risk for private GitHub repositories?

    I currently have a product codebase that is privately hosted on my own VPS. Historically, Microsoft hasn't liked my product. I received a C&D several years ago because Microsoft fe…

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    Comment #39514051

    > "One family member in West Virginia told APBP they paid more than $400 in three weeks for tablet usage." Access to a tablet and messaging outside the prison is hardly a "basic re…

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    Comment #39513558

    To all the 20 year olds, libgen.rs

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    Comment #39513518

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    Comment #39513476

    Sounds like a skill issue. /s

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    Comment #39513418

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    Comment #39513356

    Available in prisons, god forbid it be available to the public!

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    Comment #39510820

    It sounds like you spent 4 years building a product before you even knew if anyone would use it. That's a terrible idea, but a good learning experience. I wouldn't give up (perhaps…

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    Comment #39510700

    I'll be blunt. 1. Take all of the side projects that are too niche and/or unsellable and polish up the code then open source it (add it to your portfolio/resume). 2. Take the proje…

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    Comment #39510570

    Maybe some day we'll have a PIR-based[1] search engine-- but then you couldn't harvest data on your users and sell personalized ads, so maybe not. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

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    Comment #39492884

    It came after the first wave of SPAs and if we listed every SPA framework (or "library") we'd be here all day.

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    Comment #39487678

    Coding is quite subjective. When I examined the early bitcoin code (the one Satoshi wrote and shared). The C++ code looked pretty sloppy and amateur-ish. The comments were odd and …

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    Comment #39487544

    ^ I think you'll enjoy the paper's deep dive. It goes into the references deeply!

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    Comment #39484792

    I believe Satoshi was a cypherpunk and a remailer dev. Cypherpunks had a history of doing things anonymously on the mailing list and even trying to out one another (a sort of game)…

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    Comment #39484651

    Those are weak pieces of evidence. Meredith appears to be telling the truth. She didn't say Len wasn't Satoshi, she simply said to the best of her knowledge he wasn't. That doesn't…

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    Comment #39484391

    SPAs were a psyop by FAANG companies to gain a monopoly and mind-share of developer talent. Are you team Google (Angular)? Meta (React)? Are you a hipster (Ember)? From there thing…

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    Comment #39483976

    That's why I hope the truth comes out. If say, Satoshi is Len, then Satoshi is no longer a god. He's a regular dude, that suffered like many people and tragically took his own life…

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    Comment #39483682

    Here's Len's macbook as proof: https://www.flickr.com/photos/enochsmiles/449655745/ Fun fact, he was experimenting with email based image uploads on flickr. That was around the tim…

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    Comment #39483619

    Len was a Macbook user, but he would not have done Bitcoin on his personal laptop. It's much more likely he used available PCs in a computer lab on the campus he studied/worked at,…

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    Comment #39483597

    Satoshi stepped away from Bitcoin in 2010 and handed over the project to the maintainers. Len started posting about Bitcoin in 2010 (post Satoshi handing the project over). It seem…

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    Comment #39483566

    I don't think it's a legal issue. People want to know who it was and credit where it's due. Satoshi didn't do anything wrong but distributed consensus was finally solved (or so it …

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    Comment #39483375

    If you want a detailed look at all of the Satoshi evidence (circumstantial and others), check out this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.10257v14.pdf If you want the TLDR; the meat…

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