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New comment by _wdh in "[dead]"

_wdh — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:49:00 +0000

Quality of life is more important than raw cash.

New comment by _wdh in "[dead]"

_wdh — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:44:03 +0000

Americans have the weirdest ideas about Socialism. It is possible to have a state run healthcare system or nationalize the railways without devolving into Venezuela.

New comment by _wdh in "The problem of game developers receiving abusive messages"

_wdh — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:33:10 +0000

I'm not talking about shaming people, I think that if you want to have a community that doesn't have abuse then you need the admins to remove or ban the people who post abuse and threats.

New comment by _wdh in "The problem of game developers receiving abusive messages"

_wdh — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:10:15 +0000

Moderation is essential because by publicly making an example of trolls, you can change the culture to prevent it. It's the same theory as patching up broken windows to ensure that worse things don't happen.

New comment by _wdh in "Don't mine Bitcoin, mine Altcoins"

_wdh — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:21:19 +0000

Where did the data for the growth rate table come from? I can see that the original source is a reddit post but I can't find where the reddit post got it's numbers from.

Conservatives must reboot capitalism

_wdh — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:42:54 +0000

Article URL: https://unherd.com/2017/07/ctrl-alt-del-conservatives-must-reboot-capitalism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14857182

Points: 2

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New comment by _wdh in "Working in a Prison Goat Milk Farm"

_wdh — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:03:10 +0000

The problem with this is that allowing prison labour to be cheaper than free labour puts competitors out of business and gives incentives to the state and business lobbyists to arrest more people for the sake of profit instead of reformation or containment.

New comment by _wdh in "Show HN: StockNerd – A community for index fund investors"

_wdh — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:36:17 +0000

There's a good list of UK brokers here, most of which have Vanguard funds. http://monevator.com/compare-uk-cheapest-online-brokers/ Personally, I use Charles Stanley Direct and I don't have any complaints about them.

Make sure to stick it in an ISA account if possible to keep it tax free.

New comment by _wdh in "The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack"

_wdh — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:00:15 +0000

That's scary. Would having 2FA enabled on your Gmail account protect you from this kind of attack?

Extropians, Kurzweil, Libertarians, and the deluded immortality scam

_wdh — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:30:34 +0000

Article URL: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/03/08/extropians-kurzweil-libertarians-and-the-deluded-immortality-scam/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11254719

Points: 25

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New comment by _wdh in "Female coders are rated more highly than men, when nobody knows they're women"

_wdh — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:41:41 +0000

The research paper is here if anyone is interested: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733.pdf

New comment by _wdh in "SSDs lose data if left without power for just 7 days"

_wdh — Mon, 11 May 2015 14:17:27 +0000

It's a reference to a PG essay where he talks about how PR agencies often give press releases and news stories that are little more than hidden adverts by reporting selective truths: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

New comment by _wdh in "Chinese BitcoinExchange Bter hacked,$1.75M worth of cryptocurrency stolen"

_wdh — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:59:45 +0000

I don't understand why you would want to be your own bank at all? A proper bank will have some level of security as well as the scale to not fall over if a single branch is robbed. Surely being your own bank will not give you any of that security? You'll just doing extra work to make yourself a target?

New comment by _wdh in "Excoin exchange's Bitcoins stolen, will be shutting down"

_wdh — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:54:13 +0000

The language itself is probably fine but the fact that they are starting from scratch with what appears to be no input from security or financial professionals is a clear sign that there will be security holes

New comment by _wdh in "Chinese BitcoinExchange Bter hacked,$1.75M worth of cryptocurrency stolen"

_wdh — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 09:30:07 +0000

How many exchanges have been hacked at this point? We must be getting near double digits.

New comment by _wdh in "Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?"

_wdh — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:05:55 +0000

The only site I know of that would vaguely fit the bill is https://openclipart.org/. However, it doesn't appear to support searching by image type or by dimension and as far as I can tell, it cannot be 100% guaranteed that you will have all SFW images.

New comment by _wdh in "A redesign of the Django websites"

_wdh — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:42:13 +0000

The new design reminds me of mint ice cream. In a good way.

New comment by _wdh in "BitQuest – Minecraft server with Bitcoin-denominated economy"

_wdh — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:05:52 +0000

It looks like it's been generated by http://overviewer.org/, I guess they've got a cronjob or something that runs that as a script and generates the html and then it looks like they use an to load the map on the page. Really cool, makes me want to start running a minecraft server again.

New comment by _wdh in "BitQuest – Minecraft server with Bitcoin-denominated economy"

_wdh — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:39:11 +0000

This might be a stupid question, but does this mean that the number of Emeralds can that exist in the server is limited by the number of bitcoins that the owner has in the bank? I don't see how they can have a Minecraft world that has an infinite amount of space (and therefore infinite Emeralds) and support cashing out the Emeralds into bitcoins?

New comment by _wdh in "Backstabbr: A modern web interface for the classic board game Diplomacy"

_wdh — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:18:48 +0000

I'm not sure but I'd like to join in so we've got 2 people at least.