Readit News4a3f35b5a commented on Hot Wheels: Little cars are big business ft.com/content/02470634-b... · Posted by u/JSeymourATL
And LEGO is the largest wheel manufacturer.
4a3f35b5a commented on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email empty.coffee/an-ode-to-ap... · Posted by u/mlapida
> you probably don’t want to use a random address for critical services such as online banking.
Why not?
Hmm… about 10 years ago I helped a friend pass an oral exam by talking to him over the phone. He had this “headset” that came in two parts: a tiny magnet that you insert into your ear canal, and a necklace that your put under your shirt, which was basically a large coil that vibrated the magnet in your ear.
Would love to know more details about this!
- How did the "necklace" connect to a phone? (Since you were talking over the phone)
- Was it bidirectional communication? How did friend communicate with you?
4a3f35b5a commented on Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto cnbc.com/2021/02/16/bitco... · Posted by u/koolba
This time could end up being a bubble, but it is very different for many reasons.
The first is that Bitcoin is thriving as a store of value. It hasn't seen much adoption as a payments system and is unlikely to do so in the future, but 2020 saw many notable people using adopting Bitcoin as a store of value. See MassMutual, Paul Tudor Jones, Stan Druckenmiller, Tesla, among many other examples.
The second reason is that defi protocols grew in usage by an insane amount in 2020. Decentralized exchanges like Uniswap are beating centralized exchanges in volume and lending protocols like Aave have billions deposited in them. These defi protocols are generating huge cash flows. This is real people using decentralized technologies built on blockchains like Ethereum.
Even if the 2021 bull run ends up like a bubble, 2021 will be different in that a lot of the price rises will be based on fundamentals, not pure speculation like in 2017. One thing to note though is that a Bubble is not necessarily a bad thing. In every past Bitcoin "bubble" (2011, 2014, 2017 etc) the price Bitcoin crashed to has always been higher than the price it started the run up at.
> These defi protocols are generating huge cash flows. This is real people using decentralized technologies built on blockchains like Ethereum.
I'm fairly new to Crypto so I don't understand this: it's looking like all cool new things are built on Ethereum (which, itself has grown quite a lot) so why is Bitcoin rising? How are Bitcoin & advances in Ethereum-based techonologies correlated?
4a3f35b5a commented on Continuations: Programming Without Programmers? Aka Software continuations.com/post/14... · Posted by u/Osiris30
Is having "Continuations" in the title the HN way of making the post more click-baity?
(Only teasing, I was personally disappointed when I saw the post had nothing to do with continuations.)
"Monads Explained Quickly, But Mostly Incorrectly" would be a better name.
Isn't what's defined here mostly just a functor?
4a3f35b5a commented on Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh jwz.org/blog/2013/06/goog... · Posted by u/chrismealy
I appreciate his position but I have trouble taking advice on UI from somebody whose blog is eye-burning neon green text on a black background and has been since 1995. We know you're l33t, Jamie, you are a living legend. Can I get a readable color scheme already?
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that someone's complaining about UI of the source when the stuff under discussion already cleans up things for you and makes it readable?